my 28th year

In approximately an hour and a half I will be 28 years old. I feel like this is a milestone birthday for me. Usually it wouldn't be, because in all reality 28 is just another year until, 29, and then 30 is the real milestone. But this year. This year took the cake for me.

lets get the count down...
#1. I decided to turn my entire life over to God, and I have to say it has been the best decision of my entire life. I couldn't have dreamed for anything better. It has been a rougher road then i thought it would be, but i have learned some invaluable life lessons, and i have seen things i may not have seen, had my eyes not been focused on him.
#2. i moved into my own place with a friend of my, which in turn turned into the fiasco of the century when she left to move in with her boyfriend. I struggled with my budget at this point. but all in all i made it through. And though i have sworn off roommates for the rest of my life, and though my feelings were hurt beyond belief, it was a lesson that had to be learned.
#3. my best friend, moved back to Cali, leaving me almost completely alone and without my ace. without the one person who i can be completely myself around.... sad day. but i have learned to fend on my own. with only 2 real friends on my side.
#4. i started grad school. man was this scary. i am doing well. but it is overwhelming, and takes up so much of my time that its ridiculous. maybe its good that i don't have too many friends after all ;)

**all in all. this year has found me a stronger, more secure person. Through the tears, the lonely nights, the men who stood me up on dates, the friends who left me out in the cold, the trials and tribulations, i walked away ;ok being alone, wiser, more mature, more in tune with god, and more in love with god than i thought was ever possible. I am looking forward to my 28th year and the overflow of blessings i am expecting to come my way. I feel like my life is about to burst open. New friends, new opportunities, new life, new blessings, new new new new new....happy birthday to me, for it is truly a new birth of me **