Recent Musings:

So long 2007!

Monday, December 31, 2007

It's the last day of the year, folks - Happy New Year's Eve! I'm very excited for our New Year's plans - we're heading downtown (uptown?) for a First Night celebration, which is an arts and culture family type event. I think it's going to be cool because we'll get to scope out what the city has to offer while just having paid for our individual entrance buttons. We did get passes to the ballet, which was 1 of the 7 ticketed events left, and I'm excited for that. We also get a parade, carriage rides, culinary school samplings, dance lessons and much more!

Some of my faithful and long-term readers may remember when the server used for RhondaSue went down and I and my husband lost 6 months worth of thoughts and work (much more detrimental for him, by the way). Since then I've begun printing up my posts, mostly for posterity and accomplishment's sake. Just this week I printed up over a year's worth of RhondaSue posts and decided to sit down and read through them all. It seemed a bit vain at first (I rarely go back and reread my own posts once I've expressed them) and yet I discovered that not only did I write very often, like every day, but I also wrote very big thoughts and beliefs that I am still in the process of grasping. To myself, the posts appeared neat and organized, strong and determined and yet reaching those thoughts was a life-altering experience for me with large doses of growing pains that I'm still in the struggle of working into my everyday life.

I discovered that I also apologized a lot for when I didn't write and that annoyed me a little. I guess in hindsight I see that thoughts of that size and revelation can't be formulated, digested and processed every day and that to act as if they could almost seems to diminish the great but scattered thoughts I was able to receive.

I did have another moment of sadness for the lost writings.

My hope for 2008 is not that I will write more often (although I may), but that my life will grant me the opportunities to continue reflecting on the notable growths I continue to experience. I have one semester of graduate school left and perhaps after that, after I settle into a different way of life with a job and hobbies and free time, will I be granted another mountain of enlightenment to discover.

All the best to you in 2008.