List Love // A 2016 Recap

{Outside the Seattle Art Museum; photo credit: Steph}

So as stated in the previous post, it's been over 525 days since last I wrote. And a bunch of stuff has happened since then. Granted, nothing drastic and no grand milestone moments, but still. So just in case anyone was wondering what I was up to {and also just for my own journaling need}, here's an abbreviated version of my 2016...

January:

+ Began my second semester of OT school.

+ Continued to work part-time at a local tutoring center.

+ Hung out with coworkers a few times.

February:

+ More school.

+ More work.

+ Hung out with Janelly & Debrr individually several times (including a cake tasting for Debrr's wedding-- AUGH!)

March:

+ More school.

+ More work.

+ First anniversary of Zoe being gone.

+ Had way too many all-day Saturday classes.

+ Went to Silicon Valley Comic Con with Janelly.

+ Celebrated Patrick's first birthday.

April:

+ More school.

+ More work.

+ More all-day Saturday classes.

+ Gave a bunch of in-class presentations.

+ Wrote several looooong papers.

+ Finished finals.

+ Had dinner and caught up with a college friend.

May:

+ More work.

+ Did three weeks of fieldwork-- first two weeks at a mental health setting, third week at a physical disabilities setting.

+ Celebrated the parentals' 31st anniversary.

+ Explored some of downtown San Jose with Tommeh.

Last bit of May and almost all of June:

+ More work.

+ I have no idea what else I did because I forgot to write it down in my calendar thingmerbob.

+ I do know I wrote 40+ pages of field reports in six days because... heh... procrastinator.

July:

+ More work.

+ Did another week of fieldwork-- this time a pediatric setting.

+ Went to basic obedience classes with Patrick.

+ Spent a lot of time watching my friends play PokemonGo while hanging out with them.

+ Had several hangouts with Debrr, Ruth, and Janelly in the span of, like, one weekend, becauuuse...

+ Attended Debrr's WEDDING.

+ Went to Renegade Craft Fair SF.

+ Turned 25 and celebrated padre's 61st.

+ Had dinner and caught up with another college friend.

+ Began volunteering at the local animal shelter to walk dogs.

August:

+ More work.

+ Met up with Evelyn and Ivy for lunch and adventuring.

+ Did a lot of cleaning and organizing.

+ Watched a lot of Olympics.

+ Adventured to Seattle and Portland for five days for our annual STSS Adventure. It was eventful and quite a learning experience.

September:

+ More work.

+ Began exploring new-to-us East Bay Regional Parks with the padre and pupper.

+ Ran a lot of errands in preparation for starting school again.

+ Started second year of OT school.

+ Attended K9 Therapy Dog Training sessions with Patrick.

October:

+ More school.
+ More work.
+ More K9 Therapy Dog Training sessions.
+ More hiking with the padre and pupper.
+ Celebrated the madre's birthday.
+ Wrote a lot of papers.
+ Made a lot of presentations.
+ Went to the Bay Area Pet Fair with the parentals and pupper.

November:
+ More school.
+ More work.
+ More K9 Therapy Dog Training sessions.
+ More hiking with the padre and pupper.
+ Celebrated Thanksgiving with the parentals.

December:
+ More school.
+ More work.
+ More hiking with the padre and pupper.
+ Participated in my cohort's Secret Santa gift exchange.
+ Won a Passion Planner via Instagram.
+ Completed finals right before Christmas.
+ Watched several movies with the parentals (Up, Kung Fu Panda, Tangled, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Ocean's 11-13, New Year's Eve).
+ Made five batches of waffles on Christmas Day.
+ Did some annual after-Christmas shopping with Janelly and Brittani.
+ Deep-cleaned the van-- it's SO CLEAN.

So that was my year. A lot of school, a lot of work. All in all, though, a pretty good year. Much improved from 2014 when I was in limbo trying to figure out what I was going to do after college. :P Yay for getting a little better at adulting?