Goodbye 2012.

Happy Birthday Dear Friend!! I miss you terribly, and I wish you were here.

That being said, I am still miserably sick. My cold having morphed into a sinus infection, then a respiratory infection, then laryngitis, and now atypical pneumonia. *Laughs* But isn't that the way it always goes?

In addition, my dear, sweet car died yesterday, which was a bit of an adventure since the transmission gave out on 9th and Van Buren. Lol.

But in spite of these things I have been unimaginably happy today. I walked down to the store to do my shopping with a smile from ear to ear. Headphones on my head, just skipping along.

2012, despite how it might look to the casual observer, was actually the best year I can remember having. Sooooooo many good things happened, that the bad stuff was just totally eclipsed.

I am super grateful for so many things

For awesome adventures in the wilderness.

For reclaiming my spirit, my life, and my house.

For Bikram Yoga, and afternoons spent sweating the stress out.

For time spent rebuilding engines with my Dad and Little B.

For weekends spent playing the the mud.

For bikini and champagne mornings on top of mountains with good friends.

For a year filled with awesome fossils.

For Picketpost Mountain.

For College Graduation, no matter how exhausted and sleep deprived I may have been. :)

For sunshine and good books.

For Autumn Color on the Verde River.

For red lipstick, which makes all things tolerable. ;)

For headphones and hula hoops.

For catching horned toads.

For self-portraits and getting back down to my high school weight.

For the extraordinary amount of love I am continually surrounded with.

And for terrible, ridiculous pictures that remind me of how awesome You are, and how badly I miss you. <3

You know Dear Friend, I'd give anything to have you back here, and to be able to roll around in the ridiculousness that follows us everywhere. But that being said, I'm super grateful for how awesome you continue to be, even when you're far away. I'm grateful for all your blog posts, for the million pictures you post to me, for hand written text messages, for the crazy amount of love and support you gave me this past year (and every year since, like, the dawn of time). I'm grateful for our tandem evolutions and for the way things unfolded for us this year, even if it was at times super hard and messy. I'm looking forward to getting to see you again, and to all the fun stuff that's sure to come with it. I love you more than life.

I'm super grateful for all the wonderful things that happened to me in 2012. I'm looking forward to all the blissful things 2013 is sure to bring. And I'm sending you all my love, as always. Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, I miss your face.