Top Ten Things I Learned in 2009

1. You’re never too old to learn. I'm living proof.

2. Holidays are never the same without the ones you love. I wish I still had my grandparents.

3. The word “minority, etc.” shouldn’t be in our vocabulary. Electing a human being without a label….now that’s progress.

4. This is my last year to wear regular glasses. Moving on up to bifocals in 2010. Yippee.

5. I don’t know everything (and never will), and that’s OK.

6. I’m the only one responsible for my behavior, actions, moods, etc. Accept it or change it, and deal with it.

7. If you don’t like you, nobody else will either.

8. If you’re not being gossiped about, well, you must be dead.

9. Karma is fiction. I know plenty of people that never get what they deserve, but who am I to judge?

10. Life goes on with or without you.