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2022 Year End Review

Natalie Hofreiter

It’s a year full of fun adventures and big life changes. I’ve blogged a lot of it, so I’ll link the posts, but here is an overview of 2022.

January

  • My youngest brother moved to VA

  • First hematology appointment to check out some irregular bloodwork

  • Turned 36

  • First Highland games without the fam

  • Celebrated Lucy’s 12th gotcha day

February

  • Fell and hurt myself - as usual

  • Hawks nested at work and started attacking people

  • Went to see the Manatees

  • My first colonoscopy & endoscopy and first time under anesthesia - super scary, but damn those drugs are good

  • Chuck-E-Cheese with Mom, Chris, M&H

March

April

  • Post Modern Jukebox concert

  • Saw spring snow in NC

  • Caught Covid

  • M&H made us a good well activity book and cards - that someone stole off of our front porch

  • Orchids bloomed

May

June

July

August

September

October

  • ALASKA!!

  • Christopher turned 38

  • Seattle

  • Got nail art for the first time 

  • Visited the town game store, Wolf Den Games

  • Went to a corn maze

  • Chris & I got sick with some kind of cold/virus situation, I think I eventually had pink eye and strep it was horrible

  • We had 31 trick or treaters, my parents only had 4 last year

November

  • Went on a date day to Kingsport to go to Huey Magoo’s and then to Johnson City to go to dinner downtown and wander around Publix 

  • Went to Rural King with my brother and saw the chicks and ducks and all the other wild shit they sell, plus Starbucks in the big city for holiday drinks

  • The cement truck came and poured the footers for mom and dad’s garage

  • Got nail art again x 2 and didn’t love it either time, boo

  • Drove to Florida for a week to see Hamilton and people and eat all my favorite things

  • Spent a few hours in Greenville, SC on the way to FL. - Falls park, downtown/Main Street/The Commons - so cute

  • Took our nieces to the mall for press on nails, books, and vintage dress up accessories 

  • Worked from Foxtail like the old days <3 

  • Went to Trader Joe’s

December

  • Greenville for a week

  • Got the wordle in 2

  • Bow making workshop with mom 

  • Asheville with mom and barb - wake foot sanctuary

  • Chris installed a new subwoofer in the Jetta

  • Christmas lights drives and shows

  • Got my hair done for the first time since we moved

  • Seeing some extended family for the first time since we moved

Highest Highs

  • Sunset on Lake Michigan

  • Glacier Bay National Park

  • Muir Woods

  • Napa

  • Leaving a job/career that no longer aligned with my values or respected me as a professional and human

Lowest Lows

  • Six months of hematology appointments with no answers

  • The anxiety of being alone in a creepy room before being under anesthesia for the first time

  • Missing my favorite things from Orlando

  • Being outbid on a house we really loved TWICE

  • Leaving a job/career that I could have really loved if educators weren’t treated like shit

  • Realizing that small town life is not for me

Major Life Changes

  • Sold our house of 10 years and moved out of Florida

  • Quit my job at Valencia after 12 years

  • Ended my 18 year career in education

Travel

  • Northern California

    • San Francisco, San Jose, Napa, Muir Woods

  • Michigan: Detroit & Grand Rapids

  • Canada: Lakes Erie and Huron 

  • Alaska

  • Seattle, WA

  • Orlando

  • Greenville, SC