state of the Laura, end of the year edition
So, 2013. For an awful lot of reasons, just a not-good year.
But every year has good things, and this is a list of mine:
1. My lovely husband just kept happily surprising me at every turn this year.
2. Got to go to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's ninja gig in Sarasota with jkason!
3. Had a lovely 40th birthday slumber party with doggiesushi, jkason, and my boys. John surprised the hell out of me and prompted the sort of swearing I usually reserve for ... well, actually, I don't know what I reserve that level of swearing for, other than my oldest BFF on my front porch after chatting with me like he was going to the damn store in Michigan. (Special thanks to sugarcoatedlie for keeping the secret on Facebook.)
4. Team Zweeble trip to Legoland! Got the kid on two rollercoasters, one of them four times!
5. Team Zweeble trip to North Carolina, which was, for me, a lovely respite from a really hard time. My in-laws are good people that I like being around. (Next time, though, secret grandkids-generation illuminati dinner out at the pizza place in Murphy!)
6. The boyo loved Peter Pan--he sat through the entire thing, solemn and enthralled, and at the end of the evening he declared it the best night of his life.
7. "The Drowned Man" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, y'all!
8. So David proposed to Jason, and Scott and I got to be a part of it. I got in so much trouble, but it was totally worth it.
9. NOBODY WAS SICK FOR THANKSGIVING. And we all went to Mote Marine!
10. I love all of my friends, but Jason (and David) gets some extra love this year for being amazing. JC gets an honorable mention, because we both ended up needing some phone calls this year that, really, neither of us wanted. Thank you all, though, for being here for me and generally being lovely.
There were also a lot of stories, and new friends, good music, and a growing boy who also spent the year surprising me at every turn.
Hope you all have a wonderful New Year, and a 2014 that includes stories and art and love and good friends. And pizza, because I'm about to have some.
But every year has good things, and this is a list of mine:
1. My lovely husband just kept happily surprising me at every turn this year.
2. Got to go to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's ninja gig in Sarasota with jkason!
3. Had a lovely 40th birthday slumber party with doggiesushi, jkason, and my boys. John surprised the hell out of me and prompted the sort of swearing I usually reserve for ... well, actually, I don't know what I reserve that level of swearing for, other than my oldest BFF on my front porch after chatting with me like he was going to the damn store in Michigan. (Special thanks to sugarcoatedlie for keeping the secret on Facebook.)
4. Team Zweeble trip to Legoland! Got the kid on two rollercoasters, one of them four times!
5. Team Zweeble trip to North Carolina, which was, for me, a lovely respite from a really hard time. My in-laws are good people that I like being around. (Next time, though, secret grandkids-generation illuminati dinner out at the pizza place in Murphy!)
6. The boyo loved Peter Pan--he sat through the entire thing, solemn and enthralled, and at the end of the evening he declared it the best night of his life.
7. "The Drowned Man" in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, y'all!
8. So David proposed to Jason, and Scott and I got to be a part of it. I got in so much trouble, but it was totally worth it.
9. NOBODY WAS SICK FOR THANKSGIVING. And we all went to Mote Marine!
10. I love all of my friends, but Jason (and David) gets some extra love this year for being amazing. JC gets an honorable mention, because we both ended up needing some phone calls this year that, really, neither of us wanted. Thank you all, though, for being here for me and generally being lovely.
There were also a lot of stories, and new friends, good music, and a growing boy who also spent the year surprising me at every turn.
Hope you all have a wonderful New Year, and a 2014 that includes stories and art and love and good friends. And pizza, because I'm about to have some.