Welcome 2013

So here we are, another year come and gone.

I didn't really make an resolutions this year. I don't really have a plan for what I want to accomplish this year. Except maybe have a baby/get pregnant. 

I'm still at my job which sometimes I think is kind of a miracle. I had a meeting with HR a couple months ago which, is not good. I keep being told they are seeing me make an effort but I need to get better. I've given up trying to figure out what they want from me at this point and I am just trying not to make mistakes.  I'm starting to wonder how many people and who is really complaining about me. I hear from some people that I am much more pleasant to work with than my co-worker but I suppose if I am not doing my job properly, that really doesn't matter, does it?

I turned 30 last month. It feels really weird to say that outloud sometimes. I don't feel 30 but I also don't know how 30 should really feel ya know? I don't feel like I have accomplished much but at the same time, I am married, working full time and I own a home so there's that. Our refinance went through in December so we'll be saving a bunch more every month and by a bunch more I mean something. I'm trying to rein in my husband a little. He seems to think that just because we'll have more money we should be able to spend some of it. He thinks our TV is too small and we need one in our bedroom. We rarely watch TV up there so I don't see the point.

I'm still also singing in my church choir although I do wish there was more of an age mix. There are some days at rehearsal when it feels weird to be the youngest person there. But I love singing so I keep going back. And I love the traditional Christmas songs.

Speaking of the holidays, we had a good Christmas. I got quite a bit in Amazon money so yea books!

I'm loving my Kindle by the way. I have found that I am able to get books pretty easy on the Kindle as long as I don't want to read something super new. I finally read Harry Potter although I am sad to say I only got through half of book 5 before giving up. I just couldn't get into it. I know Harry was suppose to be  a teenager but he also acted just like a teenager and I wanted to scream at him and tell him to stop complaining.

I finished another 100 books this year which means in the last 3 years I have read almost 500 books which is kind of astonishing. I also read my first Stephen King this year. And it was a fantastic book-even at over 800 pages. I ended up buying it on my Kindle when it went on sale.  This past weekend I got together with some of my online book ladies. It ended up being 7 of us who all met up in CT. CT seemed to be the central location for everyone. It only took me an hour from my house. Sometimes I forget how close CT actually is. It seems so much further away for some reason.

Also, super excited Bunheads is back. I love Amy-Sherman shows. It reminds me of my favorite show, Gilmore Girls but it's also different and it's own show at the same time.

And in case anyone's curious, this is what I read in 2012. The ones in bold are my favorites

Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen Bitter Harvest (Orchard Mystery, #5) Sheila Connolly When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka A Killer Crop (Orchard Mystery #4) Sheila Connolly Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) J.K. Rowling No Second Chance Harlan Coben Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Three Girls and a Wedding (Three Girls, #2) Rachel Schurig Red Delicious Death (Orchard Mystery, #3) Sheila Connolly Summer Breeze Nancy Thayer Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) J.K. Rowling Rotten to the Core (Orchard Mystery, #2) Sheila Connolly Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, # 1) J.K. Rowling I'd Know You Anywhere Laura Lippman Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Where We Belong Emily Giffin Angel Falls Kristin Hannah After You Julie Buxbaum Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10) Harlan Coben One Bad Apple (Orchard Mystery, #1) Sheila Connolly Home Again Kristin Hannah Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Mindy Kaling Miracle Cure Harlan Coben Objects of My Affection Jill Smolinski The Fall of Alice K.: A Novel Jim Heynen The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes  Moore Come Home Lisa Scottoline The Next Best Thing Jennifer Weiner The Lost Recipe for Happiness Barbara O'Neal The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka Summerland: A Novel Elin Hilderbrand Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6) Lisa Gardner Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)adventures of Waverly Bryson Maria Murnane Three Girls and a Baby (Three Girls, #1) Rachel Schurig The Island Elin Hilderbrand The Last Kind Words Tom Piccirilli The Leftovers Tom Perrotta The Very Picture of You: A Novel Isabel Wolff The Story of Beautiful Girl Rachel Simon The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Girl Most Likely to Poonam Sharma What Happened to Henry? Sharon Pywell Off the Menu Stacey Ballis Another Piece of My Heart Jane Green Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection A.J. Jacobs Summer Friends Holly Chamberlin Wife 22 Melanie Gideon Then Came You Jennifer Weiner This Must Be the Place Kate Racculia Immediate Family Eileen Goudge Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) Tana French These Girls Sarah Pekkanen Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward Off Season Anne Rivers Siddons A Vintage Affair: A Novel Isabel Wolff The Other Family Joanna Trollope Return to Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales #6) Dorothea Benton Frank The Time of My Life Patrick Swayze Another Summer: A Novel Georgia Bockoven Little Bee Chris Cleave Dreams of Joy Lisa See I've Got Your Number Sophie Kinsella The Memory of Water Karen White The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 11/22/1963 Stephen King Testimony Anita Shreve Always Something There to Remind Me Beth Harbison Dining with Joy Rachel Hauck The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs The Ice Cream Girls Dorothy Koomson Island of Lost Girls Jennifer McMahon The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve Irma Voth Miriam Toews Love Always Harriet Evans How to Be Single Liz Tuccillo The Gilly Salt Sisters Tiffany Baker Save Me Lisa Scottoline Before I Go To Sleep S.J. Watson Pinch Me Adena Halpern A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty Joshilyn Jackson The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester If It Was Easy, They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married Jenna McCarthy The Privileges: A Novel Jonathan  Dee Happiness Sold Separately Lolly Winston Girls in White Dresses Jennifer Close Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5) Ann Brashares House of Cards: Love, Faith, and Other Social Expressions David Ellis Dickerson Tony and Susan Austin Wright The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) Suzanne Collins A Desirable Residence: A Novel of Love and Real Estate Madeleine Wickham As Sure As the Sun Anna McPartlin The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer Barefoot Elin Hilderbrand Bound South Susan Rebecca White Unfinished Desires Gail Godwin Bossypants Tina Fey Mini Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #6) Sophie Kinsella Don't Hex with Texas (Enchanted, Inc., #4) Shanna Swendson	Sarah Pekkanen
	Sheila Connolly
	Julie Otsuka
	Sheila Connolly
	J.K. Rowling
	J.K. Rowling
	Harlan Coben
	Gillian Flynn
	Rachel Schurig
	Sheila Connolly
	Nancy Thayer
	J.K. Rowling
	Sheila Connolly
	J.K. Rowling
	J.K. Rowling
	Laura Lippman
	F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Rebecca Skloot
	Emily Giffin
	Kristin Hannah
	Julie Buxbaum
	Harlan Coben
	Sheila Connolly
	Kristin Hannah
	Mindy Kaling
	Harlan Coben
	Jill Smolinski
	Jim Heynen
	Wes  Moore
	Lisa Scottoline
	Jennifer Weiner
	Barbara O'Neal
	Julie Otsuka
	Elin Hilderbrand
	Lisa Gardner
	Maria Murnane
	Rachel Schurig
	Elin Hilderbrand
	Tom Piccirilli
	Tom Perrotta
	Isabel Wolff
	Rachel Simon
	Erin Morgenstern
	Poonam Sharma
	Sharon Pywell
	Stacey Ballis
	Jane Green
	A.J. Jacobs
	Holly Chamberlin
	Melanie Gideon
	Jennifer Weiner
	Kate Racculia
	Eileen Goudge
	Tana French
	Sarah Pekkanen
	Jesmyn Ward
	Anne Rivers Siddons
	Isabel Wolff
	Joanna Trollope
	Dorothea Benton Frank
	Patrick Swayze
	Georgia Bockoven
	Chris Cleave
	Lisa See
	Sophie Kinsella
	Karen White
	Julian Barnes
	Stephen King
	Anita Shreve
	Beth Harbison
	Rachel Hauck
	Julie Orringer
	Kate Jacobs
	Dorothy Koomson
	Jennifer McMahon
	Anita Shreve
	Miriam Toews
	Harriet Evans
	Liz Tuccillo
	Tiffany Baker
	Lisa Scottoline
	S.J. Watson
	Adena Halpern
	Joshilyn Jackson
	Simon Winchester
	Jenna McCarthy
	Jonathan  Dee
	Lolly Winston
	Jennifer Close
	Ann Brashares
	David Ellis Dickerson
	Austin Wright
	Jeffrey Eugenides
	Suzanne Collins
	Madeleine Wickham
	Anna McPartlin
	Andrew Sean Greer
	Elin Hilderbrand
	Susan Rebecca White
	Gail Godwin
	Tina Fey
	Sophie Kinsella
	Shanna Swendson