#yearly summary

Summary of 2025 ⋆｡°✩

JAN: Uni Graduation ceremony! Mixed feelings, as some relatives really tried to make it about them... this lead to me starting therapy.

FEB: Three day trip to Kastoria with my partner and my friend Niki right after we went to the course for the Tempi train crash. I loved every second of both.

MAR: Showed up to Chios to surprise my sick grandpa, thankfully he fully recovered! Also, a lot of portfolio work.

APR: Had the most wonderful birthday with my partner, Magdalene and Dimi at Grande Bretagne hotel! I love my friends <3

MAY: Went to Thessalonki Comic Con for the first time, shared a room with Dimi Nanabbi and Kon! I had a ton of fun, I hope we will get to go this year also! ✧ Nana was so resourceful, Dimi and I forgot half our luggage contents at home lol ///

JUN: Spent half my salary on physio to treat my crippling tennis elbow... yeeouch. Huge wildfires break out in Chios, some dangerously close to my grandmother's house. 20% of the plantation of the island is gone, animals die.

JUL: Aigina day trip with Niki, Kon and my partner! I really want to go again, the sea was mesmerizing...༄.°

AUG: Gave my one month notice and quit my soul-sucking job!

SEP: In 48 hours I left my job for good, travelled to Chania for Chaniartoon, spent almost an entire salary on my father's neglected dog's surgery and my uncle had heart attack and open heart surgery. Yeah.

OCT: Like almost magic, a ton of freelance business opportunities popped up, as if my resignation manifested projects I wouldn't have the time to take up otherwise.

NOV: So. Much. Freelance. Work. Still dealing with the shock of September... and the crippling depression of unemployment.

DEC: Athenscon, Christmas with Magdalene, her family, Dimi and Thanos and Chios trip. My family met my partner for the first time. I was very nervous, but it went remarkably well!

It was a full year with a ton of ups and downs. The first year since 2019 that I didn't complete a comic; a conscious choice on my part as I wanted to complete more portfolio works. I saw the fruits of my 2024 perspective study labour show gracefully in the new pieces I made!

Also THERAPY!!! Therapy works!!! I cannot recommend it enough!

Thank you very much everyone for sticking by for this wonderful journey. 2026 is going to be a huge financial gamble, but I am more than ready to undertake this challenge. I am entering 2026 with wonderful friends, an incredible partner and a new house waiting for me this May! I am so grateful.

Onwards and Upwards!