Happy Anniversary!

This week marks my one year in blogging! Yipee! To celebrate, I've decided to do a year in review post.

Some highlights of the last 12 months:

I started a new job.

I became vegan (three months and going strong).

I started biking.

I saw 15 Broadway shows (2 or 3 were technically off-Broadway).

I got a lease with only my name on it. (I like to think this is the Manhattan equivalent of buying a house, but I know it isn't actually.)

I bought my first ever CD player (crazy, but I've never actually owned my own before).

I started my food storage.

I started and completed my first-ever home decorating project.

I finally went to Boston in the fall.

I took up and gave up jogging.

I became assistant shift coordinator at the temple.

I discovered the beauty that is the Manhattan bagel.

I switched from being an extrovert to being an introvert with extrovert-like qualities.


Things I have not done:
had an international trip (I'm thinking Costa Rica in early December)
played tennis (why did I bother learning?)

My life experience has pretty much been that just about every year gets even better than the last one. That has definitely been true this year, but in a very different way. Normally a good year is filled with non-stop fun and adventures, staying out late every night, going all the time, doing everything that life has to offer, etc. This year I went through a social cleansing, followed by a period of intense antisocialness (using the vernacular definition and not the clinical one) which I have come to think of as an emotional cocoon period. I came out a more peaceful person. I have always felt so blessed to have so much happiness and peace in my life, but I feel like I have reached a whole new level of internal peace this year. I know that I disappointed some people during my antisocial stage and that makes me very sad, but I am so happy for the experience. It's hard to say how I changed during that period and I am of the opinion that things close to your heart don't belong on your blog, but I'd say I'm just more centered now. Also I really really value having time to spend with myself now.

So this is my current life stage: deciding what to do when life is so close to perfect. I am a person who likes change, so what happens when I can't tell how the external elements of my life could be improved upon? I am having a big need for some sort of something different in my life, but what would I change? My job? I love my job. My apartment? I love my apartment. My hair? I really like my hair right now. Leave New York all together? I super love New York. But I do want a big change. Any thoughts?