Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Happy New Year! Wheel in the sky keeps on turning...

Officially, for the current dominant culture of the country where I live, the new year begins on January 1st. I don't really remember when I started celebrating the new year on November 1st, as dictated by the Wiccan calendar; it's just the time that feels right to me. Harvest is ending. We're sliding into the long winter, time for contemplation, renewal, and preparing to face the spring. I like the idea that we can start the year with a nice, long, blanket-swaddled nap. So happy new year, from my calendar to yours.

This past year has been absolutely insane. High points have included doing the San Diego International Comic Convention with my two best girls, publishing not one, but three books, under two different names, trips to Georgia, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Washington, and other places too numerous to name, winning two Pegasus awards, and finishing two more books. It's a good thing I don't like holding still when I don't have to, I guess. Low points have included exhaustion, travel woes, illness, and throwing my back out. On the balance, I'm calling it a win.

Whether today is the beginning of your year, the beginning of your holiday season, or just another Tuesday, I wish all the best to you and yours. May your days be sweet, your fires be warm, and your skies be filled with stars.

Happy New Year.
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A question, if I may: if you were to ever move to the southern hemisphere, would your personal calender flip to match the seasons?
Either way, may your new year be filled with cats and candy!
It would not, but I would spend a lot of time in corn mazes regardless.
Hoopy New Ear! For me it's the time of year when we're finally back on sun-time and the temperatures are looking to get down to something reasonable (and when the trees are looking really pretty in thousands of different coloured leaves which haven't all dropped yet).

I alliteratively wish you Cats, Candy Corn, Cheese, and Cake!
Yay!
Happy New Year!
Thanks for the Journey earworm from your journal title, too.

And irrelevant to everything but a desire to share, I'm trying to figure out how to turn your "How Much Salt" into a sing-along type of song for tonight's Chantey Sing. Admittedly, I may chicken out because of the octave drop in the refrain/chorus portion. I don't want to break anyone's neck. But as of now, I'm still trying. Maybe a modified fifth?
Honestly, I had trouble with that drop too. My best advice: go for it with all your might!

reedrover

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vixyish

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seanan_mcguire

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reedrover

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Happy New Year to you; it's New Year's Day over here too!

(BTW, I made you a LOL based on my zombie slumber party Halloween costume-I did hollow eyes in dark green and my fake blood got on my gray and white face powder so the blood didn't show so much, not perfect but anyway, sparkly zombie lol. Hope it makes you smile:))


This = AWESOME.
Happy New Year! :D
And to you!
Good wishes and a Happy New Year to you.
Thank you!
I unintentionally set a lot of changes to take place today and this month so I have many thoughts about this but either way a happy new year to you!
Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year to you!

Happy new year!
Happy New Year!!!!

Yay!!!!
Happy New Year!

And a Zombie Warning from the State of Missouri!

http://mdc.mo.gov/zombies
I am hence warned.

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Awesome. :)
Happy fall!
The most wonderful time of the year.
Being an Aussie everything gets thrown out. We have Halloween in early spring, which may be why it's never really taken off here as a big holiday.
Not the spookiest time of the year, it's true...
I fell asleep around four am, face down in front of my computer (at least, in my defense, I WAS on my bed, using a laptop?) I was woken by house-sounds around nine and said NO, so set the alarm for noon and actually crawled into bed. It went off, and I wasn't quite ready, so I lay there thinking about what to do over the next four days -- I burned the last of my vacation time for the year randomly on the first four days of November, to start this year with a hard reset.

Next waking time? 5pm.

If you start the year as you will go on, this may be the year when I acknowledge that I should actually, y'know, sleep. O_o;; Damn.
Happy New Year! May the next year be an all out win, filled with cats and more books:)
And to you!
Happy New Year. May the next one be wonderful.
And to you.
Congratulations on a succesful, if exhausting, year, and Happy New Year. Wishing you joy, and wonder, and some sleep!
Thank you!
I never liked the January 1st new year, and I usually love holidays. It always felt artificial to me. I was never fond of resolutions either. Finally stopped making them a few years ago. For me, the "new" year really began in September because of the academic calendar. I much more looked forward to a new school year than a numberical one.

Then I found out that once upon a time the year began in April until it was, yes, artificially changed (giving us the April fools, those people who didn't want to make the switch). I could buy a new year in spring when the earth is opening up.

Later I learned about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year which always falls in September or early October, which is not far off from my school-days new year. Then, finally, I discovered the Druid/Celtic/Wiccan observation of the new year on Nov. 1st. This I also liked. Unlike many people I enjoy the dark time of year. I am not a summer child. So anything that celebrates "my time" as a starting point is okay by me.
I like this logic. :)
Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
Last night at the NaNoWriMo kickoff, we counted down to midnight. It was very New Years Eve.

Happy New Year!
Hooray!
Happy new year!
And to you!
In case you haven't been told this 50 times already;

In a rather appropriate bit of synergy; The October 30th episode of Writing Excuses podcast chose Rosemary and Rue as their Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week.

Congrats

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AWESOME.

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