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todayiamadaisyHappy New Year! There are a couple of year-end memes going about my f-list. One of them looks like too much hard work, so here is the lazy version.
Go to your calendar and find the first (not-fic-related) entry for each month of 2011. Post the first 1-2 lines of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review”.
January: My Dramatic Pauses
The blurb of the book I am soon to begin reading:
After eloping with the son of her repulsive guardian, a beautiful young woman is terrorized by an evil presence in her remote country house--and then the situation worsens...
February: My Realistic Freedoms
As I went out this morning, I heard rustling in the undergrowth on Next Door's side of the fence.
March: My United Fits
I seem to be a bit out of sorts lately.
April: Fearful Sea Anemone
According to the free quarterly magazine from the supermarket (an impeccable source, I'm sure you'd agree), Australians eat 13 kilograms of cheese per capita each year.
May: The Fierce Flowers
The magazine that comes with Saturday's paper did a 'women's issue' yesterday.
June: Giant from planet Zyr
I have been feeling... disengaged lately.
July: Mission to inner space
Making my shopping list today for the rest of the week, I flipped though a food magazine to get some ideas for meals.
August: The Conway tape tap
We were kept amused at work today by a car crash.
September: Bright Red
Today I have been reading the credit card use policies of charitable organisations.
October: Soft Violet
What I find is that if I have something on my mind that I decide I won't write about here, it becomes a block that stops me writing about anything else.
November: Indigo
How many slaves do you have working for you?
December: Mineral Green
Curse the National Council of Churches in Australia!
So that was that. That covered all my title themes for the year, too: My [Adjective] [Noun], Battle of the Planets and, currently, colours in my tin of pencils. What will be next, I wonder? Hmm.
It wasn't a particularly happy year for me, I don't think. No reason. I've just had a year-long attack of the blahs. I seem to have loosed my grip on so many things, unable to finish them and unable to start new ones. So I've had a stern chat with myself and have decided that 2012 will be the year of Tying Up Loose Ends. No new books until I finish the ones sitting unread; no new craft projects until I finish the ones I've started; I will catch up things that I have left undone for too long. We'll see how long that lasts.
Or I could make a New Year's Resolution with this. It's just told me that my resolution for 2012 is to Spend My Money Wisely. Well, I could do that too.
Final photos of the day! A couple of people have mentioned thinking about doing a photo a day this year, to which I say: Go on.
Day 360. Washing day, Day 361. Mystery item: Can you guess?, Day 362. Tiny lemons, Day 362a. A flock of seagulls, Day 363. Sand, Day 363a. Tucked in, Day 364. Forest of needles, Day 365. Pastry weights, Day 365a. Footprints
Go to your calendar and find the first (not-fic-related) entry for each month of 2011. Post the first 1-2 lines of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review”.
January: My Dramatic Pauses
The blurb of the book I am soon to begin reading:
After eloping with the son of her repulsive guardian, a beautiful young woman is terrorized by an evil presence in her remote country house--and then the situation worsens...
February: My Realistic Freedoms
As I went out this morning, I heard rustling in the undergrowth on Next Door's side of the fence.
March: My United Fits
I seem to be a bit out of sorts lately.
April: Fearful Sea Anemone
According to the free quarterly magazine from the supermarket (an impeccable source, I'm sure you'd agree), Australians eat 13 kilograms of cheese per capita each year.
May: The Fierce Flowers
The magazine that comes with Saturday's paper did a 'women's issue' yesterday.
June: Giant from planet Zyr
I have been feeling... disengaged lately.
July: Mission to inner space
Making my shopping list today for the rest of the week, I flipped though a food magazine to get some ideas for meals.
August: The Conway tape tap
We were kept amused at work today by a car crash.
September: Bright Red
Today I have been reading the credit card use policies of charitable organisations.
October: Soft Violet
What I find is that if I have something on my mind that I decide I won't write about here, it becomes a block that stops me writing about anything else.
November: Indigo
How many slaves do you have working for you?
December: Mineral Green
Curse the National Council of Churches in Australia!
So that was that. That covered all my title themes for the year, too: My [Adjective] [Noun], Battle of the Planets and, currently, colours in my tin of pencils. What will be next, I wonder? Hmm.
It wasn't a particularly happy year for me, I don't think. No reason. I've just had a year-long attack of the blahs. I seem to have loosed my grip on so many things, unable to finish them and unable to start new ones. So I've had a stern chat with myself and have decided that 2012 will be the year of Tying Up Loose Ends. No new books until I finish the ones sitting unread; no new craft projects until I finish the ones I've started; I will catch up things that I have left undone for too long. We'll see how long that lasts.
Or I could make a New Year's Resolution with this. It's just told me that my resolution for 2012 is to Spend My Money Wisely. Well, I could do that too.
Final photos of the day! A couple of people have mentioned thinking about doing a photo a day this year, to which I say: Go on.
Day 360. Washing day, Day 361. Mystery item: Can you guess?, Day 362. Tiny lemons, Day 362a. A flock of seagulls, Day 363. Sand, Day 363a. Tucked in, Day 364. Forest of needles, Day 365. Pastry weights, Day 365a. Footprints