• January
  • Reading more often than in December 2016 (and far more than in 5 years prior)
  • Edwin Encarnacion leaving the Blue Jays for the Cleveland Indians
  • Goat cheese brie
  • Obama's Farewell Speech
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix
  • A cup of coffee on weekend mornings
  • President Donald Trump
  • Riverdale with Mom and Dad

February

• An old friend's engagement
• Screaming instead of meditating
• New till at work
• An old friend getting to Australia first
• Velvet Orchid perfume
• Low lights in my hair
• Mom's new chair!
• Dumpling Fest at the Mandarin
• Amethyst necklace
• Fluttershy doll
• A printer that prints
• Trying out the new bar and grill nearby

March

• The third anniversary of my Gammy's death
• Starting on my personal hand-written cook book
• Searching for a place to move out to
• The Vampire Diaries ending
• Continuing to watch Trump's unfolding as a President
• Turning 25
• My Mom's birthday

April

• My Dad's birthday
• The Mother of All Bombs
• Old friends moving home from school
• Getting back into Red Rose tea for the first time since Gammy died
• Playing "hockey" with the cats
• Attempting suicide

May

• Spending four days in the ICU as a precaution as they watched for kidney and liver failure, seizures and heart failure
• A new diagnosis
• Being released from the hospital
• My new Luna embroidered picture from Lacey
• White tulips from Andrew
• Returning to work and discovering a new work regime
• Standing up to my bosses for yelling at me and making me cry for letting someone use the bathroom and explaining that after my suicide attempt (which was partially due to the pressures of verbal abuse at work and which they did not know about), no one gets to talk to me that way anymore
• Nearly quitting my job
• A single mention that Donald Trump may be impeached
• Finally settling on a new place to move to
• My last grandparent dying

June

• Being able to date more actively
• New work schedules
• Deciding to move to a different city and beginning to plan the move extensively due to my roommate for the first city bowing out last minute
• Reconnecting with old friends
• The death of Mary, my Grandmother's eldest sibling.
• Quitting my cashier job.
• New job

July

• Quitting my main job
• Inventing a good chicken recipe
• Seeing someone...

August

• Kelsey as my nail technician!
• La Fin Du Monde beer
• Writing more often than in the previous couple of years
• Honestly just giving up on America because Donald Trump is STILL PRESIDENT for some strange reason
• Starting my new second job
• New RP website
• Crochet
• The pomodoro technique

September

• Lots of leggings
• Applying for the January Semester
• New third job
• Leaving both my jobs
• Possibly major physical health issues
• Talking to Marie again
• Back in the dating game

October

• My best friend getting engaged to his dream man
• The Melvins
• World of Warcraft (free trial)
• Getting into college!
• New router

November

• Getting depressed again
• Spending time with a very old friend who I haven't seen in years
• Making new friends
• Dinner experiments

December

• Effing sick all month.
• Ew boys.