For about a month now, I’ve been mentally composing a post. It was roughly titled, “Things I’ve Learned This Year”.\u00a0 Here are the notables.<\/p>\n
1. Quite a bit of learning happened at work. Since we like to keep our job, we won’t write all that out. But I learned a lot about people, about being a manager, and about what is necessary, even if it isn’t always fun. Kind of like life.<\/p>\n
2. I learned who my friends are. Some walked away, some set the ramparts on fire, some just drifted. That said, many stayed, some new people showed up, and I made some new friends. There was lots of learning. As I discover each year, I love my husband even more than I knew I could.<\/p>\n
3. I finally pulled my shit together and got my own server for my web domain. Oh mah god. Quite the process!\u00a0 But I really am happy to have my very own spot on the net, and how much the process taught me. The Learning. It is a veritable theme!<\/p>\n
4. I feel like I’ve reached the next level (of which I presume there are countless)\u00a0 in understanding my grief, understanding the why and what and an acceptance in general that I’ll never fully understand it. I’ve also reached, just recently, a very significant point of understanding in my life, as I look back on the years, the things my parents did and didn’t do, how those choices shaped all of us, but particularly me. Enlightenment is not always easy to climb to, but oh what a view. I also revealed the secret to understanding women<\/a>.<\/p>\n 5. I lost my post-holiday shopping craze. I didn’t go out the day after Thanksgiving, and I didn’t go out the day after Christmas. I did, however, go to both CostCo and Target today, New Year’s Eve, and thought I was hallucinating by the last leg of that journey. These trips only serve to underscore just how much I love the internets.<\/p>\n
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