2012 in Review: in books, in houses, in food

Pretty much the only thing I have been diligent about when it comes to blogging is not actually writing anything at all. I have had 900 starts, stops, switch to this platform, switch that one, only talk about this (everything else is boring), only talk about everything (being confined to one topic is boring)...and then I just decided to chill out, write about what I want to write about and that's the end of that.

In blogs past I needed for there to something tangible that was happening. Two years ago on my personal blog I set out to pretty much record every single ting I did on every single day...bananas, boring one's at that. I also started a home/decorating/hoarding sort of blog about my very first 'by myself apartment' but, I wasn't constantly painting or hanging curtains for that blog to gain any momentum. Ah, then I moved from the city to the beach and wanted to try a whole home-y sort of 'this is my quaint life with bicycles and pots of soup and what have you'...that didn't work either. THEN, for a class I was taking at NYU, I started a blog about vintage and antique home wares  This actually, finally, proved to be fulfilling until the professor turned out to be a giant dick and I had to bow out of there so I could get my refund in time.

Needless to say, I am back to blogging about all of the above, none of the above, you name it!

To start- I kept a list of books I read in 2012 and hey skew very YA (what?):

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? -Mindy Kaling

Funhouse- Diane Ho (don't even ask, I loved it as a kid and sold it in a garage sale/left it on vacation so rebought and re-read)

A Moveable Feast- Ernest Hemingway

Anagrams- Lorrie Moore

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows

The Beginners- Rebecca Wolff (read this!)

The Hunger Games

Before I Go to Sleep- SJ Watson

50 Shades of Gray- E.L. James (eh)

13 Reasons Why- Jay Asher

The Road Less Traveled- Dr. Scott Peck

Full Service- Scott Bowers

The Blue Notebook- James Levine (read this!)

Are You My Mother?- Alison Bechdel

Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn

This is How You Lose Her- Junot Diaz

Skinny-Donna Cooner

Member of the Wedding-Carson McCullers

Friendkeeping- Julie Klam (eh)

What did you all read?? I need suggestions for 2013!

Also- I've lately been really trying to conjure up what I was doing, thinking, feeling this time last year bcaeuse I feel like I was in such a great place (although I was unemployed and living at home). So, I have restarted the Whole Living 2012 Action Plan. 21 days of clean eating and no drinking. Day 3 (eh) but hopefully by next week ill be like 'read this!'

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