I haven’t posted anything in a little while. It isn’t because my father-in-law is still here – he left nearly a week ago. It isn’t for lack of ideas – I have a long list of topics to write about, and I even have a draft that’s been in the works for a while now.
I don’t know. Nothing felt “right,” if that makes sense. And I know that when I force myself to write, it turns out like crap.
But still, I don’t want to abandon my blog. Sooooo…
Last year was the new year – shifting from 2013 to 2014. Now, 2013 was a pretty intense and crazy year for me. I mean, I got married and moved across the world to a country, a region I had never been before. And that’s just a tiny preview of my year.
My best friend, B, and I went through a lot in 2012 – not necessarily together, though we were together for a lot of it, just that we both, individually had a lot of crap going on. We both ruled 2012 as the worst (though her 2011 might have even been slightly more terrible, which it horrid because I was there to see her 2012 and we were both having a rough time). By the very end of 2012 – and I mean within the last week or two – things were starting to look up. She had had a life-changing revelation, which unfortunately came in following the death of a friend. I was beginning to recover from my divorce. And we vowed, together, that 2013 would be the best ever.
Sometimes it crazy that B and I are so close since our lives follow such incredibly different paths. She’s still back in the US, but is embarking on a life as a writer and traveler and finishing up her degree, looking at what to do for grad school. I am in Oman, happily settling into a domestic life after quitting school in 2012. (That is a long, annoying story.) In spite of differences in life goals and physical distance, we remain close. Like, obnoxiously close. We pretty much speak our own dialect of English to each other.
At the end of 2013, on Christmas Eve, we spoke on the phone and talked about the year we’d had. We vowed, again, to make 2014 even better.
To whoever, if anyone, is reading this, I wish you most sincerely a blessed and happy new year. May your 2014 be better than your 2013.
The Perpetual Expat 