Sunday, January 1, 2012

too nostalgic to resist

In 2011, I:

  • started a daily style blog
  • took some really great classes (Narrative Ethics and Job)
  • sang a song in Hebrew at a campus event
  • graduated summa cum laude from college
  • received the Religion Department award
  • did my first serious photo shoots (and got paid for 2.5)
  • got my first full time job with benefits
  • learned custom framing
  • visited Indiana with my family
  • sang a solo at my grandma's church
  • celebrated my one year wedding anniversary with Daniel
  • quit my first full time job with benefits
  • became a nanny
  • tried more crafts and recipes than I did in 4 years of college
  • became the owner of two Roborovski hamsters (RIP Huckleberry, or Hermes)
  • began two short stories
  • sold items on ebay
  • cut off all my hair
  • went to San Francisco (!)
  • bought, with Daniel, my first piece of non-folk art or student-made, original artwork
  • celebrated Christmas with Daniel's and my family simultaneously
  • participated in Andrea's wedding as co-matron of honor and wedding singer
In conclusion, last year was full of incredible changes and wonderful adventures. I am in a place, with a set of new experiences and new skills, I couldn't have anticipated. I never thought of my life past 2011 since it marked my college graduation. But life is still going, and going well. 

I wanted to start the new year with a little observation. I wrote this at 12:00 am to mark the moment 2012 began:

On the new year
I saw a beetle fly
in the light
of a street lamp
slow, illuminated, upward
moving.

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