Reading for the past year...

Partial reading list of the year. This is one of my resolutions for next year: to keep better track of what I read, because I know I'm missing a bunch of the books I read on this list. :P

Cross-posted to 50bookchallenge.

( A room without books is like a body without a soul )

For those of you who celebrate it...

Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Eve. (Duh)

Got my parents two very very small pressies after all, am wrapping them in newspaper, and then am off.

My mum helped me out by getting presents for my godchild and her sister, but I have to exchange one as she got duplicates. Oops. :P

Anyway.

Off to do that.

I'm kind of groggy and befuddled and lost today. Nothing bad, just... I dunno.

Things are okay.

The new meds are helping, I think.

I have a lot to write about, just not much time in which to do it. More later, I guess.

:::ETA::: I have to buy cat food. Mustn't forget!

I guess I'm too early...

It's Christmas Eve...

But I keep thinking about the New Year that's looming.

I've been thinking about next year a lot. More than I should, I suppose. Obsessing might be a better term. My birthday coincides almost exactly with the New Year, and so I generally wibble about turning new leaves a bit more than the average person no matter what.

This year I'll be turning twenty-five. A quarter of a century under my belt, and not much to show for it.

I feel like a failure.

I've had a lot of good things handed to me on a silver platter in my life, and I've done very little with them. I've had it easy, and all I do is whine about things. I bitch and moan about how hard things are, when really I could probably be doing more to be making them easier. Or something. I don't know.

Keats was dead at my age.

Anyway, the point is that I'm trying to pull myself together. I don't want to stay this way. Being the way I am sucks. I have no idea how I'm going to do that yet, but I'll find a way.

I have seven days to think about it and make up a plan, and an entire year to put it to execution. I think it can work. More to follow, I guess.

Oh! firewillow!

Look! Look here! Pretty horsie!

^_^

Found lacking...

Drat it all!

Just when I need a meme, there's none to be had!

Shouldn't there be six million New Year's memes floating about just now?

*grumble*

*wanders off*

Off to my parents' now. We're going to Midnight Mass tonight, and you likely won't hear from me again until tomorrow, or possibly even the 27th, if I don't post tomorrow. I'll be spending Boxing Day at my godparents' country house.

Happy Holidays, all! :)

A quiz-like thingie, because I haven't left yet

From www.colorquiz.com

Your Existing Situation
Needs warm companionship, but is intolerant of anything short of special consideration from those close to her. If this is not forthcoming, is liable to shut herself away from them. That's just creepy.

Your Stress Sources
Delights in the tasteful, the gracious, and the sensitive, but maintains her attitude of critical appraisal and refuses to be swept off her feet unless genuineness and integrity can be absolutely vouched for. Therefore keeps a strict and watchful control on her emotional relationships as she must know exactly where she stands. Demands complete sincerity as a protection against her own tendency to be too trusting.

Your Restrained Characteristics
Demanding and particular in her relations with her partner or those close to her. but careful to avoid open conflict since this might reduce her prospects of realizing her hopes and ideas.

Feels trapped in a distressing or uncomfortable situation and seeking some way of gaining relief. Able to achieve satisfaction from sexual activity. Erm, not quite, for that last bit...

Your Desired Objective
Seeks the determination and elasticity of will necessary to establish herself and to make herself independent despite the difficulties of her situation. Wants to overcome opposition and achieve recognition. Enh, sort of. Not so much recognition as satisfaction, but it's close enough.

Your Actual Problem
Works to strengthen her position and bolster her self-esteem by examining her own accomplishments (and those of others) with critical appraisal and scientific discrimination. Insists on having things clear-cut and unequivocal.

This was pretty damned accurate, scarily enough. The objective was a wee bit off, but otherwise pretty close.

Geez, I'm tired. I really should get going, but I can't seem to muster the energy to get off my duff and go. :P