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NYE 2022 --> 2023
Dec. 31st, 2022 08:15 pmMy year in 2022:
- First year without parents.
- Wore a hat with animal ears, in public.
- Dyed my hair for the first time.
- Drove a pickup truck for the first time.
- Used SudShare for the first time.
- Visited new places including:
- Saw a whale shark.
- Experienced food delivery robots (CLICK HERE to watch)
- Visited the most incredible rose garden.
- Saw a 22-degree halo.
- Caught covid (and survived it because I'm VACCINATED).
- Caught the flu and had to play five shows with it (-_-)
- Ate a RIDICULOUS number of new foods including:
- Cooked or baked many new foods including:
- Sat in a hospital post-op room (have never been in one before).
- Applied to be a 911 dispatcher and made it through 2/3rds of the application process before realizing I wouldn't be able to do it short-term.
- Worked for the Social Security Administration as a Verbatim Hearing Reporter in disability court.
- Listened to senior citizens tell their life stories, and transcribed those stories for their families.
- Experienced Mickey's Not So Scary.
- Rode Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure (and didn't even barf!)
- Saw Roger Waters at the Amway.
- Saw a guineafowl in person.
- Saw a white ermine in the wild.
- Saw polydamas caterpillars!
- Found a burr oak acorn.
- Used a compactor + polymeric sand.
- Rented and drove a U-Haul truck.
- Auditioned for an ACTUAL Broadway show.
- Was added to the Cirque du Soleil casting list.
- Created and ran a foodie group with 30+ members.
- Visited more Asian grocery stores than I have ever been to in my life.
- Visited many museums, gardens, and galleries.
- Flew more than I ever have in my life, probably close to 100 flights.
- Jameson had hernia surgery.
- Jameson started grad school.
- Jameson won awards for his programming work, and got to program music for a known pop star.
- Celebrated nine years with my Jameson!
...among many other things.
Things that I regret in 2022:
- Not really being there for my family OR my boyfriend.
- Being unable to mitigate my anger when my pet peeves are touched on.
Things that I DON'T regret in 2022:
- Doing SO MUCH. I am endlessly grateful that being on this tour allows me to not waste my time on the planet. Traveling so much is difficult, being away from my important people is difficult, there are massive stressors and risks and costs. But ultimately the one thing I've learned this year is that we only get one life (that we know of), and in my opinion wasting it following the crowd, kowtowing to social and societal expectation, or living a life that you just do not want to live, is a terrible waste. I don't get to do EVERYTHING that I want of course, and I'm not naive; there WILL come a time when the freedom I enjoy now will be lost, and control over my life will be snatched away from me by health issues or unexpected events. And that's why getting to have that freedom and control now is a massive blessing, to be treasured and looked back on with joy.
Things that I dread in 2023:
- Whatever insanity our global governments, homegrown terrorists, and billionaires have planned.
Things that I look forward to in 2023:
- Finishing out this fun tour with Tootsie!
- Any potential for Jameson or I to get leverage in our professional lives.
- The potential for things to start shifting toward what Gen Z and the actual working generations want.
Hopes and Goals in 2023:
- I'd love to know what I'll be doing for work when this tour ends!
- International travel would be really nice.
- Any sort of leverage now that covid is on the backburner. Perhaps an opportunity to learn or to travel or to work for a living wage. Anything that does not involve sitting at home and being frustrated, or endless hours of job searching just to get something minimum wage. I am so tired of being stagnant since the pandemic started. So tired of our lives being put on hold, opportunities being put on hold. Let us move forward in 2023, PLEASE!!!
(Last year's post: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/170835.html)
- First year without parents.
- Wore a hat with animal ears, in public.
- Dyed my hair for the first time.
- Drove a pickup truck for the first time.
- Used SudShare for the first time.
- Visited new places including:
- Des Moines IA
- Tulsa OK
- Tempe AZ
- Tucson AZ
- Costa Mesa CA
- Wilminton NC
- Utica NY
- Springfield IL
- Tysons VA
- Akron OH...and probably more I'm forgetting!
- Saw a whale shark.
- Experienced food delivery robots (CLICK HERE to watch)
- Visited the most incredible rose garden.
- Saw a 22-degree halo.
- Caught covid (and survived it because I'm VACCINATED).
