What do you think you'll remember most from the last year?
List your favorite memories from the previous 12 months.
I like this question, mostly because I've been focusing a lot on what I hated about 2009, and that list is long, and is likely to be what I'll remember most. But I'll also remember that I moved here on my own, with no safety net. I went to Ohio State game watches and visited friends across the state of Virginia, put a tie on my cat and got up close and personal with the First Lady, went to two weddings and joined two Tri Delta alumnae organizations, watched terrible television with BC and got hooked to Dancing with the Stars, and even learned to cook a meatloaf. And that was just the four months that I was in DC.
I graduated from college, turned 22, started writing a book that I continue to pursue, sent query letters to book agents, said goodbye to Ohio and Ohio State. I watched my brother become a man, watched my sister become a Mrs., held my step-sister's newborn baby. I got "engaged" to my brother-in-law's brother. I lost two grandparents and went to my first two funerals (I guess these aren't my favorite memories. I digress.)
Here's to 2010 being better.
(God, it needs to be better.)
(In New Zealand, it's been 2010 for nine hours already. Which is comforting in an odd way. I am really ready for it to not be 2009 anymore. I guess this just draws light on the fact that this is sort of an arbitrary cutoff and new beginning. Whatever, here's to new things happening.)
2 comments:
Whatdo you mean by "engaged"?
Just going to throw out there that despite the positive tone of this post (or attempt at a positive tone), 2009 sucked hard. Not just for you, but for everyone I know.
The security word on this is proucl, but it looks like proud, so I'm going to hope this is a sign that I will be proud of the things that will happen in 2010.
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