I wanted to write a cheer­ful happy, oh 2011 was so won­der­ful, let’s hope that 2012 will be even bet­ter! post, but, I’m just not feel­ing it lately.

In 2011, it felt like I spent the year tired and always busy, but never get­ting any­thing done.

We bought a house. I got a sec­ond job. I fin­ished half my novel.

I started exer­cis­ing a lit­tle in the sum­mer, but once school started in September the park was invaded by teenagers. I couldn’t run along the paths any­more when them crowd­ing it to get to school.

Now, my exter­nal hard drive crashed, and so did the hard drive on my laptop.

For next year, I have only a few hopes. I want to fin­ish at least the next quar­ter of my novel. I want to work exer­cise back into my life. And I want to try harder at being pos­i­tive and happy. I usu­ally am, but lately it’s been a string of things which make that pretty hard to do.

Question to the read­ers: What are you hop­ing to accom­plish in 2012?