I think I like the second title for this post better. But you are getting both, so deal with it.
This is the time of year where we would look back on the entirety of it, reflect, dissect, and make empty threats of improvement. However, since a new decade is upon us, I feel it appropriate to reflect on the entire decade before heading into the next. I mean, think about it, we are no longer going to have sensible novelty glasses that represent the year on our faces (they released 2010 glasses, which are at every street vendor and dollar store in NYC, which look uncomfortable and stupid, with that '1' sitting on your nose like that). Also any company that put out forms at the start of the 2000's, thinking they'd be clever and leave the year as '200_' will now have to eliminate that extra '0' on all of their forms to make it '20__', but at least that will hold for another 90 years, and hopefully by then paper forms will be obsolete. Also, if Back to the Future has taught us anything, this coming decade will bring us hover boards, hover cars, self drying clothes, and Jaws XIX! But, also like Back to the Future taught us, we need to go to the past before we go to the future, followed by another trip to the past, then WAY back to the past. So let's take a brief look back at the decade that was.
For me, it's hard to believe that this decade (if we are counting from the year 2000) started in England, on my first trip over seas, winter break, freshman year of college. It's where I got my first, and only, ear piercing, which is remarkably still there, despite not wearing an earing for many years. It also included my last two (and arguably best) summers at camp, topped off with my chance to be a winning color war general in 2001. I was also "starring" and sometimes writing on my own "television show," which, granted was closed circuit and maybe watched by 10 people, but still I did it. Then things really started to pick up. I transferred colleges, and actually graduated. I have been employed by Spencer's Gifts, Starbucks, NBC News Specials, Managed a restaurant, managed three offices of two different real estate companies, got to PA on an actual music video, and started my own freelance graphic design business. My parents moved to Florida, and if I count college, I have lived at 10 different locations over the course of these past ten years. Granted a few of them were for a matter of months, but still, that's a lot of moving. I lived on Central Park West in Manhattan for a few of those years, until I discovered, moved to, and fell in love with Astoria, where I am still residing, in my longest residence of the decade (even longer than my parent's home in Suffern). I was introduced to, and immediately fell in love with DVR cable, and HiDef TVs. I learned that even adults can like animated movies, that my favorite comic books can be made better AND worse by movie adaptations. I have found a new love for reading. I have had a piece of art installed in an actual high end restaurant, which everyone tells me is their favorite part of the entire space. Not to mention, of course, the women. I will not go into numbers, or who or what, but I will state that it was a wild ride that taught me many, many things. The oddest part about it, and probably the best, is that I brought the Decade in dating one Rachel, and I am exiting the decade dating another.
Wow, I feel like I probably could have done the past decade more justice than one paragraph. Oh well. Suck it past decade.
Now if we were to look at this year, it's a pretty good representation of the end of one decade to start a new. It started off on a down note, and is definitely going out on a high. I don't remember too much of the start of this past year, probably because it was ultimately uneventful. I stopped buzz-cutting my head, and actually let it grow for 6 months just for the hell of it. I also had some fun with my mustache, creating a series of pictures which seemed to be very popular among all of you. Then there was one big summer wedding where I got to be in my first wedding party. There was a new (and awesome) beer garden opened up in Astoria (growing my love for the town even more). Then things got a little crazy in the middle there. Then there were more engagements, one of which ended in not just another wedding, and my first experience as a shomer (watcher/observer), but also a new roommate and a newly arranged living room (I am still excited about my new living room, yes). Of course the biggest news of the year, and possibly the decade, as I mentioned before, is probably Rachel. I have really found someone special, and I feel truly blessed and lucky as hell to have done so. I mean, she even was APPROVED by my brother, and glowingly for that matter. Anyone who knows my brother, knows how huge that is! It's only been a few months, but it has a feeling of a much longer time. The biggest event of the year though is finally making the effort to solidify my life's track. Granted I am still laying the rails, and the final destination has yet to be fully realized, but I feel closer to it than I ever have before, and really it makes me feel like the year, the decade, and everything else before hand, worth it.
So here I come 2010. You better be ready for me, because I am comin' atcha fully loaded, with a partner on the same mission that I am. Together we are an unstoppable force.
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