08-08-08 January 17, 2008

That is my birthday this year!  Pretty spectacular, huh?  All those 8’s mean ties to infinity.  Truthfully, I am just glad to be out of ‘07!  For some reason last year seemed to be the year of falling down, scraping knees, and lots of Bactine.  But ‘08 seems to be great!  Why?  It seems that when a year has been a struggle that by the end of it you are just clawing your way to the finish line of New Years.  This New Years was different for me.

I decided to go out this year since my kids were spending the evening with their dad.  It was the first time in a few years that I the chance to go and party on that infamous party night.  I attended a roaring singles jam with some friends and all I could think about was that by 12:00 I wanted to be by myself!  I didn’t want to kiss a slobbery stranger.  I didn’t want to peck a friend’s cheek.  I wanted to stand outside under the brilliant and crisp sky and hug myself into this year of 2008.  And that’s just what I did.

At 12:00 I stood outside still decked out in my party attire and waited.  I knew I was a minute away but I didn’t need the huge ball from Time’s Square to notify me.  At 12:01 I felt it.  All of a sudden my feet felt like they hit the ground with a thud, even though they were squarely on the earth at the time.  At 12:01 I felt the air around me still and a rhythmic beating in my heart seem to steady.  At 12:01 I knew that this year, the year of 2008, was going to be my greatest year yet.  I knew in my heart even before I heard the cacophony of sound erupt from the neighboring houses, that this year had just settled in around me like a warm coat to create a time of stupendous abundance and my dreams that I had worked so hard to build to come to fruition.  At 12:01 on January 1st, 2008 I knew……..