Good morning and happy New Year! Of my gosh what a week it has been already as those of you who participate in the Monday What Are You Reading Meme already have noticed… I forgot to put up the post.
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I know right? My weekend was a big one where I worked and I set up for our homeless week and by the time I got done running it was Sunday evening ay 8 pm and seriously, it must have fallen right out on my head. Unbelievable. Ugh….. we will be back with that meme next week 😀
But hey, its 2013 right and anything is possible! I love New Years. I always look at them like a white board all clean and ready to see what I am going to put on it. I feel like I needed a white board this year – desperately and now here we are! 😀
Of course I am starting out behind with already missing my end of the year post that I have been working on but still is not finished. For this morning I can give you these pics I created of my year:
Things I wish for this new year is: Better time management, a cleaner more efficient blog schedule and blog.
One thing I miss is I really have not had time to get behind the challenges this year and I have signed up for none. I would like to add at least one maybe two, so what challenges are you signed up for this year? I need ideas. 😀
Book Journey 
I love your zest for life! Happy New Year, Sheila!
Thanks Kathy – its fun to look at this past year like this. 😀 Happy New Year!!!
Love the photo montage!
I ended up posting my It’s Monday! and then deleting it. I’ll try to post it next week.
I’ve gone challenge-free this year. I am working a little on Around the World in 80 Books, but just if I wanna.
I still cant believe I forgot to post it…. guess that goes to say something about my state of mind these days… 😛 Nice about Challenge free.
I signed up for Roof Beam Reader’s 2013 TBR Pile Challenge, but that doesn’t help me keep up with new books like you seem to do so well! I think everyone will understand forgetting one thing on Monday with how busy you’ve been. Happy New Year!
I like a mix of the old and new books…. there are so many that came out in the last few years that I can not neglect 😀 Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year, Sheila. 2013 will find me pulling back quite a bit from accepting review books and instead working at clearing books off my shelves and Kindle. If any of the books I read are Reagan Arthur challenge books I’ll add them to that list. Otherwise, no official challenges – that’s my challenge 😉
Happy New Year!!! Nice about the working on the TBR. I have pulled back a bit too but darned if the good ones are still not being offered. 😀
I’m running a New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge! Feels good right now and it only runs to the end of the month: http://www.joyweesemoll.com/2012/12/15/new-years-resolution-reading-challenge/
I’ve also signed up for What’s in a Name at Beth Fish Reads. I’ve yet to successfully meet that challenge, but it always amuses me.
I will have to look at your challenge and Candice’s. I have heard of her challenge but have not really checked to see what it is about. Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year! I love that clean slate feeling of a new year starting, too, but I haven’t had too much time to think about it. I was ahead of the game and was wishing for the new year a few weeks early because that’s when I had the drive to clean up my life. Now I’ve unwittingly adopted a kitten, and most of my energy (not to mention a big part of that “clean slate”) is going to her care and feeding. 😉
As for challenges, I gave them up long ago seeing as I proved myself a major failure at them repeatedly. That said, I am very seriously considering doing the TBR Double Dog Dare to start getting my book collection in hand!
I failed pretty bad this year ar the challenges mainly on keeping up on updating them and then of course posting the results… 😯
Love the pix….I couldn’t imagine you forgetting the Monday post….so I thought you must have been stuck somewhere without Internet. Enjoy your New Year!
Seriously when you posted asking where it was I just stared at your post thinking, “what do you mean, did you not see it?” 😛 I still cant believe that…. Happy New Year!!!
Ha-ha….it would be kind of hard to miss….it’s usually pretty lengthy! lol
Happy New Year Sheila! I would love to sign up for some challenges and looking around to see what’s out there. My resolution is to get back into more bookish things this year.
Natalie :0)
I have had a tough time myself from fall to present. I am hoping to get back on track as well. I love my books… I need to spend time with them. 😀
Great Pics … Happy New Year to you and yours, Sheila!
Happy New Year Beth!!!
Happy New Year Sheila!!! I am hosted my Just For Fun Challenge and an A-Z Reading Challenge. I think you would enjoy both. I love challenges and have signed up for about 15 of them 🙂 with 2 more I plan t o add this week.
