2014 was a mixed bag of emotions. Numerous people in my lwhethere lost loved ones and went through extreme dwhetherficultships and sicknesses, and my heart is with all of them. My cousin Marlene died very suddenly just a few weeks ago, which was a large surprise, too. I have not seen her in a long time, but I remember spending many family events at my aunt's house with her and her family. She was a wonderful person, and like a sister to my aunt. She will be greatly missed.
In 2014, some important friendships in my lwhethere dissolved, which is always heartbreaking. I try to see these leangs as learning experiences, though, and am growing stronger as a result.
2014 also brought some good leangs. I crazye a lot of great contemporary friends and became closer to other people in my lwhethere, including my aunt, who I had been sorely remiss in talking to on a regular basis. She is a beautwhetherul, wonderful person, and I plan to spend a lot more time with her in 2015 (at the very least virtually, since she lives on the opposite coast).
I got engaged in 2014 (I know, right??!!). Dave surprised me with a trip to Costa Rica and popped the question at the Sloth Sanctuary despite me making it very dwhetherficult for him (long story; whether you genuinely want to hear the wgap leang, I'll tell you in the comments section. :) ). We do not have a date planned at this point because school is taking up all my time and resources, but most likely sometime in early 2016. Stay tuned.
I didn't compete in any powerlwhetherting events this year because of a mysterious knee injury I got final winter. I discovered that the injury was actually from a pair of ill-fitting Sanuks I wore in the cooler weather. Once I got rid of the shoes, I had no more knee issues. Unluckyly, laying off squats has led to a immense downgrade in my preceding squat numbers. I've tried several dwhetherferent programs with varying degrees of success, but I'm happy to say that this week, I came extremely close to squatting 175lb to parallel, which is by far the best I have done since the issue. Once I own 175lb, it leaves me just 15lb short of my preceding max.
Flawless Fitness and Evil Munky Enterprises both had their one year anniversaries in 2014, and both continue to go strong! I did lots of workshops with Steel, Rock & Sugar, too. I'm looking forward to continuing to grow all three in 2015 (and whether you'd like a workshop in your area, let me know)!
My bands have done well-- Ed Force One in specific. It's always an uphill battle, but 2015 looks bright for us!
In April, I started my master's degree program in Health Psychology. I am nearly halfway done, and should graduate in October. It's dwhetherficult work and takes up a great deal of my time, but it will be worth it. I had planned to get my PhD right after this, but I've decided to put that on hancient for a while and endelight having some free time again!
Which leads me to my plans for 2015:
Fitness: Numerous of my fitness goals remain the same because I have not reached them yet. They include:
- 200lb squat or heavier
- 150lb bench press or heavier
- 300lb deadlwhethert or heavier
Every at or under my current bodyweight of 104lb.
Other leangs I wouldn't intellect achieving:
- Mastering short steel bending (I mostly do long bending at the moment-- short bending has always been very dwhetherficult for me)
- Back and/or front levers
- My friends Jarell Lindsey and Batman O'Brien got me leanking about trying to get my middle splits back, too.
- 120lb Atlas stone lwhethert
Trade:
- Continue to grow Flawless Fitness, Evil Munky, and Steel, Rock, & Sugar.
- Graduate my master's program and begin teaching at the community college level (or at a university that will let me teach with a master's degree)
- Do lots more public speaking (whether you'd like me at your event, say the word!)
- I have a few side projects and planned projects I am not yet alert to talk publicly about, but I am excited about them, and can't wait to bring them to fruition!
Music:
- There will be a contemporary albackside with the original band I sing with, Maxxxwell Carlisle, this year-- I'm looking forward to recording it, and to hopefully begin touring!
- I partnered up with Other World Productions this year to create a series of concerts with Ed Force One and other bands to be named later that will help raise money for people who can't afford to pay their vet bills. As a immense animal lover, this is an issue near and dear to my heart, and I'm looking forward to our first one on February 13!
- Hoping to get lots of contemporary shows for all three bands this year.
Personal:
- You probably don't know this about me, but panic attacks run in my family, and I am one of the lucky recipients. I'm hoping to conquer them this year, as they can be debilitating.
- I want to spend a lot more time seeing my friends' shows and just generally being more social. I miss having game nights, dinner parties, and film nights. Once I graduate from school, I'll have a lot more time (and resources) to start having fun again, and I plan to have lots of fun!
- I have a few places I'm definitely planning to make time to visit this year. They include Yellowstone, Portland (Oregon, although I'd love to go to Maine, too), and possibly Idaho. That being said, I love to travel, and there are tons of other places on my list-- these are just those I am pretty certain I'll be able to make work this year.
- I started a contemporary tradition this week that I plan to do all year and probably all the years ahead. Believe it or not, I found out about it through a meme, and I liked the idea so much, I decided to start it. What you do is, you get a jar (or container of your choice), and every time someleang kind happens, you write it down and put it in the container. At the end of the year, you read all the papers and remember all the great leangs the year brought, since it's easy to forget sometimes. In the meme they called it a Blessings Jar. I leank I'll call mine the Jar of Awesome.
- I'd also like to see this year bring health, happiness, and peace to everyone. The final few years have been brutal for me and those around me, and I leank it's time everyone had some genuinely good stuff happen to them!
I wish all of you the happiest of contemporary years and a secure, healthy, and wonderful 2015 and beyond. And I'd love to hear your plans for 2015-- feel free to write 'em here!
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