Friday, December 31, 2004

year in review

to wrap up the year... at the risk of being a little myopic, how about a top 10 stories in lara's life this year

i mean, seriously, you'll find lists compiled by cnn, msnbc, whatever else of the stories of national import, but if you're reading this, for some reason you enjoy my summaries of what i've been up to and/or thinking about each day, so i might as well compile .... (more or less in chronological order, rather than ranked)... here goes nothing!

(1) january trip/spring break trip/may trip (consult appropriate time frames for multiple entries of each... january: memphis to st. louis to chicago to minneapolis to valpo to pittsburgh to jersey with colleen and scott.... spring break tour of new england to see marianne... may 7-city tour across the midwest :-) lots of fun all around!)
(2) lara meets the NYC planetarium and is inspired to purchase a telescope for herself later that day (see here -- i think i neglected to mention the telescope so as to keep it a secret until after the parents visited later that week :-P, nonetheless...)
(3) delaware trip (see here -- this pretty well sums it up)
(4) best birthday EVER (see here and thereabouts... it was a freakin good week :-) )
(5) cross country roadtrip (read any blog entry from july 18 through august 1 -- how often do you get to drive in a car with a friend from one coast to the other and see all kinds of cool things on the way? trip of a lifetime indeed!)
(6) moving to highland park (see here -- not that that post is exciting, but it's good to live with friends)
(7) roommate's mom dies (see here and various posts before that -- august and july were pretty heartbreaking all around)
(8) lara gets an advisor! (see here -- um, YAY!)
(9) pastor j retires (see here or here -- so long to someone who's been a person of major importance to my time in jersey so far)
(10) the boy question (despite things like this and the end of this throughout the year... looks like nothing's going to happen of note there anyhow.... it was fun while the mystery lasted)

on the other hand, somewhat disjoint... in my estimation top blog entries of the year, whether for serious import or just humor value... in chronological order... enjoy :-P

and i'll let the memories wrap it up... so long 2004... you've been...well,.... interesting... more stress than i could ever imagine, but also getting closer to soooo many friends than i'd ever imagine as a result too... here's to hopefully less stress and hopefully more good times in 2005!
happy new year people :-)

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