2008 is closing to an end and it seems like it’s gone by so quickly. It seems like yesterday that Chris and I sold our house and trekked our way 700 miles with an infant to live in Cincinnati but it’s been over 8 months and 3 seasons later. Where has the time gone? Well, I can’t complain too much, most of 2008 has been great to us and I look forward to 2009.

In 2008, we started the year off with selling our house and moving to my hometown and both starting new, great jobs. I am thankful that we’re now close enough for my mother to watch Sean during the day while we work. Over the course of the twelve months, Sean has begun sitting up, crawling and now walking and saying a few words and so many more other milestones. I look forward to the milestones to come. By the time 2009 comes, he will be 13 months and 20 days. He’s growing so quickly.

I got my new car this year and also had a semi cause an accident that I was involved in, but my car is fine anyways. Gotta take the bad with the good it seems. Sold our house in 2008 and will be buying/building a new one in 2009. Reconnected with old friends and lost touch with some others. Went from the BlackBerry Pearl to the BlackBerry Curve and plan to head to the BlackBerry Bold in ‘09.

There’s one thing I know won’t change no matter what year it is and that’s being married to my wonderful husband. 2008 was a great year for Chris and I. We celebrated our one year anniversary, grew as a couple and a family and have realized more than ever how much in love we truly are. I love him no matter what and can’t wait to see what life is like in 2089 with him.

So, the plans for 2009 so far is to buy a new home. A permanent home. I am so done with moving and would like to never have it as an option unless we make it an option. I’d also like to do some traveling once we do get comfortable in the new year and new home. Ultimately, I want to take Sean to Florida to see his other side of the family and go to Disney World. I’d like to travel to other places I still haven’t had the chance to go to. I’ve been to many places but there are still that I have yet to see and would love to share that with my family.

My website has grown quite a bit in 2008. I get a ton of visitors and new subscribers all the time. The traffic to my site has increased immensely throughout the year and I plan for it to only get better. I’ll be adding some new things and maybe changing some current things. It’s always a work in progress.

Overall, the year has been great and I can only imagine that things will be getting better. I am enjoying the new chapter in our lives and can’t wait to see what happens in the next chapter.

Perhaps another child? We’ll see, I’m still up in the air on if I want to have other kids whether now or later or at all.

I love how World of Warcraft shows celebrities and their characters, whether they really play or not. I wonder if they do?

Vern Troyer as a gnome made is wonderful. Ozzy Osborne’s is damn good. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here.

Or here is Steve Van Sandt… whomever he is? He looks like someone from the Sopranos so I’m going to go with that!

Quite some years ago a friend of mine and I had somewhat of a falling out. To be quite honest, I don’t even remember the details as to why. Shortly after our friendship at the time ended, I moved to North Carolina. If any of you have read my ‘About the Author’ section of my blog, you know that while I was in North Carolina, I went through a vast amount of changes and for the good.

Fast forward to two years later, I move back to Cincinnati and bring my husband and son with me whom have never lived in Cincinnati before. I can’t remember exactly how, but I found the friend I had the falling out with, Vanessa, on MySpace but sent her this long message telling her how nice it was to find her and how I hope things are going well, etc. By that time, it had been more than two years since I’d seen her and we stopped talking and during that time I had put so much in my past and just “deleted” it from my hard drive that I call my brain.

I really wasn’t expecting her to be so receptive of my message, but she was. I was glad that while I was gone, some people from my past were still going strong and some had changed. I was also sad to see that some people were not so fortunate to have changed for the better, but that’s neither here nor there.

I also have another friend that similar occurrences have happened. Melissa and I have began speaking again and she’s even confessed to me that she does not wish that a particular person drives us apart and asks that I don’t stop being friends with her because of the things this other person may say. (That was also the conversation where I found out that that person was checking up on my blog which prompted me to delete it and move here.) This person and I will never be friends again for obvious reasons that might not be so obvious to people who don’t personally know me. I understand that Melissa and this person are good friends and I don’t mind. It’s not my place to judge her or dislike her because she associates with someone that I choose not to. It wouldn’t be fair to her or fair to myself to not be friends with someone because she’s friends with someone I do not approve of in a human manner.

All in all, it’s nice that after going through so much crap with some people, it is possible for them and myself to realize that we are adults and that it’s ok to put things in the past and grow up. I have also learned that it’s ok to weed out people that will never learn and I thank those people for helping me learn that lesson.