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January 1, 2008 | 2007,2008,me me me

2008, already? I swear, you just popped up out of nowhere. 2007 was a fabulous year, right up until the last two days.

Highlights:
- figuring out what I want to with life and taking the steps to go about doing so
- visiting Mickey Mouse and hanging out in Florida again for the second year in a row
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- still working for the most amazing family and welcoming their new little one
- started this lovely site here, found some awesome new blogs and successfully completed NaBloPoMo!
- celebrating 4 years with boy in October
- my dog still being with me, after the trying year she had health wise
- Las Vegas vacation!

Lowlights:
- realizing practically all the classes I have taken are useless in my new major and that I won’t graduate until I’m around 27
- regretting not having my shit together right out of high school
- being sick on my trip to Vegas
- remember that bad news I mentioned here? Here it is: coming home from vacation to find my dad packing up his things. Parents are divorcing. Welcome home, Jamie.
- not being able to ring in the new year with the boy

There you have it, 2007 in review.

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2008 Resolutions:

- learn to love myself and be more confident
- take better care of myself
- be happy with my body and do whatever it takes to get there
- travel more, even if it is just within the states. try to go somewhere I have never been this year
- read more books
- work my ass off in school
- put myself out there more, in regards to making friends
- be the best girlfriend, sister, daughter, friend I can be
- work hard at my relationship and hope that it continues to grow into the amazing thing it is becoming
- try new things, whether it be a new restaurant, activity, class, whatever
- write more. blog it, paper journal it, moleskine it, write it on a napkin while out to eat. just write.

Bring it, 2008.

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The same thing happened to me when my parents divorced. I was 18 and in college at the time. Sucks, doesn’t it?

awww sorry bout the lowlights but happy new year anyhoo! i hope the goods outweighed the bad! <3

sorry to hear about your parents here’s to your highlights outweighing your lowlights by a mile in 2008!

Sorry about your parents – it is hard no matter how old you are.

Sounds like otherwise you had a pretty good 2007 – hope 2008 is even better!

I’m so sorry to hear about the separation — having been through that, it’s tough. Holler if you need to talk, ok?

Here’s to a grand 2008!

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents. That’s really awful. Hopefully it’s not a messy divorce.

Happy New Year!

Excellent resolutions btw. I totally know what you mean about putting yourself out there. Its tough and its one of my resolutions too!

sorry to hear about your parents. that’s got to be tough right now.

here’s to 08!

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents It’s a tough time of year to be dealing with someone like that. Here’s hoping that your 2008 blows every previous year out of the water.

I’m with you on putting yourself out there. Must stop coming off as aloof fashion/food snob as compensation for fear that people will ridicule me for my complete inner dorkiness :/

I’m sorry to hear about your parents. Divorce is just never fun. My parents divorced when I was in third grade. It gets better, it really does. And then… two Christmases!

“write more. blog it, paper journal it, moleskine it, write it on a napkin while out to eat. just write.”

Ditto on that. I just bought two new notebooks; one large, one small. My reward for filling one is buying a new one. Best wishes for the New Year!

I’m really sorry to hear about your parents, Jamie.

And don’t worry about graduating college later then you expected. Who’s in a hurry to have a real adult life anyway?

oh! I just read that you’re doing Blog 365 too! Hooray for us!

Good luck!

exclamation point overload!

Also wanted to chime in my sympathies about the divorce. Two days after Christmas I found out my dad is remarrying. I’ve been totally out of whack since. It gets better, I promise. And I hope your parents are very mature about the situation… at least, more mature than mine.

Sounds like you had a pretty good 2007. Cheers to an even BETTER 2008!

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents! But if they were unhappy, it’s the best for them. Hang in there!

And here’s to 2008!

Aww sorry to hear about your parents. I love this post, I might have to borrow the format! Happy New Years Jamie!!

happy new year! I love your resolutions! You’re much more ambitious than I am.

Oh sweetie I’m so sorry. My parents are going through a separation right now and I completely understand how hard it is. Don’t be afraid to reach out if you need anything.

so sorry to hear about your parents…

=(

aside from that i totally encourage the writing-all-the-time resolution!

Sorry about your parents

It sounds like you’re going to do a fabulous job making 2008 great anyway!

Awww, sorry about the bad news. That’s awful.
I hope 2008 is full of many many more highlights than lowlights!

It seems to me we all need to learn how to love ourselves.

This new year will be the best…

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents.

I hope 2008 starts better and ends better than 2007 ended.

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents, Jamie. That is terribly upsetting. All you can do is try to be there for both of them, because I’m sure both of them are hurting right now.

I can’t wait to read more details about your trip to Vegas! Happy New Year!

so sorry to hear about your parents. i know how hard it is to go through that. chin up.

Oh my gosh, I’m so very sorry to hear about your parents. You know all of your very best blog friends are here for you. ((Hugs))

Hi! I found you while browsing through 20 something bloggers, and according to your “you’d like my blog if you like__” I should totally love your blog. So far, I do. I’m right there with you on wishing I’d had my shit together right out of highschool, and freaking out because I probably wont be done school till I’m in my late twenties. It definitely made me feel better to know I’m not alone. Hopefully it will for you too. Happy New Year and good luck with all of that!

Aw sorry to hear about your parents Jamie but you know we’re all here for you.

And as you said, bring it on 2008!

I’m sorry to hear about your parents

keep your head up

Sorry to hear about your parents. That must have really shaken you.
It would have been nice to have your boy around then, I’d imagine…

I’m so sorry to hear about your parents! But, I loved your resolutions; I think I am stealing the one about putting yourself out there with friends.

It’s so easy to do it here on our blogs, so it should be easy to do in the ‘real world’ right?

Right!

sorry to hear about your parent’s divorce….

Sorry to hear your parents are divorcing. But I love your recap, and the resolutions. I’m still trying to decide whether I have balls enough to make a list and stick to it.

Awe, sorry to hear about your parents. It kind of happened to me in reverse, sort of. We went on vacation in Florida and my parents told my brother and I there and we never went back to New York after.

Best of luck in 2008!

I have a lot of similar goals, hopefully we both can achieve them.

It’s funny (odd?) how it doesn’t matter what age we are, it just sucks donkey balls when the ‘rents get divorced. I mean, in my case I’d been rooting for one since I was 14, but that was because I watched my mom get physically and verbally abused.

Not. Cool.

On the other side of the spectrum, she’s all butt hurt that the divorce actually happened. My dad waited ’till my brother and I were out of the house and then packed his shit and left while she was on a business trip.

She actually found out from our TV Repairman.

True story.

Either way, I’m sorry you have to deal with that. It’s no fun at all. None.

[...] mentioned this once before and haven’t really brought it up since, my mom told my dad she wants a divorce the day I came [...]

Aw sorry to hear about your parents Jamie but you know we're all here for you.

And as you said, bring it on 2008!

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