ByeBye Last Year – My Timeline of 2011

Hello there, fellow survivors of the 2011 - 2012 change of year! Who would've thought that another year would pass, this year too! How was everyone's New Years? Ours was spent in the comfy at-a-friend's way with my B and with the boys. I'm good with how relaxed our NYE was.

Thank you all for the love & support in the past year,
for sticking along, inspiring me, and making this blog worth updating!

Wishing you all a happy and successful New Year filled with love!
Let 2012 be a good one ♥

This past year has been unusually rough for me and I haven't always updated you blog people on what's been going on. To update where I am at right now, let 2011 rest in peace and to start off fresh with 2012;

I want to share my timeline of 2011!

Start of the year 2011

The year 2011 started off well for me; the holidays were such a perfect time for me and my mr.B. I guess that winter we really discovered "us" with B. I enjoyed a luxurious Birthday dinner and we were doing so well in general. I didn't care about how I looked, didn't notice I'd gained weight, we were just enjoying ourselves so much.

February - March 2011

After the holidays I continued my Business studies and B was back to working. I'd study all week while B would be away working, often for 4-day work trips out of town. I thought it was a hard time for us, being separated. Seems like nothing now.

We would go to B's parents' house for the weekends while he'd come stay at my place between work days. I was constantly running between houses and started getting tired of it.

I started dreaming of us moving in together - and I started talking to B about, or talking him into, moving in with me.

March - April 2011

Me and B celebrated our anniversary, he gave me a certain magnificent gift to wear around my finger, and during March I got B convinced on that we should move in together. I'm not sure if he wanted to move out as much as I wanted him to, but we started looking for apartments.

Quicker than we'd thought, we found a dream apartment - and moved in by Easter.

Our new apartment was big, right the sea, close to both of our families, just everything. It was not cheap but we managed since B could work full time and I'd soon graduate. I was thrilled to finally settle down with B, and really start our life. Life was just too good to be true, I thought we had it all. To think about it, we did.

May 2011

Then came the big bang. A big, unexpected, nasty change came along and threw everything around. I will not go into detail here telling you about it, but just think of it as something no-one could've predicted, and that totally threw our budget & plans off balance.

Suddenly we weren't sure if we could keep our apartment, and everything was insecure.

For the good memories, we did take our trip to Rome since we'd already booked it. I think we were both stressed out as hell, but it's still one of my good memories.

From then on, the upcoming weeks / months were full of stress, a lot of arguing and questioning everything. I would work every day and could still not secure our "future". I am pretty sure B went quite depressed, and on most days I would cry at some point of the day.

Summer of 2011

After the shocking change in May, getting hang of that it was actually summer took some time. After weeks of fighting and crying, me & B slowly started to realize we'd have to make it out of our tricky situation together and our living together started to work out.

When I wasn't working, we would go ride B's bike (about which I never got to blog yet!) and cook together, watch movies etc. Just try to relax. Regardless the hard situation we were still in, I'd find moments when I would think "man, regardless of this crap, we are still extremely lucky to have each other".

Though I knew that we might have to move out any time, I tried not to think about it.

Fall of 2011

Like said before, the summer went by with us basically knowing that we might not be able to keep our apartment, and in August we finally decided to stop renting it and were set to move out in September. As we did not find ourselves a suitable second apartment to move in with B, we had to both move back to our parents. For "the time being" - I am still not sure how long it will be like this.

Moving out and moving back to my parents was, and still is, a real hard piece of cake for me.

After the summer, which was a pile of arguments and me crying, came the fall of accepting we'd have to leave the apartment we'd just gotten (my biggest dream having been moving in with B). Oh, I shed a few tears.

With how crampy I've been I honestly I can't say I'd have been a particularly good daughter, girlfriend or friend since the beginning of the summer.

Rest of the Year 2011

On the last two months of the year, I've slowly gotten over the Summer and the having-to-move-out, and accepting that that just had to be done, and we'll get another chance to move in together. There have been better times but life's still not completely back to 'normal'.

School wise I've been pretty productive this year, and like I've said a thousand times, I'm getting closer to graduating with my majoring-in-marketing business studies.

And that brings us to the Holidays and New Years, and to this new year 2012.

OK, I hope at least some of y'all cared to read this and found some explanations in it! It's impossible to really explain how things have been, especially since I don't want to go into too much detail with personal things and have to leave some things out. Still, I'm aware of that my life is still fairly easy compared to some and that I am extremely lucky, so there is no need to inform me of that ♥

I'm ready to kiss bye-byeh to 2011 and start off fresh with this new & hopefully luckier year!

Once more, a happy new year everyone! Be back soon ♥