Another year has gone by and from a traveling standpoint, this was by far one of the least exciting years I have had in a long time. I pretty much worked most of the year and didn’t take too many days off to travel and/or enjoy life.
The year started off running head first into busy season at work. I went from one client to another each week. I was able to travel a couple of the weeks for business, Chicago and St. Pete Beach. In Chicago, we ate at some local restaurants and I was able to shop the first night I got there, which is always a highlight in my book. I made sure to stop by the Lego Store and check out all the new collections for the year. Of course I didn’t leave the store empty handed!
As busy season for work was coming to an end, I was gearing up for some much needed travel. Right before my trips started, I purchased one of the best items ever created…an iPad!!! Yes, I was one of the people standing in line at Apple the day it came out with 3G on April 30th. Oh, I must mention I was the first one in line (thanks mom for helping make that happen). A week later with the iPad in hand, I was off to London to visit my dear friend Danielle Murphy. I was only there for four days but we made sure to jam as much as possible in that four day weekend. If you would like to see fabulous pictures and read more about the trip, check out my blog entry at:
http://dsrliving.blogspot.com/2010/05/trip-to-london-was-absolutely-fabulous.html
I had a couple weeks in town to recoup and then it was off to Iowa to visit relatives and celebrate Memorial Day. It was a weekend filled with stories, laughs, eating, gathering, cards, and of course trips to the cemetery…Love it! The rest of the year was filled with tons of work, church and some day trips.
Over the past several years I have wanted to start attending church regularly, reading God’s word, and separating myself from the night life scene. There was always something standing in the way it seemed (mostly soccer)…well not this year. Since April, I have been attending First Baptist Church of Naples. Even though I was christened as a child, I decided to be baptized in the Gulf this summer on July 25th. Since then, I have been reading God’s word daily, going to weekly church services, and attending different groups/ministries in the church. It’s been a tough second half of the year though, as I have confronted my vices and I am in the process of changing, healing, and moving forward. I believe this was an essential step I needed to take in order to walk and live a life for God and not myself or for others. As Andrew Peterson wrote in one of his songs, “The only way to find your life is to lay your own life down.” Isn’t that the truth…well, it has definitely been a life changing year!
After working so much I have decided to take three months off next summer to go on a dream trip I have had for several years to the Middle East area (Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, & Egypt) for half of the time and then volunteer the remainder of the time. Needless to say, I am ready for 2010 to be over and looking forward to the adventures of 2011!
“Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.” – 2 John 1:3
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