Happy New Year!!! That right, I wanted to check yours out!
Happy New Year! I reduced my reading challenges from last year 20 to 6! I am participating in New Authors, What’s In A Name 6, Where Are You Reading?, Outdo Myself, Regan Arthur (perpetual) and Game of Thrones.
Hmmmm….20 to 6? WOW! How did you do 20? 😛 I am curious about what is “Outdo Myself?” OOH and Game Of Thrones!!!! (see, this is how I get hooked :razz:)
Happy happy new year Sheila!!
Happy New Year Amanda!!! I still plan on posting the fitness challenge, just still tweaking. Life… got BUSY! ;D
I love your photo collage! How did you create that?
I’m actually taking a break from reading challenges in 2013. I just need to focus again on my blog and actually reading haha! But there definitely seems to be an abundance of awesome challenges – I have no doubt you’ll find the perfect ones! Happy 2013 Sheila!
Pic Monkey collage 😀
Happy New Year!!! Are you going to be my buddy at BEA this year?
Happy New year-let me know if you figure out the time management-that is one area that seems to elude me.
Happy New Year!!! I dont think I will ever get the time management thing down 😛
Loved looking at all of the pictures! Looks like you had a fun year. Here’s to a fab 2013!
Thanks – to you as well 😀
Such a lovely photo collage! Love it 🙂
Thanks it was fun to look at the year like that 😀
Awesome pics! I love the ones of the furbabies.
Happy New Year!
Those two are rescues from this year… LOVE them!
There are two non challenges challenges that I do every year and that I love. One in spring called Once Upon a Time the other in the fall that is the R.I.P challenge. They are both hosted by http://www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com/ . They are so fun.
Happy New year.
Thanks! I have heard of the second one but not the first. I will take a look 😀
Happy New Year Sheila! I’m dedicating 2013 to books on my TBR shelves, so I’m doing many challenges.
Nice! 😀 Happy New Year!!!
it looks like you had quite the busy year! Hope you had a fantastic New Year! and that the upcoming year is like no other!
Thank you – I am hoping and working towards a FANTASTIC year! 😀
Happy New Year, Sheila! I’m so glad I found your blog. May your 2013 be filled with fun moments- in books and in real life!
Thank you Earl that is very sweet 😀 Happy New Year!!!
the europa challenge needs you! the site is europachallenge.blogspot.com. we’d love to have you! Happy New Year Sheila! 🙂
What is this you speak of? I am off to check it out 😀 Thanks Marie! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I’m only doing a few no-pressure challenges. What’s In A Name is my favorite. I want to leave time free to join read-a-longs, etc throughout the year and not have to worry if a title or book fits a challenge.
There are some really great ones out there this year. I have to control my ‘kid in a candy store’ mentality. 🙂 Check out the Novel Challenge blog for ideas (http://novelchallenges.blogspot.com/)
Happy New Year, Sheila!
Ok, Sheila…I thought I was Crazy! This was my first attempt at linking and it wouldn’t let me. Finally realized I was trying to link to LAST week and that’s why It was closed…Ok, so I’ll try Next Monday! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Sheila!
Happy New Year — wishing you lots of 5 star reads!
I’m not doing any challenges this year … I gave them up last year and it was so freeing!
ha ha – no problem on forgetting the Monday post, Sheila. After reading about your weekly schedule a few days’ earlier, I just figured you got too busy…and it WAS New Year’s Eve, anyway.
I love the start of a new year, too. Fresh start, clean slate, etc. We just returned from along trip visiting my FIL in Oklahoma, so I am a bit behind also and have not posted my end-of-year wrap-ups either.
As for challenges, I will post a link to mine here…once I decide what they are! That’s another thing I haven’t had time for yet.
Happy New year!
Sue
Happy New Year! Sometimes the unscheduled absences are unavoidable, especially around the holidays! 🙂
No organized challenges for me this year – just finding the time to read can be MY challenge during the school year. I do have two IRL book groups that stretch me and I sure enjoy that. I guess my biggest feat will be if I can pull off my own challenge — to read from my own bookshelves. I love touching these lovelies. My motto…”they’re not just for catching dust anymore…”! Happy New Year!