Well, it's a new year (almost) and looks like 2008 will be one of many changes. I'm sitting here thinking about all 2008 has in store for me as Zach naps before the ball drops. Don't worry - I'll make sure he wakes up in time. Can't miss our first New Year's together!
2008 does have plenty ahead for me. New marriage (still only a few days now, but we've beat Brittney Spears' first one! Take that, trampy pop star!) The new marriage means a new husband, and thus a new name (no longer Lara M, but Lara H). With the new husband comes a move and a new place to live in March. The move means a new town, new coast (never lived out west), new environment (never lived in the desert either) and new job (as my current one won't travel with me). All sorts of new news to be happening in 2008.
But still, am pretty excited. I'm ready for a change. I've lived in SC for about two years now (2 years exactly at Martin Luther King day in Jan) and need something different. Granted some of the things that I miss in Upstate SC I won't have in CA either (ocean! big rivers! 7-11! flat roads to run!) but at the same time, maybe change is sometimes easier to deal with if it's something totally new. In some ways, SC is similar enough to where I grew up and what I'm used to that I expect it to be certain ways, or to have certain things, and I miss them more because I don't have them. If I'm heading someplace COMPLETELY different, then maybe I won't expect those things at all and be more easily able to find what is good and unique about where I am at the time. (Nice mature way to look at it, right? Maybe I am growing up after all...)
'Course just getting out of SC will be nice anyway. It's not bad (could definitely be worse!), but it does have some quirks which are driving me up the wall. Don't know if those things will change at Ft Irwin, but I'm ready to have some adventure and find out!
So, bring it on! Here's to a good year past, and an exciting new one ahead!
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