2006 Wrap-Up.

I feel compelled – as a result of blogger expectations, mostly – to write a big ol’ Farewell To 2006 posting here. The truth is that I’m not feeling particularly inspired.

2006 was a really good year – absolutely one of the Best Ever – and I’m not feeling my usual urge to dump the old year at the curb and pretend it didn’t exist. Coffee and I just ran through a quick verbal list of all the stuff that’s gone on around here since last January and the list just went on and on and on.

Some highlights (in no particular order):

• Coffee became a Permanent Resident of Canada.
• He got a job that he states is “the best job” he’s ever had.
• I sold my big ol’ SUV and we bought two little Toyota Echoes.
• We put our house in Stoney Creek up for sale.
• We bought a new house, moved, and love it in our new city.
• We started the adoption process.
• I brought home my rats!
• Coffee got a new tattoo.
• We moved closer to Melle.
• I met Kelly and absolutely love her.
• Coffee got to dye his hair back to red and blue.
• I dyed my hair pink for the first time!
• I was diagnosed and began official treatment for my PCOS.
• Nobody died!!
• Chz came to visit after what feels like a million years away.

I am not one for change – rituals and habits are important to me – but this year? It was all good. There are about 400 other things we accomplished, too. A lot of little personal things. Some goofy things.. All good.

One of the things that’s been most amazingly wonderful for me is how I keep falling in love with Coffee. Over and over and over, again. He walks in the room and I can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be than with him.

There’s no one else in the entire world who makes me feel as happy, as loved, as healthy and filled with hope as he does. We have fun together. I can’t tell you how lucky I am – at least, not without sounding sappy (too late!) – but if there is one part of my life that is 100% comfortable and stable and secure, it is my marriage.

If everything else had fallen apart, and if nothing good had come from 2006, I’d still consider myself blessed. I have my soul mate and best friend beside me. I know how lucky I am to have found him, let alone had him fall in love with me, too. I know.

2006 has been an unbelievable year and I’m not thrilled to see it go. Would it be greedy for me to request that 2007 try to be similarly fantastic? Because THAT is my resolution for the coming months.

Be Even More Fantastic.