casey knits

My 2009 went something like this:

• Quit restaurant (cooking/baking) job
• Broke up with the boyfriend
• Decided to go back to college - applied to Ithaca and Eastern Michigan
• Spent a month on the road, nomadic, drifting between New York and Michigan, basically avoiding being in Maine while waiting to hear an admission decision
• My beloved Grandpa Jim passed away
• Got accepted to both colleges;  chose Eastern Michigan
• Left Maine, my friends, my second family, everything I’ve known for the previous 6 years, and moved to Michigan - 1200 miles, alone, with 2 insane cats and everything I own packed into a Metro
• Hey, new boyfriend!  New home!  New friends!
• Started crappy kitchen job at Toyota, which was a minor accomplishment only because I did what everyone said I wouldn’t be able to do:  I landed a job within a couple weeks of moving there.
• Promptly quit said job a month later, but hey.
• Landed a mega-scholarship, because I’m S-M-R-T.  (Or so they think.)
• Started my first semester at college in 15 years, amidst great angst and anxiety.
• Finished said first semester with 5 A’s and a 4.0 GPA.  (Yeah yeah, so they were right.)
• Drove 600-something miles to spend my holidays with my family, some of whom I haven’t seen in 15+ years.  It’s also meant spending New Year’s Eve with them for the first time in… I dunno, a decade?

So yeah.  Never let it be said that I live a boring, uneventful life, I suppose.  :)  But you know, I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I thrive on change.  Live for it, even.

I am, as I always say, immeasurably blessed.  I can’t wait to see what 2010 will bring.