Looking Back on 2011

I feel like it's some sort of requirement for everyone who blogs to post something on December 31st about the past year and everything that happened and what it all meant and blah blah blah.  And, I mean, I totally did that last year!  I just looked back at my post from December 31st 2010, and I totally talked all about the things that had happened during the year and how much my life had changed and all that stuff.

But I'm not really feeling it this year.  I mean, sure, a lot of great stuff happened this year: I did BEDApril again; I tried to do BEDAugust; I won NaNoWriMo again; I tried to do VALID and was actually doing pretty good until my computer crashed again (Have you checked out my new video yet?); I completed another year of university and living on my own; I went back to camp for another amazing summer that I loved.  But I feel like most of this is already old news, for two reasons.  I mean, there's the obvious fact that I've already you guys all this stuff already.  But the second reason is that, none of this is new stuff.  I mean, all my accomplishments this year were things that I did again.  They're things that I did for the first time last year and whenever, that I tried to do again this year.  2010 was the year my life changed; 2011 was just the year that I did it all again.

And there's nothing wrong with that!  I mean, not every year has to be a year that your whole life changes and you try all kinds of new things and all that stuff.  I think, for me, 2011 was less about experiences and new things and more about the people.

I am truly blessed to have my life filled with amazing people who love and support me.  I have my family, my close family friends who really should be family, my friends from school, from people I've known since the second day of university to people I just met a couple months ago, and my friends from camp.  Over the past year, I've gotten closer with people I've known for a while, reconnected with people that I had lost touch with, and met a whole ton of new people.

So I guess what I'm saying is 2011 wasn't a year for huge, new experiences, but it was a really good year.  Looking back, I have no complaints whatsoever about this past year... except maybe about the weather.  But alas, no use dwelling on the things I have no control over!

Flights taken in 2011: 21
Days left of break: 4

love <3

PS.  This week, my mom called me her sister's name, and my dad called me his brother's name.  Clearly both my parents know exactly who I am.