Year Reflections

As I watched the Come-See-Me Festival fireworks go off on Saturday night, I thought about last year actually. During this weekend last year, was the most stressed I'd ever been in my life and I'm pretty sure I'm still catching up on sleep. I had just started my job full-time, it was my first festival as a team leader (I had NO idea what I was doing...), I was teaching classes as a GA, I was trying to finish my thesis and actually graduate grad school. And just for fun, I brought home an 8 week-old puppy. I was just thinking about how great of a year it has been since then. Cali has made my life frustrating and for some reason STILL chews all my stuff. But she really is my favorite thing in the world and sometimes I don't understand how I can love her so much and how anything is that cute. I loved living with Brittany and Grace and I realize I could've never made it roommate-less without Cal there to protect me and eat all the bugs that Brittany would normally kill with her shoe. With Cali's help, I've met most of my neighbors and over the past year, I've grown to love this town even more. It's things like the festival that remind me of what a blessing it is to live in a good, thriving community. Not many towns are like this these days. It's annoying how much I love my job and the people I get to work with everyday and the fact that I can say that while working in a government job is crazy at best. Rock Hill is a small but great place to live and go to college, raise children, raise dogs, raise chickens, play sports, watch sports, go to church and play in a park. But even with all this stuff that I love around, it's good to get up out of here sometimes. And after these last 10 days, I need a vacation.