Wishing You All a Very Happy New Year!!

Dear Readers:

First of all I just wanted to wish all of you a very happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year! I hope that 2012 brings nothing but the best for each and every one of you! I also hope that all of you enjoyed the 2011 Victoria Beckham Style Awards presentation! It's my favorite time of the year to post and am really looking forward to your comments regarding them! :)

On a personal note, I just wanted to sincerely thank you for all of your support this year. As you've noticed, 2011 has been the single most difficult year of my life - and I'm sure my absence and lack of posting here has signalled that. I honestly am really looking forward to the fresh start of a brand new year. 2011 brought a lot of heart break for me... mostly when I lost one of the loves of my life, my grandfather, to the extremely awful and heartbreaking disease that is CJD. His death was by far the most devastating thing I've ever had to go through. I also lost an uncle this year and my fiance lost his grandmother and found out two of his uncles are very ill. Needless to say, it's been tough for the two of us and we are both looking forward to a new beginning in 2012.

I have several things in the upcoming year that I am looking forward to which includes my best friends wedding in August and my own in November 2013. In 2011, even though for both of our families it was tough, we managed to move forward with the happiness that will ulitmately be our wedding day and we secured a venue and began to book vendors and settle on ideas. I can't wait to start trying on dresses and finalize plans in the upcoming months.

As for resolutions, I have made a few for myself and they are to save more money - especially in this economy the shopper in me has to settle down :), to get into shape for my wedding and my best friends (where I'm going to be a bridesmaid), to help my sister get better as she's facing a life changing and personal ordeal right now, to relax more - I've said it a few times here that my absence is due to my extreme schedule.. I start at 5:30am and don't end till 7pm on a good day.. normally it's around 8pm, attempt to find myself a teaching job (I'm working two now but neither one has anything to do with the degree I busted my hump for), to spend more time with my fiance - yes we are technically living together but he's got just as much as a hectic schedule as I do, to find the time to blog more like I used to, and finally to finish the Kay Scarpetta novel series by Patricia Cornwell.. this resolution is more for fun - I began and finished her first novel Postmortem, which is extremely different from what I'm used to reading, and I LOVED it!

So there you have it.. my 2011 and 2012 plans in a nutshell. Sorry this is so long.. just realized that now :)

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful year!

Xo-Jenna