On the brink of the 2013 Adventure

I'm not a big one for making New Year's resolutions. I am, however, a big one for starting afresh. I love New Year's because more than I like ushering out the old year, I love welcoming the fresh one in. I love a new date to write on letters. I love the prospect of a whole twelve-month ahead of me that is unmarked and untouched and full of possibility. I think the future is one of those things that is best and brightest when ahead. Which sounds like an oxymoron because of course the future is "ahead". Just bear with me, okay? I have my little idiosyncracies like everyone else. ;) For me, there is a lovely lovely thought that there is something to come. Something I haven't discovered yet. A surprise, an adventure, and a twist in the road.

Honestly. I entered 2012 expecting the year to be much like the one before. After all, I could see absolutely nothing ahead of me that I hadn't expected. And then, much like a little rafter pushing down the river and suddenly encountering rapids, the year swept me up and off and I've only just poked my head above the waters to look around and see how far we've come.

Some of the big things this year? 

I went to a girls' retreat

I helped out with a wedding.

I arranged a successful match. ;)

I went to see the touring Broadway production of Wicked.

I went to Georgia for an entire month and met dozens of new friends.

 I started finished The Scarlet-Gypsy Song and edited it.

I wrote Fly Away Home and edited it.

I sent out query letters and got a response for A Mother for the Seasonings.

I had my "Golden Birthday"

I bought my laptop

I started to write for Meditations of His Love and met even more friends.

I got a Girlfriend-in-Law who was formerly (and still is) my best friend, and is now my brother's best friend as well. <3

I read the unabridged Les Miserables.

I went to a Jars of Clay concert.

I went to a Building 429 concert.

I did my first product review for eShakti.

I counseled at a camp.

I was a cat-herder for the Generation Joshua Student Action Teams (SAT)

I helped throw a double-graduation for Sarah and Matthew.

I received a Samsung Galaxy Tablet.

I caved and downloaded an e-book.

I got my license.

I went to the midnight premier of The Hobbit.

I saw Les Miserables.

What has happened in your life this year? Are you ready for the 2013 adventure?