Twenty-One

I forgot to say goodbye to 21!

What a remarkable year, friends. It was nothing like I planned, but in a lot of ways, it was much better than what I could ever dream.

This is what 21 gave me:

• Circling the globe in 22 days and seeing the world
• Through that, discovering how to be truly happy again
• Meeting and becoming really close with Jessica and Lucy
• Becoming a music journalist and getting immersed with music this summer
• Staple gu-u-u-nn-ii-ng (Imagine I was singing that, because I usually was while I was staple gunning)
• Having amazing coworkers become my best friends and fulfilling my bucketlist dream to play crochet in super preppy clothes (and with basset hounds!)

• Hours of laughter in the office
• Serving as 3rd Counselor to the 2nd Relief Society in my Ward - my first big adult calling in church
• And consequently gaining a testimony on visiting teaching
• Meeting my roommate and one of my best friends Cori Scott
• Becoming tight (like unto a dish) with all my friends in the PR program...
• And with that becoming concert buddies and best friends with Chelsey Saatkamp
• Attending so many freaking awesome concerts and seeing most of my favorite artists all in one year 
• Missing the General Relief Society Conference for the Big-A** Show - haha, whoops!
• Using my drinking-age privileges to get better seats at MIKA and Passion Pit concerts - soooooOOOoooo good!
• Attending General Conference and seeing all the general authorities with my roommate and best friend Bryn Clegg
• Playing lasertag one-on-one with Bryn and screaming at each other in an empty laser tag arena.
• LASER TAG.

• Having my old best friend since junior high Rachel Anne get engaged and married 
• Watching my old high school best friends Julia and Chanda getting mission calls
• Running my third half-marathon and meeting a personal best
• Going to the ER for having a freak rib-contusion accident on my complex's stairs
• Contemplating for the first time kissing somebody on New Years Eve that I met that night
• Roller. Coasters. 
• Having old freshman year friends coming back from their missions, and dodging a few unboyfriends from that era
• Playing violin in stake conference 
• Acquiring basic graphic design skills
• Buying a MacBook 
• Star Wars Marathon / excursion
• Lord of the Rings Marathon
• Consumption of almost all of the How I Met Your Mother seasons
• Getting a car to roam free
• Overcoming my fear of becoming an adult and leaving college
• Overcoming my fear of a completely unknown future 
• Overcoming almost all of my anxiety-depression
• Getting over my ex and first love
• Landing an awesome internship and jumping into a new job

What a remarkable year, indeed. We will see what 22 holds, I doubt it will be as exciting, but I'm cool with that. Each year brings different types of adventures, adventures of self-discovery, and I'm sure this year will be even better and happier in a lot of ways too.