Buh-bye 2008!

I don't normally care about New Year's. I don't make resolutions. I don't go out and ring in the New Year at a bar. (This New Year's Eve Montee and I had a wild party at her house with Coco, watching Saved & Bend it Like Beckham, and ate chips & queso from the oh-so authentic mexican restaurant, Casa Manana! so truly, my life is suuuppppeeerrr exciting! :) ) Anyway, just because I don't go all out with a New Year's Eve celebration doesn't mean that I am any less thrilled that 2008 is over. I have never been so ecstatic to put a year behind me.  

2008 brought me a split with my husband, a brain tumor, a 60 pound weight gain, and a major feud with my older sister.  To say that I am happy to put it all behind me would be an enormous understatement. 

To all the people that always say "It can't get any worse", I beg to differ. IT ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS CAN and 2008 proved that to me time and time again.

There were some positives in 2008, I am thankful for the friends that stuck by me through it all, for the clarity that all of the troubles brought me as far as figuring out who I am and what I want for myself, I have a new empathy for people that I didn't have before, I read a lot of great books--I hadn't cracked a book in years, but I read more than I could possibly count last year and some of the stories have really stuck with me as well as inspired me to start writing my own novel. I am about 3/4 of the way done and I couldn't be more excited about it!

So 2008, glad you are behind me, but thank you for the lessons!