…some kind of way out of here….

2009 ends next week, and we start a new year and new decade, which is really really weird. This is only the second time I can remember actually changing decades. The last time was when we jumped from 1999 to 2000, and the decade switch was overshadowed by the century switch. Not that any of it matters, since time is just an arbitrary human construct. And the decade actually switches over TECHNICALLY in one year. WHATEVER. But still, it is kind of…weird. A lot of stuff happened this decade for me. I don’t really recall what happened in specific years, other than starting and finishing high school, meeting Nathan, September 11th, when I started video production and blogging, moving away, getting married….I went into the new decade as finishing my 8th grade year and I saw the 00’s as a whole series of opportunities waiting to be taken. I couldn’t even grasp it, but it was roughly structured out due to school and the fact I knew I would go to a traditional college. Now, as I enter the 10’s, I have absolutely no plan. I know things I want to do, things that will probably happen, or where I’d like to be by 2020, but 2010-2019 is literally a gigantic question mark. I’ve never had that, and it 40% bothers me and 55% excites me and 5% goes back and forth.

Also, I turn 30 in 2017. WAT.

Anyway, here’s a little year in review in photos, since that’s the best way to review anything anyway.

January: Started work on my senior capstone and final semester of college.

February: Did little else than work on my massive pile of homework, wedding related tasks, and capstone. Yikes that was a huge to do list.
March: Finished shooting my capstone, went to Michigan with Aaron and Katie to shoot a documentary

April: Spent an absurd amount of time in the labs rotoscoping and editing my capstone and documentary, made fun of conservative tea parties, had my bridal shower thrown for me by BreAnne, had my last day of school ever.


May: Participated in capstone night, graduated from IUPUI, had my bachelorette party, got a job in video production and ended employment at the zoo ( )



June: Had a pre-wedding celebration with family at the zoo, got married to Nathan, went to Vegas for our honeymoon



July: Settled in normalcy and a fulltime job, moved to a two bedroom apartment on the far northside, discovered the greatness of geocaching


August: Saw Austin get married

September: Began baking more regularly as a hobby, got the opportunity to use a DSLR for portraits (yoga portraits for Amanda, senior pictures for Katee, photo coverage of Nathan’s dad’s wedding). Turned 23.

October: Picked apples and baked even more

November: Not a whole lot.
December: Not much, other than found out one of my favorite people, BreAnne, is now engaged.

It seems this year was completely insane until we moved, then it settled into regular ol’ life again. I’m hoping that next year we manage to have the resources to get out of the state a couple of times, if only for a weekend. Then we can have something to look forward to in 2010 since otherwise we’ve achieved a lot of milestones for a while.

I would really like to travel by air at least once this year. I would love to go to Comic-Con in San Diego. I would also love to go to the Lord of the Rings concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC in October. Katee is officially enlisted in the army (she leaves on July 5th lol), which means we might have the opportunity to drive or fly (I’m thinking drive) to southern Oklahoma in early September if she goes straight into Basic without much waiting in Reception. Nathan is applying to go back to school this fall as well. So we have some things that could possibly be coming up to look forward to, which is nice. At this point, on the second or third official day of winter, I’m really just looking forward to the first spring thaw – not the teaser where one day is 65 and the next day it snows, I’m talking the first day in an official trend of warm weather. That alone almost makes me love spring more than summer.

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