Wow, I cannot believe that 2010 is over and 2011 has just begun. So many things happened this past year and I must say, they were all pretty good. Over the weekend, I watched as my facebook news feed updated every so often with my "friends" statuses, telling the world whether they had happy thoughts of 2010 or were just glad it was over and many of them - well they are glad it's over, but me? Sure I've had plenty of ups and downs (more downs I would say after looking at my blog posts) but the ups were just as significant. I guess my new year (or new chapter) started the day after Christmas, December 26. Since that day, it's been one week since Chris and I moved to our lovely apartment and wow is it awesome. We absolutely love it, sure the couches not fitting through the front door, Chris' hand getting smushed, the blizzard of 2010 causing a state of emergency, all happened on that day...but looking back on it, we made it and I didn't expect anything different.
2010 proved to be a lot of firsts for us and myself. Our first date on January 15, 2010 (which I look back and remember the exact moment he asked me to be his date for his birthday party the following weekend - and I believe I'm the only one who actually remembers 90% of that birthday)...followed by our first holiday spent together: Easter, where I met majority of the family that I will be seeing for every major holiday thereafter (and I aboslutely love all of them). Then it was our first summer, which was exactly 6 months into our relationship and unleashed a long rollercoaster of arguments that happened late at night. These arguments were the cause of emotional walls that shot up and brought tears, and yet, we stuck through it all because we were THAT determined and we knew that we both wanted to be together. After the summer rough patch, our arguments turned into disagreements that consisted of miscommunication for about 5 minutes and were then forgoten about (should I mention that during this 6 month mile stone in our relationship, I landed my first full time job in August, after graduating from college back in May and while I'm so thankful for my job, the days I spent studying in the library and going to class are ones that I miss dearly). As the seasons changed and warm weather turned to cold and snow, we spent our first Christmas together (which happened at the end of the first year of our relationship). Christmas was amazing, it was quiet and filled with our families. Then, the following day began a new chapter in our relationship: moving into our first apartment. Unsure of how it was going to go and how we would adjust to living with one another has proven to be a success! (for the first week).
And now, at the closing of our first year, we celebrated our first New Year's together: went to dinner, came home, watched the ball drop, asleep by 12:30 - it was perfect.
Through the midst of it all and looking back on everything now, I really am genuinely happy. The stress will come and go and my feelings for certain things in my life will waiver but looking back on all that I've accomplished and where I am today, I must say I couldn't have asked for more (well, more snow would always be nice). As for Chris, even though he's still the one person that can aggravate me at times, I wake up in the morning and know that I love him that much more.
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