Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2022 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2022.

2022 5 minutes, 2021 5 minutes, 2020 5 minutes, 2019 5 minutes, 2018 5 minutes, 2017 5 minutes, 2016 5 minutes, 2015 5 minutes, 2014 5 minutes, 2013 5 minutes, 2012 5 minutes, 2011 5 minutes, and 2010 5 minutes

Here we go! The one entry that’s easy, I think? Sometimes though, maybe recency bias?

• Going Utah and visiting the Mighty 5 (all national parks) and actually making it all the way through Angels Landing (am I afraid of heights? yes, but if I don’t look, then it doesn’t matter)
• Seeing my sister and her kid not once, not twice, but thrice this year
• Visiting Universal Studios for the first time since I was a kid and making it through Nintendo World, especially through single rider lines, Toadstool Cafe, and various things
• Losing Toad at SFO, getting the call that he was found (although really it was just the item as SFPD calls it) and retrieving him a week later
• Eating not-so-great food in Utah
• Doing the “hike” to the “superbloom” in that beachy beach place just south of Pacifica
• Hosting and organizing not one but two writing retreats with fellow writers—one north in Calistoga and the other in Point Arena
• Getting feedback for my novel which encouraged me to keep going even with all the doubt that I have for myself
• Several days when Chris went to Tahoe and left me behind, and me wondering could I survive? Of course, I did
• Baking regularly for Writing Accountability Group

Reading my piece about my childlike tendencies, pregnancy stuffs, and Ho-Oh at The Racket and being told that it was meaningful

• Walking with Jakobe throughout San Francisco while playing Pokemon Go
• Going to the old school Muni buses and light rail trains celebration day
• Going to the Winter Holiday (to try to buy the sweater) for BART
• Working in the government?
• Attending the Diane Feinstein memorial while navigating Secret Service and (barely) rubbing elbows with very important people