Well this year certainly ended with a bang. I looked back on my new year’s resolutions and I didn’t really keep that many, except for the savings account.
Thinking back on this past year, a few things stand out: my job, and deepening spirituality.
This year my job went from being less of a job and more of a career. I could see myself doing this line of work for a long time. I no longer see it as just a job to hold me over until I decide what I wanted to do with my life. Despite occasionally having problems with my company, usually from being overworked, they are taking pretty good care of me. I went from being a full time instructor to a regional trainer, a pretty big promotion, and am making good money.
I saw myself slowly get a little less involved at church, although my spiritually has gotten deeper. The second half of the year especially, I saw myself thinking much more spiritually…even buying really my first book on spirituality that I even bothered to open up and start reading. I’m not afraid of the possibility of believing in God, although I haven’t taken that leap yet. I didn’t expect to see a deepening of my spirituality this year, but certainly am not upset that it happened! This year saw myself get wrapped up in my own head more often than not – I’m usually spending a lot of time in my head, but even for me this year was a tad extreme.
This year saw another national novel writing month attempt go down burning in flames – I just got too busy with work to be able to work on it, the story was an epic that I couldn’t do justice to, and I realized I just wasn’t a good enough writer to handle a 7 person discussion. Next year, of course, I’ll give it another attempt. This year I think I want to try an epic poem. Should be interesting.
This year I got some fish – Fred, Ginger, and Craig are all still going strong, living much longer than I would expect. Taking them to the blessing of the pets was pretty fun. Taking them to Weight Watchers afterwards was hysterical.
Speaking of WW, another year and another year on and off the program. Lost a bunch, gained it back, and then lost it again. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep on it, but this isn’t looking forward, just backward. Forward for another post.
This year saw me get more friendly with a coworker, one of the few outside of church friends I have. Speaking of friends, this year saw my best friend get married to another friend of mine. I almost cried at their wedding ceremony when they mentioned how I helped introduce them and almost cried when I was doing the reading.
This year saw the death of my car, may it rest in peace. That was the car I learned to drive on, and I’ve had a lot of memories in that car. The football convoy as a senior in HS. The fender bender on homecoming. The hundreds of conversations consoling friends and pondering life in high school. Road trips to Cleveland, Indianapolis, Biloxi. Running the Kucinich campaign out of my car. So long Goldenrod!
All in all a pretty good year, despite being extremely up and down the last week.
