Waiting for the new door to open...

• So here we are a week until Christmas. Which means there is only two weeks left in the year. How crazy is that. I am super excited about the next couple weeks, let's just hope all the plans follow through instead of fall through. Tomorrow I work and then I'm going out with a friend from work. Sunday I am working around the house. Monday I got calls to make and then work. Tuesday one of my best friends will be home for two weeks and I hope to get to hang out a ton because sometime next month he is being transferred to Germany. Today I am cleaning my room which is long over due and I may not have another chance to do it anytime soon.

• So my coming weeks are not what this blog is actually about. This blog is kind of a recap of this past year. I started the year in Germany. I found out that I have asthma and had a few great vacations. Around Easter the Barnett family headed to the Lake Powell, Utah area and experienced Goblin's Gulch (? I think that's the right name) and some of the other amazing formations down that way. In June I headed down to visit my best friend Ben in Mississippi where we visited New Orleans as well. Now that was a great trip and I enjoyed spending my birthday with my friend. At the end of June I came home to Pennsylvania and in August the Mattocks family headed to the sunny beach of Holden Beach, NC.
• What else happened this year? I started writing again in June which I haven't done in years. I was an extra in a movie that comes out fall of next year. I started my dream job of working as a librarian at the New Brighton Library. I also became an Independent Consultant for Usborne Books and More. I am looking for something else part time to supplement the extra pay so I can afford to take care of all the coming events in my life.
• I have experienced driving in snow again for the first time in almost THREE years. I was a wreck that day. I got used to it quickly but really hope it doesn't snow again anytime soon. I love how pretty things are when there is snow on the ground but I HATE driving in it.
• What else can I tell you about? I've made a couple new friends since being back in PA and rekindled a few old friendships to. It has been GREAT! I miss my friends who are back in Utah and down in Mississippi a ton though. I have started paying off the debt that is still hanging around. Only two bills to go finally I paid most of it off the middle of the year.
• All in all I guess you could say it has been a great day. A lot has started and a lot has ended and a ton of goals have been reached. The next year will be crazy as well but who wants quite and dull...not me obviously. But I can say that when one door closes another one opens but I'm still waiting for the other one to open.
• I am ready to enjoy the Christmas and New Years Holidays and I am SO ready for that new door to open and to move on. The next time you hear from me it will most likely be the new year and I will fill you in on the goals for next year. I'm off to clean my room and BAKE only two more kinds of cookies to make and I'm done. Christmas Eve party as usual so next Friday will be kinda crazy and apparently Aunt Brenda is coming home for Christmas. Later!!