... 2008

[jbailey]

I try to practice Inbox Zero, and this past year has been brutal far staying on top of my Inbox. When I started pruning the home email a week or so ago (having just gotten my work email box down to zero). It's giving me a pretty good review of 2008. And, umm.. wow:

Spinal tumor, surgery, hating Mountain View (the place, not the job there. My coworkers are pretty uniformly awesome), having a toddler, not being able to lift my toddler, crazy mood altering drugs, visa renewal, a funeral, unexpected pregnancy, weddings, buying a house, mid-term miscarriage, Angie's hospitalisation from that, pneumonia, a move home, having to withdraw from my Master's courses 3 times over the course of the year for medical reasons - eventually causing me to withdraw from the program. Extend it by another 3 months into 2007 (because while I'd love to believe that stress reset at the start of a calendar year...), and we have another wedding, a move to the US and a new job.

I've just gotten to an email where I took notes on what the risks were for the angiogram before I'd told many friends. There's a small pile of emails and such from people wishing me well that I never managed to reply to. I also find myself thinking back to the people I didn't hear from, and the reevaluation of my communities and friendships that came along with that.

The lyrics from Counting Crows come to mind: "It's been a long December and there's reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than the last."

Here's to 2009. =)

Comments

[calla-lily.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm finding it pretty universal that people had had quite enough of 2008 and feel better things are coming.

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

And how. =)

In other news, we have some really old friends who've just moved from Sweden to somewhere near NYC. Are you still around there? If yes, we'll have to make sure we see you!

[calla-lily.livejournal.com]

I sure am! Definitely get in touch. I'll send you my number. I also have it on my To Do list to get on a train up to your neck of the woods, as I've never been there so far and have been wanting to check it out.

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

Amtrak now has a direct service from Penn station to Montreal, and we have a spare room. So next time you have a lull in work. =)

[csext.livejournal.com]

I'd like to tag along to these comments- Wishing your fam the best *and* I'm in NYC area too *and* also want to hit Montreal in the not too distant future!

Smooches,
Claire

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I didn't know you were around there. Well, we definitely have space for folks here and with the train going there for a reasonable price we're quite likely to come down. It turns out that our friends wound up moving to PA somewhere because they couldn't get health coverage in NJ or NY and are just commuting to Princeton. I don't really know the distances involved, but I'm able to work from the NYC office if I can get there in reasonable time.

Hopefully see you this year. =)