end of the year? meh!

So I had started to do my end of the year wrap up a few days ago and had gotten pretty deep into it when I decided it was a bit sillier than I was prepared to do and tossed it.
I've sifted through a few of my friends' wrap ups and the consensus is that this year was terrible. No one said that this was a great year and for those people, I can understand why. Maybe it's because mine was so great that I tossed my initial wrap up. So sorry folks, I had a fantastic year!

Homecoming
woooooooow... THIS. I missed my mommy. and Nelly. and hamburgers/mexican food.
Spring.
In 2008, I was lucky enough to spend it getting to know and falling in love with bb J. With every passing day we grew closer and in May (the 24th I think ;]), after the absolute soul-crushing madness that was IBC, we told each other we lurved each other! Oh... IBC... If I were judging the year by that semester I'd have to write up a post similar to my pouty buddies. But you've gotta look at the positive things experiences teach you and with IBC... my goodness, I learned a lot! The experience alone gave me so much to talk about in interviews as examples of my badassness that it was worth taking... I sur-pose!
Summer.
This summer was pretty nice after IBC and I spent it just taking a few courses and getting my head back together. Life was pretty amazing after Jotito told me he loved me... it really let us open up to each other and not have to tiptoe around our feelings. When my birthday came around Sharon and Bill threw me a party! It was nice to get everyone together and so sweet of them to do that for me. They're so great and I feel lucky to have been welcomed by them. :]Fall.
As school started up again, I was just relieved to not have to deal with IBC craziness! Instead, we replaced it with Jamie's wedding! It was fun to help her prepare for her big day but there will always be people to try and throw wrenches in plans, in this case it was Jamie's inconsiderate other bridesmaid. And then, as she was trying to figure out how to replace the wretch, her dad and Shelly got in a motorcycle crash just days before the wedding! It was definitely a trying time for Jamie but of course she pushed through and when her big day came she looked gorgeous and her dad was able to walk her down the aisle... stitches 'n' all! I think that helped them overcome some of the pre-wedding tension and realize just how important family love is. I was a bundle of tears the whole evening because I know how much happiness this girl deserves and has found. Oh, and her wedding cake was the best ever. I want strawberry cake with fondant right now!

Holly's wedding was soon after and it was completely different but completely adorable and beautiful! Weddings are awesome and I can't wait for Katie's in a few months!
As the wedding season died down, school took over again and I had to deal with a lot of anger-enducing group projects but it really didn't stress me out as much as things had in the past. I had an amazing logistics class which helped me realize that I'm definitely on the path I want to be and, continuing on that path, I was presented with the perfect opportunity: an internship in Tinker's logistics department! I prepped really hard for it (OU's career services dept rocks! Their mock interviews are amazingly helpful!) and when the time came, I was able to present to them the most accurate me possible. I felt really good about the interview and sure enough was offered a dream internship (for me anyway!!!)! I went to a Christmas party with my future coworkers and they all seemed really nice so I'm lucky to have been given this opportunity. It's a running internship lasting until I graduate, so - especially with the given economic conditions - I'm so blessed to have a pretty stable income flow for a while!

Christmastime.
Winter isn't a season for me this year. It makes me think of gross weather and uncomfy times and with the sun pouring in and with the weather on the 26th being 75 degrees, I'm just going to ignore the snowberries and call it "Christmastime". ahem. so! Christmas was great, woke up and ate beignets, opened presents, hung out with my family and ate our big Christmas lunch. That afternoon I made the trip to Tulsa and listened to Archbishop Alexander Brunett's Christmas Mass on XM on the way over... it was pretty funny going through the prayers and responses in the car! It is a good time to meditate on all the things to be thankful for though, and I took advantage of that time. When I got to Jotito's abode I got to meet his mom! They definitely look alike and it was neat getting to finally meet her :] We opened more presents there and I was really taken aback by how much I got! I was not expecting to have my own stocking and so many gifts... J has a really loving, giving family (as I found out on my birthday) and they really went all out to make me feel welcome!
Dinner (and breakfast) was amazing as usual and I got a chance to meet J's grandparents the day after Christmas. They were really REALLY sweet and I'm glad to have met them. We basically just hung around together before I had to return home and turn in my Tinker paperwork and work on my honor's research proposal. I begin inprocessing on Monday, so my winter break is basically drawing to a close, though it just began. Such is life, right?

Anyway. Here are some thoughts for what i'd like to do & just things to remember for 2009.

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