“Now, are you still with your boyfriend?” a woman asked me yesterday.
“No, we broke up, like..a year ago,” I replied. “Yeah. It’s been quite a ride since then.”
Understatement of the Year.
TOP TEN RECAP.
In eleven months and five days, I :
1) Broke up.
2) Became pretty much a hot mess for a month.
5) Moved in with one of the COOLEST GIRLS ON THE PLANET.
6) Defibrillated my Photography Bug.
7) Realized that, yeah, dating? NOT WHAT IT WAS IN 2005.
10) ???
10) . . .
Well, I’m not sure when “10″ should be. Something like, “found myself right where I needed to be,” but less schmaltzy-sounding.
F*ck it. I’ll be sentimental.
In the midst of a year that could have easily rendered me completely useless (and let’s be honest - some days it did), I managed to surround myself with the most amazing friends a girl could ask for. Dewy-eyed romantic that I am, it takes all that I have not to continuously blurt, “I love us,” when we are gathered together. Instead, I just sigh and take another series of photographs:
Happy New Year.
