(Yet Another) Year in Review

Warning: this year in review will have very little about the presidential election, even though it dominated all of our consciousnesses. This is more navel gazing. So yeah, unless you like your head in my belly button… feel free to ignore.

This year I wrote more than 294,000 words of fanfic (not counting ficlets, drabbles and unfinished bits), more than 18,000 words of original fiction not counting my novel, and more than 43,000 words of original novel (not counting what I wrote and scrapped.)

I started saying “fanwank,” “picspam,” “lolwut” and “FTW” on a regular basis.

My biggest achievements this year were:

• completing several long multipart fanfics
• completing my motherfucking NOVEL hell yeah
• getting a new job
• managing to swallow all the pre-colonoscopy crap (oh yeah, and having several ‘scopies)
• keeping within ten pounds of my wedding weight at all times

My biggest failings this year were;

• Losing myself to the specter of temporary Internet fame
• Allowing myself to be a dupe to a pathological personality and then being pathological about it myself
• Letting my emotions and hormones rule me
• Treating my friends like they were ego-pumping machines instead of real friends

People I met this year who became important to me: My supervisors and co-workers at my new job, ladyanne525 from livejournal (gets a mention because i met her IRL), all of the LJ friends who have stuck with me so long

Movies and TV shows I loved this year: Cloverfield, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, America’s Next Top Model, Heroes, Fringe, Project Runway, Shear Genius

Websites I started to frequent this year: Twitter, I Can Has Cheezburger, Facebook

Famous people I felt it necessary to blog about included: Greg Grunberg, the presidential candidates, Elina Ivanova, Sarah Palin

My goals for this coming year are:

• Move to a bigger apartment that is closer to the Metro
• Survive the recession
• Finish revision of my novel and take steps toward getting it professionally edited/reviewed
• Get below my wedding weight
• Keep my apartment clean
• Save money
• Control myself

In my fondest wishes, this coming year I will:

• Get a book deal
• End up so skinny that I can eat what I want and not worry too much
• Be vindicated when Matt and Mohinder hook up in canon ^___^
• Keep my finances so straight that by year’s end we have enough money to start thinking about houses and/or second cars
• Save editors’ butts so often that they couldn’t live without me
• Have lots of actual friends
• Did I mention get a book deal?

In my worst nightmares, this coming year I will:

• Be rejected so many times and so thoroughly that I’ve given up on my writing altogether
• Maintain my reputation as a drama queen and continue to abuse the goodwill of my friends
• Not visit Atlanta or Brooklyn like I’ve promised to do
• Be in the red
• Be above 150 lbs.
• Not be able to write another Year in Review post this time next year

Thanks for being there for me this year… see you in the oh-nine!