Welcome 2010

So here we are. 2010. Two thousand and ten. Twenty-ten. Pick your poison. Here we are in the future. I would have thought that surely by now we would have figured out how to make flying cars that drive themselves or something cool like that. Turns out the future is just like the past. What a disappointment! Everyone thought the world would fall apart at Y2K [ that's a shout out to my dad ;) ] but computers are still around running the world. Now I guess we'll just have to wait a couple more years until the 2012 and see if the world ends, as projected by the Mayans [see December 21, 2012 - complete with countdown, which seems a little morbid if you ask me]. I sure hope the world doesn't end in 2012. I've put in a lot of work the past few year and I think I would appreciate enjoying the benefits a little bit longer - even if heaven is better earth.

Besides, chances are that this year is going to be a big one. Lots of things made the "To Happen This Year" list that I finally wrote last week. I was a little slow on the whole New Year thing and didn't get around to articulating my resolutions/goals/must dos into a list until the middle of the month. So January 17th was my January 1st. That just means I got to eat whatever I wanted for 2 weeks longer than everyone else! Except by now everyone has already given up on that resolution, right? Those only last about 2 weeks?

Anyway - here's a snippet of my list of things to potentially occur this year:

• Finish grad school - not a potential, actually happening thank goodness
• Drive the speed limit
• Get married - did I just admit that to the entire Internet community? I think so. Note to self: Don't write blogs at 3 AM when your faculties and judgment are impaired.
• Go skydiving and/or bungee jumping
• Take the stairs, even if they don't have piano keys [see The Fun Theory]
• Blog and journal more :)

And there it is. We'll see how it works out. Stay tuned. Wahoo!

Goodbye 2009

Now that it is nearly the end of January [...and because I took an accidental nap from 6:30-9:30 PM and now it's 3:00 AM and I'm not sleeping...anyway, I digress], I figured I would do something about this blog that I used to have once. In a similar style to my summer recap, my Christmas card will be a good way to sum up the end of 2009.

There it is. My 2009 in a neat little 4"x5" (ish) card.

::Confession - I didn't finish the Old Testament by December 31.
::Confession, Part II - I'm still not finished with the Old Testament. Give me a break, do you know how long it is?!? Not exactly 'light' reading.