I just wanted to update on my new year so far. As always there are ups and downs, but I feel for the first time in my life that everything is finally coming together. Since high school my life has steadily improved in every aspect, but my progress in 2011 takes the cake. I've got a full roster between work and school, but I adore my classes thus far and soon have an opportunity to apply for an even better position at work. I'm enrolled in Web Design, Figure Sculpture, Modeling 1, and Digital Painting: every teacher I have this year is fantastic, entertaining, and artistically flamboyant in their own way (As any great art teacher should be).
I received my early birthday package from my mom today, full of gorgeous clothes and my dream laptop. I don't know how she pulled it off, but I'm so grateful. I now have a portable digital studio for all of my art and schoolwork, in tandem with my newly acquired legitimate copy of Adobe's CS5.5 Design Premium. *SQUEE* The clothes fit amazingly, and despite my couple holiday-cookie pounds, I love the way I look in them :3 Also props to my parents for the pretty plum Nikon s4100 I got for Christmas, expect more pictures of me and my artwork to be popping up!
I just joined a gym for the first time this week, and though I'm not very many days in, I already feel great physically and proud of myself for doing it; having work-out buddies is fantastic motivation too. I did so well with my 2011 resolution to lose weight I know I can keep up my 2012 resolution to get more fit and healthy.
2012 marks the start of another happy year with Josh, and despite our long history and longer friendship, things have been great. It's invaluable to have someone to grow and mature alongside who understands everything about you. We're looking to move out together with our friends as roommates by this summer, and I can't wait.
I can't believe I'll be twenty years old this Friday. Part of me is excited to be an adult, to move out and mature and enjoy the autonomy, another part of me is anxious that I'm gaining more and more responsibility and abandoning oh-so-familiar immaturity. Although the big 20 certainly isn't the 'fun' landmark birthday that 16 and 21 are, I'm extremely proud that I've done so well with my life and my choices so far; I'm not timid about moving forward because I've done better than I every expected. To date I've got a consistent 3.87 GPA at a noted four-year private college, a successful job in commissioned sales where I've been recognized multiple times for excellence in a field I never thought I'd end up in, and a happy, loving, and very fulfilling long-standing relationship.
This morning as I drove down Hwy 87 in my well-earned little beater car that I'm so proud of, 80lbs lighter and 100% more confident than any previous year, I got to watch the sunrise. I realized that I was on my way to classes that I love in a field of study that I absolutely adore, and that despite my job-gripes I'm skilled and successful in my work as well as my education; I've made it. Despite the remnants of my inexperience, I'm finally an adult.
