Welcome, 2010!

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I know it's cliche to say so, but wow! where did the time go? Celebrating 2000 still feels rather recent!  

I spent that New Year's Eve playing EverQuest.  I spent this one playing WOW.  I guess not much has changed! :D  Well, not much besides graduating high school ('02), learning how to drive ('03), graduating college ('06), starting my first job ('06), moving out on my own ('06), meeting my now-husband ('06), moving to Washington state for a new job ('08), and getting married ('09).

2009 was a year of two big events for me:

First, I started at a new job in a new state I'd never been to before. It was a little scary at first but after a year here I feel like this is the right home for me and Jim. I was nervous that my small-company experience wouldn't translate to a larger company or that people would be standoffish towards a newcomer. But as it turns out, my experience had prepared me well - and so many people have been so kind and friendly to us. Best of all, Jim was hired at the same company shortly after I was, so we are able to share in a lot of the same experiences and friends here.  It's just been a blast! I love my new friends and coworkers and I love how *alive* the game industry is out here.

My second big event was getting married!

Jim and I got married in a beautiful ceremony on November 14th surrounded by close friends and family. Of all the memories I have of that evening, the memory of our first dance is my favorite.  My mother was expecting us to be nervous and not know how to dance, so she surprised us by unloading several bags of balloons onto the dance floor as a distraction. We surprised everyone else by having a lovely ballroom dance rehearsed for the song!  As we twirled and danced to "To Die For" by The Birthday Massacre www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBFrko… , our guests created an endless cascade of balloons around us. It was incredible and unforgettable, and writing about it here doesn't even begin to do it justice.

My hopes and goals for the New Year are:

-To continue to advance in my career by taking on big challenges at work
-To improve as an artist and by 2011, be able to see a difference in work created in '09 vs. work created in '10
-To make more art than I did last year. There are so many new ways to spend my time here - with friends, going to stuff downtown, sightseeing in a new state, etc, so we'll see if that actually happens. :D
-To continue to grow my plush grubs business ('09 was a record year for sales!)
-To play lots of awesome video games! :D
-To spend plenty of quality time with my dear Jim

© 2010 - 2024 Majoh
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AutumnEmbers's avatar
That's awesome. =D Congrats.

I love TBM and my beau and I are talking about marriage but I still don't know what song we should dance to. I was thinking about HIM but TBM is a good idea too. I bet you guys had a lovely wedding. =)