2010: Year in Review
Jan. 8th, 2011 01:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsdrI wanted to write this a week ago; but a week ago I had the owrst chest cold I've had in years- I don't remember last weekend at all. I went to bed at midnight, 12/31/2010, and got out of bed at 8 am 1/2/2011. I'm told I randomly left my room at times for food, cold medicine, and to make unintelligent guttural noises, but I remember nothing of it. The cold still lingers on, coughs catching me off guard as phlegm continues to be expelled from my lungs.
2010 was an eventful year for me. I expected it to be quiet, especially after 2009, but life is funny that way- it's rarely what you expect.
For the most part, 2010 just meandered along for the first quarter. I quit smoking (again) at the beginning of February, and lasted until the second week of April, when I got the phone call about my mother's brain tumor. Hung up and lit up. A week or so after that, and I was on my way back to Maryland for one final visit with my mother.
In May, I turned 40.
2010 summer is kind of a blur- mostly, it was sent waiting for the next phone call letting me know about my mother's death; that phone call finally came August 8th. Back on the plane I went, back to Maryland for another week. Not a fun trip.
That pretty much covers the down part of 2010. The up parts? "I Die For You Today", a song for which I wrote the lyrics, was released as the first single from Alphaville's latest album, "Catching Rays on Giant", and spent about 6 weeks I think in the German Top 40 charts, peaking at #15. Pretty heady stuff.
And, most recently, I finally got to take the first real vacation I've had in years, spending a week in Albuquerque with no real plans or intentions, and enjoying every minute of it. I know it was a good vacation, because by the time it was over, I was ready to come home.
Looking back at the beginning of last year, I didn't make any real New Year's Resolutions, so I guess I didn't fail to keep any. I have made some for this year, which I'll look at next posting.
When returning from my mother's funeral, I did a lot of life evaluation. Facing two milestones in one year (death and turning 40) really brought this on. One of the lament's I've had about living in Wyoming is that I'm stagnating; I've reached as high as I can go here. I realized at the time, however, that this may not be the case; I may just be holding myself back. I approached my boss at the newspaper in September to tell her that I'd like to take on more responsibilities in the Advertising Department; heck, I flat out told her I wanted to take it over and manage it.
This, unfortunately, has gone nowhere. I'm going to approach this again, soon.
the region is holding me back, but it's not encouraging me, either. I do need some place new, some place with more opportunities and challenges. Andy and I have discussed moving back to Albuquerque, NM, although we both realize it would be a few years away. While vacationing there, however, we learned that his brother intends to move to Washington state in a few years. As Andy only wanted to move back to Albuquerque to be near his brother, now it looks like we may be moving to Washington, instead. I really don't care- I just want something new.
More tomorrow, as I look ahead to 2011.
2010 was an eventful year for me. I expected it to be quiet, especially after 2009, but life is funny that way- it's rarely what you expect.
For the most part, 2010 just meandered along for the first quarter. I quit smoking (again) at the beginning of February, and lasted until the second week of April, when I got the phone call about my mother's brain tumor. Hung up and lit up. A week or so after that, and I was on my way back to Maryland for one final visit with my mother.
In May, I turned 40.
2010 summer is kind of a blur- mostly, it was sent waiting for the next phone call letting me know about my mother's death; that phone call finally came August 8th. Back on the plane I went, back to Maryland for another week. Not a fun trip.
That pretty much covers the down part of 2010. The up parts? "I Die For You Today", a song for which I wrote the lyrics, was released as the first single from Alphaville's latest album, "Catching Rays on Giant", and spent about 6 weeks I think in the German Top 40 charts, peaking at #15. Pretty heady stuff.
And, most recently, I finally got to take the first real vacation I've had in years, spending a week in Albuquerque with no real plans or intentions, and enjoying every minute of it. I know it was a good vacation, because by the time it was over, I was ready to come home.
Looking back at the beginning of last year, I didn't make any real New Year's Resolutions, so I guess I didn't fail to keep any. I have made some for this year, which I'll look at next posting.
When returning from my mother's funeral, I did a lot of life evaluation. Facing two milestones in one year (death and turning 40) really brought this on. One of the lament's I've had about living in Wyoming is that I'm stagnating; I've reached as high as I can go here. I realized at the time, however, that this may not be the case; I may just be holding myself back. I approached my boss at the newspaper in September to tell her that I'd like to take on more responsibilities in the Advertising Department; heck, I flat out told her I wanted to take it over and manage it.
This, unfortunately, has gone nowhere. I'm going to approach this again, soon.
the region is holding me back, but it's not encouraging me, either. I do need some place new, some place with more opportunities and challenges. Andy and I have discussed moving back to Albuquerque, NM, although we both realize it would be a few years away. While vacationing there, however, we learned that his brother intends to move to Washington state in a few years. As Andy only wanted to move back to Albuquerque to be near his brother, now it looks like we may be moving to Washington, instead. I really don't care- I just want something new.
More tomorrow, as I look ahead to 2011.
