What a difference a year makes....

Last year at this time I was working at the bizzarro pharmacy in the hospital and nursing a newly acquired work-induced shoulder injury. I despised the working environment which exhuasted me both physcially and mentally- definitely not the most memorable time in my life to say the least.

This year, I've got an amazing job at a start-up scientific company doing laboratory bench work. Better yet, one of my friends from my previous job at the marine fisheries lab just accepted a position with the start-up!! In a few weeks, we will be sharing an office and working closely together every day, which I'm psyched about b/c she was my partner-in-crime at the marine fisheries lab. It will be soo nice to have that comraderie with a co-worker right from the start!!

All in all, this has been a pretty good year. Sure, Kyle and I aren't parents yet, but despite that we ARE blessed with soo much. We have a beautiful house near the ocean in a small beach town, we have strong bonds with our families, we have a lot of great and supportive friends, we are financially stable, we are healthy and physically fit, we have a waggly tailed dog and a semi-friendly cat, we both have jobs in our fields of study and most importantly, we have a very solid marriage.

We seem to have the foundation to be able to raise a child in a very loving environment. And, I have faith that this will happen sooner or later. Like my friend, Kris muses about in her most recent blog post, I'm not going to say that maybe 2007 will be the year that "we finally become parents". Because, frankly, it's not up to me when this will occur, and I'm tired of saying it. It will happen when it's meant to happen. I just hope that at the end of the year, I can sum it up as being pretty good, and that the positives outweigh the negatives. Because that's really what's important to me.

Merry Christmas to everyone and may 2007 be a pretty good year for all!