2010 Is Gone: Looking Toward a Great Future In 2011

To say that 2010 started off horribly would be a gross understatement.

I started 2010 in a walking boot with my fourth broken ankle in ten years.  Usually when I break my ankle is was physical activity related, but this time it was such a freak accident and a fairly funny story.

My dogs were being extreme assholes, like only one year old dogs can be. They had been unusually hyper for 8:30 in the morning, and I was in my morning zombie ritual.

I was in the process of getting out of the shower, stepped down right on to a ball that hadn’t been there before. Of course, I step directly down on to the ball, and it starts to roll. I go with it, and before I can even attempt to catch myself, my leg is behind the toilet in a very precarious position. A burn of pain began to spread.

That is when things had started to go downhill.

A few weeks later I had gotten a migraine of a magnitude unlike ever before. When I get a migraine, it lasts a day or two—three at most. This one would last a whole ten days; there were hours when I was completely blind. I just wanted to die.

I didn’t go to the hospital because I didn’t have health insurance and, without working, I didn’t have any money to pay for it.

A total damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.

Despite my fiancée’s pleas and demands, I never went to the hospital to get a simple shot that could have prevented my condition from getting worse.

The migraine caused a severe concussion, and I was virtually unconscious for the next seven months. I would like to describe what happened from January to early July, but I don’t really remember.

I do know on June 9^th, I got engaged and exactly two years from that date I’ll be married. Things started to look up there, right?

That didn’t solve the issue of me not having a job, being broke, and potentially having to move in with family, like so many others during these hard economic times.

Right about then though luck started turning around, and a good friend of mine got a job as a manager at a site of a very big virtualization company. I started studying for my interview with his help, doing well enough in the interview to get the job.

There was one small downfall, though. We had to move from Seattle, a city that I have loved my whole life, to East Wenatchee, WA.

The area is beautiful. It’s right at the edge of the Cascades. I do mean edge too: it’s 25 minutes from my driveway to Mission Ridge. I live just above the Columbia River, and everywhere I look is a snow covered ridge, peak or valley. 

It’s absolutely beautiful.

The downside is that I only have a couple friends here, and I love Asian food but that is virtually non-existent.

I am grateful for this turn of events.  I love my job and the people with whom I work. I can handle missing some Asian food for a little while. I am learning to make my own and getting fairly decent at it.

The opportunity this provides to build a solid foundation for my career. It's amazing and really has limitless potential both in career growth and earning potential. I cannot state how happy I am with this job.

I’ve also realized that sometimes not all dreams are meant to be.

I have tried to so hard for many years to make my film dreams come true, being very close at times but some bad events made it more difficult. I still love to write and would love to make films, yet I am thirty years old and need to do what is best for my financial present and future.

My current career is stable and opens a lot of growth; with film and writing, less than 1% make it with many going homeless along the way. Believe me, I’ve been there and I know how taxing it is.

I love where I’m at right now in life. The future is bright, and I’m very excited about it. 2011 is going to be a very good year. I will be 100% out of debt and in a much better position financially, which is fantastic.

I’m very excited about life, and I hope everyone out there is as equally excited and doing something that they love.