This list is non-exhaustive, and the order is only a little particular.
- Over the summer, worked as a barista at Starbucks and host at a local sushi restaurant, sometimes 55 hours/week!
- Moved to college and lucked into some wonderful roommates (who were interested in me partly because of reading this blog!)1
- Took the photo on the homepage of this site
- Reconnected with a former (no longer former!) best friend
- Made my first in-person Apple Store purchase
- Played Beat Saber for the first time
- Gave a presentation on credit
- Got a crash course in dealing with car insurance
- Read The Other Significant Others, about friendship, and liked it a lot
- Gave a presentation on the importance of close friends
- Finally transitioned my writing to this blog
- Became a steadfast believer in “not wasting any time” on the dishes and throwing them ~straight into the dishwasher, partly thanks to Technology Connections
- Sent dozens of postcards and letters to a handful of people
- Found out shaving doesn’t have to be painful (got a Braun S9 Sport from Costco after years of using a safety razor)2
- Visited several specialty coffee shops
- Got a projector (XGIMI MoGo 2 Pro) on clearance from Sam’s Club, mostly to watch Impractical Jokers on the wall3
- Completed an online training that allows me access to my university’s podcast studio
- Started listening to music more often
- Went to the post office more often than I care to admit
- Found out it’s possible to lose track of time and talk for hours, only realizing this once the sun starts to come up; who knew!
- Started thinking of this quote from Experimental History and decided I might know what it means
- “And yes, love is all of those things. But it’s not only those things. […] That’s why, at a happy wedding, the couple looks like they know a secret that no one else knows, a secret that no one else can know.“
1Which has led me to write off all my spending on the services to run it as 100% worth it
2I’ve started writing a post about this; it might eventually see the light of day.
3The thing is actually fantastic and might warrant a mini review.
I compiled this list by memory and scrolling through my photo library. I will start keeping a rolling list, adding things as they happen, which should make for a more interesting post next season.