09/10

people here and there were commenting (lamenting?) over the weekend about how crappy 2009 apparently was for most of them. which gave me enough pause to give me thought.

technically, i measure my year from summer to summer. it’s an easy habit after so many years of school, and it just so happens that’s when our season runs. but i stopped, for a moment. and i thought about what everyone else calls 2009.

there were some amazingly good bits. there was this trip to mexico, during which i spent some amazing time with some amazing people. there was that week in austin, filled with good things, hot days, and good people. there were good bits, and there were bad bits. some really not good bits. i got sick more times in the last year than i have in the last 4 years (and let’s not even talk about the food poisoning, although it did cause me to instantly win our bet….. hooray?).

the spring was bad, i lost so much time and space and energy on a freelance project. the summer turned out to be hell between both of us traveling too much. we managed to slow it down by the time fall turned back around, but then it all swirled back up during that awful month we call “the holidays.”

i don’t make new year’s resolutions, and i don’t make plans. but i do want to grow a little more this time around. i want to listen to more music (it’s been determined that audra cannot live on the temper trap & imogen heap alone). i want to read more. i want to take more pictures, climb more literal and figurative mountains, and get back to living in the moment. i moved to san francisco because i wanted to do just that.

i may also attempt any one of the following things:

* get my health back in balance * read one play a week * knit throughout the entire year and not just in winter * obsess over the tv show psych * get my finances in happy, working order * travel to belize * go back to arriving at work before 9:30 * focus on truly loving the person i’m with * play the piano more often * sleep more (that’s right) *

…and dance more

xoxo