What I Learned This Year

As 2007 comes to a close, its time to take a moment to do a year in review. I decided the best way to do this is with a bulleted list or two. The past year has been full of ups and downs, some even to the extremes (including a false positive pregnancy test after undergoing artifical insemination). Below is my year in review:

Things I did:

• Helped my husband landscape our backyard by ourselves
• Planted my own first garden
• Published my first user manual and admin guide
• Published my first company newsletter
• Started blogging
• Came out of my introvert shell
• Made wonderful new friends
• Chose to use my blog to educate
• Was artificially inseminated
• Had a moderate endometrial resection, ovarian drilling, and lost my appendix
• Bought a new couch
• Ate lots of chocolate

Where I went:

• Dublin
• Edinburgh
• Bath
• London
• New Orleans
• Houston (a couple of times)
• A reinaissance festival dressed as a saucy wench

Things I learned:

• Outlook and attitude are absolutely everything 100% of the time
• Its okay to be sad and cry sometimes--I don't always have to be strong
• I love plants (went from a couple houseplants to many)
• How to be a gardner
• I have a green thumb
• Sometimes its better to just let old friends go
• Infertility and surgery are for the birds
• Cheese is a cure for PMS (I'm NOT kidding!)
• Fish ponds are a lot of work (and expensive)

Things that happened:

• My grandma passed away (my last grandparent)
• My love for my husband grew exponentially

This past year has been good and bad, and I look forward whole-heartedly to the next year.

I wish everyone the best in 2008!