We're not quite sure how, but we've reached December (no, we don't know where October went either) which means its time to start drafting the New Year's resolutions and look back at the blur that was 2014.
Putting the year into harsh focus is the AFP's annual photography review - press images that recorded the shocking, brutal and baffling stories that shaped the world.
Topics included in this year's collection range from the outbreak of Ebola to the protests of Hong Kong, environmental disasters in Pakistan to Luis Suarez's infamous bite.
Grab a comfy seat and lose yourself to the last 12 months. You can see the full series on the AFP site.
(Images: AFP/Getty)
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An Iranian Kurdish female member of the Freedom Party of Kurdistan (PAK) keeps a position in Dibis, some 50 kms northwest of Kirkuk, on September 15, 2014
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Protesters pose with a police shield outside the parliament in Ouagadougou on October 30, 2014
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The car of Caterham-Renault driver Kamui Kobayashi of Japan veers off the track during an accident at the start of the Formula One Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 16, 2014
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A Kurdish man sits at the border area close to the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, in the Sanliurfa province, opposite the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, where heavy fighting between Islamic State militants and Kurdish fighters is taking place, on October 16, 2014
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An Israeli artillery fires a 155mm shell towards targets in the Gaza Strip from their position near Israel’s border with the Strip on July 12, 2014
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South Sudanese children from the Dinka ethnic group pose at cattle camp in the town of Yirol, in central South Sudan on February 12, 2014
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A member of the Afghan intelligence force points his pistol towards the body of an insurgent following an attack by the Taliban at Kabul’s airport on July 17, 2014
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Uruguay’s forward Luis Suarez (L) reacts past Italy’s defender Giorgio Chiellini during a Group D football match between Italy and Uruguay at the Dunas Arena in Natal during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 24, 2014
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This picture taken on July 25, 2014 shows people cooling off in a water park in Suining, southwest China’s Sichuan province
AFP PHOTO / Joshua LOTT/AFP/Getty Images
Demonstrators protest against the August 9 police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by holding their hands up while gathered on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri late on August 16, 2014
AFP PHOTO / XAUME OLLEROS/AFP/Getty Images
Policemen rest following pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong on September 29, 2014
AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images
Children play around a man disguised as Batman at the Favela do Metro slum, area just near the Maracana stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 9, 2014
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A protestor throws a molotov cocktail at riot police in the centre of Kiev on January 22, 2014
AFP PHOTO / PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images
People look on as a woman reacts after her husband is suspected of dying from the Ebola virus, in the Liberian capital Monrovia, on October 4, 2014
