My Year??

So, this time last year I did a year in review of all the high lights of 2009. I thought about doing it again this year, but then it dawned on me....I didn't do ANYTHING this year!!! I mean, I did, obviously, but I almost felt like a hermit this year! My jammed pack, action filled life came to a halt!

Most people probably disagree with this statement, because I am always really busy and doing something, but this year was different. I enjoyed staying in on Friday nights and watching movies and not insisting on doing something. I discovered Redbox and I haven't been the same since! I would talk about how I feel like I had slowed down and I just didn't know what I thought about it. Then one day it hit me like a sack of bricks.....I was tired...exhausted to be correct. I have been going 110 miles an hour for about the past 12 years. I've constantly been on the go, go, go and I was tired. So, I guess you can say 2010 was a year of rest for me....so 2011, I'm ready to hit it hard!!! HAHA...just kidding, I'm not.

I think I'm ready for a different kind of busy then what I use to have. New Years Eve at Mango Bay in Fiji gave me a glimpse of my old life with my new life. I was ready to go to bed at about 9:00 NYE, but willed myself to stay up to midnight. There was a group of boys and girls who looked like they were in their young 20's who were downing drinks after drinks after drinks. Those little girls could suck down some frozen drink in about 5 minutes. The boys drank a bottle of Jaquer, I don't know how to spell it correctly probably because it's GROSS and I get nausated at the smell of it (THANKS MCNAIR!)After they were all about red bull and vodka (how they slept was beyond me, probably didn't) and then you can buy this tall thin thing and fill it with draft beer so it's like your own little keg at your table. These fools filled it up with red bull and vodks and doing their version of keg stands! Next thing you know they are dancing fools, then in the pool and dancing more and pretty much all over the place. Then it hit me....that was me. There was a time when I could of of given those kids a run for their money. It was like seeing myself a few years ago and it was crazy! I felt like their mother, worrying about them and what they were doing! I felt like I was having an out of body experience and watching my life and what I have become now. No, I hear you, I'm not a perfect angel by any means, but I have zero desire to go back to that stage in life.

I'm grown....I have officially grown up. A few years ago when Heather and I were driving up to the Kentucky Derby (back in the day when I stayed on the go) we stopped at Liqour Barn right outside of Louisville and spent about an hour in there looking at the cheap liquor. I said at the time that I spent that month's electric bill on alcohol there. Well, back at the ranch.....Heather and I were looking at the wines, boxes vs. bottles, and I told her "We are no longer boxes of wine girls, but bottle of wine girls." I was talking like we were grown or something....I thought I was, but now....I'm officially grown! I am really and truely a bottle of wine type of girl!

I guess one thing that hasn't changed in the past year is my attention span. I can't even remember what I started writing about and how I got on this rabbit trail. Oh yes, my year in review. Hummm....ok, here goes.....it snowed out my birthday, but loved sledding, I went to Atlanta, I went to Field Day, I canoed a bunch of weekends (and weekdays!!! SHHH...don't tell the boss), went to the beach, started doing cousin's night out, dad got diagnosed with cancer, dad had his cancer removed, dad got infection after surgery and ended up in hospital, dad spent Thanksgiving in the hosital (I was excited for our 1 normal Thanksgiving last year....guess we broke the streak again!), we killed hogs, and I went to Fiji. That's my year.......

Either way, I'm happy and I'm looking forward to turning 30...I really am! It feels old and mature and plus, I'm told I still look about 22 or 23...SWEET! I always said I was going to become responsible at 30....we'll see.

I had actually at one point thought about doing a high light blog of my 20's.....but I think there might be a word limit on these blogs!!!! I'd have to have a blog for each age!!! I should have enough time as I'm now a homebody!!! Either way....it's been a great year and I am really blessed PERIOD!!!

Oh wait....I took Cake decorating classes!!! How could I forget....I'm a professional cake decorater now and the Flood...there was the flood and I worked about 14 hours a day with flood relief for about a month straight. OH YEAH....maybe I'll think about it and actually do a year in review, I'm sure there was more to it!!!