Welcome 2010
Ten years ago today I was married to my first husband. We’d just spent a New Years Eve doing something I honestly don’t even remember. The only thing I do remember about it was that we were living with my father and when we woke up ten years and one day ago, we were watching the year 2000 ring in across the country and realizing there was no Y2K madness to be afraid of.
Today I’m in a very different place. I’m divorced from him and someone else. I don’t speak to my father anymore. I am on my own and making a lot more money. And I have LC and this great apartment with him.
This last decade brought me two divorces and more heartbreak than I ever thought possible. So today I welcome a new one. A new decade in time. Even though it’s not a round decade in age for me, it still feels like something big. Some big passage of time. Possibly more because of all that happened than anything else.
In the past ten years I divorced two husbands, moved five times, met and banished my very own Mr. Big, loved four cats and lost three, and found what I imagine to be my life’s partner. That’s a big ten years.
Today, I look forward to ten more. Maybe I’ll get married, maybe I’ll have kids. Maybe I won’t. I intend to drink a lot of good wine, eat a lot of great food, enjoy the company of the best friends I’ve ever known, and be happy. I am determined that my life has turned around and I’m going to keep it and me on track.
I stopped doing resolutions a long time ago. I resolve not to resolve. It’s a good plan as I always manage to meet my goal. I hope for a lot though. And I hope not to lose hope. I hope for the best.
So to all of you on the first day of 2010 and of a new decade, I wish the same. I wish for good wine, good food, good friends, and hope. May you find your dreams. Happy New Year!
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Great post!! I too have a divorce “under my belt” from the last decade, so this year (and decade?!), it’s all about me, and rediscovery. I love your blog, it’s a great read, and I look forward to your posts this year! Cheers!
I hope we have a great year together!
ya know, so often we just do a “year in review” (self included) and just look back at the last 12 months – but you’re right to look at the last 10 years as a whole like this. i too fought through two divorces within the past 10 years, countless moves, and more heartache than i ever want to reflect on. so cheers to not only a new year that’s upon us – but a brand new decade to make our own. Happy New Decade!
Sometimes it helps to see how far you’ve come, you know? I have a feeling this year and decade will be great for both of us.
Oh wow.. I was thinking nearly the same thing yesterday, only I married my second husband (Dr. D: father of all my munkees) 10 years ago.
Wishing you the very best for this new decade; you definitely have the positive attitude for it! Cheers to Twenty-Ten & the Teen Years!
The teen years sounds so angsty and melodramatic. Here’s to hoping they’re nothing like my own teen years!
NYE Y2K was spent with my fiance’ as we were getting married later that year. I’d been at my job for ten years. NYE Y2X found me divorced (again) and “downsized” from my job of twenty years, but with a great new career starting up and enjoying the relatively new spoils of two lovers (well, 3 if you count booty-call guy). Losing the husband and the job in the same decade, much less the same YEAR, was tough but I am better for both of those happening. 2010 is going to be a blessing!
Here’s hoping it’s everything you wish for and more.
Happy New Year! You deserve it!
As do you!
We live, we make mistakes, we learn and we move on.;)
I still have to perfect the moving on part. I’ve got the making mistake bit down pat I think.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step. Or so I hear.
I’ve made amazing progress in the moving on front. Still a little to go but progress is good.
HELLO! It’s been a month, why are you not blogging?!
Clearly, I’m dead.