Here's to the Year: 2011

To be very truthful, 2011 was a very trying year.  Ideas have been doubted, relationships have been tested, and faith has been challenged.  While, for the most part, I have had fun and I accomplished great things, it has been a year of sorrow and stress. And so, I am not sad to see the year end and I am ready to move on.

As a farewell to 2011, here are some of the more noteworthy things that have happened in my life over the last 365 days. 

In 2011, I...

Lost a brother

Made homemade shui jiao

Was threatened with a CNN exposé

Grew out and donated my hair to charity

Blogged every day for 2 straight months

Became a television commercial star

Wrote a poem about donuts

Discovered my mother's very sharp vision

Ate school lunch for the first time in a long time

Milked my first cow

Went cross-country skiing for the first time

Fell in love with Gus

Nearly chopped off my thumb

Bought a new car and said goodbye to the old

Won a Jane Austen giveaway

Had my first taste of Ketchup flavored potato chips

Rode a camel

Went to my last graduate class

How was your 2011?

  

P.S.:  I think 2012 is going to be a great year!  Aren't you excited to see what happens?? :)

Read 2010's Here to the Year list here.