Highlights of 2008

This was a long time coming, and it's something I've been meaning to do for a while. And since January is almost over and people have already begun throw out their resolutions, I better get too it.

So these are the things that stuck out to me in 2008.

Drum roll please

January

2008 started out beautifully. My roommate and I had a rough one in 2007 so we decided to celebrate a new horizon by throwing a classy dinner party. (Well, as classy as we could afford.) As soon as the clock struck twelve Matt grabbed my face and planted one on me. It was the first time I'd kissed the guy I really wanted to at midnight. I just knew it was going to be a great year.

Unfortunately, January was also the month BodyC decided to close the store. I remember going into work the first day of the year and half the floor was cleared of fixtures and merchandise. Chrissy and Dennis (see wedding pics at sunshine photos) and I were just dancing around and doing cartwheels on the bare wooden floor.

Oh, I really missed the Crestwood store. I could get away with anything there. Luckily I transferred to the South County location, so I wasn't out of a job. But I did work a 16 hour shift packing boxes and cleaning up that last day at Crestwood.

I would add a picture here, but blogspot is gay and keeps putting my pics at the top of the page!!!!!!!!!

February

Februray is especially fabulous because that is my birthday month! I share my birthday with our first president, don'tchaknow. But first, Valentines day was a classic too. My roommate and I both had to work that night, and so did our boyfriends. So we decided to have a romantic dinner for four at eleven o'clock at night. As the chicken was simmering in the pan, Matt took me outside in the cold and got down on one knee.

"There is something I've been wanting to ask you for a while now," he said with a sheepish grin.

For some reason I started to panic. And started to ramble, as I often do when I panic. But I was shocked to see him pull a plush rose out of his jacket pocket.

"Will you be my Valentine?" he asked, unable to hold back his giggles.

I graciously took the rose and beat him with it.

On to my birthday. We ate at my favorite japaneese steak house. That was terrific because not only I was surrounded by twenty something of my new friends, but some of the friends who had exiled me only a few months prior were at the hibatchi across from us! We were all laughing and taking pictures and being the wonderfully happy people we are. And Matthew was being subltly but obnoxiously affectionate. I could tell it was making my old friends really uncomfortable. Serves them right!


March

March was a memorable one too. A week before our "one year dating anniversay" Matt went to my dad and asked for my hand in marriage.

My father politely refused. When Matt went back a week later asking him to reconcider. My dad didn't say anything.

So Matt prayed about it...and asked anyway. Buy this time my mother had gone to the lowest point of her temporary mental illness and disowned me, so Matt figured it was okay to get married anyway.

But he made it really special. He took me swing dancing at the place where we fell in love, and got up on the stage and made a big scene about it. But who wouldn't love that?

After Easter, my mom missed me I guess, so she said I could come back to the house for a visit. That first visit back to the house was very awkward and I don't remember much of it. But she said I could live in my grandparents vacant house till I got married in five months.

OH! I forgot to mention.......Kelly got in a petty fight with our land lady so she kicked us out.

Yeah, March had it's drama.


April

April wasn't much better. Kelly and I moved out of the apartment. We had been arguing for the last couple of months we lived together so she left a few days early and left me $525 in debt and with ALL the cleaning to do. Even her room. The missionaries and Nathaniel helped me move all my stuff to my new empty house. I remember nastalgically watching Kelly go, knowing I would never see her again. But I looked forward to living alone. All alone.

April was also the month Matt went back to BYU, four months before the wedding. The night after he left (only my third night in my new house) there was an abrupt, minor but frightening, earthquake. I soon regretted my decision to live alone and was a bit depressed for a few weeks to come.


May

I was just about to finish up school, and I was working to jobs, so that kept me busy. Plus the dance recital for the studio I worked at was comming up so I threw myself into that. On the weekends, with nothing else to do, (I didn't have my computer so writing in a notebook was tiresome and fruitless.) I would get redundantly gussied up and go to the clubs with my girl friends. And Dennis. Who is a girlfriend I guess.

It was really silly actually. I didn't drink, I wasn't there to meet guys. Half the music sucked. I was just despirate for some night life. Coming home to a quiet, empty house just the way I left it was nice though. And Matt never gave me the third degree if I called him at 1:30 in the morning after I got home.

As if my life wasn't Twilight Zone enough, an old friend would randomly take the liberty to call me at 3am and talk about the old days.

April and May were really tough without Matt. But he sent me a mixed CD. I really wore out "A Walk Through Hell" by Say Anything. You should YouTube it. Awesome song.


June

I grew tired of the club scene really fast. I started to hangout with Ben alot. He was lonely too. So he'd pick me up on friday night and we'd drive around the Loop in his convertable, have dinner at new resturant every weekend. Sometimes we would venture out to the Mills (a mall) and we also started up this fun D&D group. Ben's always been a good friend. We did have a falling out once, but he's always been there for me.


Okay, this is going to be really long post if I do this all in one day and you guys will get tired of reading. I don't want you to miss a moment of the drama and angst of 2008 so I will post the next six months tomorrow.

Goodnight!