Yesterday at a wolfpack lunch my friends/coworkers and I were bitching about… well, a lot of things. And after about 30 minutes in the Bitter Barn, Jamie tasked us all with coming up with three good things that happened to us in 2009.
I thought for a few minutes, and came up with my three:
- 1. We had our wedding reception and it was a freaking blast.
- 2. We got Link. (He’s improved a lot since we first got him, hahaha.)
- 3. The photo class that Jamie and I took at Watkins. I relearned a lot, learned a lot of new stuff, and it was a good catalyst to get my photographic juices flowing again.
It’s so easy to focus on the negative, to think about being overworked or stressed or sick or tired or broke, so I was glad to have Jamie make me stop and focus on the positive.
I decided to look back at my Flickr pictures from the past year and see what other good things happened that I might not have remembered off the top of my head. Turns out, 2009 was a pretty good year.
January: We elected Barack Obama as president.
February: For our first Valentine’s Day as old married folk, Ian took me to a fancy-pants (the nicest I’d ever been taken to, actually) dinner at The Stockyard.
March: I got pneumonia and lived. Oh, and this was the month that we adopted Link from one of the shelters at PetSmart.
April: We had our wedding reception April 4 and got to celebrate with about 100 of our closest friends and family members.
May: My 30th birthday! And another great party to celebrate with friends.
June: I finished building my first client site (that later won an award) and went to a great conference with my coworkers.
July: Ian and I went to West Virginia for his dad’s family reunion and I fell in love with the mountains and Blenko. Oh, and my youngest sister came to stay with us again for two weeks!
August: After years of not believing I had the willpower, I became a vegetarian and started feeling better than ever.
September: The photo class at Watkins started, and I remembered once again how much I love photography.
October: Ian and I had our first wedding anniversary, which we celebrated by spending the weekend in Chattanooga. It was an awesome weekend: We went to the aquarium, had a nice dinner at Hennen’s and spent time walking around the art district. Oh, and on Halloween we had a kick-ass Halloween party.
November: We celebrated Ian’s birthday, Thanksgiving and attended some friends’ going-away party on one long, booze-filled weekend.
December: It’s not over yet, but so far it’s been pretty good (despite me getting a nasty cold and a UTI in the same week). I got my Christmas present from Ian early (the Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8), made strides on a huge project at work, and have 10 days of much-needed vacation coming up.
2009 was full of growing pains and learning curves, but in the grand scheme of things it was a good year. I can’t say I’m sad to see it go, though.
