I know. Everyone is doing New Year’s posts. It’s cliché, but so is Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and I still watch that too. I think it’s good to stop and reflect at least once a year.
Recently I did an exercise that required me to remember a noteworthy event for every year of my life. I’m still pretty young, and I have to admit that there were several years that just blended together. I don’t really know what happened when I was 23. I’m sure I’d remember if it was anything big. Still, I don’t think I’m that boring. A few noteworthy things probably happened. At the time I was likely too busy living life to stop and write a couple things down, and I probably thought I would remember. Silly girl.
So, in the spirit of reflection and at the risk of overinflating my importance, I give you my top ten events/accomplishments for 2009:
1) Got pregnant. (Probably won’t forget this one.)
2) Quit my job during the worst recession since The Great Depression because it was killing my soul.
3) Grew a vegetable garden and started composting (with John’s help).
4) Started writing a blog after finally finding a suitable title.
5) Joined Twitter and became truly addicted to social networking. (See: possible New Year’s resolutions)
6) Began trying to eat mostly organic and local food.
7) Took my first two week vacation since childhood. Visited Maui and it was glorious.
8) Bought a food processor and started cooking in earnest.
a. Made my own pie crust from scratch during the hottest summer on record.
b. Made pickles.
9) Visited New York City for the first time.
a. Successfully hailed my own cab and boarded a train at Penn Station.
10) Joined a yoga studio and started going regularly (until pregnancy nausea set in.)
Now, on to 2010! May you have a prosperous and peaceful New Year!
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