I’ve been hearing a lot of people refer to 2009 negatively…most recently – and colorfully – this afternoon when someone said “It’s the last day of the year, I’d just like to say F*** YOU 2009!”
But I thought 2009 was a pretty good year. I just wanted to point that out. Parts were stressful and as a country we didn’t have a great year, but personally? My 2009 was pretty rockin. FYI.
A year ago, I made a list of 100 things to accomplish in 2009. Some things were kind of a stretch and I could have guessed wouldn’t happen:
-visit Madame Tussaud’s
-see a Cirque du Soleil show
-buy a Macbook (and pay it off)
Some things were relatively minor and should have happened but never did:
-read in a bath
-buy a lottery ticket 5 times
-stay up all night
Some things were too general, not easily quantified, and I learned a lesson about that:
-stop saying Oh my God
-drink 32 oz of water a day (I know, I know, but it’s harder than you’d think to do something EVERY SINGLE DAY)
Some things I didn’t do before we left New York:
-Top of the Rock
-Tryon Park with Erin
But I checked 59 of the 100 things off of the list, including:
-Move back to California…by driving
-Watch a sunrise
-Send Valentines to my family
-Read the classics I own and haven’t read yet (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Dalloway, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, etc.)
-Stage manage another NYC show (2 this year)
-Go on rollercoasters (Six Flags New Jersey)
-Take the CBEST (and pass it!)
-Go gambling (and win!)
I also had some experiences this last year that I didn’t put on my list, but consider noteworthy:
-Get engaged
-Run around the reservoir in Central Park
-Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
-Get married
-Get a pedicure (my first, and then second)
Good times, 2009. I knew it was going to be an exciting year. I look forward to a happy and calm 2010, filled with paying off debts and enjoying California!
So it’s not quite 2010, but I wanted to take this for a test drive before I officially made the switch. My goal here is to be able to document myself now, without thinking about those pesky archives from when I was 20 years old. It’d also be great if this was interesting to other people and not just myself.
Hopefully WordPress will end up being a better resource for me than LiveJournal is now…although we had our years together, didn’t we, LJ?
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