Wishes granted more than you can measure

So far, 2009 has been kind. I am looking at things around me, and I am divinely grateful for everything that has happened. The year 2008 ended with a drastic event filled stressed to the max uproar that finished in an explosion and left me standing there in the cloud of smoke still wondering exactly how I missed the trick. But...I am no magician. There was much that I accomplished...there was much that I failed at. Things I had planned that just never happened, and crazy twists and turns that randomly appeared on the path.

I.....

• taught my little brother to read
• trained the most obstinate dog in the world, and fell in complete and utter love with him during the process
• helped my kid sister with inumerable things
• got lost in the realms of childhood
• recognized finally that I was being taken advantage of
• stood up for my beliefs and established well needed boundaries
• survived a night job and daytime job of raising kids, while rapidly cycling wildly
• met and fell in love with 6 beautiful, amazing, extroardinary people, and helped to care for them
• discovered my true passion
• said one of the hardest goodbyes I have ever had to say
• let go
• survived a crazy hectic job
• made it through hospitalization, med adjustments, and the craziness that is my brain
• made a decision to leave behind unhealthy situations, and start fresh 
• drove across Canada in late fall/early winter
• got arrested
• eloped
• said one of the utmost hardest goodbyes of my life
• rearranged immediate plans for the future a thousand times
• had a cursed string of bad luck that seemed destined to swallow me whole
• tried to save a man, and potentially acquired Hepatitis C
• acquired another puppy
• discovered the beauty that is the ancestral visa
• discovered the horridness that is the banned breed in the UK
• witnessed humanity at it's lowest
• witnessed humanity at it's absolute best
• nearly became homeless
• received a gift of the most beautiful piece of equipment that I am almost positive I will ever own
•  found an apartment
• became inspired with life