new year, new post!

yeah I know, I know, I really do suck at this whole blogging thing. But what can I say, now that I spend my living in front of a computer, the last thing I really wanna do when I come home is spend more time looking at a computer screen! So as it stands, you all will get at least one blog a year, possibly more if I get ambitious. Ha! So I, like last year, welcome to my summary of the previous year (for the imaginary friend who reads this). Don’t really know how interesting this’ll be since it was a pretty quiet year for me, but we’ll see what I can come up with…

January:
Hmmmmm…did I even do anything important in January? You know…I don’t think I really did. I picked up the kid from boot camp? Yep, that’s all I can think of that I did.

February:
Well, aside from the leap year, nothing important happened. Moving right along…

March:
Yep, can’t think of anything important…

April:
April was actually a pretty good month for me. My nephew Ryden was born as well as my cousin’s baby. Oh, and I moved to the Inner Sunset. For me it was a great move. Keala took a bit to adapt, but she eventually got over it.

May:
May marked the first trip home to Hawaii for 2008 (unless you count my being there for new years, then I guess that would make my second trip). Hew, one of my very good friends got married so of course I had to fly home. It was a extremely fitting wedding (our other friend did the ceremony and incorporated their love for anything alcoholic into it and surprisingly it worked really well) and it was great to see friends that I haven’t seen in years.

June:
Hrmmmmm…I don’t think anything important happened much in June. Although it’s entirely possible something did and I just can’t remember it. Oh I take that back. I remember something. This was the month that Keala popped a disc in her neck by getting into a fight at the dog park. Yah, that was so not fun. But, I did learn something. Doggie acupuncture is AMAZING! You may laugh, but it was the only thing that relieved her pain. Steroid drugs didn’t do it so I will never again mock acupuncture. Oh! and I joined a book club. I have never been in a book club before, and I figured it could be fun and wanted to do it for a while now. So I took the plunge, found a newly forming club on craigslist, and have been enjoying myself ever since!

July:
This was a fun month. I went on my very first backpacking trip with my friend Diana. We had signed ourselves up to do a guided trip with REI to go to the backcountry of Yosemite. Neither of us have ever been to Yosemite before and we thought it would be the perfect trip for us. Diana of course has been backpacking for years and years, but I had never gone. I had a blast though and made some cool friends. I learned that I’m definitely stronger than I thought I was, and that given enough time, I CAN climb the aptly named “hill of death” with a 30 (okay maybe 25) pound bag on my back!

August:
Hmmmmmm…nope, got nothing.

September:
Let’s see…I went home again in September, this time for Clayton’s wedding. Oh and I broke my eye this month. Ha! Yeah, I found out, ON MY BIRTHDAY that I had a bacterial eye ulcer. That required the use of eye drops with a very intensive schedule (every fifteen minutes for quite some time). Thanks to my eye issue, I had to wear glasses to Clay’s wedding so that wasn’t ideal, but oh well. I did get to know my eye doctors and everyone who works with them very very very well though. Hahaha.

October:
Halloween happened. I think that’s pretty much it.

November:
I did something this month that I thought would never actually happen. I bought a condo! So yes, I moved AGAIN. I had to move outta the sunset, which I still dearly miss, but at the same time I can now say I’m a homeowner. I never even imagined that was in the cards for me. I guess that means I’ll be in SF for quite some time. Hehe. I also went to Vegas again with my parents for Thanksgiving and then they came back to see my new place. I’m glad I closed in time that they were able to see it. It’s not a big place by any means, but more than enough room for me and the kid so that’s all that matters.

December:
I tried not to go out too much in December since I’m on a budget now, so I tended to stay in a lot more. Aside from once in a while hanging out with friends and going home for Christmas, December was a rather quiet month. I did bowl my highest score ever while I was at home, oh and I witnessed first hand an island-wide blackout. Hahaha.

Looking Forward to 2009:
I’m not much for making resolutions or anything like that as I tend to believe in living in the moment and enjoying what life has given me to this point. I feel that I am incredibly lucky to be working for the company that I’m working for (we’ve so far been spared the woes of the economy), and I hope that things will continue to look up for me. As it stands, 2009 has in general been rather pleasant (aside from the cold I woke up with on 01/01/09) and I’m looking forward to see what this new year brings. Happy new year everybody!