Year in Review

So 2012 kind of sucked.

I had to deal with the death of my father and everything that goes along with that.  From the grief to the acceptance of loss and living life without him.  The hardest parts now are when I forget for a nanosecond that he died.  Like I'll want to call him and then I remember.  Other than that the hardest part is seeing my mom deal with the heartache and seeing her try her hardest to be positive whenever she can.  But like always shit could be worse...that's my way of being positive.  2012 did have some good things happen so it wasn't a complete loss.  A list of stuff to remember and some stuff to forget eventually.

-Finding out my dad had stomach cancer and spending most of January in the hospital.
-Getting a temporary per diem  buyer position at Tucson Medical Center, one of the weirdest experiences ever.
-RIP MR. Y, Zac's worst accident ever with the worst timing but luckily he came out of it as ok as we could ask for. As a result of this we asked my dad if we could borrow his truck.
-The decision to move my father to hospice care.
-Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary-February 7th
-My Dad passed away-February 9th.
-My good friend's Dad passed away a week later.
-Seeing family and while during a very hard time sharing laughs and stories and creating new memories. It was fun seeing Zac meet a couple of my uncles and my nephews and nieces meeting their Tio Cesar.
-Going through the range of emotions/hurt feelings/regrets family members have bottled up for years and working through all that.
-Starting the process of closing my Dad's accounts.
-Bringing my mom to our house on the weekends so she didn't stay home by herself all the time.
-My 32nd Birthday/my mom's 62nd birthday-spent the weekend watching Downton Abbey and going to Costco for cake.
-My first round at Tucson Medical Center ended.  I was extremely glad it did.
-Zac graduated with his Bachelors from the University of Arizona.  He majored in Linguistics and Philosophy and graduated Cum Laude.
-Went back to Tucson Medical Center to do another round as a per diem buyer this time with a chance of permanent employment. I had to eat all my words about getting out of that place before and make a good impression this time.
-Experienced first Father's Day without my Dad.
-Went through Birthday Extravaganza month in July.  Gigi's birthday was celebrated as a swimming party at El Conquistador.  Adrian and David celebrated at Peter Piper Pizza.
-Had to go through major rejection when I didn't get the TMC job permanently.  Good...I didn't want to work there anyway.
-Started my new job with Tucson Unified School District as a Purchasing Assistant. 
-Celebrated Zac's birthday.
-Went to Melting Pot and took my mom, her first time ever to one of those places.
-Celebrated my Dad's birthday by going to a Coheed and Cambria concert in his honor.
-Zac started his first semester as a real graduate student, even though he was starting his second year in the program.
-Went through the ups and downs of people close to us separating.
-Went to the funeral of my sister in law's grandmother.
-Watched our way through 30 days of bad horror movies.
-Had our first Thanksgiving without my Dad.  My mom wanted to cook.
-December brought another death in our extended family.
-Spent a very quiet Christmas with my mom and brother.
-Spent December 27th my parent's anniversary transferring the truck into our name and taking my mom to buy a new washer and dryer.

Now it's time to put this stuff in the memories column.  2013 better be a kick ass year.