When I think back on the year since I quit my job of 9 years to come here, I simply cannot believe all that has taken place!
Let's recap shall we? You may find some shockers.
In one year's time I have:
- Quit my management job that I had held for the past nine years to pursue a new career
- Started 2 new jobs (of which I am currently still working for)
- Moved 3 times
- Started school
- Quit school
- Broken up with the love of my life and moved out (after 3 months of living together)
- Lived with a roommate for the first time in my life (my friend/coworker of 10 years)
- Hit my big 3-0
- Gone on more dates than I really care to count
- Been cheated on once
- Been hand-cuffed and put into a squad car
- Had someone I knew and really cared for commit suicide
- Drained my hard-earned savings account
- Been held against my will at a mental facility
- Taken a decrease in pay
- Been to the ER... 3 times
- Had my third ear surgery
- Met some new great friends
- Lost some old great friends
- Gotten my nose pierced
- Removed nose piercing after contracting severe cold one month later
- Been put on two new medications
- One month later contracted a severe cold and had to remove new nose piercing
- Been taken off one medication
- Gained weight
- Lost weight (but not enough to outweigh the gain)
- Gone to Florida
- Gone to Boston
- Gone to New York
- Committed to seeing a therapist regularly
- Joined a rowing club
- Given up my 3.5 year gym membership that has gotten me through SO MUCH because of my lack of finances
- Cried every night for 1.75 months straight
- Been called names I have never been called in my life, such as "thick", "cunt", "flabby", and "redneck"
- Come to the very hard realization that there is no such thing as a marriage ending well
- Joined a dating website
- Cancelled (immediately) a dating website
- Joined a different dating website
- Cancelled one month later after joining dating website
- Read a lot of books
- Been so drunk that I puked for 2 days straight and seriously thought I was going to die if I didn't go to the hospital to have my stomach pumped and some liquid replenishment
- Gotten into a lot of verbal fights
- Gotten a tattoo
- Chipped a tooth for the first time ever
- Told two people I hated them... and meant it
- Found out I am going to be an aunt again (after the assumption that all siblings were done having children)
- Been sent to collections for the first time ever
- Had laser treatment for hair removal
- Been called "amazing", "beautiful", "smart", and "caring"... and in the same breath told "just not good enough"
- Had the return of old physical illnesses come back
- Found that I have some major trust issues that appear to be permanent
- Come to the realization that while I may never fall in love with another man (nor find a man who will love me back) or get married again... I have some amazing friends and family who DO love me for who I am and what I have been through and continue to support me regardless of my misgivings and challenges and downright bitter-ass attitude
So that's the biggest stuff that I can randomly think of off the top of my head. You can just imagine what all the little stuff adds up to! I truly am an open book. Everyone has shit in their lives. I am no different... just willing to air mine out because what have I got to lose besides people really knowing who I am, what I have been through, what I have 'accomplished', and just how far I have come.
What has YOUR last year been like? Amazing. Isn't it?
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