I’ve sat down to write a Happy New Decade or Where the Last Ten Years of My Life Have Gone post several times now, and with every draft I found myself tallying up the bits and pieces of my past ten years in ever-lengthening lists. I want to account for everything, to tot it all up in a giant spreadsheet or ledger and say, “this is how I account for the time I’ve spent”. This behavior, while somewhat out of character for me, I think, was spurred on by a lingering winter funk/sick baby/cranky child and an irrational need to prove that I have accomplished something in my life. My lists, while helpful for me to write, were nothing like dooce’s, and many of the really meaty things of my past decade were unbloggable and therefore excluded. On top of all that, due to this lingering funk I wanted to prove just how hard I’ve been working even though I don’t have any book tours or talk show appearances to show for it. I wanted to write lists with things like “washed, dried, folded and put away 234 loads of laundry in 2009″ on it. But really, who cares?

And so, I leave 2009 and the most dramatic decade of my life to date with this: Farewell noughties. It was fun, it was tough and I hope I learn as much in the next ten years as I did this past decade.

See you all in 2010!

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