Best Year of my Life

2012 - I went to California and had my first kiss that year! As well as went to a lot of parties!

1996 - High School Senior Year was amazingly fun and I got accepted into CSU, Chico where I met my BFF and began to live in the prime of my life! I had just enough of everything, and not a worry in the world! Good times ;-)

1. Graduated college. Aced the provincial nursing exams. Had my first boyfriend. Found a bunch of people my age to hang out with. Went to lots of weddings. Got my first nursing job. Took lots of nursing classes to forward my career. Got baptized into my religion. Sadly the very end of this year I also got lupus which would change my whole life.

Hmm, so many great years to choose from - it would have to be 2012 - quit my hohum job - sold off everything I owned and moved back to New York City to be with my then boyfriend, now husband. Truthfully, every year after keeps getting better (until now) Can we just get a redo of this year please? Hoping everyone stays safe and well!

That would HAVE to be the whirlwind year of 2017.

I had just come off of 2 AWFUL Years, and I declared this to be MY YEAR!! January I dedicated it to rearranging my life and lifestyle. I had just lost my mom and spent 1.5 years negatively rearranging my sleep schedule and my day to day life in a cloud of depression.

I got more hours driving a CP friend of mine to and from school; which I HATE driving at night, but figured I now needed SOMETHING to fill in my old sleeping schedule. (I used to sleep from 3 or 4 pm to 1-4 am).

Then that February I met a Man. Not just ANY Man. THE MAN. You know the kind. The one who makes your heart skip a beat, your belly do flip flops, and the kind you aren't afraid to fart in front of (well maybe at first) HAHA!

Kyle and I met February 27 on a online dating app for Christians. We quickly knew we had fallen head over heals. But we decided to wait till June 23 to meet up in NJ (My Home).

Kyle and I video chatted for all those until he took the trip from AR to NJ! And On June 22, We met in person!! AND MAN WAS IT AWKWARD!! Thank God I brought my CP friend with me in which Kyle and Her got to know each other well while I drove her around to school. She filled in the Awkward silences. like no stop chatter. LOL

Then this bone head 5 days later hops in his truck and heads to AR, for TWO WEEKS!! WHAT I THINKING!! LOL. July 12, the day before I head home by train, Kyle takes me to the tallest mountain in all of Arkansas (which is only about 1hr away) and Proposes.

Kyle and I have plans for him to pick me and my things up around Aug 27, 2017 and make the trek back in two cars. Sept 1st we entered AR.

Well The Thing is. Blow up beds SUCK!! and so do Couches and I have Fibro in a large amount of my body and arthritis in my hips.

So October 15th, 2017, we got married and haven't been happy since JK!!

I can't tell ya what happened after that. but Learning to live with someone is hard. but it was fun getting to know him. And knowing that the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE was and is always there breaks my heart to know that's how Jesus loves us.

2003– I graduated nursing school and took my second trip to Europe to visit my boyfriend (now husband). We had a very humble and meaningful Christmas that I’ll never forget with 2 of his siblings. Now we live in Europe! Peace and love to all.

Dec 2019-Now:

I graduated from college at the end of December 2019 and received my ARRT license to work as a x-ray tech and started a new salary job position where I only work 3 days a week. They even allowed me to take two weeks off to go celebrate my 21 birthday with my family.

In February I moved into my first apartment with the love of my life and we are looking to get engaged after the COVID-mess is over. (We actually ordered some promise rings back in February and just received them in the mail yesterday!)

My younger brother is a senior in high school and while he may not get to go to prom he is getting a full-ride scholarship to his college for two years so I have to take that as some good as well. I have been blessed to still work while people are being out of work and I am even more lucky to have my family safe and healthy.

All in all, I cant beat these last 5 months and I am looking forward to the rest of the year. :)

2014, I participated in a student exchange in Perth, and in the same year I won a national and international science entrepreneurship olympiad. In that year I went abroad 2-3 times, despite never going abroad before!

hands down two thousand and one had to be the best year of my life. That was the year I turned 21, my beautiful daughter was born, I went on a mazing vacation with my parents and my grandmother and my surrogate grandmother, my twin brother got sober, and I became a permanent coded employee after being provisional for some time. It just was the changing point in my life. Prior to having a child I was pretty wild and reckless and the birth of my daughter really made me slow down. She was born and had to be rushed to the NICU, and I thought that I might not be able to bring her home. That's when it really hit me that there is more to life than just myself and the world's did not revolve around me. I've had some great years since then and I have some amazing years before 2001 but 2001 was the very best.

I would say 2016 when my daughter was born and was able to get on my feet with an infant and recover from a bad marriage. It was a hard year but I learned the most about myself and priorities.

In recent times I would say 2015. The year my sister Rachel graduated from LaVerne College, and my sister Mona came home from Taiwan, where she works for the ceremony. I am so proud of Rachel. And I was so happy to have Mona home. We don't get to see her often. It was great for just the three of us to be together. We went to so many places in southern California that held many special memories for us. We visited our Mother's grave and put flowers on it. It is far away, so something we don't get to do often. We sat on the grass in the sun and laughed. And I thought Mommy would have loved seeing her adult children being so happy and alive.

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