As I sit here drinking my at home pre-game beer, dreading getting up and attempting to be a normal girl who does her hair and makeup, and crap, I think maybe I should do one of those end of the year things. You know, where I ponder and describe the highlights of my year in summation.
Well, 2013, what's there to say? This has been one heck of a year! It's been a weird one, to be sure. I guess it's the first year I feel like I've lost as an adult. Not that I lost as in winning vs. losing, but lost as in, I don't really know what this year was about; it just came and went, it feels. This year has been a lot of realizing that I have not arrived, not that I was necessarily naive enough to think that, but sort of that I was beginning my adult life. I still sleep in when possible, I still don't like cleaning the house, I've created a budget but I don't pay it any attention because I don't know how. I still stay up too late. I still rent animated kids movies. Leaving the year of my college graduation didn't do what I bought into the idea of it doing.
It brought one thing I'm really glad that it did, and that was forcing me and affording me to buy a newer car. It's a dream, and I'm extremely blessed.
But when it comes to the rest of life, I am just as wandering as I was when I was in school, only now I don't have an outright excuse. I'm learning to come to terms with that, which might be more of a forecast for 2014 and beyond. I don't have a lot to say about '13, I guess. It was a strange and - I want to say, - tough year, but the whole thing blends together so much that it feels indeed, lost.
So close that sucker down, I'm ready for another one, with all its own challenges and experiences, maybe one more memorable than 2013. Here's to new experiences and - Lord willing - new adventures!
