So, my second book still isn't done though I'm close - just need to finish the big fight scene at the end. Hope to have it to my editor by Jan 15th - we'll see.

On the garden front, my roses have never looked better - hubby has been trimming them and keeping them watered. I don't think we'll need to do any rash pruning this year at all. My broccoli is just starting to set, and my cauliflower is still in its leafy stage - we've had such strange weather (and winds!) that they're a bit behind the broccoli, even though they were planted on the same day. The lime trees have new fruit on them already, and the orange trees look like they survived their first year. The lemon trees are dead in the front yard, and so are the avocados. This is the last year I'm buying avocado trees - they are just so temperamental. The grapefruit and the tangerine trees in the front are doing quite well, so that's a good thing.

I rescued a berry bush from the weeds a couple weeks ago, and though it's got the winter blahs, it's in a good spot for future fruit. Need to put up a support trellis of some sort for it to grow on, to make it easier to get to the fruit...hrm. A good project for the teenager I think.

My website/blog is going strong. I don't know if it's helping me to sell any books, but that's okay - I'm in this for the long run, not the short-term. I've written another play (!) - a short one that I was asked to write. So we'll see where that goes, if anywhere. In the meantime, stories are surging and are anxious to be told. As soon as I get this novel out of the way, I think I'll go to novellas, short stories or maybe short-shorts. Some places accept 5k stories, lol! Much more the thing now-a-days for eBooks. (How else do some of these women put out 30+ stories in a year? Seriously!)

I jogged 3 miles this morning with the hubby, and while I'm now totally wiped out I feel good. I feel like I'm healthy. Back to my new normal. I haven't jogged that far in over a year, so yeah. It feels good!

I don't do resolutions, and only the most rudimentary of goals - mainly because when I look back at those "goals" a year from now, I don't want to feel like I've failed.

So instead, in the coming year, I look forward to living an active, healthy life; I look forward to writing, and having published, several books; I look forward to at least live readings of my two plays. I look forward to meeting new people, whether via the internet or in person, and becoming friends for I firmly believe that you can never have too many friends. I look forward to whatever life decides to dish out, and I promise I will do my best to make the most of it.

So long, 2011; can't say I'm sorry to see you go. Hello, 2012; let's have fun this year!