Year In Review

Accomplishments I’m proud of:

Living in another country.

Travelling on my own.

Getting out of my comfort zone… more often than I wanted to.

Changing my career and starting over. From the beginning.

Realizing that 2 am phone calls are ALWAYS bad news. Really anything after 11pm these days is bad news.

Weeding out the bad news bears. Some of them did this on their own.

Things I’m working on:

My next goal. You know, finding out what that is.

Honing my artistic skills.

Honing my relationship skills. They apparently aren’t very good which leads to:

Finding better friends. Ones who don’t dump you for someone ______ (better, cooler, more obsessed with the same things they are, who has a penis/vagina.)

Losing 20 lbs. Starting Jan 1. ugh. Check back May 20th to see if I did it.

Taking at least two more trips. They will be much shorter, but still. I gotta get out.

Things I am Grateful for:

My family. Always there in a pinch. Always. Love you.

That woman who picked me up on the side of a deserted highway in Costa Rica when I was being followed by a Tico man after walking 3 miles in 95 degree heat and running out of money because there was no ATH (ATM) machine in sight. She gave a strange girl 20 dollars, ice cream, and soda and then drove me half an hour out of her way to the Liberia airport where there was ONE ATH machine working. I felt like I was five, but have never been so happy to see someone in my entire life. And never so happy a couple was fighting over something as ridiculous as getting the wrong thing at the store.

On the same note: the tico couple who picked me up and drove me up the 2 mile 45 degree incline hill to the ATH machine, which was closed since it was a holiday or something. The ATH machines are run by the banks, so when the bank is closed… so is the ATH.

My friends who stick with me. I love you all, even if it doesn’t seem like it all the time. I’m difficult, I know and I’m sorry. I appreciate everything you all are.

The loophole that allowed me to go on vacation.

Costa Rica. And beautiful foreign surfer boys.

Airplanes, boats, trains, cars, and the path less travelled.