Our Year

It has been a good and terrible year.

Both Julia and I ended up losing out jobs.  This has led to an unfortunate situation where we may be temporarily separated while I look for a temporary contract to pay the bills in Sunnyvale while Julia finishes her internship but let's focus on the positives for this year and it is quite a year of positives.

*Julia might no longer be at St Thomas, but she is NO LONGER under the thumb of Larry Treadmill the IV and Jessica who were emotionally abusive filth.
*Julia was accepted into the Digital Museum Certificate program for John Hopkins university and will be interning for a few months at the absolutely fantastic Wolfsonian Museum
*I have a new direction career wise and a specific plan on how to get there that will forever break the cycle of bullshit I have been dealing with in the job sector I have been in.
*We had a fantastic trip to New York City and got to do a lot there.
*We are ending the year with a lovely trip to Sunnyvale where so far we have ben able to visit China Town, a fantastic Corset Store and the Monteray Aquarium.
*I made some absolutely epic podcast episodes.
*We had lovely weekend trips to Atlanta and Del Ray beach where we met new friends.
*We took a fantastic week long trip to New Orleans where Julia was able to go to ALA and we also went to the amazingly appropriate WWII museum
*We finally got to do a lot of the museums in Miami we had been hoping to go to including the Wolfsonian.
*We love each other even more than before and have completed all of our goals as a couple.
*We have both made new friends both individually (my LARP and Julia through work) but as a couple.

Negatives this year include
The loss of Sebastian, the best dog in the world
The rapid decline and near death of my Grandmother Lockey Lawson
Anything and everything involving politics or, god forbid international politics.

2019 looks to be a year filled with hope and fantastic opportunity.  A year to apply lessons learned and 'the best way to go is up'.  There will be challenges, but 2018 helped us both get tools and perspectives to help us meet those challenges.