Here's to 2008

All in all, I felt like 2007 was a really great year. I got settled in a new job and defined life after investment banking. Moved in with my boyfriend, who is my best friend, and I feel our bond only getting stronger. We got Lucy, our mini-goldendoodle puppy at 9-weeks old, and raised her to be a wonderful, well-adjusted dog. Learned a little more about what I would want in a career, although I still don't know what I want to do. I made two business trips and spent about a month's time in India - visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad - and discovered it to be an amazing country, one that I hope inspires a lifetime of curiosity. I sat for the GMAT (with decent success) and decided to apply to business school in 2008. I visited my family in Taiwan, whom I haven't seen in many years. It felt really good to reconnect with them. They've known me my whole life and know things about my family that only my family could know or remind me. That's something I definitely have missed in the years of being on my own here on the west coast.

In terms of my health, I think I'm plateau-ing in my life with diabetes. I feel like I've gotten to a point where things aren't necessarily getting easier any more. In these past two months, I've been making an effort to lower my cholesterol - but I guess I'll find out soon if that effort has been enough. My worst fear about that is that it's just really bad genetically and I'll have to make an extreme effort to lower it (i.e. eat a really fat-free diet, start running, etc.) Anyway, we'll see how that goes. I've been thinking about going on the pump. There have been some rare instances where I've had swinging blood sugars (30s to 300s...i ate, gave myself insulin, then i threw up all my food, then i ate again - too many carbs). And it's annoying to deal with Lantus, remembering to bring it, making sure I have fresh/working bottle, not having back up bottles, etc. I've also been a bit anxious about the future. Namely my ability to safely (and hopefully easily) have a family, and also taking into consideration my aspiration to go to bschool. As I learned from wikipedia, I've apparently past the peak of female fertility without even knowing it.


Looking in to 2008, I'm very excited. I've embarked on my journey to educate myself about the bschool application process by buying several books. I'm sitting in some classes and visiting schools. At the end of February, Justin and I are going to both visit India, namely to attend a wedding of my friend. We'll both see the Taj Mahal for the first time and also visit Jaipur. And of course explore Delhi. Our itinerary is referred to as the golden tourist triangle or something like that. In the spring, Justin and I will be celebrating our 3rd anniversary which is certainly noteworthy (in my mind anyway.) I'm probably going to work from our Beijing office for 3 months preceding the olympics in August. I think it will be a very interesting time to be there. Then Justin and I are taking two weeks off to experience Beijing around the olympics and Shanghai. My dad is going to host us and be our tour guide.