2018 was bananas. I don’t just mean the country falling down around us, or Earth continuing its slow decline because we’re killing it, or the general insanity that has come to what feels like the entire world. Though all of those things are also true. It’s just been a crazy year, personally. I won’t remember the insanity in the future {yyaaaayyy bad memory}, so I thought I’d write up a few of the ‘highlights’ of the year. I’m intentionally avoiding the worst things that happened this year, by the way. Keeping it positive, but adding in some things that were just unique. I’ll have a normal end-of-2018 post later on, with stats and such.

1. I have a nephew! He’s a chubby little ball of love and I can’t handle how cute he is.
2. Hurricane Florence has to take the {almost} top spot, right? It was our first evacuation.
   • Shane and I took our boys and fled to the mountains of North Carolina. We didn’t spend that long up there, but I really feel like the weekish we spent dealing with the Hurricane put me behind on my to-do list by several weeks. I never recovered, and have been playing catch up since September.
   • Thankfully, my area of MB was fairly unscathed. Our grocery stores weren’t stocked for awhile and the roads were so flooded that we couldn’t leave town for awhile, but that was really it. Other people had it much worse. I still wish I had volunteered to help out, but maybe next hurricane.
3. Shane got a new job! He had like 3 or 4 interviews for it, then started the week after his last one.
4. We moved to Myrtle Beach in a grand total of 4 weeks from the day of his last interview. He had his last interview on April 12th and my parents drove the UHaul down on May 12th.
   • I had to pack the old apartment up without a lot of help because Shane had to be here to work. He did help when he could.
   • Tau immediately got a UTI when we got here and has been a different {re: needy} cat ever since.
5. We celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary by forgetting it, packing all day, then saying ‘Happy Anniversary’ exhaustedly on the couch. Classic us.
6. We visited Washington, DC in February {I had a conference} and Nashville, TN {I had another conference} in December. Both were cold, rainy, awesome trips.
7. We discovered Huntington Beach State Park which has quickly become one of our favorite places in MB.
   • Turns out I like taking pictures of birds.
8. Driving back to spend a day at work means I have to drive up the night before and I have dodged the following:
   • A tornado. A real, touched down a few miles from my car tornado.
   • A thunderstorm complete with hail.
   • Two separate hurricanes.
9. I gained 20 pounds since we moved here.
10. Moving here has been a hard transition. We don’t know anyone, we’re in a place neither is very familiar with, and it’s really lonely sometimes. I do like that Shane and I get to spend a ton of time together.
11. I started this blog and I’ve really enjoyed blogging!