#2020RoundUp. How it all began.

Until last year our DB overlords would decide a theme every month and Beanies could send in their essays about that topic and some would get published. I would always save my strength for the end of the year review in December.

This year Beanies came up with monthly fan wall challenges to replace the (absent) monthly themes, and I took a page out of their book and suggested this December roundup on the open thread. I spoke too soon, because the end of the year review was brought back eventually, so I ended up writing and sending in my entry as I usually did.

I feel bad whenever Beanies credit or thank me for this suggestion. First of all because I recall a few instances this year when other Beanies would bring this up, way before I did. Also, I probably would not have made this suggestion if I had known back then that my job would take up all my writing time and that there would be an end of the year review after all.

However, my not so noble intentions back then got buried underneath layers and layers of Beanie quality content this month!😊@eazal and @flyingcolours picked up the gauntlet and deserve all the praise for cleaning up the mess I left them in!😆Freestyle period had already started when I finally found the time to start scrolling back, but it was an afternoon, evening and night filled with nostalgia and laughter as I read all the RoundUp posts and comments.❤️

I am not sure yet whether I can finish a freestyle entry by Thursday or not, but I certainly will be reading all the remaining posts until the roundup ends!🥰

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    Thanks to you all who can be credited with making The December roundup happen, it was really fun for me to read the entries! I enjoyed every day 😁

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    I also echo with my thanks to all the beanies who made this happen – from the ideation to the realization. It’s been so much fun reading everyone’s posts! They’ve been thoughtful, funny, interesting and sometimes surprising (in good ways!) – I’ve really enjoyed taking part.

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    Put all your entries in short, as a list if you want, if you get the time and want to of course. Would love to read yours as well. 😀 It was a great idea and I really enjoyed everyone’s roundups.

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    It was because you that we started!! Enjoy the posts and I’ll be waiting to read your post!!

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