Another New Year

I am a little bit late for a New Year's post. Oops. To be fair, in my mind 2012 has barely arrived, as evidenced by the large number of emails I have accidentally sent to my co-workers and clients with "2011" somewhere in the subject line.


2011 was a pretty crazy / eventful / incredible year. After a rather rocky start, it turned out to be a year of balance and introspection. A loo-oong snowy winter was tough in so many ways, but I survived. This was the year I learned about shoveling, and I will never forget how proud I felt to have shoveled my poor car out of it's snow prison all by myself! A short but enjoyable spring was followed by an awesome summer (no thanks to you, grown up job) with some sweet trips to new places in the USA. On top of the new U.S. states added to my growing list, this was the year I got to become a world traveler! (I shall thank you for that one, grown up job). It was the year I got to experience box seats at Fenway Park! It was the year I decided I would continue to stay in Boston indefinitely, and then a few months later changed my mind and moved to California. As such, it was the year I drove across the country. It was also was the year I gave up soda for real. And last but not least, it was the year I learned how to hula hoop. Fittingly, I celebrated the New Year at a hula hooping party, where I stepped it up a notch and hooped with fire. Video footage will remain secret.


Now I'd say it's about time to accept the arrival of 2012. So far January has been a nutty month, given that I have not had an "official" home and have become a nomad of sorts. Work has also kept me very busy lately, as there is an endless need for boring business tasks to be completed in this world. Still, although I haven't gotten out and about nearly as much as I'd like to, it feels fantastic to be a West Coast citizen once again. (Only symbolically, not literally, as I have no intentions of updating my Massachusetts residency right now and paying California's outrageous vehicle registration taxes. Don't tell the DMV.)


So my homework over the next couple of days is to think of a New Year's resolution to solidify the arrival of 2012. Hopefully I can catch up on this slightly belated task by February. Hey, better late than never.