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Summing up the year of 2008

Here I’m sitting again, at the last day of the year trying to remember everything that has happened this year. It’s really been an eventful year for me and I remember last year when writing this, it’d been a rough year looking to clear up… I just wish that would’ve been true. This year continued to be rough for me personally but I am happy to say that it is all working out now at the end of the year. It takes a lot of stress of me and allows me to focus on other things!

My life has been busier all time and with the start of a new school period more and more is demanded but I do feel that I’m in the right place, much more so than earlier years.

Before I go any further, I want to direct a very special thank you to perhaps the best friend one could ever have. It’s been a year with a lot of up and downs and it’s a lot thanks to your friendship that this year is ending as good as it is. I’m so grateful to have you as my friend.

There are also other people that I want to thank of course! I want to direct a thank you to the entire community over at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals forums. You guys are all awesome and it’s great knowing you all. A special thank you there goes out to Elizabeth Gast (or Firgs) for your concern for me and your constant nagging to get me to take more time off, always wanting my best. I do listen more than you think I also want to direct a thank you to David Zarzecki. You’re a great person, always nice to talk to and a rock on bouncing ideas and stuff on.

Before closing the thanks and heading to the business, a final thanks goes to my family and everyone that has not been mentioned here but do deserve to be here as well. You all know who you are! A general thanks also goes to all you readers of the site! It’s because of you I’m doing it and you make it just more fun to do as well!

If we move onto business stuff, XLD Studios has been going strong all year not feeling the financial crisis much at all, it seems to go strong into the coming year as well now and I hope for that to continue. As for news, there are a lot of new things coming on that front very soon and I’m very excited to be able to tell them in due course in the beginning of the New Year.

At this site, I feel that perhaps the most has happened over the year. The approach of the site has very much shifted and become a lot more focused on articles, tutorials and the general teaching of media as well. This is a focus I’m very happy with and going to be continuing with news coming this winter that is going to be pretty awesome (I can’t tell you anything about it yet though). Right now before the end of the year I’ve been happy enough to announce a very new feature column every month that Elizabeth Gast (from Design by Firgs) and I are doing, it’s going to be really fun and great.

This year saw the unfortunate event that I had to quit doing the Creative Suite Tips and Tricks podcast. I don’t know what will happen to it this year, but right now I just don’t have the time to keep it going but instead want to focus on other things with the sites and companies.

Before I finish this post I hope that you’ve had a happy holiday season so far and that you will get a very happy and prosperous new year. May this year be filled with success and joy, despite the rough times that we are in. I truly hope that everything will come together this new year. The last thing of this year that I want to do here, is to wish you all a happy new year!
/Erik