Normally I have these year-in-review blogs finished by now but seeing there's just hours left in the year shows how busy and behind a lot of things I am.
I'll start, I guess, with the most important thing. In an effort to finally being both financially independent and an independent adult, in July I took on the task of being able to balance 2 jobs, I began working the overnight shift at Winco, a grocery store. My sleep schedule (and personal schedule, for that matter) were both drastically altered. I get 8 hours of sleep a day, just not in a row, and then I get Friday off from both to catch up on everything but sleep. I love what I do, and I like the full-time employment and the pay and the benefits that come with it. I don't want to do it forever, I've actually had people offer me a third job, I just don't have the time for.
Right at this time last year, I was ringing in the New Year with a long-time friend who I thought I would end up with beyond friendship. Flying in from Florida a couple times, I would either pick her up from the airport or make sure we were able to go out and spend time and get caught up together, and after a year of what I thought was going to end up in the positive, in the summer she politely let me know she didn't feel anything for me romantically, needless to say I took it pretty hard for a while, and I had a lot of questions without answers and the answers I did get I felt like were dodgeball answers. We're still friends it's just weird now, and with that I think I'll permanently give up ever looking for true love. It's all a waste of time.
In July, I was shooting the races at Superbowl speedway like I normally do when my schedule allows, and witnessed the unthinkable and unimaginable. We once again learned the dangers of racing first-hand and saw a fatal accident at the track. The outpouring of love and support from a young man who wasn't well-known at the track (he wasn't a regular, I had only seen him there twice before this season) was heartwarming and also the increased safety efforts at the track to ensure an incident like that never happens again.
I was able to attend my 20th-high school reunion in September. It was a lot of fun, some friends, we picked up right where we left off 20 years ago, and made new memories and reconnected with some long-lost friends as well.
I was poised to get an apartment, again, to finally be on my own as an independent adult. I had signed the lease, I had paid the down payment, and I had cleared all the background checks (I think me being a registered Republican/2X Trump supporter was my only fault...I kid...), and a week-and-a-half before my move-in date, they called and let me know I made too much money and I was disqualified from living there. I was devastated and have begun the agonizing process of looking for another place to stay with very little to no leads.
On the concert front, I was only able to attend one, but it was a good one. In June I saw the band Red, my 2nd-favorite band, for the 7th time ever. It was their first concert in 18 months, first show with a brand-new drummer, and I think it may have been the best show they have put on in the years I have seen them. Was an amazing night, and I was able to get a picture with their bassist Randy after their set.
That's really about all that's fit to print, outside of RPM and Superbowl Speedway (my home tracks) I went to Devils' Bowl Speedway in April for my first weekly show there (I usually attend Sprint Car races there) and I went to 2 races at the Texas Motor Speedway dirt track, and finally saw some prominent dirt late model drivers in person for the first-time ever. All were great nights of racing.
With that being said, 2020 was the longest 6 years of my life, while 2021 went by in a breeze. It wasn't a good year or a bad year, just lots of weird things and a lot of both forgettable and unforgettable events.
What's on store in '22? Only God knows and as Switchfoot sang in the song "Let It Happen", "I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future"
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