Welp. It's a new year.: seanan

Welp. It's a new year.

We have survived the great beast 2012! Hooray and stuff! So here is my post-game commentary.

First, the bad, since there was actually less of it by weight, but what there was colored a lot of things. I did not move to Seattle in 2012. I'm trying really hard. Banks are difficult, and my day job is difficult, and it's all still a work in progress. This doesn't change the fact that by the end of the year, "so when are you moving?" became a question that was guaranteed to make me start a) yelling or b) crying. Sometimes it's really hard to live in a fishbowl, and when I don't have something I really, really want, and people keep asking about it...that's one of those times. So until I say "this is a thing that is happening, it has worked out with the bank and with my current housemate and with my job," please don't ask.

I developed a severe issue with my left foot in 2012. It's called "plantar fasciitis," and it basically means "screaming pain every time I put my foot down." This is a problem, especially since I walk both for exercise and for recreation, which has had to be cut way, way back, due to the whole "screaming pain" thing. This is negatively impacting my fitness, which I don't like. I'm doing what my doctor tells me and I don't need help, but it's bad, and it means that sometimes, I walk on a cane or not at all.

Now, the good. I went to Disneyland twice! I saw the largest intact Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in the world! I went to Maine! Basically, through these things combined, it was a damn good year. I got Vixy into pin collecting, which gave me someone to collect pins with (always good). I saw amazing movies and watched a lot of TV, and I don't even know how many books I read. So many books. Truly we live in a magical time.

Oh, and I won a Hugo for never shutting up. I make a wish on it every night. (Yes, sometimes I wish on my Hugo to win a Hugo for Blackout. I never said I was reasonable.)

Publishing-wise, I couldn't tell you how much I wrote in 2012, because I seriously lost count, but I released five books: Discount Armageddon, Blackout, Ashes of Honor, Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots, and When Will You Rise. I had my first reprint, "Lost", and my first reprint-in-a-book, "Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage." It was a pretty slow year for me with short fiction, but there were some pieces I'm really proud of, like "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats", and "In Sea-Salt Tears." I finished nine Velveteen stories, which is three more than the six I promised in 2011. It was a good writing year.

I'm excited about 2013, in all the ways. I'm going to spend my birthday in Disneyland. Wreck-It Ralph is coming out on DVD. And we're spinning our way around the sun again.

Whee!

indilwen

January 3 2013, 05:31:19 UTC 4 years ago

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Happy New Year! ♥ I hope 2013 brings good things your way.

seanan_mcguire

February 16 2013, 05:31:25 UTC 4 years ago

All the same to you!

jenfullmoon

January 3 2013, 14:41:49 UTC 4 years ago

I hear ya on the moving. :( I realized...very slowly, mind you, given the evidence.... that I am just not going to be pulling it off, ever. I'm really entrenched here, working out the financials is freaking hard and will require massive rearrangement of my lifestyle in ways , I can't even figure out how to buy a car and a car is required in order to move, and I don't want to do it alone...but you have to do it alone, you know? Plus there's the "you gotta go with a career goal in mind" thing, which I do not have either, and apparently "just move and see" is also not a good idea.

I wish I hadn't gone on to people about doing it, because now I look like an ass because I haven't.

February 16 2013, 05:31:52 UTC 4 years ago

You do not look like an ass.

You look like someone who has had life happen, and that can happen to anyone.

qnofhrt

January 3 2013, 18:54:08 UTC 4 years ago

Have had plantar fasciitis in the past - it is a pain in the foot nobody needs. I was fortunate that mine went away eventually. I hope yours does too.

May 2013 bring you continued success on every front!

February 16 2013, 05:32:02 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

sylviamcivers

January 3 2013, 20:07:10 UTC 4 years ago

I used to walk 2 miles a day for relaxation. Then I got a job and cut it down to one mile a day.
For my 30th birthday I bought myself a cane. I couln't walk all the way to the grocery store without it.

Happily, after two years I only need it on rare occasions, and the local kids know its available to be borrowed when they're putting on a play.

Feel better!