Top 5 2008 Moments
1. Egypt. Hands down.
2. CLEAN AUDIT – NO write ups, NO adjustments, NO other comments!!!
3. Buying my Mercedes Benz. Fantastic moment.
4. Forks trip with Dane in September.
5. All the trips I’ve made with friends this year: Tampa w/ Amy, San Diego with Jamie, my Colorado trip to see Sarah, Jamie, and Melanie, the trip I made in May to see my folks. All wonderful highlights of the 2008 reel.
6. Okay, I had to add this last moment – OBAMA!!!!
Bottom 5 2008 Moments
1. Damian almost drowning and my father's heart attack.
2. Watching Sarah get hurt so bad in my house and then the ongoing surgeries.
3. Work in January and having to tell Jim to back up off me.
4. Almost ruining my Benz over a spider. Twice.
5. Some unmentionables that I don’t want to share outwardly but I want to be accountable for. I know what they are and if years from now I forget and want to remember, all I have to recall is: rock bottom pumpkin mess.
Resolutions for 2009
1. Obtain CPA!
2. Lose 50 – 60 pounds.
3. Graduate.
4. Find my career path.
5. Remember past, be in the present, embrace the future.
6. Build character.
7. Rest, relax, rejuvenate.
What I'm looking forward to in 2009:
1. Baltic Cruise!
2. Being done with school and studying and finally having a life!
3. Our second anniversary.
4. Reaching all my goals.
2008 Reflections
Well as predicted in my 2007 Reflections and projections for the new year, 2008 was a relatively quiet year. In fact, I find it hard to believe I’m already typing memoirs. As I was reading 2007 it feels like events that happened in 07 just happened. I can’t believe it has been a year. None the less, it has been and though I didn’t quite stay true to all my resolutions for 2008 I have grown, solidified and even stabilized my life a bit. And the timing couldn’t be better what with what’s in store for 2009!
Egypt certainly was the highlight of the year, just as anticipated. I’ve already talked about the trip at length so no need to do it again, suffice it to say the trip lived up and exceeded the expectations. I have continued to grow in my career and position at Treehouse. What was fear in 2007 was confidence in 2008. Everything that I doubted myself on in 07 turned out to be everything that I excelled in 08. My roots have grown deep and I am thankful for the job I have and where I can go. Really, outside of work and school, this year was shaped by all the different trips I took. I honestly think there was a trip for almost every month. January – Tampa, April – Egypt, May – California, July – Colorado, August – Sun Lakes, September – Forks, October – San Diego and Leavenworth. Crazy! Finally this year was an amazing political year, even if the economy is going down south. The credit crisis, the home foreclosures, all the businesses needing bailouts, gas prices – it’s a pretty terrifying climate right now but I’m hopeful for the future. I don’t think Obama is the end all be all to all our problems but I have high hopes for him.
The worst parts of 2008 are probably better left untouched. The hurt and pain is over now and all the bottom moments that I listed for 2008 have happy endings so alls well that ends well, right? But perhaps a lesson can be learned there. Every single bottom moment turned out okay. Now I admit, there could have been so many ways the events could have turned sideways and I wouldn’t be typing this but the fact is things are okay. And the people involved will be okay. Sure, they have their struggles, who doesn’t? I’m sure Jim struggles everyday to deal with my mouth, but the point is we deal and we get by and life goes on and things even out.
I can’t imagine a better ending to 2008.
1 comment:
Every challenge has it's positive outcome, even the stuff that seems so difficult to understand at the time and scary and horrible that it's hard to see the dawn after so much darkness.
This year, more then ever, taught me to strive to stay in the moment and go back to the basics. I guess that's what hitting a rock bottom of sorts did for me. I hope I can take that knowledge with me and not loose it along the way as life rebounds from what has been easily the most difficult 2 years of the past 14.
You my dear, nailed it on the head when you said that alls well that ends well, and aren't we greatful for that?!?! Everyone made it out on the other side, wiser for the wear I am sure.
We are all blessed to have one another and I am thankful for you in my life.
And, I also second the I am SO greatful that Damian and your father came through everything ok. Bless them and you.
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