2009

What a year it was in my life. I have had some good years and some bad but am filled with alot of hope in that my favorite year has been this past one for so many reasons. The highlight of my year was getting engaged to my best friend. I never planned to marry, wanted to, or thought I would be around long enough to do so but all of that is no longer true as we are planning a wedding for 2010. Other incredible highlights for me are some of the fun moments that I have been able to have. Many of these moments occured with witnessing some awesome live music. We were able to see Paul McCartney, The Dead, Bruce Springsteen, The Avett Brothers twice, Dave Matthews 9 times, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, as well as Elton John and Billy Joel all at some unique venues such as the original site of Woodstock, Washington Redskins stadium, Washington Nationals Stadium, SPAC, Charlotte, Raliegh, Charlottesville, Va and Greensboro, NC. I love live music and had a blast at each of these shows completely sober. We also got to go to a few baseball games over the summer and fall ost noteably the 15 inning epic Yankees Red Sox game that was won by a 2 run walk off home run by Alex Rodriguez. One of the coolest things I was ever a part of was being at the first playoff game ever in the new stadium, watching CC dominate and Jeter hit a playoff home run, there is nothing like Yankee baseball. To finish off the sports for the year I was lucky enough to have a few teams of mine win it all this year, the JETS came closer than they have in years and UNC basketball won their title and the New York Yankees reached their 27th. Another major highlight was seeing friends and family more than normal. Desiree had a good graduation and party over the summer and my family from the left coast was here for that. We also spent a weekend in Charlottesville with some of our good friends and I was asked to be the best man at their wedding. I also got to see one of my closest friends when Phish was reuniting after one of their breaks.

As school winds up and I am a semester away from graduating and entering my profession I can't imagine how upcoming years will top this one. There were so many highs during 2009. I never thought I could have this kind of fun and excitement without substances or doing something illegal. I never saw any of this coming and never thought any of these things would ever really matter to me from where I started at. I get alot of hope out of that in a strange way because you just never know what is coming around the corner, it could be good, it could be bad but whatever it is I can get through it, learn something new, and face it without using chemicals. Hope fully I will write more in coming months