While I wouldn’t say 2008 was the worst year of my life, I wouldn’t exactly say it was my best, either. I’ll shortly chronicle my year:

January 2008
In hindsight? I mostly blogged about nonsense, really. I wrote about the strange google search results that led people to my blog. In all honesty, I cannot recall anything significant happening in my life that month that I didn’t blog about. Which, if you go through January’s posts, you’ll see how tragic that last statement is.

February 2008
I dyed my hair orange. I was interviewed by the Hotfessional as part of Neil’s Great Interview Experiment. Still, nearly a year later, I’m SO glad I participated. I met a lot of great bloggers who I still read. I also posted a paragraphed memory that I still wonder about constantly. And if you haven’t watched this video yet, go. Now.

March 2008
I posted another paragraphed memory. After going through the paragraphed memories I’ve posted, I want to continue with this project I created. I also created love list. I may not be even a mediocre writer, but I do have a lot of things in life to love, even more now than when I created that list.

April 2008
April was kind of my “December,” if you will, of my year. I truly feel like April was the time for all the awful shit to happen in my life. I blogged about the end of my three-year relationship. Reading the follow-up post makes me a bit sick to my stomach. It’s posts like these that make me want to delete my blog. I was so confused about life, what I needed to make me happy. I had no clue what was good for my emotional state and wanted to hold on to whatever was familiar, even if I was unhappy.

May 2008
If April was my December, May was definitely my fresh start, my new year. In May, things started falling together. I went to a conference that started my whole new outlook. After that conference, I really learned that all I’d needed for a different perspective was to get away from home, away from the new Ex. I ended the post with this, “When I arrived home and Shane picked me up, every feeling I’d held for him sort of melted. I don’t want to say they “slipped away” because they didn’t. But a lot of things were wrong in our relationship. After a while, the emotions just weren’t as strong or present. Without revealing too much, Shane and I had been living as friends only for the better part of our three years together. On Sunday, I twittered this and my thoughts when I wrote that have only amplified since then. I’m not saying I’m ready to start pursuing someone new, but I’m going to keep my mind and heart open.” And literally, ONE DAY after posting that? I met Stephen. And he even commented on that post (albeit, using his nickname that he doesn’t quite deserve anymore). Maybe I was starting to fall in love, that could explain this post. Either way, May was the starting point to a better life for me.

June 2008
And June was the month that Stephen broke up with me (for a WHOLE DAY, woah). And I also admitted that I wasn’t a virgin anymore to the internet. All kinds of crazy, that Whitney. A week or so later, I detailed how/why I got back with Stephen. He still calls the break-up a huge mistake on his part, but in my perspective, I kind of needed it. I’d begun to see my relationship too fairy-tale and not real. Relationships, as everyone knows, required work and trust. The latter I hadn’t really given to Stephen. We were off to a rocky start and I wasn’t sure that he wasn’t just a fling.

July 2008
Things started to improve, dramatically. July was actually a pretty crazy month for us. Stephen had moved in at the end of the month (while the ex was living in the house…). Our summer plans were so crazy, that I only posted twice (one being a Timeline post, so not technically a wrap-up of the goings-on). I posted a rambling update while I was in a car, on our way to our latest adventure.

August 2008
I posted a turning point. I think it was from this point that my posts started becoming few and far between, something that I feel bummed about. A lot of wonderful things have happened for me, for us, and I don’t like depriving my wonderful readers of them. I’ll remedy that this year. I threw up a post of mainly summer photos and I posted a post that I still love.

September 2008
Stephen proposed. And really? That was by far the COOLEST thing that happened that month.

October 2008
Aaaaand now for a down time. Shortly after my birthday, . Mostly financial, because emotionally, I couldn’t have been better up to that point. And then the entire blogworld reached out and gave me love, be it Target gift cards (thank you merry mishaps!) or delicious pumpkin muffins (thank you Lina!) or a million billion emails. I love you all. Seriously.

November 2008
Haha, well it would have helped it I posted something, right? November was a busy time for us. I’d started to reveal to family that we were expecting. I spent Thanksgiving with Stephen’s family and we started seriously discussing wedding plans. Things were becoming increasingly difficult with the deadbeat roommate, but we tried not to let it bother us.

December 2008
I announced that I was knocked up. There is still a much-needed follow-up post to that coming (including taking the pregnancy test in a McDonalds bathroom…). I didn’t blog it, but I tweeted it a plenty of why/how we kicked the roommate out. It was a pretty dramatic, to say the least.

Now that January is here, there are so many things we have to be grateful for. Stephen got a job, a perfect, wonderful job. He comes home upbeat every day, is paid well and gets TWO hour-long paid breaks. I mean, if that’s not reason to love your job, what it? My mortgage company mailed me a letter saying that my house could be saved, as it is a subsidiary of Freddie Mac. The baby is doing well, expanding my stomach in astronomical ways. Our house has stayed consistently clean. Work is going great for me, my boss is amazing. Our families are probably the most selfless, wonderful people in the world. Stephen and I are planning an August wedding (yes, that’s THREE months after the baby’s due date). Life is looking up. 2009 is going to be a good year.

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