End of the Year… END OF THE WORLD?! Dun dun dun!

The weather here is crazy right now. One day it’s 80, the next it’s 60. In the end, I guess it’s just Florida, but it still doesn’t feel like the holidays when it’s hot out!

In two weeks it’ll be the new year (or we’ll have gone the way of the dinosaurs by Friday, but we’ll be in good company at least. I’ve always wanted to see a T-Rex!), and that is absolutely crazy. I still can’t figure out if this year felt incredibly long or blisteringly fast. Trying to think back to January requires a nose-bleeding amount of mental effort, but it feels like just yesterday it was July.

2012 in review:

We started growing tomatoes, green beans, and sweet peppers! And they’re still alive after more than a week! It’s a Christmas miracle. Of course, the only thing that’s actually bore fruit (er… crossed metaphor?) is the green beans, so far. The tomatoes were looking promising until some wild beast came and ate the plant while we were away for the weekend. Wild beast: I don’t know who or WHAT you are, but I’ve got my eye on you!

I actually wrote two books and a novella. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but there you go! I also started a couple of projects that never quite got off the ground, but the way I figure, I’ve now got the start to several stories hanging around and waiting for me. I’ll get to those in 2013.

Disney World and Islands of Adventure! And we saw The Lion King musical when it came to Orlando! Plus a lot of other things. It’s been a pretty crazy (and fun) year for events like this.

I’ve read a lot of good books this year, some of which I blogged about here! The Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man Trilogy (of which I wrote about here) by Robin Hobb are definitely at the top. Most recently, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (mini review over here on GoodReads) became one of the stand-out books I read (or, rather, listened to) this year. There was also The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, which had to be one of the books I had the most out-and-out fun reading, and I caught up on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Tales series, which is one of my favorites. A good year for reading!

The apartment is now a Gluten Free Household as of 2012, and it’s been a fun and kind of crazy adventure. Specifically when it comes to baking. The most recent attempt at gluten free baking has led to a batch of cookies that weren’t quite feeling like they wanted to be cookies and instead tried to become just like the sheet of parchment paper they were baked on. Trial and error!

A lot more happened this year, of course, but that’s where I’ll leave things for now. I’ve finished up most of the work that needed doing before the holidays and this Saturday I’ll be making the trek home to South Florida to spend Christmas and New Years with the family, drinking much eggnog and eating many (okay, all) cookies.

I’ll probably be posting a Friday Reads at the end of the week (because I’m reading a few books now that need to be talked about. So good!), but until then, happy holidays!