Here is a thread, started by dear minque a year ago that is most appropriately and well-worth resurrecting for a time. It's sort of fun to see what we wrote to each other at this time a year ago as we now review surviving the end of the Mayan calendar and other concerns from a year ago and dream of the potential bounty a new year can bring.
I have family in Western Australia and they are already into 2013!
My elf and I wish everyone a magically wondrous New Year!