- 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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