2012 Recap

[fullygoldy]

Happy New Year!  2012, you could have been better, but you could have been much worse.  I'm not overly sad to see you go.

My review of DW shows 46 posts, with 3 of those being marked private and abandoned incomplete.
My least posted month was April (1) and most was September (7). December had 6, two months had 5 (half the posts in 5 mos) and the rest had 3-4 ea.

My resolutions were:
 post more RL in both LJ and DW.  I accomplished this for DW, but LJ is largely abandoned except to read a few people.

do something active everyday - *facepalms* forever.  This didn't even come close to happening - if anything, it got worse.  No dance classes (partner wasn't up to it), no yoga class - no particular reason.  However, this holiday season doesn't seem to have been as fattening as last year... I weigh (barely) less now than a year ago.

go canoeing - Yay! had a wonderful Labor Day weekend camping with friends that included 3 days of canoeing.

get better at finishing projects at work - well, I closed 3 completely, and am trying to get 2 more closed, so I did OK. But I could totally do better at work.  I've been largely unmotivated, and I can't tell if it's just the SADD or if it's because I'm working from home (distractions), or if it's the lack of field work/lack of connection with co-workers creating my apathy.

get my finances in order - started out OK, got escrow and taxes sorted, worked on a charitable giving plan, but a series of unfortunate events beginning in June depleted all cash reserves by August.  le sigh.  Spent the fall attempting to recover, thought the small work bonus was going to resolve that for me, and now both the old cars need a lot of work, which means bye-bye cash.  Plus, we bought a new car in Dec, so now we have a payment instead of money to funnel into a reserve fund.  The best I can say is I had done a good job the first 6 mos, so that I was able to weather the summer events.

Fannishly, the year included new reading in Grimm, Teen Wolf, Avengers, Lewis, My Chemical Romance, Generation Kill, Sherlock (BBC), plus all the old faves.  New watching included Teen Wolf, all the Avengers movies, GK, Sherlock, Farscape (needs it's own post), Weeds, and White Collar.  Also, I hosted a fangirl meetup! It was my first face to face with all but 3 of the people who attended!

DH dragged me to several newgrass/bluegrass events which were enjoyable, but it's really not my genre.  I dove into Cuban cuisine while in Florida.  A road trip through S. Dakota and N. Dakota with a stop in the middle for my sister's (2nd) wedding was actually fun - who knew Mt Rushmore and the Badlands would be so inspiring?

For 2013? Survive January (DH's surgery), make car payments on time, DH's family reunion in July (at Opryland of all places).  Hopefully there won't be a wedding yet since the finances aren't there to support it, try to be physically active - yoga, walks, Wii at the very least. And go to bookclub once or twice before Wiscon.  I may bow out of Wiscon because it's DH's birthday weekend (60) and there's going to be some kind of event.  Build up a little cash reserve, don't incur anymore debt.  Be more engaged in fandom and work.  I'm aiming pretty low here, surely I can accomplish some of these.