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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you rung it in with people you loved and had a really excellent time doing it. :)
Ryan and I celebrated by watching Creepshow and Galaxy Quest with DNAPalmhead, our guest for the week. He was good enough to come over to help us bring in 2009 with style (and bigness)! We also had some pretty decent food from Shine Yun and I got to make a few classic martinis. Still working on my technique, but I was told they came out pretty well.
2008 was a really turbulent year for almost everyone, but for me it will always be the year that I married Ryan. No matter what else happened, that alone was enough to make it a really great one for me. We also elected a black man into the White House for the first time in our nation's 232 year history. It still makes me shiver gleefully just thinking about it. This is the first time in a very long time I -- or a lot of folks in my generation -- are able to look forward to what's happening in the future. It finally feels like we can live up to our potential, collectively.
Personally, I grew into my job a little bit more; it's still very much a work in progress, and I feel like I have a ways to go before I well and truly rock at it, but there was a lot of forward momentum. It's not an easy job, but it can be a lot of fun if I get out of my own way and just let it. I'm actually looking forward to rocking it even harder next year.
I also went back to school this year. Yes, it's only a single class at a nearby community college, but damnit, you have to start somewhere. :) My ultimate goal is to become a librarian, and while that's a long way off, there's forward movement there, too.
Where I've stumbled has been the old habits and instincts that have kicked me around into really unflattering behavior, especially with friends. I've let myself backslide into all of this fear-based reflex that is either inherently self-destructive or just doesn't work well at all with my current situation. Without going into too much detail about it, I've let fear, anxiety, jealousy and a really crappy self-image hold me back from what I really want to do, and sabotage a few relationships I really wanted to strengthen.
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beautyofgrey took part in this whole One Word Resolution business and it clicked with me: take one word and try to focus every action on embodying the spirit of that word. My word for 2009 is deliberateness, because I'm just tired of doing things mindlessly. Thanks for the inspiration, Grey!
Ryan and I celebrated by watching Creepshow and Galaxy Quest with DNAPalmhead, our guest for the week. He was good enough to come over to help us bring in 2009 with style (and bigness)! We also had some pretty decent food from Shine Yun and I got to make a few classic martinis. Still working on my technique, but I was told they came out pretty well.
2008 was a really turbulent year for almost everyone, but for me it will always be the year that I married Ryan. No matter what else happened, that alone was enough to make it a really great one for me. We also elected a black man into the White House for the first time in our nation's 232 year history. It still makes me shiver gleefully just thinking about it. This is the first time in a very long time I -- or a lot of folks in my generation -- are able to look forward to what's happening in the future. It finally feels like we can live up to our potential, collectively.
Personally, I grew into my job a little bit more; it's still very much a work in progress, and I feel like I have a ways to go before I well and truly rock at it, but there was a lot of forward momentum. It's not an easy job, but it can be a lot of fun if I get out of my own way and just let it. I'm actually looking forward to rocking it even harder next year.
I also went back to school this year. Yes, it's only a single class at a nearby community college, but damnit, you have to start somewhere. :) My ultimate goal is to become a librarian, and while that's a long way off, there's forward movement there, too.
Where I've stumbled has been the old habits and instincts that have kicked me around into really unflattering behavior, especially with friends. I've let myself backslide into all of this fear-based reflex that is either inherently self-destructive or just doesn't work well at all with my current situation. Without going into too much detail about it, I've let fear, anxiety, jealousy and a really crappy self-image hold me back from what I really want to do, and sabotage a few relationships I really wanted to strengthen.
beautyofgrey took part in this whole One Word Resolution business and it clicked with me: take one word and try to focus every action on embodying the spirit of that word. My word for 2009 is deliberateness, because I'm just tired of doing things mindlessly. Thanks for the inspiration, Grey!
