This year has really been a shit show. I’ve had really high moments and some rather low ones.
I started the year with a bang, which had me very hopeful. My birthday is January 5th, but I decided to have a lingerie themed New Year’s Eve party. 
The party was extremely fun and memorable. I thought, “well shit, this may be my year!”.
Then school (working on a doctorate in education) and work (co-teaching) got in the way and shut the whole operation “Have a good year” down! All my time was devoted to that.
I did manage to get away and take some awesome trips to the Bay for the Warriors parade, to Las Vegas, Cancun (which I hated for a number of reasons), Puerto Vallarta, Barcelona, and, a life-changing trip, to Croatia. 
It definitely took me getting lost in school and work to realize I wasn’t happy and to start doing things that made me happy. Shopping is for sure one of those things, but also going to concerts. Sometimes this meant going to shows solo but the mission is to satisfy self. I saw Future, Migos, H.E.R (twice)., Bryson Tiller, Daniel Caesar, Jay Z (twice), SZA, Bruno Mars, Solange, and Janet Jackson this year. Now that I look at that list, it was a good year in concerts for me.
My lows are centered around my car always having some type of dent, scratch or scrap🙄 and school sucking the entire life out of me. I’m ready to be done but I’m even more ready for people to stop asking me when I’m going to be done! I’ll be finished when I’m finished!!
The bottom line is I’m glad it is over. I’m looking forward to next year being a lot better! As I look towards 2018, the mission is to still do things that satisfy me. I want to get into calligraphy and lettering, so that’s one of my short term goals. I need to find more things that make me happy.
