Summary of the year and the end of a century

This year has given me so much joy, truly, I quit a horrible desk job (with a psychopath boss), and started at my current one in January being an print operator in wallpaper business. Since then I have healed my stressed gut, gotten to wind down and appreciate life again. Burnt out in 2018 with the whole threat situation and the financial setback that came with it. Not being able to feel safe and to sleep without night terrors - 2019 gave me more peace, wonderful new friends at work and fun activities throughout the year! including an all expenses paid trip to Barcelona with work :)

In April we set out to take our paragliding license - weather wasn’t good enough so one mountain flight in Åre and a few hill glides was all we had time to do on that week.

The summer was awesome in our camper, we drove approx 4000km to spend time in the alps. We started in Chamonix looking skyward to all the paraglider sun the air (we’re not allowed to fly abroad on out student license unfortunately) and then hiked and did via ferrata once we found it! We also turned our camper to the east to see Aosta valley in Italy before driving home through Austria and Germany.

        I didn’t want to wait until the next year to get my paragliding license done so I booked a trip to fly in Öludeniz Turkey - where I also got my mountain license in hand. That trip was one of my very best trips ever! I found so much joy in flying and finding new friends from all over Sweden and a few Turks as well!

As I am writing this I’m in Åre for Christmas and had one last paragliding  mountain flight for the year and also about 65km of cross country skiing over the week. I feel fulfilled and blessed to be able to travel and go after my dreams like I have been able to. A little over 7 hours flying my BGD Magic,  26 takeoffs and 16 mountain flights. Most flights were in Turkey. And I have already booked for September again.

Financially I have had a very good year, my funds have grown both due to the money I put in but also due to the market increases. My portfolio as a whole has increased by almost +65% and with my deposits it has increased by +260% and my dividends now cover one whole month worth of expenses (rent, electric bill and car expenses and such)

Relationship wise I’m soon to be celebrating 10 years with my wonderful partner, he is the light of my life and we do (almost) everything together, we both have our ups and downs but pick each other up and find harmony again. I thought that finding friends that had paragliding and climbing as a hobby was one in a million but in this year I met several awesome women with similar interests as myself so I’m positive that my new connections will bring me joy. I love that I found new friends that has no desire to have kids. It makes finding time for each other much easier and hassle free.

          Training this year was difficult due to a knee injury in March, I twisted my knee on an ice hockey practice and was out for the season. Now I try to keep fit in the gym and I am thinking of maybe doing one final try for fitness competition (don’t hold me to that though) - motivation is mostly to lose some weight and really look into being more healthy all together.

            Upcoming adventures, well we have booked the next trip to Åre already in Easter, we’re taking another class and getting more flights so we can get Pilot 1 certified. The summer has not been decided, either the alps or we might go for a Swedish fjällsemester. And I booked another trip to Turkey to fly some more and see my paraglidinggirls again!

We’ll see what the next century will serve. I would like to wish you all a happy new year and a good new century to come! May your life be filled with new experiences, healthy and wealthy onwards!