mellicious: Happy New Year! (new year gif)
I read 29 books that were new to me this year - starting with Jenny Colgan's 500 Miles From You in January and ending with Scalzi's Starter Villain yesterday. And then I've really been on a re-reading tear - I read over 100 books that I'd already read in previous years (and I'm at 104, actually, with 20 hours to go so I might still finish one more, who knows!). The "new" list included Rivers of London, Maguire's Son of a Witch, and let's see, maybe four Naomi Novik books - all of the Scholomance series plus Uprooted (all of which I liked a lot). And then the re-read list includes all of Lord of the Rings, a lot of Katherine Addison books (including Angel of the Crows, which I got really obsessed with for a while), a bunch of old Mary Stewart books, practically everything Lois Bujold has ever written... hmm, well, actually no, I skipped most of the Miles stuff this year, but practically everything else... anyway, you get the idea.

I usually do a movie list at the end of the year, too, but there hasn't been all that much I wanted to see. Rob has been to a ton of horror movies, but I only went to Cinemark with him a few times, I think - I know I saw One Battle After Another, which we both loved, and Wicked: For Good, which was not nearly as good as the first one (but wasn't bad, either) - and I'm pretty sure I saw at least a couple more things earlier in the year but I can't really remember what.

mellicious: Happy New Year! (new year gif)
Goodness, where did the year go? I'm sure I will forever associate 2024 with the elections - nothing much happened to us personally that was all that memorable. (No hurricanes, etc!)  So good riddance, 2024, even though I have no reason to think 2025 will particularly be an improvement!

We do have plans to go out to eat tonight with my sister, her husband, her best friend and her husband (who I'm sure I've met years ago, since he's from our hometown and I know his older brother, etc., but I don't actually remember him) - but it'll be good, my sister is a talker and so is Kathy so if the conversation flags otherwise I'm sure they'll pick up the slack. And we're going to a really good Mexican restaurant so I'm anticipating fajitas. Then we'll probably go home and watch some NYE broadcast, that's what we usually do. Big excitement, right?

My new year's resolution, so far as I have one, is to be more organized. I forget things. I need to move some money around and I need to figure out Medicare (oh god, I'm old) and well, fun stuff like that. (Rob went over the weekend and bought me new tires, which is also something I'd been procrastinating about. Yay for husbands.)

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