A recap, as usual for this time of year...

Most of the entire year I had him as a boyfriend and a best friend. In November, we broke up, but still remain best friends.

I was attending school, learning skills that developed my passion, web design. My winter was gray, living a with a fat, closeted male who ate gross food.

My health was at an all time low, and I was on more prescription drugs than I could count. Endimetriosis caused me to be on the pill, and many prescription pain killers. To try to stop the pain, I went on Depro Provera, which stopped my periods and did stop the pain. It also brought out crazy Obsessive Compulsive behavior, and in late January, I was diagnosed as having OCD. My obsession with germs ran my life, and I had trouble falling asleep at night because of thoughts of finger and toenails. To stop being crazy, I had to go on another drug, Zoloft, which brought my OC thoughts to a minimum. My life is still affected by the OCD, even though it's no where near as severe as it once was.

I was tired of being on all the drugs, so I stopped everything and went back on the pill.

I graduated second in my class from school in July. I hated my school, but was proud to finally have something to show for all my hard work.

I had the worst summer of my entire life, as web developer for a non-profit organization, which held me in a cold basement office alone from 9.30am till 4.30pm every day. I rarely took part in any fun summer activities, and I went body boarding (one of my favorite things to do, ever) only once.

She came and surprised me in August, and her visit is the only real good memory of the entire summer. We went Soca dancing.

And then she came back in September to go to school in Halifax, and it was the first time that she and I lived in the same city since we were 19. The three months went by too quickly, and there weren't enough dinners together or surprise visits or sleepovers.

Ty came to visit me, and I had one of the best weeks of my life on our road trip down to Washington, DC. We traveled thousands of miles, through a dozen states and provinces, and we were dirty and stinky. We celebrated his 23rd birthday by smoking and drinking in a perfect little cottage, and I had a blast. I gave the whitehouse the finger, saw a play in Salem about witches and slept in the back of his car for too many nights. We drove through New York City and I yelled at another driver.

I went on a road trip with another dear friend of mine, who has been a constant inspiration to me, and it was really special. We rented a cabin and cuddled together while a snowstorm blazed outside. We found fossils, and a dead porpoise on a beach.

I took a trip to Ottawa, where I met up with my brother, Argyle, and Juan on a road trip to Montreal.

I lost more weight, at the beginning of this year I weighed nearly 150, and now I'm down to 130lbs. Which was a nice, unexpected surprise considering I just sit on my ass all day.

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Overall, I've developed my passion of web design, I've shared many good times with special friends, traveled enough and now I'm looking forward to a new year, with a new job and an entire new adventure.

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Hopes for this coming year (seeing as I don't make Resolutions): get my own apartment, succeed in my career, get RRSPs, buy a new computer, take yoga classes, and get my weight down to 125lbs and keep it there. Destination: Waterloo, Ontario- for my last semester with her . Also, a three week trip to New Zealand... which would be a dream.