Recaping a Decade

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Borrowing this post from *Insert My Blog Name Here*, I've decided to recap the past 10 years. When you think about it, the end of 2009 not only marks the closing of a year, but of an entire decade! That's kind of strange right? At the tender age of 22, I've only seen about 2 of these babies I take them "very" seriously! Let's begin!

2000: Welcome to a year of misery, disappointment, and dreams. This is the year that I entered into 8th grade where I overheard 2 of the popular boys in the library whispering about all the hair that was growing in all these strange places. My friend and I giggled for days even though we had no clue what they were talking about. This was also the year that I realized racism still exist and that my parent's relationship was falling to pieces. I wrote a lot of random poetry that I immediately ripped up. And I failed a class (earth science) for the first and last time. My sister ran away (which strangely made my life a little easier) and got pregnant (which made me an aunt...again). I wanted nothing more than to start over again in High School.

In 2001, I entered into--hands down--the best year of my high school career, 9th grade! Running off the steam of a new school and a new outlook, I got a completely new hip wardrobe from my older sisters, I entered into my 3rd talent show (I didn't win but every said I did a great job!), and consequently crushed on nobody! At home my parents rarely spoke, we got Internet and cable, and I was finally able to have friends over (my parents were very strict). This was also the year that Health Ed taught me that boys had wet dreams, that girls had been dealt the short end of the mating stick, and that my condition was called "late bloomer".

2002: Depression. This was the single darkest year of my entire life. I think my parents knew but they were too busy bitterly separating to do anything about it. I cried myself to sleep every-single-night without fail. I ate (close to) nothing. I befriended no one. I dated no one. I was different and I paid for it. Daily. By day, I was sweet, light hearted, and playful. I took hateration like a glass of water. I got dirty sneers from girls and women alike. Guys wouldn't be caught dead talking to me. They'd just stare at me when they thought I wasn't looking. I thought I was being punished by God so I prayed several times a day to ask him to forgive me for whatever I had done.


2003: By my Junior year, I had become completely cynical, sarcastic, and uninterested in the opinion of the female sex. I enjoyed criticism. I enjoyed hateration. I lived for it. I started looking at what and who really mattered to me and dismissing anything else. Guys became a game to me and I played with them mercilessly. I found my first true friends and I turned 16. I had a smart mouth and I used it. I wasn't mean but I definitely wasn't nice. For some unknown reason, this only made me more popular. Funny how that happens.

2004: As far as I was concerned, my senior year of high school was just a bridge from my old life to my new one. After overhearng a guy I'd never met warn another guy not to hit on my sister or me because our brother might beat him up, I discovered that people feared our brother so they avoided Pattie and I. Wow. That solved a couple mysteries. Around this time, I also realized that grown men found me attractive and sought me out on a regular basis. Suddenly, the opinion of anyone under 20 was irrelevant. Also, I opened my first email account, got my first cellphone, and my first car. To say the very least, things were looking up.

2005: I graduated high school. Thank You Lord. My freshmen year of college was a breathe of fresh air! The freedom was remarkable. I could never go back to how things used to be. Ever. My father visited often. In the span of 2 months, my male prospects went from none to too many! I fell for a 35 year old student/ex-military who tutored me in Algebra and thought I was hopelessly innocent and beautiful. The bubble popped however when he found out just how innocent I really was. Haha. Than, one of the guys I turned down named John became my best friend. John taught me lots of things about men that I never knew. He fell for me too. But, we never got together. At night, I still longed for what was missing but by day I was fun and fabulous.

2006: I think of this year as the turning point in my life. I rekindle a friendship with a girlfriend that I had stopped talking to for two years. I moved into my first apartment, I lost my best friend John, my parents separated, I met a guy named C who I despised. I got kicked out of my apartment. I had to stay in a friend's dorm. I told all my problems and goals to the guy I despised (C). I got a new apartment. I felt alone, but wasn't. My Dad was there. My friends were there and so was C. I fell for a guy named Corey. My friend C fell for me. Corey didn't want me because I wouldn't have sex and I didn't want C because I still kind of disliked him... I ended the year tired and very confused.

2007: I fell for my friend C after knowing him for a year. Upon my request, we kept or relationship a secret. He was and is my first boyfriend, my first kiss, my first.. pretty much everything. People finally found us out around September but we didn't care by than. Oh. I never looked at one of my sisters them same after this year. Her actions still hurt me until this day.

2008: Paddie joined me in college and we moved in together! I also did a Hospitality Internship in Hilton Head where I met friends from all over the world! The whole summer, you had to be 21 to get in a club. The sad thing was that I was 20 but my birthday was in August. Sad. I also grew closer to my family. I started avoiding my mother less.

2009: Pattie and I started this blog and have been addicted ever since. I studied aboard in Quebec, Canada with my Bestie during the summer and discovered that Canadians like Americans just as little as everyone else does. Than, my Bestie got engaged and I (mememe) am her maid of honor and Wedding Planner!! C (aka The Man) and I had our first big fight and our first big break thru! All in all it was a great year and a even better decade!