Sneaking Back in For 2008 (Tomorrow Is Another Day...)

Well, how about that--I thought I'd give myself a couple of days off from blogging and it turned into a nearly two week long hiatus. I have so many stories and pictures to share from our amazing holiday, so let's just pretend, over the next few days, that Christmas wasn't over a week ago and New Year's Eve stories are still vaguely relevant. Today I'm going to stick with my tried and true method for a 2007 year in review and take the first sentence from the first blog entry I wrote each month. It's been such an incredibly busy, life-changing, and wonderful year, I can't wait to look back over it!

January: Well guys and gals, it's time to start getting used to writing yet another year on your checks! (It is so weird that I wrote that a year ago, because I remember writing this entry. Heavens this year flew by...)

February: I would like to begin by saying that yesterday was a cold, rainy day, and I received a phone call at 6:45 telling me that the wing commander had released a delayed reporting time of 10:00. (February was a hectic month of moving, and just one week after I wrote this entry I officially separated from the Active Duty Air Force, packed up my apartment in Arkansas, and headed to my parents' house where I lived for a month while waiting for Colby to come home from his deployment.)

March: Update: Colby is officially back on US soil, so hooray for that! It'll still be a week before I see him, but now I can pester him with phone calls constantly! (And Colby did arrive in Louisiana a week later, surprising the ever living crap out of me by showing up at my house three hours before I was supposed to be meeting him at the airport. That month we had two marvelous parties thrown in honor of our upcoming wedding and we spent four days traveling across the country for our second Louisiana to Washington drive in just over a year.)

April: This is going to be a short post because Colby is leaving this weekend for a 10 day trip and we've still got about five million things to do before then including paint a room, wash dogs, mow, and figure out the damn TiVo. (This was the first deployment that Colby left for since we crossed the threshold of our lovely yellow house. The lovely yellow house that I promised pictures of way back then and still haven't produced. But all the rooms are painted now! And we just have a few more windows to buy curtains for! So maybe it will happen in 2008!)

May: I have nothing to wear. (I finally got my closet cleaned out and a lovely summer/spring wardrobe in place, just in time for the clouds to roll in, the temperatures to drop, and now I'm bemoaning my desperate lack of clothing appropriate for a 15 minute walk each morning in freezing rain. Thank God for after Christmas sales--because really, this dress was an absolute winter necessity. As was this one.)

June: When it comes up in conversation that I am currently unemployed, so many people make the typical envious comments, but then quickly add the fact that they couldn't handle the boredom, that it would drive them crazy. (My God, how I miss being unemployed. I was always well rested, the laundry got done, the dishes typically ended up in the dishwasher, and the house wasn't always a total disaster area. Sob. Also, as this was the month that the Wednesday Wedding Weigh-ins began, I was a total superwoman when it came to regular workouts. I really miss my running.)

July: My God, my titles are atrocious. (Hey! That's still true!! I never have been good at titles...)

August: I haven't fallen off the face of the earth... yet! (August was a fairly eventful month--we had a number of fun social events, another fun wedding shower, this here blog turned the big two years old, I thought about buying myself some boobs, and I got a job in the big city.)

September: I got home last night at 10:30 after 12 hours of airport exposure and have spent all day today prostrate on the couch, only heaving myself up for necessary bathroom breaks, to forage for food, and to blow my nose since I appear to have been infected with the Airport Crud. (I spent the rest of the month recapping my awesome NYC bachelorette party, with little vignettes on re-entering the world of the working woman.)

October: So, I have been utterly exhausted this week, which is a great opener to talk about our last day in New York since it can be summed up thusly: 1) Exhausted, 2) Pumpkin Pancakes 3) Drowsy, 4) Chocolate Milkshake, 5) Really tired, 6) Rice Pudding. (A month after returning home from my NYC trip I FINALLY stopped talking about it and instead focused on beginning to freak out about wedding plans.)

November: November 1st. The first day of NaBloPoMo. (Okay, well, that's two sentences, but I feel like November was a month worthy of two sentences in my recap. I love reading through all of the entries from November, and just cannot begin to say how incredibly glad I am that I managed to successfully post every day and really put that month in a sort of time capsule for myself. I get the warm fuzzies reading the posts now, and can only imagine how glad I will have that little collection of wedding memories in years to come.)

December: The morning of November 24, 2007 at nine o'clock in the morning, my alarm clock went off, heralding the last day I would wake up as an unmarried girl. (December was full of wedding reminiscences, holiday preparations, and my 25th birthday.)

2007 really was a remarkably good year, and I wonder if it's even fair to hope that 2008 will be anywhere near as wonderful. It does have a lot of potential--I already have a trip to visit one of my best friends in her new apartment in San Francisco later this month, two weeks in Italy this April, and the resuming of our Girls at War plotting over the next few weeks after a lengthy break for both myself and Lynn to plan our weddings and move houses a few times! Of course, 2008 won't be all sunshine and roses. Colby will be gone for a four month deployment starting in June, and due to absolutely ridiculous airfare and a lack of vacation time after I blow it all on Italy, I don't know if I'll see my sister or parents again before next year's holidays. But I'm going into this year with a great attitude and plenty of plans. All I can do beyond that is wait and see what life has in store!

I wish you all a very happy and blessed 2008 and look forward to taking this journey together one step at a time. Happy New Year!!

Comments

Now THIS is freakin' brilliant. Don't be surprised if you catch me stealing it later this week!

Posted by: wordnerd | January 02, 2008 at 08:08 PM

2007 was a fabulous year for you and I'm sure 2008 will bring many great things, as well!

And just for the record, I laughed when I saw this entry, because I had absolutely no recollection that you reviewed the previous year this way. I went wayy back to my livejournal days to snag it for my blog, haha.

Posted by: Caro | January 02, 2008 at 10:26 PM

People who say "I'd be so bored if I didn't work"? I do not get them. Sure, maybe if I were in a full body cast and there was no such thing as TV, the internet, or books, THEN I'd be bored. Having all day free to do as I pleased... that doesn't sound bad to me at all. Except for the no money part.

Posted by: Operation Pink Herring | January 03, 2008 at 12:42 AM

2007 was obviously your year. You got married! :)

Posted by: Michelle & the City | January 03, 2008 at 03:27 AM

You've had quite the busy year! And it sounds like 2008 will be exciting for you too. Happy New Year! :)

Posted by: simplypink | January 03, 2008 at 04:56 AM

Yay you are back!

What a busy year for you, and for me, it seems it did indeed flew by in a blink of an eye. :-)

Wish you a wonderful 2008!

Posted by: Jass | January 03, 2008 at 05:08 PM

Sounds like a pretty great year for you -- 2008 will probably seem boring (but in a good, possibly less stressful way). Glad you enjoyed your time off and got some R&R.

Posted by: Becky | January 03, 2008 at 06:51 PM