Ringing in the New Year!

 

I spent my New Years Eve and ringing in the New Year, just how I wanted to...with my best friend and Mark! I really wasn't set out to be in a club with a bunch of random strangers shoving me and acting a fool. So my goal for NYE was to end 2011 on a high note and start 2012 on an even HIGHER note.

 

 The Champagne of beers and our midnight toast awaiting!

The awesome Snuggie of the night! "Cowabunga time!"

 

Random good time pictures of the night. Jonathan's shower curtain is a map of the world!! How cool is that?!!?

 

I took part in "Eating 12 grapes at midnight" with Jonathan. Mark downed a beer and made wish...said he doesn't like grapes. Lets see if my wishes come true? BY THE WAY: Do any of you partake in superstitions on NYE?

 

We had a silly string fight too!

More randomness!

Saturday's with Stef: Dear 2011...

 

Dear 2011,

They say, "Parting is such sweet sorrow..." But there is nothing sweet about you. This whole year, your theme was LOSS. Oh boy, did I lose!

In January, you taught me what it was like to be a survivor. You made me see that , it wasn't love but rather something I had to go through....lose myself. And I did. I lost myself. There were days I slept all day, days I cried all day, nights I thought I wouldn't live to see the next day, nights when all I wanted to do was get myself back. You never gave me the Stefanie I once was back.

Slowly but surely, I got back up on my two feet...Becoming a better, newer, more improved Stefanie. Then June came. Chloe went missing and at the time, my best friend gone, caused me to slip back into a state of depression. To many, it was "just a dog." Not to me. I got her after losing my baby and for some heaven sent reason, she chose me. But like all lessons, there was one and she came back. I just had to have faith.

Then July came...you once again showed me what it was like to lose. You took the only man, who has been stable and loved me unconditionally away....My world shattered and even though the pain still lives in me, I know I gained an angel.

See you took A LOT of things away from me this year...It is what I call, "The year of Loss." But in the midst of all the loss...I emerged into a beautiful human being who walks proudly with her battle scars. I am THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE....

Thank you, for dragging me through hell. 

To you 2012, I am expecting heaven. I am expecting change now. I am expecting blessings. I am expecting you to treat me amazing. I am gonna live you 2012, with an open mind, heart, arms, and soul...2012, you and I will complete each others world and you will finally be the year to complete me...I truly believe this. And if not,  I hope you have some AMAZING lessons besides loss, to show me!

CHEERS!

GOODBYE 2011!

WELCOME 2012!