2008.

I guess you could say this is my reflection back on this year. I don't know if I'll remember to update before New Year's, so I figured while I remember I'll do it now. 2008 wasn't really a year of firsts, it was more a year of growth and hurt with some pinches of happiness scattered. Scratch that, there were a lot of firsts. I did learn how to drive and got my first car, my beautiful green bug named Penelope. Other firsts will be kept to myself. :) I started my Senior Year. Oh man, what a challenge, NAHT :) Just a lot of stress coming from my parents about college and graduating and "making good choices." I was hurt worse than I ever could have imagined x2 and learned what it was like to be single for more than a week, actually try two months, yesterday. I gained a lot of new friends, noteably rachel and alex, even though rachel lives in virginia and we've never met. She gets me :) Good things fell apart, I'm still waiting for the other half of the phrase to come true, the "so better things could come together." I thought I lost faith in myself, turns out it was right where I left it, in church and in God. :) I've become more spontaenous for me, so that's not all that crazy or anything. I've grown as a person and I've changed a lot. I've definitely taken more risks. I hoped 2008 would be the best year of my life so far, but I was wrong. I never realized this but this is the only 2008 I ever got, the only 2008 any of us will ever get. Maybe I wasted that privilege.

There's always 2009 to savor. I hope for new beginnings, bittersweet endings, lots of laughs and tears, growth, lessons, and love.

Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.