comes to a close
close the door
ring it in
on the other side
don't look back
at my year in review
2021.
january: had new year's with the bondis, played hand and foot, grandpa under the table, and champagne at midnight. saw chad momentarily at jack's west plaza apartment. stayed out past midnight. virtual school.
february: birthday dinner at the antler room; one cocktail; home with yellow candles, scary movie, and tea. overall af birthday. finished working with selena (est. nov 2020).
march: school (work) started in person again; met my students for the first time.
april: started attending yoga with annika, and stopped drinking, just to see how long i could make it .
may: yoga, started my next level spanish course at berges. mackenzie visited, we went to the lake. arguments about beer. i still wasn't drinking.
june: yoga, spanish, summer tk softball, school (work) is out
july: got an idea one week, booked a flight to madrid for the next. made it 53 days or thereabouts af, and didn't spend therabouts $400. visited madrid, barcelona, murcia; andrea, martin, alverto, lucia, miguel, and lots of places i remembered, and lots of places for the first time. took the train to barcelona for a long weekend with alverto, dropped off the luggage, went to the fake beach. he worried about me sunburning. the next day we stayed on the beach for about 5 hours, reapplying. it felt like a dark and moody paris, narrow alleys and only bikes or pedestrians. i ordered in spanish but they responded in english everytime. i visited goya's black paintings at museo del prado; croquetas veganas in la latina. y el cafe de tortilla bajo de la casa de leiva. saw a flamenco show! andrea knew the doorman. drove to murcia, met bonnie and oreo, put my body in the ocean and floated around. slept in the spanish hot.
august: back to kansas city, restarted the af count.
september: back to school (work)
october: katelyn visited (?), pot pie, visited amaris. realized i could download books for free from the kansas city public library, and pull them up on the kindle app through my borrowed ipad.
november: closed on 65th terrace (bought a house). visited upstate new york (tivoli) with caroline, mel, and hannah. small hikes, great view, books for free, sobremesa, greek director movie marathon, girls cooking, puppy chow, napping.
december: moved to the new house - roscher, roux, grandpa, russell, and all. painted whisper white. tried to listen to an audio book (phoebe judge - little women). made it 3, maybe 2, chapters in. started calypso on the ipad. i like to see the percentage read/left; and estimated time to finish the book. glass o wine at lauras holiday party. otherwise relatively af, been making nettle/green tea most nights now. last day of 2021, swope park dog park, yoga at rsf with caroline, now im home.
2022.