29

It is almost my birthday. My 29th birthday. Where has the time gone? I can't believe it. It has only gotten better with each year so I do look forward to my 29th year. I am pretty happy with where I am so far in my life. I am certainly not on schedule (the schedule I made when I was 14) but hey.....better late than never! It looks like I will finally have a career pinned down so I can stop fretting about education and a future career. My family and friends are great. I could not ask for better friends. I only wish some of them were closer. I finally traveled outside of the country (excluding Canada and Mexico) this year. It was fabulous. I hope that my future holds many trips. A friend of mine is frustrated by her life b/c she did not get a degree but she has a wonderful husband and a good career. Her sister is frustrated because she is alone. I saw a list of all the countries she has traveled to and it was very long. We all have different things in our lives that we are lucky to have or to experience. I just wonder how we decide which route we will take. The grass is always greener on the other side. I always think of that saying. I feel lucky and happy. I still have so much to learn about life and from people I continue to meet. I just can't help to wonder if I will be alone. If I will be a "cat lady" but with dogs instead of cats. Would that be so bad? I guess it depends on if I can accept it. I did the couples dinner the other night. It was easier than San Felipe but still difficult. At the end of dinner when we all stood up and everyone paired off and I got in my own car and was alone. Once we got to the next place we were going to and all met up, I did not think about it again. I guess that is also due to the quality of my friends. We have so much fun together that I did not notice I was alone. My hopes for the coming year include: to be stronger, to be more confident, to make more time for my friends, to pay better attention when people speak to me, to get in shape again, to follow through with goals I set, to graduate, leaving my comfort zone and to work on accepting my weaknesses. Here is to another year in this little life of mine! :)