Rolling Into 2013… Heres To A SMOOTH Year!

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

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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:

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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.  😀

53 thoughts on “Rolling Into 2013… Heres To A SMOOTH Year!”

  2. 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.

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  3. 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!

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  4. 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 😉

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  6. 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!

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  8. 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)

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  10. 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.

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  13. 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!

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  25. 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.

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  27. 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!

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  29. 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!

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  30. 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

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  32. 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!

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