After 2009 kicked my butt, I decided to make 2010 the Best Year Ever. SO FAR SO GOOD. Here's a summary of what we've done the first six months of this year:
January:
* New camera
* Started 500 in 2010
* Phoenix half marathon
* Trip to Phoenix to visit my sister Jamie
February:
* San Diego trip, Legoland and met Jen and Erin
* Last trip to solo visit Irene before she had twins
* Second row, Ira Glass
* Snow snow snow, boys' first sledding
March:
* New camera lens, the Canon 50 mm 1.2. YUM.
* Celebrated TEN YEARS with Jon
* Raleigh half marathon, Nate and Alex's first race
* Turned 36
* Mondo Beyondo
* Joined a Unitarian Universalist fellowship
April:
* Started taking pictures of other people to learn
* Downstairs bath renovation
* Adult swim class
* Jon's dad, brother, and nephew visited
May:
* Karen visit
* Switched to all manual with my camera
* Boys turned 4, family beach trip
* Pool opened!
* My mom Jen and her husband visit
* TV detox
* First lightning bugs
* Trip to Ohio to visit entire Verhoff family
June:
* Lindsay visit
* Boys' first Star Wars viewing
* Jon's grandma Marguerite visit
* Jon's mom Roxane visit
* Solo trip to NY with Jon, including tasting menu dinner with wine pairings at Craft
* Ann visit
BUT WAIT, there's more!
Mondo gave me laser-like focus on my dreams, and helped me see some changes I need to make. It took the jumbled mess of crazy thoughts in my head and turned it into an organized list with a plan of action.
Yesterday, on the last day of the first half of the Best Year Ever, I got some work news that will significantly change our work-life balance. After next week, I am going part time! 8 whole kid-free hours every Friday to catch up on all the things in life that we move to the bottom of the priority list because Jon travels.
I told you 2010 was going to be the Best Year Ever!
17 comments:
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!
Are you going to do long runs on Friday? Home improvement? Laundry? Massage and pedicures?
Our 2010 is kicking ass too! WOOHOO!
Sweet!
Although I have to confess that just reading all that made me feel tired. You have been crazy busy.
yahoo!!!! This is great!! Good for you! The list is amazing. And you certainly have drive to seek out joy and passion in your life. I admire that about you greatly. Great job on the work front.
I'm still so, so excited for you. The number one thing on my list would be napping and grocery shopping on Fridays. Although I'd probably never really nap, but I would get in a really long workout. :)
What an excellent start to the Best Year Ever! You may get to take more practice pics on Nina later this year if you're up for it. I love the ones you took earlier this year, but now that she's so familiar with you and the boys I'd love to see candid photos of her when you're behind the lens.
Oh, and I'm still jealous of your 2nd row tix to Ira in February.
Wow, you ARE having a great year!!! And, that is SO, SO, SO exciting about working part time!
That's great! As part of my job search I'm looking to see if I can find a part-time job. I hear "stories" about legal jobs that are 8:30-4:30 pm with Fridays off but I think they might be a myth.
Can't wait to see what the second half of the year brings if it's anything like the first! YAY for your new schedule...take advantage of that time.
I am so very, very happy for you!
That is so exciting! I love that your job worked with you to make it happen.
When the girls start school I'm thinking of cutting back on my hours. We're busy as is, I'm assuming we'll only get busier.
Sounds like you need a show on VH1 with obscure pop culture references and D level celebs.
Glad to hear that 2010 is the BEST YEAR EVER and telling you that new work arrangement is a sweet, sweet deal.
I know you will find time to make Fridays more than just errand detail. Yay to Mondo for the clarity.
And YES seeing IRA from the 2nd row was awesome!
Thanks for not rushing the stage and keeping my prego butt from doing the same.
Rock on!
Congrats on the work thing! Seriously. But I'm chuckling a little because I have every other Wednesday off (kid free), and really, I'd almost rather have the excuse not to tackle those things on the "I can't do with kids list". I feel guilty doing too much just for me stuff on those days when I know 1) there is a long to-do list, and 2) Albert is working. It's a double-edged sword. That is, when someone doesn't have a fever or something else comes up that takes up that day anyway. Oh yeah, and I usually forget to eat on those days. Who wants to take up such precious kid-free time with pesky things like lunch? So by the end of it, I'm hangry. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. You'll have to let me know...
BTW, I don't think I'd even want to see your to-do list. Based on the things you've already accomplished this year, it's either way too short or way too long. Either way, not normal. =)
Way to go Laura!! You are doing amazing!!
Mondo rocks, and so does part-time! I work a M-Th schedule and LOVE IT.
Congrats! Part-time work ROCKS.
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