Holy crap! 2012. In an hour. Where did 2011 even go? I can still clearly remember sitting in the recliner in my parent’s living room back home, writing my new year’s post for this past year. All in all, this past year was pretty amazing for me. Here’s a rundown of the major events of 2011:
- I graduated from Texas A&M University with a BA in Anthropology and History. A double major, and I still managed to graduate in 4 years! For my entire senior year, I was so ready to get out of College Station. Now that I’m gone, I do find myself missing BCS sometimes.
- I married my best friend in an awesome and gorgeous wedding at Surfside Beach.
- After aforementioned awesome wedding, Kit and I went on a Carnival cruise out of Galveston. It was a first cruise for both of us, and the Conquest took us to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. All of our expeditions were chosen blindly, and we had a totally amazing time on all of them. Another cruise in the future is a must!
- At the end of June, Kit and I packed up the cats and the tortoises and made the move to Knoxville.
- After enjoying lazing about for a month and a half (seriously, this was the first summer in about five years that I haven’t taken classes and/or worked) I started a Master’s program.
- I met some really cool people and made some really amazing friends this semester.
- I found that grad school is a totally different game, learned a ton of new and interesting things, and finished up my first semester with what I think are pretty decent grades considering this was my first semester of grad school and I don’t even have a BA in sociology.
- About a week and a half ago, we packed everything up and headed to Texas to visit my family. Seeing everyone was definitely the highlight of the trip, but seeing the King Tutankhamen exhibit at MFAH was absolutely fantastic. I always wanted to be an Egyptologist, so that was absolutely thrilling.
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Typically with a New Year’s Eve post there’s a section on resolutions, but I haven’t gotten around to hammering mine for 2012 out yet. So, you can expect a post lining those out in the next few days or so. As far as my 2011 resolution of not worrying so much, I think it went pretty great. It may have affected my grades for my last semester of undergrad (quite a few B’s), but I think overall I became much for laid back. For instance, I opened a new bank account, but information that was supposed to come a few weeks ago still hasn’t arrived. Instead of stressing out over it, I just told myself that I can call them next week and everything will be fine. 
Anyway, resolutions will come later. Currently, I’m busy watching Adventure Time with Kit. We decided to stay in, since the downtown option involved dealing with lots of kids and Old City will be filled with drunken douches. Plus, we were still pretty tired after all of the traveling we’ve been doing.
For now my friends, I leave you with this. A very happy New Year to you and yours!
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All aboard for 2012! Whooooooooooooo! Whooooooooooo! Whooooooooooo! Whooooooooooo!
Love you.