Thoughts on the new year and the one ended

I suppose the world expects to hear something about how great 2012 was, and what my hopes are for 2013.  I've been chewing over this for a while, and while it's still not digested, I can safely make a couple of statements at this point.

1.  2012 was a pretty good year, all in all, if you leave off everything from 29 October onwards, which was sheer living hell.  Funny how those last couple of months cast a very very black shadow on the entire year.

2.  2013 ought to be better, since I suspect it will be hard pressed to be worse (again, those last two months of 2012 really muck up the stats for the year).

Do I have any "resolutions" for the new year?  Generally speaking, no.  What might normally sound like a resolution in my case is more like a hope, as in I hope life can more or less get back to normal (real normal, not the much acclaimed "new normal").  I hope to be able to forge ahead with getting this place back into some sort of liveable condition, with the longer range goal of getting it in shape to put on the market, so I can go live anywhere else, so long as the new place feels safe, which this one does not.  I'm not sure it is inherently unsafe, it just feels that way to me.  Of course, my view is colored by my PTSD, which is raging in full bloom.

I hope that once my COBRA is in place (wasted the whole day yesterday trying to get it set up), I can go to some sort of head doc and get some chemicals to help with the PTSD, since in the US there is no longer anyone who does talk therapy, mainly because the health care system frowns on that sort of thing, and generally won't pay for it.  This too shall pass, I know, but I could appreciate a bit of help with it now and again.

I hope to get in a lot of opera in 2013.  I would like to go to Europe for some of it, but that is highly unlikely at the moment, and now is when I need to be acquiring event tickets and such, so it probably won't happen.  I can stick to the US, and maybe explore some new venues, since I have friends in the business who are literally all over the place these days. 

I hope to be able to get to work on a regular basis.  Being stuck at home freezing to death indoors and waiting for various contractors who keep not showing up is not helping with the PTSD.  I'd much rather be doing something productive. 

I hope everyone I know had a better 2012 than I did, and will have a wonderful 2013.