Dec. 31st, 2005

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A bit long. Oh well, was a good year :)

Places visited:
  • West Coast for the first time including Macquarie Harbour; also stopped at Sheffield, Roseberry, Zeehan & Queenstown
  • Melbourne for brother's engagement party
  • Broadmarsh on way to Wooden Boat Festival
  • Hobart, multiple times
  • Storm Bay

Things I did that I've wanted to do and never got around to before:
  • Visited Duck Reach
  • Made chocolates
  • Penny Farthing races (I'd last gone years ago)
  • Cemetery at Broadmarsh
  • Visit to west coast

Short stories completed:
  • One.

Novels worked on:
  • 1 second draft completed
  • 1 reread, trimmed and tweaked
  • 1 first draft completed (in 15 days)
  • 1 second draft 40% done (in December!)

Things submitted:
  • One short story to one market

Magazines edited

Books read:
  • Three Musketeers
  • Black Jewels trilogy by Ann Bishop
  • Prophecy of Swords by [livejournal.com profile] shadowhelm

Movies seen:
  • Revenge of the Sith
  • Batman Begins

Movies wanted to see but they ended before I got to cinema:
  • Too many

Things done for first time:
  • Won prize for a photo (for something I'd done!)
  • Sailing on a tall ship
  • Went to cat shows with purebred cat/s
  • On a panel at a con

Things bought:
  • new mobile phone
  • lots of plants
  • lots of coins
  • DVDs

Things sold:
  • lots of coins (and banknotes and some stamps & junks)
  • 3 photos on cards (!)

Significant things lost/broke:
  • Little greenhouse
  • Mobile phone
  • Camera
  • Fountain pen
  • Washing machine
  • Two punnets of cucumbers plants (I give up, chives are in there now)
  • CD burner (grrrr)
  • Green lavender (seeing it took me years to find one)
  • Climbing rose Cecile Brunner
  • Umbrella

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