2012 Year in Review - Gif Parade

Rather than blather on about my year in a long rambling post, I'll let the magic of Gifs sum it up:

January 2012

New Years in Tasmania

 Self-imposed Fast Food ban over!

February

Wandered through the Outback

March

Living under my friend's stairs

Leaving Australia

 42 hours of flights and layovers

Finally getting off the plane

And Then...  I'm Home!

Job interview with JetLag

April

I got the job!!

May & June

Meh...

July

Birthday - 31

I bought a house!!

and got broken into

August 

September

October

Broken Into Again

And several more weeks of...

then finally...

My1st Halloween giving out candy

November

Thanksgiving at my house

(with a ton of help from my sister!)

The Fridge Stops Working on Thanksgiving

December

Blood is dripping from the walls... this house is possessed!

whew... not actually possessed after all!

And the remainder of the year to come

Christmas with the Family

New Years with Stasia

and ??? (honestly, there's no telling!)

Happy Holidays and Have a Fabulous New Year!!

Oh So Sad...

Why?

Because today I wore socks to work.

There is a direct correlation between my happiness and amount of airflow accessible to my little toes.  

Today was also the first day since May where I didn't have a single bead of sweat drip down my back.  And this is not a good thing.   I love the heat.  It makes me feel alive.  What I don't like is the frigid mind numbing winters that Korea has... and I can feel it in the air, it's almost here!  I've hardly been able to enjoy fall (which is typically my favorite season) because with every big breezy gust of wind, I can't help but think that a few weeks from now, those big gusts are going to knock the wind out of me and have me shivering in my office praying for someone to turn on the heat.

Oh well... c'est la vie.  There is nothing I can do about it.

Oh, but to rub salt in my already foot stifled day,  I had to give another teacher seminar today.  It was the second day of my third series of seminars.  Out of the ten or so participants only 3 ever bothered to speak, at all.  One of the mute ones did eventually speak.  He only said one sentence...  "You look very tired."

 

Great.  Thanks.  That's the polite way of saying "you look like shit."   And I got 10 hours of sleep last night.   Go figure!