One of my favorite photos of the year. I’m at work in Bolivia, helping prep this woman for her surgery by our volunteer team.
It sounds silly, but I feel like I really celebrated life this year. I took great trips, spent time with loved ones, read more books than ever, listened to some great new tunes and reached one of my life-long goals of getting on the triathlon train. Okay, the triathlon training train.
Highlights:
~I taught my 80-year-old grandfather to email (Hi Pap!)
~I sat at the top of Machu Picchu
~I finished my first novel
~I threw a Prom party and actually talked all my girlfriends into wearing our old dance dresses out. To Macayo’s.
~I became friends with Ruby
~I finished my grandmother’s sweater
~I baked. And baked. And played frisbee and baked. And visited the bagel shop and baked. And then to celebrate it all? Yep. I baked a bit more.
~I rode a mechanical bull. Sober.
~I dove into the dating pool with gusto and learned a thing or two about myself in the process
I’ve loved this year and look forward to the adventures of 2007.
~I’ll see Italy
~I’ll write for a commercial magazine
~I’ll have my book published
~I’ll camp
~I’ll learn how to bead
~I’ll write my second novel
~I’ll learn Portuguese
~I’ll finish a 1/2 Ironman
~I’ll ride my bike or take public transportation to work once a week
~I’ll buy less and use what I have more
May you have someone to kiss when the ball drops (or if you are in AZ, when the giant tortilla chip drops),
K