Good-bye 2009

As we kiss 2009 good-bye I can't help but be surprised by the amount of people I am close to who have said that 2009 was their worst year ever. I found alot to be thankful for. For one, I left my first post-college job and was able to go back to school, there were no hurricane evacuations this summer and nothing came close to us at all. I consider this a huge blessing after losing the roof over my head (literally) to Rita in 2005 and my home almost floating away during Ike in 2008. My grandpa had a heart attack and lived through it and that was the only family health scare of 2009.

I've noticed that a lot of bloggers have 2oo9 in pictures so I sat down and realized I don't have hardly any. Then I thought about it and some of my proudest moments can't be captured in a picture. There were no pictures in the courtroom the moment when a child got returned to their parents, when the handcuffs clicked on a child molester or when the Grand Jury indicted. There wasn't a camera there when after 20 minutes of being too scared to look, I finally checked my Praxis score and found out I passed. I had some tough moments wondering how everything was going to get paid for and how I was gonna make it and the lack of pictures shows I just stayed busy and pulled through.

I skipped the bonfire and most likely won't leave the house tonight. I'm tired from the drive from Houston and honestly, I'm just thankful to be back home in my own bed. Maybe I've just gotten too old or maybe just for once this year, I wanna sit down and be with my thoughts and take a break from the ringing phones and the running around. Maybe I just wanna sit in my pjs with the dogs, relax, go to bed and wake up to a new year and another fresh start.