- a very rough year in terms of mental and physical health: spiraling into severe health anxiety, an ocd diagnosis, and the start of lexapro anti-depressants.
- nye 2014 into 2015 actually started off with debilitating cramps and rang in the new year in pain
- went on a decent amount of dates (max, jonathan, jerard, mingwei) & have learned no one is “too busy” to text you back
- however — my love life did eventually end up blossoming with an amazing guy who cares for me and all my weird quirks, honestly not 100% sure how I would have survived this year without him with the onset of my anxiety.
- met my boyf's parents and he has met mine, which i consider a good milestone
- moved out of my family's house to my own apartment with donato in astoria, I still would love to live in a studio with a cat but I'm working on it.
- the complete fall of kpop from it’s pedestal to something I barely even keep up with now, however, I did see big bang live in concert (and have continued my physical collection with all the music I used to love)
- discovering a passion for user experience design, interaction design, and solving problems through design thinking
- actually completing a class from start to finish and putting a lot of effort into it as well (especially since i have a track record for quitting classes when they aren’t finished due to lack of focus. read: japanese, korean, arts management)
- unfortunately did not continue with my japanese class on to the next level due to my UX class schedule, i still miss those otaku nerds i studied with.
- finding out i’m intolerant to wheat and chocolate (yet, i’ve been terrible at actually following a gluten-free diet)
- moved over from recruitment to the ux team and (am sort of) heading up ux research at work
- finally found a few friends at work but an overall tough year at the company — morale is very, very low (makes me question how much longer it has, or if the ceo will be let go?)
- started therapy with an amazing therapist who really has helped me a lot this year
- went apple picking this fall after years and years of complaining about not going
- celebrated 25 years on this earth in august
- went to two 90th birthday party celebrations - one in san francisco and one here in nyc
- met family in san francisco i haven’t seen since i was 5.
- ate at in & out -- 3 years in a row :)
- traveled to seattle, a very interesting city..., with two of my best friends
- got an amazing display screen for christmas, something I thought I would have had to purchase on my own
- no santaland this year (RIP santa asher) and to be honest i don't think i will be back again (now that santa asher is gone (again RIP) and santa kyle has relocated to north carolina -- my 2 favorite santas).
dec 31 2015 ∞
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