2015

So I disappeared for a bit at the end of the year, and for good reason. So much happened that you’ll probably see a lot of late posts finishing up 2015, but I thought I could start with a general recap of the last couple months of the year.

Bought a house and moved- I don’t remember if I mentioned it before, but I bought a house and moved. Packing and cleaning are my least favorite things in the world, and moving combines the two. I’m finally getting a little settled, though, and when I get back from my conference I will start buying all the shelves! I need so many shelves, and only half of them are for books. But once that starts happening, I’ll start getting things more organized and it will start feeling more like home. And once everything is organized then I can start painting, which I really love.
Hosted Christmas- Since I moved into a house and my parents and sister each live in tiny apartments, I hosted Christmas this year. There is something about this that makes you feel very grown-up and at the same time never want to do it again. It’s kind of exhausting getting everything ready for family Christmas, even though a lot of what I did is what I would have done normally. Maybe it’s the clean up piece or the fact my house still isn’t put together. I had fun hosting, but will be glad it’s back at my parent’s house next year.
New Years Eve- It was just me and my sister for New Year’s. We went to the movies, made coconut curry and tiramisu from scratch, and went to the Festival of Lights at the Cinci Zoo. And thanks to a random, but excellent Christmas present (an antenna) we were able to watch the ball drop on TV for the first time since living on our own.
Got Sick- Yep, since winter finally showed up, I got my typical season change sickness and spent most of the last week of 2015 on the couch sleeping when possible. I was planning on catching up with all my writing the week after Christmas, but now I have to squish it into the beginning of the year. I’m determined to build up my cushion again, hopefully before conference in a couple weeks.


Young and in Love Lumberjanes Nimona Throne of Glass School for Good and Evil Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Alienated Silver in the Blood	Looking Glass Wars Alienated Ender’s Game Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	Check the Shelf End of 2016




I obviously haven’t been writing much the last couple months. Now that I have my desk and computer set up (the monitor died right before the move, so that was another thing in the way of writing) it’s a little easier to find moments here and there. But I’m really hoping to get things in place over the next couple months, so that will slow things down. We’ll see how I do with writing in 2016.	It’s been a lot of stuff I’ve watched before so that I can read or sleep while it’s on. I did go to see Star Wars with the fam after Christmas and loved that.	I feel out of listening to anything for a while, just enjoyed the silence when I had it. But I’m back to it, and obsessively catching up on all Book Riot’s podcasts, including “all the books,” which I struggled to find on stitcher for a while.