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NYE 2021 --> 2022
Dec. 31st, 2021 10:55 pmMy Year In 2021:
- Grew 33 types of plants in my garden.
- Baked 24 types of bread.
- Made lots of new meals and foods including shrimp and grits, Scotch eggs, gnocchi from scratch, salmon cakes, collard greens, banana pudding, and the best lemon bars
- My first-ever attempt at macarons was a moderate success.
- Ate frog legs, butterbeer, "yakiniku", beef on weck, pavlova, muffuletta, turtle soup, and white sapote for the first time.
- Transferred to another steno school, then quit steno school in October.
- Watched Biden's inauguration.
- Sold my bass trombone.
- Raised eight monarch butterflies from eggs, and watched them all fly away 
- Got cross-trained to be a Supervisor and Training Assistant at CapTel.
- Got Employee of the Month at CapTel.
- Experienced working from home 1-2x per week.
- Interviewed for, was offered, and declined a position in HR at CapTel.
- Got vaccinated in April and on May the 4th!
- Got a booster shot over Thanksgiving.
- Got covid tested over 30 times, both PCR and rapid tests.
- Got my first leather jacket.
- Feld Entertainment announced that Ringling Bros Circus would resume in 2023.
- Played in VR on the Oculus (and it was amazing!)
- Had a tire blow out on the highway.
- Visited my parents in June, which was the last time I would see my Dad.
- Found out that my grandfather was a radar technician in the Army Air Force (AAF).
- One of my sisters had her first baby!!
- Got invited to go on tour with Tootsie the Musical.
- Jameson got kidney stones.
- Jameson directed a production of Head Over Heels.
- Jameson directed a production of RENT.
- Celebrated eight years with my Jameson!!
- Went to Universal's Haunted Horror Nights for the first time.
- Parents contracted covid.
- Dad passed away of covid-related complications.
- Helped plan a funeral for the first time.
- Signed the wall at the Dr. Phillips Center after performing there.
- Started a TikTok.
- First full-time work as a musician since before the pandemic started.
- Met lots of amazing people on tour and in life
These are just some of the things that I experienced for better or worse.
A sample of 1/37th of my time on earth so far.
All I can say is, yes there were certain things that made this a terrible year.
But there were other things that were good, and should be appreciated.
(Also, can you see why I choose not to have kids?? Could I have done ANY of the good stuff if I'd had children??)
For 2022, in addtion to doing my best to "just get through it", I will try to keep my chin up for myself and the people around me.
I'll try to be less negative, and more empathetic.
But I AM still going to be pretty selfish.
Because life is very, very short.
I mean, I haven't even tried BLACK sapote yet.
A sample of 1/37th of my time on earth so far.
All I can say is, yes there were certain things that made this a terrible year.
But there were other things that were good, and should be appreciated.
(Also, can you see why I choose not to have kids?? Could I have done ANY of the good stuff if I'd had children??)
For 2022, in addtion to doing my best to "just get through it", I will try to keep my chin up for myself and the people around me.
I'll try to be less negative, and more empathetic.
But I AM still going to be pretty selfish.
Because life is very, very short.
I mean, I haven't even tried BLACK sapote yet.
