A New Year

2007 was an amazing year. We got married, got to go to London and
Disney World, got promotions (well sort of...) - yep, it was a
fantastic year for us. It was a great year for our family and
friends, too. Dad got a great promotion at work and was able to take
Wham and the boys on the start of an exotic adventure. Beck became a
mommy and now sweet little Nora is part of the family. Amy is now a
manager at her job. Meredith added an adorable little girl to her
family when Avery was born. And Dodi got engaged. 2007 is really a
year that was good to us and I can't believe it's over already!

Hello 2008! I'm anticipating that this year will be a quiet one for
us. No big purchases (we've got a lot of work to do on our debt
before we can even think about buying a house), no big life changes
(did the engagement thing in 06, the wedding in 07, and we're done
with life altering events for a little while...), no anticipated moves
(2007 was the first year since 2003 that we actually lived at one
address for the entire calendar year). Yep, it should be a
"rebuilding" year, to borrow a winter guard term. Hopefully, by the
end of this year we will have slimmed down our debt and our waistlines
so that we can be prepared for some big things in 09.

Ok. Impatient Ali is already thinking about the cool things to come
next year. I think it's because I'll be turning 29 this year and OH
MY GOD is that freaking scary. I'm going to put it on record now that
everyone should feel sorry for Alex because he has to live with me and
endure my craziness as I deal with the fact that I'm becoming an old
lady and we have no house or kid. I am still rational enough now to
realize that we have goals and plans and things take time, but as July
approaches, I have a feeling my insanity level may rise. I know 29 is
not old and 30 is not the end of the world... But why does it seem so
scary? Wow. I really am insane. This started off as a happy post
about the start of a new year and ended up as a weird freakout over
age and life goals. Ugh. Perhaps I need to be medicated.....

Happy New Year!!

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Haiku iPhone posts?

I just viewed my last post, sent from my iPhone, and it looks like a
poem to me. Something may be afoot with the formatting when it comes
to blogger posts sent from the iPhone. We shall see... I have a
feeling that I may be posting a lot from my iPhone, so I hope the
formatting doesn't become an annoying issue...

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Welcome to Puketown

Poor Alex. He has been puking all day. He must have some sort of
stomach bug. I feel bad for him but I really hope that I don't get it
and ruin our New Year's Eve tomorrow. He actually had a brief
interlude where he felt better and that fooled him into thinking that
he was well enough to go see Seven Nations at Katie O'Byrnes tonight.
Turns out that wasn't the case. We had to leave less than an hour
after we got there. That was enough time for me to get pretty buzzed
(read: drunk) off of three Guinness. And we heard three of my
favorite songs of theirs already, so I wasn't too sad to have to leave
early. Plus we'll see them tomorrow night at First Night in
Saratoga. Ah well. Poor Alex.

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