Sayonara, 2009

I'm not actually still in Japan, though by the looks of my last post, one might begin to wonder.

2009 was an intense year. It wasn't as bad as 2008 or previous years -- no one died among family and friends this year, hooray -- but it was definitely breakneck speed at times. A year ago, I wouldn't have planned to travel so many miles (Japan and Alaska both for the first time!), attend so many weddings (nine, almost ten), work so many hours (68 in one particularly grueling week), catch up with so many old friends (ah, Facebook), and lose so much hair (2010 resolution: Rogaine?). Oh, and eat horse (somehow forgot that one while blogging from Japan). I guess it was a year of surprises. The only unsurprising statistic is how little I blogged. Goodness, I can still see the post from a year ago on the front page.

In a matter of hours, we draw the curtain on a decade that I've taken great pleasure in calling the Naughties. Coming up are the Teens, I guess? Sounds so adolescent...and awkward. So promising, yet pubescent. It's gonna be great.



Happy New Year.