Ah the 2018 year in review blog. It was a great, solid year in many ways.
2018 was in a lot of ways a solid year for starting over for me. I finally stepped away from the raging shit stain that was a the drama hole I was stuck in and emerged with an fiance, who was ready to start a new life with me. We fought hard to get to where we were, it was a hard strain to do so but we saw our way through it.
A lot of progress happened this year; a lot of positive changes that came about from earnest, hard work. Liz found herself in a far better position for work, and so did my sister Lily. Liz and I got out a far a lot more, enjoyed many hours together and year…
Had one amazing, perfect wedding in the woods. In the middle of April, after weeks upon weeks of rain and shitty snow storms – one bad enough that we spent the weekend without heat or power. But that lovely day in the perfect weather, the sun filtered through the trees, when we tied the knot – literally – and pledged to spend the rest of our lives together and into the next. She is truly my True Love and I can’t imagine without her.
We traveled to her family and friends in North Carolina, stayed at an amazing retreat in the mountains in Virginia, and saw my family and friends later that Fall. It was an insane set of trips but it was lovely to see everyone and get to see our respective families. It was far more reasonable than to try and get dozens of people to travel to us.
I got back to writing in many ways, especially to write out the memoirs of what happened over the last few years. It has been an epic adventure with bright and damning parts but one worth it since it brought me to the woman I have felt in my soul for many years now.
I was able to rekindle friendships and grow others; it’s been a hard year to reach out and connect with people. I’m very grateful to those who have let me back into their lives and let me start again – to rebuild bridges I had lost when being with people who clearly only wanted to isolate me for their own interests. Thank you again for such kindness.
I finally got off my ass and started to do things I had spoken about doing for years. Getting better at cooking, working out on a regular basis, and taking better care of myself. I have a wonderful wife to wake up next to and spend my life with; I want to make sure that the years we have together are just as amazing and wonderful.
At the beginning of the year, I got hired onto a job I had been working at. Though the position/company is far from one I see myself spending my life in, I met new, wonderful people who I consider friends. Our team literally stormed Hell together and it’s a bond that can only be forged in such matters. I am grateful to have met them and work along side them in difficult times. My life is a better place with them in it.
I’m looking forward to more positive changes in 2019; getting out more, seeing more friends and amazing sites, and traveling again with my lovely spouse. It’s going to be the Year of the Earth Pig; which gives me hope that it will be a chill year; I could use a chill year and continue my prosperity. May I continue to be humble and kind in it’s wake.
Thank you again to all who made this year amazing – I am honored and blessed by your kindness and wish the same for you!
Cheers,
D.
Gilded Gibberish. 