2008

Welcome to a new year! I'm really glad 2007 is finally over. While there was some good things that happened in 2007 (Alder was born, and that was awesome!), it was a very hard year. I had a very good friend commit suicide, and then my aunt died too in what was essentially a very long, drawn-out suicide. I thought I was going to finish school, but with delay after delay, it didn't happen. I slipped into another depression and gained some weight (source of eternal difficulties for me). I can't say I'm feeling especially optimistic about 2008, but at least it is a fresh start. I should DEFINITELY finish school this year (probably by March). I'm working on the depression issue. I'll probably start getting PAID again, so our family financial situation will improve. We might even have another baby by the end of the year (nothing to announce right now though). We'll see.

As for last night, we celebrated the evening with two other couples here at our house. One couple has a 5-month old, who went down for the evening on our bed. The other couple is 37.5 weeks pregnant with their first baby. Both of the women were present at my birth with Alder, so we are all quite good friends. We enjoyed pizza, beer, sparkling cidar, and some ice cream. We talked and laughed and joked around. And then everyone got tired so they bailed early, but actually didn't walk out the door until 11:45 pm. I thought that was funny. So Keith and I popped on the tv and watched the ball drop, then hit the hay. One of these years I'd like to attend a real NYE party again.

Back to work tomorrow. We've now had 3 weeks of extra-long weekends. I think next week with 5 days of work will be really hard to handle.