Tis The New Year

And so, yet another year bites the dust.
The events that collided that made up the past year of my life are beyond poetic pontification, but upon further thought processes, I realized just now that 2009 may have been one of the most important years of my life.
I moved in to my very first apartment with the man of my dreams and his/our two cats. We have a balcony and beautifully enormous windows that fill the entire apartment with sunlight. We live a short walk from the park, which is nestled against the river and flanked by two impressive bridges.
I graduated college, I got a job in a restaurant in the middle of Times Square that I actually really like a lot, I started acting again and started putting things in play for my career, and have kick started what seems to be a promising career in art.
I experienced the death of someone who meant a lot to me for the first time.
I made my first diner from scratch and it was delicious.
I stared myself in the face in a way that I haven't needed to in the past and made some mistakes and learned from them and felt like my heart was breaking and filling up all at the same time.

In many ways, this is the beginning of a new age.
I can just feel it in my bones that I have crossed over something in my life, where childhood is a nostalgic fantasy and the future doesn't have a definitive horizon line like it used to.

It seems fitting to me that on the eve of this passing year, I signed up to allrecipes.com and am overwhelmed with excitement about the potential meals I will cook, somewhat as a mini-resolution.

Goodbye, 2009.
You were an excellent friend, and you will be missed.

Bring it on 2010.

Bring. It. On.