New Year's Eve!!!

To anyone who reads this, Happy New Year's Eve!!!  Once again we have made it through another year, although, at least in my case, this particular was not so simple to get through.

I rang in the year last year with a desire to change my life, and as I look at it today, one year later, it has definitely changed, but not all of the changes were good.  I feel like I lost more people this year, and my family did lose a couple relatives on both sides, which included my paternal grandfather who passed away in April.  I also lost a few friends, including one which I really did not want to lose, but now that I am ringing in a new year I am trying very hard to put the past behind me.

So, this year, I have decided to reveal my New Year's resolutions to myself, and myself alone.  I am looking forward to an exciting year (and when I think about it, an exciting decade filled with changes for my life as I progress and go from being a teenager into a young woman in her twenties (of course, that does not become official until March).  I am not doing anything hugely spectacular for New Year's, but I will be very safe as I am sitting for one of the children who attends the daycare where I work, but I do wish and hope for everyone to have a Happy New Year!!!

-Jenn

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

It's Christmas Eve, and God has started to really answer my prayers for healing.

I had all four of my wisdom teeth extracted on Friday, the 18th, and it was not the simplest procedure since all four were impacted.  However, six days later I seem to be healing up pretty well (although I won't know full details until my follow-up on Tuesday), and my eating has gotten much less difficult since the start (I can't eat normally yet but I'm getting there).

Tomorrow is Christmas, and it looks like I'm spending a quiet one at home this year again.  While I may go out to the movies in the evening I will probably rest some more.  Yesterday was a pretty fun day for me however; I went out with Naomi and we drove up north to go to the mall and to try to find some more materials for a costume she is making.

You know, the one problem I always find with Christmas break is that while I have about a month off, with all the holidays and such in the way it always seems impossible to see everybody as much as I had wished.  Anywho, I am glad to have a nice long holiday weekend free from work and I am really excited about the prospect of going shopping this weekend during the after-Christmas sales.

Good Day...Good Day

So today was obviously a good day, as you can tell from my title.  I worked and felt really good.  After work I went out to dinner with Amanda and Symone, and Naomi popped in towards the end to say hello.

Today...

...I have decided that after more than three years since deleting my last true blog, I am going to try once again.

I am not creating this blog for any particular purpose, just pretty much (at the moment) to document the humdrum and exciting moments of my life.

I am not going to publicly advertise this blog, so if you stumble upon it (whether because I commented on your own blog or you were bored enough to find me), I hope you find it interesting.

I am hoping to write poetry for the blog, perhaps giving it a sense of flavor.

My life is somewhat dull at the moment.  I am a sophomore in college living at home with my parents, brother, and sister.  I can't exactly say things are boring here, but they are far from perfect.  My mother has been unemployed for three months now and I am sitting here counting down the days until the day I leave for another school, but the battle is far from over; in fact, with this economy you can say it's only beginning.

But I can't honestly say I'm terribly frustrated with my life, for I have faith that things in my life are about to change...for the better, and the signs are everywhere.

For starters, the decade is almost over, and it's certainly not going out on a high note.  But with a new decade in the world comes a new decade in my own life, for I am turning 20 in March, a benefit that only comes with being born in a year ending in "0", of course.

So I have just finished my third semester in college, not with my best marks I might add (then again, when you have a gpa as high as mine was it's hard for it to not go down)...I made my first C, which does not please me, but I am taking it easy next semester by taking just four classes.  With these, I should be completely finished with my core by the end of the school year so I feel great about that.

But overall, I still feel good.  I have been ill over the weekend but I feel good.  I am getting all four of my wisdom teeth extracted on Friday but I feel good.  I am 7,221 days old and I feel good.

Life is Good.

La vie est bonne.

Afternote: I am going to challenge myself to try to update this blog as often as possible, but never more than once a day and never less than once a week.  The title of my blog refers to my life.  I was born in the desert (AZ) and I currently live in the Piedmont (GA).  The beyond portion of the title refers to the unknown that lies in store for me as my life marches on.

à bientôt.