- March 25th, just 6 days shy of his birthday, lost my Dad to congestive heart failure.
- October, one of my dear friends Tom McKelvey (who we all swore would never get married) got married. My best friend (and who I consider a sister) Heather Ansley and her family relocated to Chicago, as did my dear friend Nina Gavasso-well, she relocated to Columbus, OH. I got to visit all three when I was invited to go to Tom and Stephy's wedding.
- More and more friends are relocating to the midwest.
- My boyfriend, Lino, and I called it quits after 3+ years together.
- Got into my first "juried" show to display and sell my beadwork. I applied to and got into many shows, and did very well at most of them. My goal this year for shows was to make back my booth fee and make contacts; I accomplished this at almost all the shows. I am fairly booked through the holiday season for 2011 already. I have to set goals for this year and beadwork/craft shows/commissions/juried shows and consignments in different shops. The two shows I did not get into were Urban Craft Uprising and Crafty Wonderland, both big shows. I will keep trying, it just gives me more to work towards :)
- Made a lot of new friends once Lino and I broke up. It really surprised me. I was convinced over the last couple years that my inability to make friends here was because of me and people couldn't handle my Northeast personality; once we broke up, I made all sorts of new friends and I realized that I was not the only issue.
- Realized that I have many friends who stand by me through thick and thin, on both coasts and in between, and that means the world to me.
This has been a good year with reconnecting with lost friends over Facebook, though, that I would not trade for anything in the world.
2009-
- worked at Zones for almost two years and decided to "mutually separate" in April, Easter weekend. I enjoyed the job but the company was horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE to work for. Not one person is left out of my hire group of 35 that started with me.
- I got my first beadwork commissioned piece order ever, and it started an idea that snowballed into 2010 with doing various shows and craft fairs quite successfully.
2008-
- August 13th, lost my Mom to Alzheimer's.
- Heather had the twins December 17th, and they were quite premature. It was touch and go in NICU for a while, there.
2007-
- Winter, visited the PNW for the first time and fell in love with it.
- February, a long time friend spilled his true feelings to me and I almost laughed them off, not taking him seriously.
- July, my big move across the country to Seattle. It took quite a bit of convincing, and at times I've been truly miserable and unhappy, but the good generally outweighs the bad.
- Got screwed by a moving company that took a $900 deposit and then bailed. Never showed up for the move. I was in Chicago by the time I got the news, as my friend Karen was waiting at my apartment in Nashua for them. Karen then managed to get a crew together, a van, and schlepped my stuff into storage for me. She is a valuable friend to have, indeed.
- Had a blast on most of the drive across the country with Ronda. With the exception of I don't think I will ever be able to listen to (not that I ever wanted to in the first place) Smashmouth again. You see, whoever did the driving got to choose the music. Needless to say, across most of South Dakota she got to listen to her music....lol. Yuck.
2006-
- Lost my job of 8 years at HFC. It was truly a blessing in disguise in the long run, but it really hurt when it all went down.
2005-
- June 22nd-had LapBand surgery and lost 130 pounds since. And have KEPT it off. It's been a struggle, don't get me wrong, but the overall outcome has been very positive. Except for the brain part-it hasn't caught up to the body yet. It still sees a 300 pound woman in the mirror.
- Got my phoenix backpiece tattoo done in honor of shedding the weight, and accepting the new and improved me.
2004-
- August 9th, 2004-a devastating loss of my dear friend Geri Masiello of cervical cancer that killed her in 3 months from diagnosis to death.
2003-
- moved up to Nashua, NH from North Quincy, MA and my life was changed forever, mostly in a good way ;)
to be honest, the first three years or so of the decade weren't so bad and fairly nondescript. I was still living in MA.
2002-
2001-
2000-
- had my back surgery done. It was touch and go and a really difficult thing to recouperate from. I had two surgeries in 4 days and was in Beth Isreal Hospital in Boston for a week. First surgery they went in and slit me from breast to back under my armpit, straightening out my ribcage (11 hours); second surgery they went in 3 days later, filleted me open like a fish from the waist to the bottom of my neck, and fused a metal rod in my spine. They also did a bone graft from my pelvic bone. 3 S curves in my back all over 58 degrees; post op they were brought to 29 degrees and I'm still doing pretty ok.
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