Traveling Thoughts

So much happened in 2007, it was, the year of bittersweet feelings if you will.

I had to admit when the spring weather came and it was all warm that I was not going to be able to skydive anymore due to a low blood sugar during midjump on the second to my last jump .

I began cycling, it was a sport, that with a little bit of work I could participate in, stops every hour to check the blood and eat a snack kept my diabetes mostly in line. I started cycling due to my friend Mark in MN that was given a flyer for the Tour de Cure for the ADA and he shared the information with me. I participated in 3 rides this year: Long Beach, California; Longmont, Colorado; and Fort Worth, Texas. I decided that I would like to participate in a ride in every state, even if it took me the next 50 years to do so.

I graduated college, ending my career as a life long student after being in college for 7 years. I got a bachelors of business administration with a concentration in management information systems. I also spent my last year in college terrorizing my professors because what they were speaking was incorrect and they needed to be corrected. I probably most likely threatened my ability to go back to the university of new mexico for my graduate’s degree simply because it might not be so easy to get the 2 professor recommendations required to get into grad school. While I was happy to graduate, I was unhappy that school was over. I was even more unhappy when the grad program that I wanted to get into wasn’t open for applicants for the fall 2007. I spent much of the summer bummed (only noticable when I spoke of it to my mom) that I wasn’t going to school in the fall. When the fall came, I was glad I wasn’t in school because I wouldn’t have been able to do work and school at the same time as I had initially thought.

I started my first full time job. I had interned with the company that I’m now employed by full time for 3 months before I graduated, and I fully enjoyed it. I was learning something new every day. When I got hired full time, we had some massive projects to get done and I’ve been working like a horse ever since. I have my days, the days where I love my job and the days where I hate my job. I’ve been there almost a year now (1 year in Feb). Although I love my job most of the time, I must say this, those times when I was a kid and I wanted so badly to grow up and everyone was like, it’s not all that grand to be an adult, they were right.

I got to travel quite a bit this year, and that part I love about being a grown up. I took more trips this year than I’ve probably taken in the last 5 years combined. I spent a week in CA in May where I went to Seaworld, Knotts Berry Farm, Disneyland, and California Adventure and did a bike ride. I went to Boulder, CO in August (and of course Colorado Springs and Denver) and while there I went to Seven Falls, Garden of the Gods, and the Aquarium and did a bike ride. I went to Ft Worth, TX in October and ate at a restaurant in the stock yards, did a bike ride, and went to the zoo. I went to Las Vegas, NV in Nov for Postie Con and met some amazing people whom blog’s I read. And I went back to CA in Dec for a day on the beach and 15 more hours at Disneyland.

Diabetes wise, I started on a new insulin pump, and haven’t abused it yet and it’s doing me some good.

I bought my first Mac. Before Intel put chips in Macs it was a crime punishable by disownership for me to touch a Mac (since Intel raised me) but now that there’s Intel Inside, it’s all good for me to be putting my paws on Macs.

That’s my 2007 in a nutshell, I’m sure there was other important stuff that I did, but these are the things that stick out in my head…