It’s not 2009 yet, but I’d like to take a moment here and highlight the roller coaster of a year I’ve been through, so that in a future entry, I can highlight the steady ground I’m hoping to be on. I thought about the best way of writing all of it down, and although I’d love to write a long-winded and perhaps boring to some essay on my 2008 adventures, I think a list is in order.
This year I…
-Spent the early hours of New Year’s Day at Disneyland, despite tickets being sold out. We managed to get in to the park because of the good graces of a stranger with extra tickets. That day will never be forgotten.
- Was hired as a full-time editor for a social media company
-Began doing freelance work as a journalist, which led me to write about some incredible and some not so incredible films, interview Ben Kingsley and a bunch of others and meet a lot of other great writers.
-Accidentally deleted this blog, which caused me to lose almost two years worth of entries
- Went to Montreal with my boyfriend, had great food, did great shopping and met Charles Aznavour
-Co-hosted an edible gardening internet radio show
- Saw Adele perform at The Roxy
-Took sessions with a personal trainer and enrolled at a new gym
-Watched my sister graduate high school and enroll at my alma mater
-Went through a luxating patella surgery with Henry and nursed him back to health for about five months
-Witnessed the incredible and miraculous election of 2008 and cried when Obama won
- Became a member of the Society of Professional Journalists
-Revisited the Magic Castle after my initial outing there to interview a magician
-Dyed my full head a single color for the first time ever
-Started to regularly attend the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market
-Wasted so many hours of my life sitting in the horrendous traffic of Los Angeles
-Made some amazing online friends through this blog
-Broke my camera, fixed it only to have it break again
-Tried to resist the phenomenon that is “Twilight,” but fell victim to the dazzling story of Edward and Bella, which marked my regression into adolescence.
-Worked my first red carpet, where I met Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Julie Benz
-Took my obsession with Bollywood to a whole other level by managing to watch at least one film almost every weekend for the better part of the year
-Went to work on developing a new online publication gear towards the Armenian community (still working)
-Found amazing online tools such as Twitter and StumbleUpon, which I now use daily
-Became progressively more obsessed with Anthropologie
-Prayed for snow that never came
-Didn’t spend enough time in bookstores
-Took the GRE, a rather painful experience that I will most likely repeat again sometime in the future
-Did a lot of baking and found some recipes I really loved
