A New Year, the Same Me

I figured I should write an end of year post.  2010… I don’t even know where to start.  Honestly, I feel like it was a pretty uneventful year for me.  Spring and fall semesters have kicked my ass.  My bestie moved to South Korea this summer.  I met a pretty cool chick, my unicorn, who could probably be a lifelong friend. I got a new pet, a 15 lb orange tabby cat named Purrrcival- Purrrcy for short.  Auburn had an undefeated football season, and we are going to play in the BCS championship game January 10, 2011!

The year wasn’t all great.  I found out in November that my asthma has returned, and my breathing is so bad it’s affecting my blood pressure.  I was put on an inhaler and blood pressure medicine.  For the most part my blood pressure has been normal since but I’ve had a couple of days when it was high.  I found out about that the week before thanksgiving, and also got a call that my cholesterol was high as well.  Not good news, because the combination puts me at high risk for a stroke/heart attack.  But I already joined a gym- as a matter of fact trouble breathing during exercise was why I went to the doctor- and it’s good that it was caught before anything happened.  In good health news, my uncle received a much needed kidney transplant, due to my cousin (his nephew) donating his.  It was probably the best Christmas gift I received this year. 

There were things going on at school toward the end of the semester, which combined with my health issues really had me feeling down, but you know what??? I won’t complain.  The year was far from great, lots of car issues, health issues, and my washing machine broke down, but the year also wasn’t bad.  Even though I am sitting here on my grandmother’s couch, because she isn’t doing well, I have a lot to be thankful and I am blessed beyond measure.  She turned 95 years old in November.  She's lived a long blessed life.  Out-lived her husband, son, and all but one of her siblings, as well as many nieces and nephews.  She's got lots of people who love her and who have been blessed by her presence on this earth.  She will be at peace eventually, no longer tired, weak or in pain, and she'll be with my granddad again. 

So what is in store for the New Year?   Who knows?  Hopefully love, great grades, and lots of fun and learning, lots of couch naps with my Purrrcy P, health for my family and friends, quality time with my god kids and lots of laughter.  Resolutions? Nope.  I will be losing weight, because my life pretty much depends on it, I will be managing my money better, and I will curse more and be meaner like my Sorors Anna and Aishia.  Yes, you read that last part correctly!  I’m tired of holding shit in and being nice. Blah.

My best friend is already celebrating the New Year in South Korea and for the rest of you I hope 2011 finds you all in good spirits and is your best year yet.

Sitting here guess I didn't make bail....

Last night, after live tweeting the "16 and Knocked up" Reunion special and special episode on Mar-Kay and her second pregnancy and decision to have an abortion, I ended up in twitter jail.  Some of you, who don't tweet, or don't tweet often are probably looking at me sideways right about now.  Yes I said twitter jail.  I don't know how you end up there.  It is either a total daily limit or too many tweets in a short time frame.  Whatever the offense may be, the punishment is being in twitter jail.  You can't tweet.  Some have said you can work around this by tweeting via a different platform.  So if you are tweeting from your phone, go to web, or tweet deck.  I tried, and it doesn't work.  My only question today is, WHY is there a twitter jail? I mean seriously, twitter isn't working half the time and you want to keep me from saying things I want to say?  It seems like it took forever to be able to tweet again, as some friends and I were discussing some issues and I wanted to give my input but couldn't. Dear twitter, get rid of twitter jail!

Go Girl It's Ya Birfday...

Yeah, as of midnight 12/21/2010, it is my 27th birthday.  (Officially 27th but I'm telling folks I'm turning 25.  Several have believed me so far.)  i have no big plans.  The highlight of the day will be a free breakfast at IHOP. I have errands to run: groceries, eyebrows, dog food.  After that? Nothing.  I'll probably sleep most of the day.  Don't get me wrong, I am grateful to make it to another year of life, but birthdays are just so BLAH to me right now.

I've always had it in my head that a person's birthday should always be special.  Being born so close to Christmas, things aren't always special.  I have a couple of friends who usually make me feel wonderful on my day but they are far away right now (S. Korea and NY).  My mom's busy taking care of my grandma, my dad may not even remember, and my brother is working.  We won't even get into the situation with "the boo."  I feel like it's selfish of me to desire for tomorrow to be special, but at the same time I feel like birthdays SHOULD be special.  A person should feel like a king/queen on his/her birthday, and it's rare that I've achieved that feeling.  It would be nice to be pampered and cuddled for a change on my day, instead of just feeling like it's any other day of the year and pretending to just enjoy the day.

Don't take that as a complaint though.  I've been very blessed these 27 years, I'm glad to be here, and I do love life.  I will be sure however, that even if I'm alone, 30 will be fabulous.  And I know when I have kids, especially if they are born in December, I'll try to make their birthdays special until I'm too old to move, and the same for my husband.

Until then, y'all enjoy the eclipse and shit.  I'm going to bed, AFTER I hit my birfday dougie... in my snuggie.