Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, and somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

I've been attempting to look back over 2011, to refresh my memory of all the fun and exciting and hectic things that happened, and I'm finding it extremely difficult. I only wrote four posts in the first half of the year. FOUR. I documented very little in this space.

It's not that we weren't doing anything at all, it's just that my drive to write about it fell away for a bit. Thankfully, attending Life is Good for the first time inspired me to type up a storm and it just kept coming. Not as frequently as I'd blogged in past years (I never exceeded 13 posts in 1 month this whole year), but it definitely felt good to think out-loud again.

I mused about my relationship with my mother (or lack thereof), put out a zine, accepted the fact that my fat caused a piece of furniture to collapse, and talked about how my son and I are sometimes total assholes to each other. I turned 30 and decided that was as good a time as any to start TMI-ing everybody about my fertility (I also threw myself a super rad birthday bash). I realized that I was starting to become my mother and promptly freaked the fuck out, and then I cooked many many meals from a small pool of ingredients.

I taught other people how to sew by hand and fell madly in love with a new kitten. I dealt with a good friend moving away and an era essentially ending and tried to figure out what that means in terms of finding friends who aren't small-minded in a small town (it's HARD). I finally got my teeth worked on and now won't have to go back to the dentist for a year or two, unless a tooth breaks in half or explodes or something. We also hosted Seth's family for Giftmas Morning Brunch. All in all, we did quite a bit.

It's been a busy year. I've learned a lot about myself, what I want my life to look like, and how to make it happen. I'm excited about the coming year and am looking forward to setting some goals for my business, as well as my personal life.