2017 summed up in one bullet list of Important Events!

• Took my first solo cross-country trip, plane flights and all, to see my best friend. Complete with very-nearly-missing a flight.
• Acquired a baby sister by nefarious means. Already feels like she’s been here forever!
• Got a pixie cut for the first time.
• Won my first short-story contest in June.
• Acquired my driver’s license: so I could drive to the library.
• Went to a college summer program.
• Spent eight months working a part-time job at an animal shelter, the longest stretch yet, and learned both how to deal with hyper dogs and with the human limits of non-sleeping.
• Started learning to play the ukulele.
• Sent out query letters for my manuscript and received the corresponding number of rejections.
• My oldest pet, Sunflash the Cockatiel, died.
• Drew three different full-page drawings I actually like.
• Got accepted into college! (Also promptly lost the acceptance letter – my ability to lose anything and everything remains the running gag of my life – and then found it again.)
• Learned to crochet.
• Lost Nanowrimo for the first time ever.
• Reviewed 173 books.
• Continued to utterly fail at Sleeping and other such normal human things.