Wednesday March 18, 2009
Another Year!
It's been fourteen years today. As the number of years gets higher, it feels like less of a big deal when I don't really "do the deal" much anymore (especially for years not divisible by five or ten), but it is a milestone and I like recording milestones. I like the opportunity to look back and this is one of the days when I can look back and know what I was doing with some certainty:
- Last year, we celebrated with dinner and a Bad Plus show followed by the elephant walk and it was a wonderful evening! Life in general is almost exactly the same now as it was then, though it's quite a bit simpler today. I guess that may be one of the points.
- For whatever reason, I didn't acknowledge the date in '07, but the things that went on two years ago this month feel like they happened way before or way after two years ago. I think I may have mentioned time flying? I was in a doomed relationship (that didn't end for another year) and failing at quitting smoking, again, both of which contributed to each other, again (and again). I was, however, already living in the apartment I'm in now, where I've been for over 28 months, a record.
- I missed the actual day in 2006 but I believe I was very ill with a chronic and almost lethal sinus infection and trying and failing to quit smoking, again. It was not a good time and the following month, things got considerably worse. The Spring is, apparently, a bad time for me as major life upheavals always seem to happen in March (obviously) and April.
- In 2005, at 10 years, things were pretty good and I described what I'd done the day before, as well as where I'd been and what I'd been doing around every March back to '95 (so I won't bore you with that again). My view of downtown Manhattan from the terrace was indeed spectacular and I now have, as I did then, "some wonderful friends, a great job, an unbelievable apartment and I have a really good time and so so so much to be grateful for."
At the end of this month I'll be in Dallas and it'll be the first time in I don't know how many years they won't have to say "... is OK but can't be here." I'm looking forward to it!