Shut It Down.

It seems each time we get to this poing the year spirals like a cyclone and in a matter of weeks Jesus will be a year older and the world will be a year older. We'll all get nostalgic and innovation will halt for tradition for just a minute and then it will be January. It is cold in January.

As my bank account gets real tight and there aren't enough hours in a day, I am reminded to take a few minutes and slow down. If you are going to wrap something up, you might as well put a bow on it. Today, I take a pause and reflect on my accomplishment from the past year. As I put together a list of goals for the next year, it is important that we look at what went well.

• Jake and I moved in together. We live in a tiny beautiful apartment. We don't fight anymore than we did before and we've put the haters to shame. I come home to him sometimes laying on the couch covered in a blanket watching bad Netflix and I smile each time.
• Jake and I got Girlfriend who just stopped chewing her nylabone to check up on me. Now she is making a bed out of the blankets I just folded on the coffee table. I wasn't sold on getting a dog and the first two months we hell but I can't imagine life without this sweet little girl.
• I lost 30 pounds. It was expensive and exhausting and annoying but I lost 30 pounds. I will acknowledge that I didn't hit my goal set for myself in April of getting under my BMI but I also didn't let that derail me.
• I started Jazzercise. Friday was my 150th class this year. I've maintained a 5 class a week schedule and rarely fallen off.

This reads a lot like one of those tacky letters you get in a Christmas card. The kind that list the vacations someone went on that is barely an aquintance and you don't care about but still read. Blogs are the new Christmas letter.