My 2017 year in review!
✫ RUDY: Such a good boy! Could not ask for better. Still working on things like jumping on visitors and barking at squirrels and deer, but it will come.
✫ HOSTING: My best friend since childhood came for a brief visit. Oh! I hope she had as much fun as I did!
✫ TRAVEL: We logged 5000+ miles on our fall vacation. It was lovely.
✫ COOKING: Still doing a lot of cooking, and packaging individual servings to freeze for Carey to take to work. I came across a new family favorite with Dublin Coddle, and I even tried my hand at Egg Rolls this year (not that I serve those two things together).
✫ WORK: I worked 270 hours this year. Doesn't sound like much, but works out to about a month and a half if I had worked them straight instead of a day here and a day there. I'm required to work a minimum of 100 hours annually to keep my part-time status, so I did two-and-a-half+ times that.
✫ QUILTING:
My 2017 goal was to get ten projects completely finished this year. I finished up four projects: a throw, a baby quilt, a twin quilt, and a table cover. Several others are very close, but those will be held over for next year.
✫ BLOGGING: I posted 169 blog posts.
My favorite book read this year was...The Old Man by Thomas Perry. I rated it 10/10.
Others that I rated 10/10:
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas (this was a re-read)
There were also quite a few that I rated 9/10. And unlike 2016, there were very few clunkers this year.
And that's another year completed. It was a pretty good one; glad I was here for it.
✫ HOSTING: My best friend since childhood came for a brief visit. Oh! I hope she had as much fun as I did!
✫ TRAVEL: We logged 5000+ miles on our fall vacation. It was lovely.
✫ COOKING: Still doing a lot of cooking, and packaging individual servings to freeze for Carey to take to work. I came across a new family favorite with Dublin Coddle, and I even tried my hand at Egg Rolls this year (not that I serve those two things together).
✫ WORK: I worked 270 hours this year. Doesn't sound like much, but works out to about a month and a half if I had worked them straight instead of a day here and a day there. I'm required to work a minimum of 100 hours annually to keep my part-time status, so I did two-and-a-half+ times that.
My 2017 goal was to get ten projects completely finished this year. I finished up four projects: a throw, a baby quilt, a twin quilt, and a table cover. Several others are very close, but those will be held over for next year.
✫ READING: I slightly more than doubled last years reading with 67 books this year, 52 of which were part of the Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge. It was definitely challenging with categories that I would not have chosen on my own. I did really enjoy the challenge, but I need a break, so I'm not committing to a reading challenge for 2018.
Others that I rated 10/10:
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas (this was a re-read)
There were also quite a few that I rated 9/10. And unlike 2016, there were very few clunkers this year.
And that's another year completed. It was a pretty good one; glad I was here for it.
Great idea to do a highlights post - Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you as well!
DeleteAlways fun looking back over the year, amazing the things I've already forgotten
ReplyDeleteThe main reason I blog is to remember things! :)
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ReplyDeletethanks for sharing your year in review highlights. It's always a pleasure to read your blog.
Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!