Goodbye, 2009

Did you have Happy Holidays, Internet? I hope yours were as full of family, friends and insane amounts of mashed potatoes as mine were.

I’ve never been a huge New Year’s person. I tend to do my soul-searching and goal-making on my birthday (which reminds me, I owe you an update on my 26 before 26 progress, yes?)

But for the first time, I’m a bit sad to see a year go. This year will of course always be the year I married that one dude – part of our anniversary date forevermore. But it was also our first full year in Oakland. The first year I really started liking the photographs I was creating. The first year I started calling myself an artist, no buts or qualifiers.

The first year I felt like I was really, truly home in so many ways.

And yet? 2010 is poised to be even better. I’m feeling settled, and happy – the perfect position from which to take on the world.

Happy New Year!