2015: I Want to Forget

No year is perfect, since we don't live in a perfect world.  But, God is good and this list is a LOT shorter than what I want to remember, and I'm posting it first to get the bad over with. ;)  On the plus side, most of these are not terrible, horrible, no good very bad things, and some of them are funny to look back on and have their pluses and learning experiences.  But, you know....so there was more than, like, two things I threw them in there. ;)

1) Getting Stuck In Snow
At least I wasn't driving!  That whole experience where the van (and trailer) got stuck at the bottom of the hill-driveway that leads to the mansion where we have our winter retreats...yeah, that was an interesting, like, two-hour happening.  Needless to say, we walked all of the stuff up through snow, the van finally managed to get up the mountain, and the trailer stayed at the bottom until we left.

2) The Occasional YG Drama
This needs no explanation.

3) Writing Too-Many AP Lit Essays!

 4) The Flu
Yeah, that was really bad.  I had the flu so bad this spring that I missed a whole week of school, work, and life in general.

5) Wasting 9 Hours of my Life Taking my 3 AP Tests
Yes, I was brain dead afterward.  The good news is, I at least got actual college credit for them because I got a 5 in both Lit and Lang and a 4 in Stats!

6) Sudden Attack of Multitudes of Car Trouble
Yeah.  I don't like spending much on my car.  And I also really don't like it when it won't start.  So I spend money.

7) The Whole Being-Miserable-Linewiping-Before-I-Learned-My-Lesson Episode
This is kinda hard to explain, but suffice it to say that due to some changes at work, I had to do something that I was absolutely miserable while doing, but then I learned my lesson and God fixed it all up and, of course, as seems to be the trend, I got lots of new friends out of it.

8) Any sinful thoughts, words, actions, etc.  
Thankfully, I have a Father who forgives me when I ask,  and remembers my sin no more.  Praise God!



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