Today is December 31, 2011. Long gone are the days when Michael and I would head out and celebrate until midnight. Instead, we stay in, eat pizza, drink a bottle of Prosecco, remain in our most comfortable of clothes, listen to tunes, watch a movie, and basically relax. Truth is, it is also the night after our wedding anniversary, and your writer might have celebrated a bit too much if you know what I mean.

But in the dull, lazy haze of the day after, I also had a great opportunity to reflect on the past year. Rather than blather about it, I’ll show it to you in pictures.

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