Was 2024 a good, mid or bad year for you?

Counting only personal events except for bad weather for at least 2/3 of the year (until mid july there have been almost 50% of rainy days, something never seen before to this amount) and not considering politics and stuff at all because i couldn't care less... it isn't horrible awful just because i have almost finished rebuilding the place i'm going to live into all on my own. Even if i'm still thinking it can be considered horrible awful since my oldest of two cats abruptly passed away three weeks ago at 10 years old only and i have absolutely not recovered from his passing.

This year for my restaurant job actually had a nice start when the only despicable coworker resigned with some months in advance compared to predictions, but the schedule and business stayed still extremely heavy and tiring to a point that i needed a third week of holidays instead of just two especially because i'm the only one without substitute for role, i've never missed a single day for illness or something, and too often i still have to do tasks that should be the duty of other coworkers... even worse, the customers have become more and more entitled and obnoxious and threw multiple fits when i was on holidays and my kitchen items couldn't be sold. i'm sorry for the owner that is the nicest guy and has no real fault for a situation got really out of hand, but i'm considering parting ways if some conditions are met in possible new jobs, including a return to McDonald's. There is no balance any more in social life and work, even if i'm not delusional and aware that the former still won't become automatically good just in case i leave the current job (always on afternoon / evening shifts from mondays to sundays plus friday at lunch that really took a toll on my body).

Basketball... the society i played for is barely surviving at this point with three or four youth league teams, i won't even bother talking about international or major italian leagues because it's beating the deadest horse. Modern videogames... even more dead.

Anime conventions... are still the only real parasocial events i attend but the enthusiasm is decreasing, especially if i'm too tired to cosplay, almost nobody would recognize the character i'm portraying to begin with, and too many people choose series for it that i never watched and straight up don't care for / dislike, and meeting special guests like voice actors is harder and harder at this point. Managed to go to my favorite one in Rimini and it still was good, but for multiple reasons out of control i couldn't sleep at all for the entire weekend.

My few friends left are also in their mid to late 30's with their own busy job schedules and thus too hard to meet even if i trust them and they do their best to not forget me and i do the same to contact them here and there at least with Whatsapp and similar. i'd like to actually meet someone even if just for friendzone, but it's just impossible and / or i'm too afraid to put myself in social situations... and the combination job schedule / being 38 years old shows no mercy.

So... anime has confirmed as the usual redeeming thing. Roshidere has been my favorite of the series released in 2024 even if it didn't exploit its full potential at least for me, but Yuki Suou alone and her crazy wild behavior was enough already to return watching it every week... and most of the older shows i decided to watch have been confirmed as good.

Multiple times i thought this was the worst year, mostly when rainy days never seemed to stop at the point of fear of natural disasters (on july 12 a scary storm at 5 AM in the morning made me think the world was ending for real) and i needed to stay in bed and rest after long exhausting days of work... to prepare for more consecutive long exhausting days of work. Probably it still isn't, but i didn't honestly enjoy it, and if the enthusiasm for my planned moving out of my parents house fades away too soon for whatever reason... what's going to happen next?

(Just one more detail... Letting go of my hatred and anger against some people finally happened, including making peace with my former McDonald's store manager, two weeks ago at some end of the year event they organized. For what it's worth).