We were talking in the office today (yes, I am working through the summer holidays) about how I’m so much better at the starting thing than the finishing thing- and how I’m seriously crap at the business as usual, boring middle bit thing. It’s who I am. It’s why I like what I do at the moment. It’s why I’ll eventually get sick of that. It’s why I’m finding the final edit of Baby, It’s You (my novel) so hard going…cos it really is the finish of that process.

It’s also why I’m forcing myself to properly close this year off- because there’s a whole shiny new one just a day or so away.
So, to the looking back thing.

There was so much that was great about 2014. So much. I’ve been writing about it over on and anyways. Month by month…man, I’m disciplined! If you’re interested, the link to all of them is here. I still have November and December to go…don’t hold your breath…after all, I’m still missing Y and Z in my A-Z of me series.

I (deliberately) challenged myself physically, mentally and emotionally doing The Routeburn Track in February, and seriously gave my fear of letting go a decent whack when I zip lined just a few days later.

I accepted a serious corporate (and personal) challenge when I went back into partition land in March, and I made the decision in September to self-publish my first novel in May 2015. Astro titles will follow (under my own name), but fiction is my heart- and somehow it feels like a huge risk of that organ. I’m blogging that over at my alter ego- Tracey Hamill. Feel free to drop in.

The hardest thing I did all year, though, was say goodbye when my baby girl (who’s a heap taller than me- it wouldn’t be hard) hopped on a plane to Hong Kong and China on a trip I didn’t arrange and had absolutely no control over. Yes, I cried buckets when she got home- full of photos and stories and a new maturity.

There’s a lot that I’m happy to leave in 2014, but I’m not in the business of regrets, so we won’t go there. There was random shit happening all around. There was some tragedy too close for comfort, and a near miss that I’ll be grateful for until the end of my days…but we won’t go there either. All of it served as a wake-up, a reminder, and, dare I say it, a lesson… reminders and lessons that I hope I’m smart enough not to ignore.

As for this blog? Well, there was a hiatus for a few months as the afore-mentioned smelly, brown stuff was hitting the fan, but thanks to all of you who’ve followed me, and read my often chaotic rambling words over this past year. There was over 270,000 of you. That’s seriously humbling.
What did you come over to look at?

Mostly old stuff. My top viewed posts:
Bad Romance- Venus in Scorpio
Revenge is Sweeter Than You Ever were- Mars in Scorpio
It’s Getting Hot in Here- Mars in Aries
Raging Bull or Contented Cow- Mars in Taurus
Pisces Through the Houses

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting the hints loud and clear- you want anything about Scorpio, Aries, Taurus and Pisces…ok, perhaps I’m over simplifying…

I’ll be back in the New Year with my goals for 2015…until then, thanks for coming along for the ride in 2014!