One Year Later...

One year ago today I decided to start this here little blog. So yay to me for that. Since 'tis the season for those dreaded new year's resolutions, I looked back to what I wrote last year. Two words for y'all - Epic. Failure! But while I may have failed on all but one of those resolutions (#6 - I did raise quite a lot for the MS Society again. Granted, the mayor didn't really earn anything, so it wasn't much of a challenge, but still...), my year was anything but failure. There were highs and lows of course, but it was packed with adventure. So since last year's resolutions didn't get me anywhere, I'm sticking to a "why bother" philosophy for this year. I mean, I still need to catch up on scrapbooking, still need to get a life, still need to meet a cute boy, still need to go to the gym now and then, and still need to work at being in better touch with my friends. But these aren't really things that should be resolutions, these are things that should just be a part of my life. I'll continue to work on it. Though, I still need everyone's help with the meeting a cute boy part... c'mon - you have to have friends, brothers, co-workers, cousins, no?

I wanted to spend my 30th year having 30 great adventures. What I realized is that as much as I wanted to plan things out, adventures sometimes happen without planning or without realizing that they truly are an adventure. I'm not sure if I had 30 or not, but that's ok. Some of my most fun adventures-

• Driving to Arizona for the Super Bowl with my dad
• Going to a children's lit workshop in January that made me think about a job change
• Speaking at a high school career day
• Seeing Billy Joel in concert
• Seeing the Red Sox play in LA, OC, and Oakland
• Going to a Giants game on a blind date
• Driving to SF on a school night to meet my favorite author - Jenn Lancaster
• Raising money for the MS Walk and participating in the Race for the Cure
• Going on literally my dream vacation
• Spending time at Stanford games throughout the fall
• Seeing the Pats in San Diego and San Francisco
• Going to Boston for Notre Dame weekend
• Thanksgiving in Cabo
• Having one of my besties come visit and hanging out in Tahoe, SF, and Napa all in 3 days

And some of the lowlights,

• Losing my beloved grandma
• Mom having to have emergency brain surgery and finding out she was within hours of possible death (yikes!!!)
• Pats losing the Superbowl, then losing Tom Brady, then missing the play-offs, despite being 11-5
• Having my hours cut at work
• Entering one more year alone and with no prospects!

So as you can see, despite the couple of low things that happened, I really can't complain too much about the year in review. I'm sure that 2009 won't be filled with quite as much adventure, but hopefully when I look back a year from now, I will feel just as good about what I've done.

Cheers to all in 2009!