2011 in Review

This has been a good year for me - full of travel, fun and new opportunities. Rather than listen to me drone one in paragraph form, here's a bulleted list of highlights!

• I got a new job! And it's only one county away!
• I walked in three friend's weddings.
• I routinely experienced the joy of South Florida Public Transit. 
• I read alot of books, and alot of classics. How did I only just read the Count of Monte Cristo? Amazing book!
• I paid off my credit card debt - woohoo!
• Have gotten alot stronger, physically.
• Spent alot of time on the boat and finally saw Stiltsville.
• My troop performed at Tribal Fest and we rocked it!
• I hiked the Cinque Terre in Italy and drove northbound on Pacific Coast Highway. I also travelled to these places:
• Charlotte, NC
• Wilmington, NC
• Columbia, SC (yup, still hate it)
• Augusta, GA/ Aiken, SC
• Tampa
• New York/Brooklyn
• Key West
• Paris, Florence and the Italian Riviera
• San Francisco, Sonoma and Northern California

So some things I didn't get as much accomplished as I would like, but overall I think it's pretty successful.  I don't do resolutions because that implies a one-time goal set, and quite frankly I think that resolutions are generally overambitious and doomed to fail. I am a fastidious planner and obsessively goal-oriented, so here are some of the things I have been planning on, going into the new year:

• Continue to build a financial reserve (made easier by new job.)
• Continue to strengthen myself and stay in shape.
• Get back to karate, now that I have put this knee injury behind me.
• Pay off a bigger chunk of my student loans of doom.
• Write and blog more - although this may be at an undisclosed, new location
• Travel to the following places:
• Iceland
• Austin, TX
• San Francisco, L.A. (via southern part of PCH)
• Key West 
• Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC
• Chile

I'm excited for this new year. And no, I don't believe that crap about the end of the world.  Fun fact for the road. Rapture was supposed to bring the end of the world - with the world erupting in a ball of flame - on my birthday. Nice, right?

Have a happy New Year! Stay safe tonight, and don't drink and drive!