I don't want to get into a woe-is-me kinda state, because really this post is about looking toward the future. But if you want the quick run down of 2011, it goes something like this: Febuary: Moved to small town Michigan during the biggest snowstorm of the year. Arrived our new house at 1 AM with about 2 feet of snow in the driveway, and temperature sensitive goods in the car. Commence overnight shoveling. March: Begin new part time nursing job where every doctor is a prima donna and one actually refers to himself as "god." Yes, that's true. Oh, and I manage to piss off the scheduler from close to day one. Talent. April: The great endo search begins. At best, I'm travelling an hour and a half from my home. At worst, I'm waiting 6 months for an appointment. In between, I'm getting bad, outdated information from patriarcial groups who don't believe in the patient as part of the team. Other specialists I see are caught red handed giving me wrong infomation simply in an attempt to get money out of me. And insurance. Ah, insurance. well, what would a year be without me spending 100+ hours on the phone with customer service representatives, each one giving me a completely different set of steps to take to deal with the same issue? June - Midmichigan gets a torrential week of rain, and we get our first flood in the basement, leading to days of dryouts, ripped up carpet, ripped up dry wall and pulled out insulation - all which our lovely landlord never repairs. August - Flood number 2. Go through dry out and no repairs again. October - In a vain attempt to meet people, I go to a young adults group at a new church, and I am completely ignored. I'm not sure why I find that so ironic. There is something very ingrained in me expecting "church people" to be nice. November- Because I pissed the scheduler off, I am given Thanksgiving on call to fill a hole from someone leaving. (Never mind that I am part time, have no famly anywhere in the vacinity, and I am the only person who also has a holiday next year, also around the big holidays - New Year's Eve.) Being that I can count on one hand that number of aquaintances we have here, even though we have lived here now 10 months, Thanksgiving is spent at a BW3's. I don't recommend it. :) December - Flood #3. The sump pump goes out while we are away for a weekend. Ironically, we are over at a friend's house trying to fix their sump pump at about the same time ours probably went out. We come home to 3 inches of water throughout the entire basement (The other floods were kept to one side of the basement). The dryers are still running down there now, and we haven't been able totally gauge the loss yet, but some wedding pitures and electronics did get damaged. So add that to the year's general disappointment of not finding a job in the food industry - which was my goal as we moved and I took a part time position. I, of course, did not forsee that there is neither food culture nor an economy in Michigan.
So honestly, I can say that the year wasn't stellar - but it wasn't the most worst possible horrible year EVER. No one died. In a year that was very difficult for many, many people, we were blessed with jobs and food and a roof over our heads. Most of the problems were from unmet hopes, expectations, and my own assumptions, really. So even though hope may have smacked me around quite a bit this year, I'm hanging on for a brighter 2012. Cheers!
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