Happy New Year
I am sitting here on the early morning of New Year’s Eve (thanks hon) and as I watch the morning news I can’t help but reminisce about the last decade. A decade that started out so carefree.
I remember spending New Years Eve in the Coca Cola IS operations room performing the year end duties and hoping that the computers were not going to blow up due to Y2K. I remember watching Utah gear up to host the 2002 Olympics.
It also started with an unprecedented close election that separated this country. I still remember waking up in Dallas the day after the election and finding that there was no President elect because it was too close to call; a first in the history of this Country.
I remember the failed tries at pregnancy. I remember waking up and watching the Today Show and seeing a plane hit the Towers. Our Country was under attack I remember a unity in this country like none I had ever seen before. I remember a world that supported us. I remember the pride as we decided to fight back. I remember being told by our President to go out and shop and not let the enemy win. There was no talk of sacrifice except for those who were sending their loved ones off to war.
I remember suddenly being told we had to invade Iraq. I remember questioning that decision and being accused of being a trader because I didn’t support the Iraq war. I remember the Dixie Chicks were villainized for speaking out against a sitting President (something that now is apparently okay). I remember Mission Accomplished as if the war had been won. I remember Katrina and watching fellow Americans and thinking I was watching a third world country.
I remember those in the stock market raking in the dough. I remember the iPod and Google. I remember the Wii and xBox. I remember mySpace, Facebook and YouTube.
I remember deciding to change my career and go into a field that was so outside my comfort zone. I remember going to New York and then taking my husband there as well. I remember suddenly gas prices rising so high that many began to go broke just to get to work. I remember Wall Street crashing and crashing again. I remember suddenly those who were once so rich suddenly were left with nothing. I remember for the first time being insecure with our future.
I remember a moment in history when an African American become President and changing this Country, for the better I believe. I remember hope.
I also remember death panels, tea parties and fear mongering and infidelities. I remember a news media that turned from journalism to tabloid.
But still with all those memories I feel like 2010 is going to be a great year and a start to a great decade. I remember believing and I believe that there will be a change for the better. I know it. I know that we all make resolutions and mine are simple. I love my husband but I have told him that 2010 is going to be all about me. I realize that there are things that I need to accomplish and 2010 is going to be the year that it happens. This means at times I may have to neglect him and focus on me. I am not going to list all my resolutions but I have written them down and now they have officially become goals.

I encourage anyone who stumbles on this blog to do the same. I also encourage anyone to remember the good and help spread it around. Lets make a better decade in this 21st century than the one that it started out with.



















