A Good Year

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It's not over yet, but I plan to put my feet up and watch movies and maybe even go to bed early tonight, so thought I would post a few reflections.

It has been a good year. I found myself still in the process of recovery from grief and getting used to being alone after ten years of intensive care-giving. It's amazing how difficult learning to be happy can be, sometimes. I'm not always successful, but at least I'm learning to get help when I need it.

Friendships have been a delight. I have some lovely new ones, and some old casual friends are becoming much more important friends, and old friends are still there, solid as a rock. I had a vague resolution to be more social this past year, and I think I can say I've succeeded.

I went to Paris!!!!!!

I still have both my dogs, and they are still wonderful, and Cholmondeley is 14 1/2 but remarkably well, if a bit frail.

Clio-the-cat continues to keep me warm at night, relaxed in the evening, and well aware of my inferiority.

I don't do resolutions, really, but I want to lose a few pounds, get a little fitter, read more, write even more than that, and learn to be a little more - balanced - about life. Perhaps writing them here will give those wishes a bit more power.

May 2008 bring all my dear LJ friends every blessing and delight: good books, good movies, good food, good company, solace in nature, laughter, and a new season of Battlestar Galactica!!!!!

Comments

[superfoo.livejournal.com]

Wow I'm retarded. I didn't realize you had been doing it for over four years (although I'm sure you've mentioned it). For some reason I thought you were just approaching year 2?

Anyways - Yay for Blogs!

[intertext.livejournal.com]

No worries! I started blogging in Sept 2003, because I asked a group of English 250 students to do it, and thought I should do it too. I was a very bad blogger, only posting about once a month, and didn't know anything about the whole "friend" convention. In the year before my mum died, I was pretty much house-bound, doing all my teaching online so that I could look after her. That's when I really got going, and it kept me sane, I think. So that's now three years of serious blogging, and one year as a dilettante :)