miles from home

i just saw beckie off to montreal at the train station. it was bittersweet. i enjoyed good/girly conversation up to the last minute. i'm going to miss her loads.

i'm not one for new year's resolutions... wait, no i don't want to put myself in a box. i've never set a new year's resolution before, but today i thought to myself "i would like to be on-time for church for now on". so i suppose that means in the new year. i also want to be increasingly conscious of not being wasteful. this will also involve being more creative with my eating. i can eat cleverly, it'll just require more thought.

anyway, let me get to the main point of this entry. i've been looking forward to this for the last month. a time to reflect on 2006. the highs and lows. the surprises and changes. i want to lay it all out, so i can look at it and realize "HEY! this was a good year." i think more happened than i thought. for my ownsake... here's my year in a nutshell:

• had my first business trip
• went to pittsburgh (ok those two are the same event, but significant for 2 different reasons)
• got my nose pierced
• mayelin had her baby!
• went to nyc with the girls
• got my nose pierced AGAIN!
• reached my goal weight
• said good-bye to pirates cove
• said hello to the maxi-pad
• april & mayelin left bombardier
• went to ottawa with the lovells
• spent the summer with vincent the crazy frenchman
• went on a road trip to an anti-conference with garry & brandon
• made the sleepless goat my favourite hangout place
• saw several friends move to crazy far-off places
• started a new season of living room
• discovered a taste for video editing
• went camping with my whole family (my dad included)
• got a promotion (now an intermediate graphic designer)
• made some good friends
• lost one of my best friends
• went to KENYA
• got new glasses
• had my heart crushed repeatedly by the same crush
• attended my first tradeshow in toronto
• experienced a new era at next with the inception of rustle
• my grandma died

this HAS been a good year for me. perhaps i should stop looking back on each year to see what's changed and instead looked back to see all that i've accomplished. this year i learned a lot. sometimes it hurt, sometimes it stung. but i would have to say i discovered what was truly important to me and what things i'm willing to be patient for. i'm convinced more than ever everything happens at the right time and while we wait we need to be enjoying what we have. i'm hoping 2007 will bring with it the resolution of unresolved issues and the return of my far off friends. i lonesome for my kindred-spirit wearing doc martins.

i'm excited more than i thought i could be.
2007: the year of non-change but loads of adventures.
just waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting me.

a long december and there's reason to believe
maybe this year will be better than the last.