best of 2013, January through June*

[*brought to you from my 2013 planner]

January
*“Hope for all of us is hope for one of us.”
*MY BIRTHDAY!
*“So far January has been the month of the avocado.” … “On a disappointing note, I have not yet beaten last year’s high score for pinball.” … “Work continues to be work, which is why we get paid.” … “A cheese sandwich sounds good right about now.”

February
*“Lots of love for the month of love and hearts.”
*VERY SNOWY MONTH
*“I do love counting.” … “Something else to contemplate in all that meditation I’m not doing, right?” … “Today also marked possibly the most grown-up thing I have done in my life up till now — I bought lightbulbs for myself. Right there in the grocery store; it was shockingly easy.”

March
*“Even thought it looks the same outside as it did yesterday (cloudy), the feeling today is a promise that spring will come.”
*5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT WORK
*“What a long, strange month it’s been!” … “March also saw the start of the folder system at work.” … “I wish there was a way to explain to people that being a manager is not the same as being a magician.”

April
*“No big snowstorms should be awesome.”
*1ST EVER TRIP TO TRADER JOES
*“Always nice to run into acquaintances in the grocery store with a basket full of fruit and veg instead of chips and Oreos.” … “Skipping things is okay. It just happens that way sometimes.”

May
*“May this month bring green blessings, a bountiful crop of confidence and joy, a sense of gratitude and purpose, and a wellspring of good health.
*MOVIE MONTH, ALLERGIES, & STAFF APPRECIATION WEEKEND — SHOOTING, HIKING, & BASEBALL
*“We made it through spring without flooding or tornadoes.” … “I still feel like school should be ending and I should be getting summer vacation.”

June
*“As per usual, work is work and family is confusing, and the weather provides endless topics of conversation.”
*17 EXCLAMATION POINTS THIS MONTH
*“It’s been a month for talking, that’s for sure — mostly about the weather, it seems like. Hot, cold, sunny, rainy — it’s a good thing we don’t have cicadas up here (oh yes, it’s a cicada year too), or we’d never get any work done at all around the chatter.” … “My utter lack of ambition tends to make a lot of movie villains not make much sense to me. Why would you want to take over the world, instead of just — taking your gains (ill-gotten or otherwise) and going off to live a nice quiet life somewhere?”

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.

best of 2013, July through December*

[*brought to you by my 2013 planner]

July
*“Promotional T-Shirt Month!”
*VERY HOT THIS MONTH
*“This month has involved a lot of cranky people, including myself.” … “I got reacquainted with the cellar, and had reason to be grateful for laundry.” … “August is way more fun now that I’m not in school.”

August
*“I’m very intrigued by the ‘great green hen.’”
*2 NEW EMPLOYEES/COWORKERS — HIRING IS HARD
*“What the world really needed was more AUs of an AU.” … “Kind of like JIT manufacturing — what a way to use business knowledge.”

September
*“Did I move to a rainforest when I wasn’t looking?”
*WORK EXPO TRIP
*“It’s actually kind of great to have so many things I want to do.” … “I’ve been trying to bump up my intake of protein and good fats (so many nuts).” … “How time flies, as quarter 3 comes to an end without any significant improvement.”

October
*“Looking forward to a three day weekend.”
*HELPED PACK UP A STORE
*“I think a lot depends on the weather.” … “I base a surprising amount of my values on my childhood reading material.” … “Will we have a truncated buying season, or a super extended one?”

November
*“Just looking for a change of pace, I guess, and for one less deadline in my life for a while.”
*THE THOR MARATHON
*“What an interesting month!” … “I suppose for December I could always read a holiday romance novel.” … “Not just ‘what’s next?’ but ‘this is what I want next.’”

December
*“Wow, I really thought I’d done this already.”
*FIRST BIG STORMS; COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS
*“I’m sure I had fun and learned a lot, but I am still so glad the year is nearly over.” … “So often I felt on the periphery — impacted but not knowing how to make it better.” … “Meanwhile, retail therapy has been a trend this year.”

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.