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I was looking at my entry for January 1st 2023 the other day, and saw I had written a list of aims for this year:

With that all in mind, my aims for 2023 are

Help my son get settled.
More practice with the signwriting, possibly starting up a little business doing sign writing and canal art.
Find some form of strengthening exercise that I can do with the hernia.
Finish podficcing Last of our kind and maybe do Derillarch's Jiang Yanli/Jin Guangyao series, and some more favourites after that if I'm still into the Untamed by then.
Maybe start writing again?

Results

I'm more or less happy with how things turned out. I didn't achieve all of that, but we're in a better position than we were before.

Son now has a permanent residence and is therefore able to apply for jobs. AFAIK he doesn't have a job yet, but he's looking, and he's not homeless in the process. (Edit in December - he's now working Deliveroo and can afford food and fuel, so result :) )
As soon as I finished painting the name on the boat, I stopped practicing the signwriting, so no.2 has not materialized at all. However, the main aim of the signwriting - which was putting the name on the boat myself - has been achieved. Any future plans for it have been backburnered, and honestly I don't feel bad about that. It may not have been for me.
As far as exercise goes, this has been the year when I've been forced to ask myself "do I want to morris dance, or do I want to be able to walk and live without constant pain?" and I've chosen to live without constant pain.

The morris was constantly triggering my fibromyalgia and I was in pain all the time. So, 2023 has been the year when I gave up morris dancing and became a morris musician instead.

That was very depressing, and even three months ago, if you'd asked me, I'd have said everything was terrible and my life was over.

However, in September I was like 'there must be some other dance I can do, which isn't as hard on my arthritic knees and doesn't trigger a flare. Maybe something that is good for core strength too?' And belly dancing occurred to me. So I have signed up to belly dance classes, and am really enjoying it. So far an hour of bellydance class is not bothering my knees or activating the chronic illness. I get mildly warm during and mildly sore the next day, and that's ideal. It's giving me a new lease of life and I just wish I could do it more often than once a week.
Finished the named podfics and decided "why don't I podfic some of my own fic?" So now I'm slowly working my way through some of my longest fics. My schedule here has been intermittent to say the least, due to working on the boat, but it's still ongoing and I will get there.
I have started writing again! I am currently writing in The Untamed fandom, and also plotting a Fantasy novel. I can't tell you how relieved I am to have this essential part of my personality back, after years and years of block.

So yeah, not all goals achieved, but positive movement on the most important ones :)