2012 is nearly over and what a year it has been!! This will be my second to last post for the year so I thought it be fitting to feature my personal highlights of 2012. I hope you’ve all had an amazing year!!

• Lived in New Zealand
• Watched Master T do his first tandem skydive
• Started an 8-week mentorship with Alan Close
• Got published in The Hokitika Guardian

• Ryan and new wife-to-be, Andrea visited from the USA
• jennifer@jennifermortonwriter.com was born
• Got into the writing groove
• Saw a real live kiwi in its native home

• Celebrated 8th wedding anniversary
• Attended the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika
• Submitted my 2nd story to Australian Family Magazine
• Read and reviewed Portia de Rossi’s Unbearable Lightness for Hardie Grant
• Returned to Australia after 7 months in New Zealand
• Slowly took myself off a very restricted diet that started on January 1st
• Spent 2 nights in Sydney
• Got my first copywriting job ($80 invoiced!!!)
• Meet some fabulous writers in Sydney
• Flew to Canada for a 2-month stay…sans husband and child. Fell in love with Vancouver all over again.
• I attended the I CAN DO IT conference in Vancouver….OMG!
• Spent some time in the Canadian Rockies
• Shared good times with my Canadian friends and family
• Hooked up with bestie, Gillian Mckenzie and finally got to eat at her restaurant, The Seaside Shanty
• Enjoyed time in Halifax – my original hometown
• Flew to Ontario and got to know my niece and nephew again
• The winter edition of Australian Family Magazine was released with my feature in it
• I spent Canada Day in Ottawa with my niece and her hubby. It was a dream come true for me.
• I returned to Australia and my boys. xxxx
• We all moved to Western Australia
• I finally started to write again

• I landed a contract with West Australian Newspapers (as a freelancer)
• I set up my home office
• I was published in the local papers 3 times!!!
• I was published on Webchild.com.au

• I submitted several pitches to several glossy magazines
• I got serious about fitness
• My schedule got very busy
• I really feel like a writer now
• I made pumpkin pie to honour  Canadian thanksgiving
• Good Health bought an article that I submitted on spec! Watch for my byline in the April 2013 edition……The best thing to happen in my writing career to date!
• Kai Chronicles celebrated its one year anniversary
• I did 2 solo skydives after a 7.5 year hiatus.
• I had 2 articles published in the Ocean Drive Magazine in WA
• I started the first draft of my chick-lit novel
• Good Health commissioned me to write an article for the May 2013 edition
• I WON Nanowriomo for the 2nd year in a row
• I went back to far north Queensland for a holiday with the family
• I attended my brother-in-law’s wedding on Mission Beach….xxx
• My hubby bought us a flash car
• I spent a day at a mini yoga retreat
• I met some of the team and saw the news room at the Geraldton Guardian 
• I had a very bikini Christmas with family in Perth
• I was featured in the summer edition of BIDE magazine.

2012 has been a fantastic year for me. I hope you have all enjoyed good health, success, happiness and love. My last post of 2012 will feature my wishes and goals for 2013. It’s going to be a BIG year, I just know it.