There is a time I suppose in everyone's life that we stop and breathe for a moment. I have taken the past year to breathe. To let old sorrows and disappointments go and to look foward to a life that is full and happy. I realize that age is only a number and that life is about the memories and choices that we make in that moment. I have always lived with no regrets and I still choose to. The world is a odd and cold place without family, friendship, and love we are standing against the wall. I hope that in the next year I reconnect and rejoin a world that I miss, a world of friendship, respect, and peace. Peace is so vital to me now. Peaceful rest, peaceful days, just plain simple peace.

These are some of the pictures I took on a recent trip to Nashville, Tenn. It was a nice, quick trip to relieve some of the stress of everyday. We went to the PBR Event, Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, and The Hermitage. I would love to go back and take more time to walk around and experience Nashville in more detail.

My nephews who are growing up so fast!!

It is summer time again at the library. We are overwhelmed with children with is a good thing but I am so tired. I keep thinking that one day all the parts will come together and I will have a complete life and a happy one. Currently I have two family members who are ill and that is keeping me up at night and aggravated quite a bit.

Work is hard and tiring. We need about three more people on certain days and we just do not have that number currently. The other day I was so tired I was amazed that I was still able to stand...lol.

I did sneak in some time off and I enjoyed a vacation in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Tennessee. It was nice and relaxing. I also went to a PBR event in Lexington and I really enjoyed the trip. I am ready for my next trip now:-) The need to leave is great it seems sometimes. I am searching always looking for a way to put it all together.

Tomorrow is another day and it will hopefully shine!!!

A Year in Review
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
I travelled to Cedar Point and rode big roller coasters…lol. I had never ridden them before.


2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, to be healthy and happy.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope

5. What countries did you visit?
United States of America

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Love, Marriage, House, Money… any of those will be great

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory?
Cincinnati Zoo; Washington DC; Cedar Point; King’s Island

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Realizing my own self-worth

9. What was your biggest failure?
Listening to others

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Little Black Dress 

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
…Tinkerbell…idk

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Politicians of all sorts

14. Where did most of your money go?
Clothes, Food, Car, Trips

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Washington DC Vacation


16. What song/album will always remind you of 2008?
…idk I listen to the radio…but I did like Stay be Sugarland

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier/sadder,thinner/heavier,richer/poorer?

Thinner…poorer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Saved money

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spent money


20. How will you be spending Christmas?!
Family and friends

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My sister


22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
At least a dozen times 


23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None


24. What was your favorite TV program?
LOST, NCIS, Mentalist


25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Yes


26. What was the best book(s) you read?
Twilight Saga, Texan Series

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That I still like music…long story there


28. What did you want and get?
clothes

29. What did you want and not get?
House

30. What were your favorite films of this year?
Batman: Dark Knight; Spiderwick; Twilight is alright; Wall*e

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Birthday…ate cake…29

32. What's one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
my family and some close friends

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
dressy

34. What kept you sane?
reading

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
idk…

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
the caucuses cause they were stupid

37. Who did you miss?
my dad

38. Who was the best new person you met?
scott

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
That sometimes ppl can belittle you because they do not have the maturity to look beyond themselves to others. And that we all need to have a time out no matter what the age to regroup and unwind.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
We don’t you stay.

Tired this evening... got a headache. I seem to get them more and more often lately. To remember the times we I was younger and all the plans and expectations that I had to find that now I am sorely lacking in the achievement of those ambitions. Another year is coming guess I will try to think about life then again... see what I want...

I saw a rainbow today… not the ordinary kind… but the extraordinary one that showed the way to a new world. A world that would be joyful and happy and so colorful and clear that we would be able to see all that is in the world. I saw that rainbow and I took a journey through the shades of red to find that passion that is missing in my life. I took a journey through the blue to the other end of all the tears that I have shed in the past. I walked slowly through the shades of green to remember that all things grow and change and to see how I had changed and why. Yellow, I floated through the sunbeams and glanced through the happy, true laughs and joys that I had experienced. The haze of purple that moment between dawn and day and dusk and night when the world has the otherworldly views I searched through to see what I was missing in the shadows and found what it was that I was missing. Orange reminded me to endure to take what life throws at me and to endure the bad and enjoy the good. That rainbow was a perfect circle…