Happy New Year!

Hello 2023!!

Are you ready for my end-of-the-year re-cap? Here we go:

1. Blog: I started my blog in 2007. I cannot believe it's been 16 years this month. I've written 3,265 posts. I did 319 posts this year. As I've said before, it's another form of scrapbooking for me.

2. Books: I read 69 books this year. Many of them were very good. These were what I considered to be my 5-star books this year:

The Vanishing Half

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

The Last Flight

No Honour

Fearless

Betrayal

Eternal

Majorie Merriweather Post

Every Fifteen Minutes

The Match

The German Midwife

Falling

Take My Hand

Emma in the Night

The Nine

The Light of Luna Park

Carnegie's Maid

Finding Me

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

Someone Knows

Lessons in Chemistry

One Year After

Stories I Tell My Friends

One Day in December

Remember

Pieces of Her

3. Movies: My friends and I continued with our "Movie Mondays" this year, adding another day or two when possible. I saw 44 movies in 2022. Considering my Regal Unlimited membership is $24.00 a month--you have to see at least two movies a month to break even. Basically, I saw 20 movies for free. Actually, there weren't that many new movies this year. There were so many times that we'd seen everything worthwhile. These were my 5-stars for the year:

American Underdog            

Betty White        

Marry Me

Belfast                              

Uncharted            

Death on the Nile

The Lost City                      

Father Stu            

Ambulance

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent         

Downton Abbey

Top Gun                              

Elvis                    

Don't Worry Darling

Till                                      

Armageddon        

She Said

Devotion                             

The Fableman

4. Trips: We took 15 trips this year. In addition, we made it to the beach 8 times.

5. Music: According to Spotify, I listened to 274 hours of music this year. That works out to roughly 11 and a half days! That's more than 67% of Spotify listeners. 

My top song was AA by Walker Hayes. I listened to it 33 times this year. I do love him, but that one isn't even my favorite. 

I listened to 1665 songs. My top artists were: 1. Walker Hayes 2. The Beatles (they never get old) 3. Frank Sinatra 4. Andrea Bocelli 5. Eagles

According to my listening habits, I'm a "musical time traveler and a sonic historian."

Okay, I get that Spotify has all my stats, but I'm pretty disappointed that my musical theater show tunes didn't rank this year. Yes, I listened to a lot of country this year, but I would have ranked show tunes as second. I never get tired of those either!

So, what are your stats this year? I'd be happy to share them here!

Happy New Year! Okay 2023, we're ready for ya'!