At the end of 2013, my husband Dave and I were in Hong Kong visiting my family. I was having a lot of anxiety about the new year and my upcoming thirtieth birthday. Now it’s February and birthdays have come and gone, and I did not spend the last day of my twenties clinging to the guardrail of my condo balcony crying. Instead I spent it like a grown-up: wearing a leopard print Snuggie at work and later eating Japanese food with my closest friends.
So I guess the first part of this year hasn’t been as scary horrible as I feared. But I still think 2014 will be a year of big change.
I was going to review my 2013, but I’d stopped writing—the longest I’ve gone since I first started keeping a blog when I was thirteen and had discovered what the internet was—so maybe that says enough about how I felt about last year. But as part of my 2014 resolutions (see next post), I plan to be more positive and make healthy choices for myself.
Here were the highlights of my 2013:
- I’m still at the graphic design studio I’ve been at since November 2011. The book I’d been working on since I started here finally went to print in December! It is exciting to hold a book you worked on in your hands
- I started exercising in earnest for the first time in my life (sadly, not exaggerating). This was in preparation for a trip to Peru where my childhood friend GY, his friend LK, LK’s sister, Dave and I hiked the four-day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. And I did not die. In fact, we hiked the trail in three days, and got to see the Machu Picchu ruins at sunset and sunrise. Also not exaggerating when I say the sights were stunning(!) and the whole thing was a trip of a lifetime
- Also spent a few days in May in Chicago (Hi Janice!), August in Montreal, and December in New York City. We spent Christmas in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Other notes:
- As you might have noticed with our jet-set lifestyle, we spent a bit too much money last year. 2013 was the year of YOLO-ing too hard. Will need to be more responsible in 2014. Though our financial advisor tells us that we are doing pretty good in the liquid assets department
- I started off the year with my hair down to my midriff. Now it’s above my chin. Snip snip, chop chop!
- In April, I won a free ticket to FITC from RGD. I vowed to step outside my comfort zone and talk to at least one person. Now I have a new friend
- My obsession with donuts
- Went to dozens of Jays games
- My ex-boyfriend and I are buds again (which makes me happy)
- I can do one pull-up
- My coworker and I started a side project, though we have yet to finish anything
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