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At the end of 2011 I made 13 predictions. Let’s see how I did.
1. Someone somewhere is going to starve. Too obvious? Ok, it’ll be someone in the USA that makes the national news.
Not that I know of.
2. There will be some unpleasantly record-breaking weather.
Does Sandy count?
3. A hurricane will reach into some part of the Midwest. Maybe not Kansas, but at least Illinois.
Again, does Sandy count?
4. Someone will invent or bring everyone’s attention to a really spiffy building technique that’s good in high-winds, high-water, and earthquakes.
Maybe next year.
5. I’ll publish at least two books.
I’m determined to see this happen in 2013.
6. You will read at least one of my books and actually like it.
Maybe this year.
7. The Republicans will lose ground on the wings of some really stupid activity on their part.
I think so.
8. The Democrats will do something stupid too, but no one will notice because it’s just another sex scandal type thing and has nothing to do with verifiable facts like what is or is not in the constitution.
Not that I’m aware of, but I wasn’t really paying close attention so I might be wrong.
9. I’ll discover a new rock band (new to me, anyway) and blog about them. Everyone else in the world will already know about them.
All but the last bit because it looks like no one else knew about these bands either. However, I have a friend who discovered Pink Floyd.
10. A video about a cat will go viral, superseding news about Obama’s wife.
I didn’t notice, but I’ll bet this one came true.
11. Huffington Post will get into trouble for saying something that will later turn out to be true.
Yep. Or so my dh tells me. He reads it, not me.
12. EBay stock will go up. Google will go down. And all the other stocks on the market will tap dance.
Yep. Nope. But of course.
(Source: http://www.dailyfinance.com/quote/nasdaq/google/goog)
13. The world as we know it will end. The ending will be televised. The next day we will start in on a brave new world.
Even I didn’t believe this one. It was just the usual end-of-the-world business.
1 — Not in this part of the country, but in refugee camps in Africa.
2 — Sandy definitely counts, but there was also wide-spread drought across the US this year. There were too many new record highs set in 2012, even into December.
3 — Since Chicago did experience rain and high winds from Sandy, it definitely counts.
5 — You can do it, GO ALICE!
7 — Over and over again. Thankfully, some of the biggest idiots lost their races.
8 — About the only “scandal” I am aware of was Obama’s appalling showing in the first presidential debate. Like you, if there were any big scandals, I never heard about them.
9 — There’s someone our age who has never heard of Pink Floyd?!
11 — Rather a given, isn’t it? LOL
Happy New Year!
What do you mean the world didn’t end? I thought we were all enlightened now!
What a fun list!!!
One that caught my attention the most is finding pink floyd….wow, where has he/she been?
I discover a lot of new thing in 2012, I hope to do the same next year.
Will you do another prediction for 2013?
The world ended a thousand years ago but as a species we just are not smart enough to know it yet.
ha…well you are no nostrdamus but…well wait he got a lot wrong too…smiles….the future will find us where it will…
Nope, the world didn’t end, but we still have the zombie apocalypse to look forward to, right? LOL.
Happy New Year, Alice!
Clearly your friend and I have no mutual friends. Loving/Liking/Knowing who Pink Floyd are comes with the territory of knowing me. LOL!
And you pretty well nailed number seven.
Happy TT to you!
Discovered Pink Floyd? That would have to be like an archaeological find!
Your list cracked me up. So true.
Loved this! I think it is a great thing to make predictions – and very brave to go back and check them!
As far as Illinois goes with the hurricanes, we normally just get some rain and/or wind a few days after it hits the shores. That could count I guess.
Happy New Year!
I am constantly mentioning some song/band to my kids who roll their eyes and tell me it’s been out FOREVER. Duh.
I wonder what the Huff Post published that turned out to be wrong?