I began writing these year-in-review posts in 2007. It's the longest running tradition on my blog and remains one of my favorite posts to write each year. It's an opportunity for me to sit down and reflect on the year that was. It's also an opportunity to go back and read about previous years and compare. Before writing this post I read all of my year-end posts and I can tell you that each year has its fair share of peaks of valleys. And yet what I found even more interesting was not those moments but the days, weeks and months following those peaks and valleys. 

And welcome to the 5th annual "Our Favorite Things" post. That's right Jenn and I have been collaborating on this yearly post now for five years. Curious what our favorite things were from 2011, we have it (and from 2012, 2013, and 2014). So without any further ado here are our favorite things from 2015. 

Growing up I was always a movie guy. I spent much of my summers at the movies seeing as many films as I possibly could. As I've gotten older I've migrated more to television. As you hear a lot now this is the golden era of television and judging by the list of shows we watched this year that's absolutely the case. There wasn't one bad show we watched this year (well maybe UnREAL) because if there was there were ten other shows we could watch. So without further ado here is my personal rank of the 17 full seasons of television we watched. 

I've seen a lot of stats thrown around about people and their new years resolutions. I think most consistently you hear that 80-90% of resolutions fail. In an effort to hold myself accountable and push myself even further in 2016 I wanted to take some time and look back on the goals I set out for myself in 2015 (written a year ago) and see how I did. 

Sadly 2015 was probably the least amount of games I played in a long time. With two moves and just less games that appealed to me personally I just didn't put in the hours on my consoles like I have in the past couple of years. That's not to say I've at all fallen out of love with gaming or that I've grown bored of it. The games of 2015 were spectacular, in fact it might have been one of the best years in recent history. Sadly though the majority of those amazing games were in genres that I don't love. 

For seven years of my life I was an analyst. I spent much of my 40-hour work week running numbers in Excel and making it look pretty. 2015 in a lot of ways was the continuation of a trend of personal analytics. Using the power of "smart" technology you can learn a lot about yourself just by using the phone already in your pocket. I might have went a bit overboard this year but here is a look at a year in all of the statistics I've been tracking in 2015.