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2017: Gooch Year 38–The Lost Year
By Gooch | January 9, 2018
I haven’t written one of these birthday wrap-ups in a couple of years. Here’s the summary of those missed years.:
36 (2015): Happy to have a job, met someone who I seriously fell in love with, moved her in to my apartment, Bermuda cruise, she moved back home and that sucked a lot.
37 (2016): New car, Pops passing away, first flight in 15 years to see that special someone and reconnecting, mom might move, making a huge decision to leave NYC and being scared out of my head.
So now we come to 2017…the lost year. Why do I call it that? To some extent, I was lost. I woke up on this day last year, my age hit me and I started worrying about everything I was doing in my life. I had my mid-life crisis, got lost in it and in the process, lost not only an important relationship, but more importantly a friendship. On top of that, I started getting anxious about what was going to take me out, given my paternal family history, along with losing an uncle (mom’s brother). It has only been the past couple of months that I have finally gotten comfortable with my age and where I am in life.
Not all of the year was bad. As always there was my Yankee fandom, which took me to Pittsburgh for an April weekend. The games were good (even though we only went 1-2), but surprisingly it was the PNC Park season ticket holders and the usher for that section I was in that made that weekend a big success. I rolled over to a CNR employee. I also lost 60 lbs. over the course of the year and feel much better. I met some new old friends (shout out to the Gothamist Commentariat).
So what does the last year of my 30s hold? I’m hoping to get some more road trips in. The possible list of Yankee away games has been already tabulated. Maybe I’ll actually get to Canada.
I got a damn good piece of advice New Year’s Eve (thanks Luis) that I’m taking to heart: I may not be as young as I feel, but I’m still young and there’s plenty ahead.
Topics: Christine, DB/CNR/Mercy, Driving, Family, Friends, Health, Home, Love, Mom, No FB, No Tweet, NYC, Roads, Sports, Terence, Work, Yankees | No Comments »
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