I feel bad for leaving you guys for so long, coming back and promising to return, and then still having a huge gap in between posts. My last post was in December and it is now a new year! I’m going to try to fill you all in and share some sentiments of my life when I was MIA but, I honestly don’t know where to start. Over the next few days I’ll contemplate on the best highlights…
Anywho, as far as this new year I’m excited. I never make any new year’s resolutions but, I always set goals for myself. I still have not sat down and made it exactly clear what my goals for 2010 are but, I have a few things in mind. As far as 2009 so many people deemed 2009 to be one of the worst years ever but, I beg to differ. 2009 was a great year for me. Yes, we lost a lot of celebrities. Yes. I even lost a handful of family members due to death but, death is the only thing certain in life. I look at it that way. The truth of the matter is we all will continue to lose people but, how will we continue to live our lives? Will we honestly cherish them and live them how we want?
For me 2009 was a year where I wanted to do things and I did them. Somewhat, like Nike. For that I am proud of myself because there was a time where I wanted to do things and if a particular person or people weren’t on board I wouldn’t go forward. Well there is no more of that with me.
7 out of the 12 months in 2009 I visited a different state. The end of 2008 and beginning (Jan) of 2009 I was in NYC. In March I visited Raleigh, NC and received my first award for my other blog, The Fembassy. In April I trotted down to Atlanta to help my God-sister celebrate her birthday. In May I visited DC to experience their Black Pride. In June I visited Chicago and NYC. In July it was Myrtle Beach for a family trip and the whole month of November I spent in NYC with my love. I’m not stating this to brag but, I feel truly blessed to have been able to visit all of those places in one year. There are some people who don’t make it off of their block or outside of their cities let alone visit 6 different cities and visit one of them 3 times. I won’t even mention how I managed to take all of these trips being that my last name is not Hilton. I honestly am a struggling/starving writer so I don’t know how I managed to rub two nickels together. I guess that’s 1 lesson that I did learn in 2009: you don’t have to be rich in order to take trips. There is always a way and Priceline.com (their option to state your price on a hotel is the bomb).
Besides the traveling that I did in 2009 I was honored to be able to interview some of my favorite artists. In actuality I was able to interview and touch basis with about 75% of my favorite folks so I’m thrilled and I’m still in awe about a few people. I can also say that in 2009 I had a chance to cultivate new business relationships. Some of the interviews that I did have opened up doors for me to interview others and work on other projects as well. I can honestly say that I am no where near where I want to be as far as my writing career but, I know that I am making strides.
On a more personal level in 2009 I came out to my mother, she met my girlfriend for the first time, and strides are still being made as far as my family accepting my sexuality. I figure this year it can only get better. As I type this I’m coming into realization that I think I’m on the brink of fully forgiving my father for everything that he hasn’t done and everything that he’s did. I feel like with this new year and me relocating I just don’t have time nor do I want to carry around anger for things that I can not change. It’s unhealthy and I have other things to focus on. I just feel like it is what it is.
So with all of that being said again 2009 was a great year for me. I can’t remember anything awful happening to me last year. I hope that other people can say the same.
