Beatrice Writes

2010 in Review

I am just now really catching up with the fact that it is now 2011! I don’t know what happened, but I got left behind. My habit the past few years is not to make resolutions, but rather to think about what I accomplished in the previous year and to set goals for the coming year. This is my list of things that happened this year.

The Good:

• I ended up with an awesome boyfriend.
• I don’t live with my brother and sister-in-law any more!
• I joined the review crew at www.RiseReviews.com
• I had a very productive writing year!
• I started a writing collaboration with two of my great friends.
• I finished all my Christmas presents BEFORE Christmas. (This is a HUGE accomplishment in my mind! I have a Christmas present from 2009 that still isn’t finished. Sigh.)
• I made a new friend.
• I added a new state to the list of places I’ve been.
• I visited a new place–Cleveland, OH.
• I submitted my writing to more than one place/competition/lit mag.

The Bad:

• My cousin was murdered 10 days before Christmas.
• My uncle passed away on Thanksgiving weekend due to a heart attack.
• I got unceremoniously dumped, hard-core. (This led to #1 on my list of good things to happen in 2010, however–I am with  now with a boyfriend much more awesome than the previous one.)
• I was still unable to find a full-time job.

The Bad stuff was bad with a capital B this year. I made a real effort to think of good things because of it. This year has a lot of excitement coming up. I’m starting school again. I am planning to submit my writing to some literary magazines, and maybe even a competition. I’m planning to set monthly goals. Hopefully I will be able to announce that I’ve gotten published this year! One of my wishes for the year (but something I have no control over) is that no one in my family will die for the entire year. I’d like to get through the whole calendar year without a death in my family because that hasn’t happened since 2006.