Anyway, you know how some people send out Christmas cards with letters recapping their year? I figured I'd blog a recap of my year. Or what I could remember of it. Some of the year was kind of a blur and I'm getting to my old age where I can't remember everything.
Soooo, here goes...
January: Started off my New Years at my friends' place in Ft. Lauderdale. Popping bottles off the balcony, many games of flip cup and beer pong. Don't know how I made it to work the next day. The end of January, I jumped on a flight to Tampa for the best holiday of the year: Gasparilla! Saw so many old friends and had good times. I actually kinda remember the parade this year! Too bad my aviators didn't make it. May they RIP in the Tampa Bay.
February: Took my vacation! The only one I had all year. My friends and I packed up a couple of cars and road tripped it from Tampa to West Virginia for some snowboarding and skiing. I busted so much ass snowboarding the first day. I had huge bruises going all the way down my back side. Decided on the second day that if I wanted to not break my ass, I would either need to stuff my pants with pillows or try out skiing. I was flying down intermediate courses on skis by the afternoon. I just kept repeating to myself, "Pizza, French fries. Pizza, French fries."
March: Had it's up and downs. Work wasn't all unicorns and rainbows. After being on the New Stores Team for so long, I forgot how to manage a real, running store. I got a kick in the ass from my boss and decided I needed to do something. So, I pulled my shit together and retrained myself. It must have worked because I still have my job and got promoted 6 months later.
It was Spring Break in South Florida, so some friends came down and we had a mini spring break of our own. You're never too old for Spring Break!
April and May: I moved into my new baller ass apartment and was reunited with a friend from the old school new stores team and I ran into a couple of times during my travels. 3 days later, I had a boyfriend. Too bad he lived over 1,000 miles away. As fast as it started, it ended. 2 months later, I found myself 10 pounds lighter, hungover, and heartbroken. He needed to get his shit together, and my shit was already together. We were literally and figuratively in two different places in our lives. So I picked myself up and focused on other things.
July: I spent the 4th of July in Tampa. I reunited with some old friends and just laid back and enjoyed life. I went to the beach and pool every day off I had and got my tan on. At the end of the month, I took another spontaneous road trip to Tampa with Beth.
August: Spent this month with all of my Miami friends. Went out way too much in Ft. Lauderdale and South Beach. By the end of August, my boss asked if I would be willing to move to NY. 2 days later, I was repainting my apartment white, packing up boxes, and mapquesting my journey from Miami, FL to Lake Grove, NY.
September: My first month at Smith Haven = the hardest month in my career. Of course Mike Jefferies, the CEO, had to walk into my store on my 6th day of work. In his words, he said he was "heartbroken". I spent most days running around like a chicken with its head cut off, only to leave work and go to my Extended Stay where all the douche bag construction workers harassed me. By the way they acted, you would have thought I was walking around naked or something. Thank God for Sarah to keep me sane! We finally found a place to live and moved in mid September. End of September, Sarah and I took a road trip to Baltimore to move her stuff. We were truckers on the open road. It was all smooth sailing from there on out.
October: My bestest's sister got married and I flew down for the wedding. October 21st I turned 27. Damn I'm old. Was not excited about that, but had an unforgettable birthday in NYC. Spent the whole day doing touristy things around Manhattan. Halloween was definitely unforgettable too. I got in trouble for the first time with the 5-0. Who knew you couldn't drink on the subway? They sell beer right in front of it at Penn Station! Of course we got tickets for drinking 1 beer, but the guidos I saw snorting coke on the LIRR got nothing but a high.
November: November kinda seemed like a blur because it went by so fast. By the time I realized it was even November, it was already over. This Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving spent without my mom and dad. I was thankful for my aunt and uncle and their friends for opening their home to Sarah and me.
So that was 2009 for me, in summary. I know I've probably forgotten some things, but I will never forget the people that have made my 2009 so awesome. It seems as I get older, the years get shorter. Hopefully 2010 won't fly by like 2009. I'm not getting any younger and I wanna savor my 20's as much as possible. It's almost scary that I don't know where I'll be next year at this time. Last year I never even dreamed I would be living in New York. But it's also exciting to not know where I might be. Maybe NYC, maybe London, maybe back in Florida, somewhere else in Europe or Japan, who knows, maybe I'll be right where I'm at right now. This is just how I live my life: unscripted.