- Caught the flu and had to play five shows with it (-_-)
- Ate a RIDICULOUS number of new foods including:
- roasted grasshoppers
- rattlesnake & rabbit sausage
- grilled cactus
- egusi stew with pounded yam
- tripe
- ponmo (boiled cow skin)
- gomen, kik wot, dinich alicha, qessir, and shiro (Ethiopian vegetarian sampler dishes)
- dried crabs, dried squid
- canned eel
- pickled quail eggs
- pre-poached eggs
- pine cone jam
- longan fruit
- mangosteen
- Korean melon
- dried hawthorn berries
- star apples
- white strawberries
- dried jackfruit
- fruit sando
- Grape Nut ice cream; goat milk ice cream; beet ice cream; pear bleu cheese ice cream; strawberry balsamic ice cream; Earl Grey ice cream
- Osmanthus-flavored oatmeal
- bibimbap
- pozole
- tteok-bokki
- taiyaki
- "instant cereal"
- ube boba tea (CLICK HERE to watch)
- a "Dutch letter"
- injera
- fonio
- lupini beans
- lotus chips
- kuikui nut
- dried purple potatoes
- vegan cheese, chik'n, deli "meat", tofu "steak", and mushroom jerky
- sushi directly from Japan
- borscht
- REAL pierogi
- spam musubi
- Peruvian rotisserie chicken
- nitro matcha tea
- coffee soda
- pineapple beer
- peach cider
- Cel-Ray soda
- pork floss roll
- knish
- tangerine tart
- chestnut crepe cake
- popover
- rugbrod
- souffle pancakes
- homemade manju
- spelt biscuit
- savory cheesy French toast
- rainbow xiao long bao
- sansai soba
- vending machine pizza
- bread from a James Beard Award-winning bakery
- Cooked or baked many new foods including:
- air fried eggs, cheese bites, and biscuits
- mayak eggs
- white chicken chili
- bolgogi beef
- peanut butter bread; potato bread; seeded bread; cheese filled buns; steamed mantou buns
- sticky buns
- souffle pancakes
- "snacklebacks"; potatoes au gratin; fondant potatoes
- banana pudding cheesecake
- fermented pepper honey
- honeycomb candy
- coconut lime pops
- butterscotch sauce
- eggnog snickerdoodles
- rum balls
- Sat in a hospital post-op room (have never been in one before).
- Applied to be a 911 dispatcher and made it through 2/3rds of the application process before realizing I wouldn't be able to do it short-term.
- Worked for the Social Security Administration as a Verbatim Hearing Reporter in disability court.
- Listened to senior citizens tell their life stories, and transcribed those stories for their families.
- Experienced Mickey's Not So Scary.
- Rode Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure (and didn't even barf!)
- Saw Roger Waters at the Amway.
- Saw a guineafowl in person.
- Saw a white ermine in the wild.
- Saw polydamas caterpillars!
- Found a burr oak acorn.
- Used a compactor + polymeric sand.
- Rented and drove a U-Haul truck.
- Auditioned for an ACTUAL Broadway show.
- Was added to the Cirque du Soleil casting list.
- Created and ran a foodie group with 30+ members.
- Visited more Asian grocery stores than I have ever been to in my life.
- Visited many museums, gardens, and galleries.
- Flew more than I ever have in my life, probably close to 100 flights.
- Jameson had hernia surgery.
- Jameson started grad school.
- Jameson won awards for his programming work, and got to program music for a known pop star.
- Celebrated nine years with my Jameson!
...among many other things.
Things that I regret in 2022:
- Not really being there for my family OR my boyfriend.
- Being unable to mitigate my anger when my pet peeves are touched on.
Things that I DON'T regret in 2022:
- Doing SO MUCH. I am endlessly grateful that being on this tour allows me to not waste my time on the planet. Traveling so much is difficult, being away from my important people is difficult, there are massive stressors and risks and costs. But ultimately the one thing I've learned this year is that we only get one life (that we know of), and in my opinion wasting it following the crowd, kowtowing to social and societal expectation, or living a life that you just do not want to live, is a terrible waste. I don't get to do EVERYTHING that I want of course, and I'm not naive; there WILL come a time when the freedom I enjoy now will be lost, and control over my life will be snatched away from me by health issues or unexpected events. And that's why getting to have that freedom and control now is a massive blessing, to be treasured and looked back on with joy.
Things that I dread in 2023:
- Whatever insanity our global governments, homegrown terrorists, and billionaires have planned.
Things that I look forward to in 2023:
- Finishing out this fun tour with Tootsie!
- Any potential for Jameson or I to get leverage in our professional lives.
- The potential for things to start shifting toward what Gen Z and the actual working generations want.
Hopes and Goals in 2023:
- I'd love to know what I'll be doing for work when this tour ends!
- International travel would be really nice.
- Any sort of leverage now that covid is on the backburner. Perhaps an opportunity to learn or to travel or to work for a living wage. Anything that does not involve sitting at home and being frustrated, or endless hours of job searching just to get something minimum wage. I am so tired of being stagnant since the pandemic started. So tired of our lives being put on hold, opportunities being put on hold. Let us move forward in 2023, PLEASE!!!
(Last year's post: https://taz-39.livejournal.com/170835.html)
