January 2, 2012

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year, friends!

Matt and I had a wonderful time celebrating the new year with friends, dancing, and champagne up on the Maryland shore at a friend’s house.

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I was too busy with said dancing, friends, and champagne to get any photos of our night, but I did get this shot of the early sunset during our drive over the Bay Bridge on New Years Eve. So pretty!

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I’ll be back with a real post tomorrow — enjoying one more day of freedom before reality sets back in. On the agenda for today: a run with my dad, lunch with old friends, working on some wedding stuff, and dinner with high school friends!

Tomorrow: get life together before our big masters program policy trip here in D.C. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

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I’m excited that it’s 2012 — it’s going to be a (very) busy and exciting year for both me and Matt. Here’s what’s on the docket so far for 2012:

  • Last semester of grad school classes (Jan — April)
  • Take comprehensive exam for MPH program — gah (April)
  • Move back to D.C. (early May) (!)
  • Hospital internship in DC (Summer)
  • Final dietetic internship in DC (Fall)
  • GET MARRIED! (October 13, 2012)
  • Write and present my masters paper and graduate from my MPH program! (late November)
  • HONEYMOON! (December)

So by this time next year, I’ll be married, living back in DC, and will have an MPH after my (new) name! I’ll hopefully take the R.D. exam to officially become a Registered Dietitian in February 2013 — it takes about a month or so after we graduate from the masters program for the paperwork to go through for us to take the national test.

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Whew. Let the whirlwind begin — here’s to 2012! 🙂

- anne

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36 comments
  • Yay to getting married in 2012!!
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  • Happy New Year!! Great pics :)
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  • What a great year you have ahead of you. I feel the same way... in one year I will have been married for 6 months, have graduated from Grad School and live in a home... crazy!
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  • You can do it! You will be a great dietician! Go kick booty on graduate school! I start graduate school next week and my new full time job as a special education teacher. I have not decided on a masters program yet so I am just taking Introduction to Graduate Research while I feel out the school environment to see what direction to take. Thanks for being so inspiring with your go get em attitude towards graduate school and staying healthy!
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    • Good luck next week! :) How exciting!
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  • Happy New Year, Anne & Matt Here's to the busiest, and BEST year of your life!!!! :-)
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  • Yea to everything on your list. After your married you will continue to use your maiden name and cross it out and put your married name down for at least a month or two. HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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  • Happy new year, Anne! Your year 2012 is scheduled already. I am excited to read how each event will go:) You are very inspirational.
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  • Looking forward to following along!
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  • Sounds like a great year ahead, Anne! Well done on 2011 -- esp on Biochem! And look forward to following the path through 2012!
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  • I've been following your blog for a couple of months now, I've learned so much you've inspired me to start my own...check it out...fitsgreaterthanskinny.com
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  • 2012 sounds like an amazing year for you!
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  • Such beautiful photos. I wish I were there!
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  • It sounds like you have a GREAT 2012 ahead of you! Enjoy!
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  • I love the shore in Maryland :) Looks like you rang in the New Year right and you certainly do have plenty to look forward to in 2012. Cheers!
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  • Sounds like a lovely way to spend New Year's Eve :-) What a fantastic year you have ahead of you, it all sounds so exciting! Happy New Year!
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  • yay! Here is to graduating and Dietetic Internships in 2012 :)
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  • That sunset photo is very spiritual. I love it. It deserves to be framed.
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  • Sittin' in the mornin' sun..... I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come.....
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    • :) Great seeing you guys this weekend!
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  • :) 2012 will be epic for you!
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  • Have you already done part of your internship or do you have to do all of it still for the dietetics? Sounds like a fun, crazy, productive year though!
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    • We have 3 internships; I did the first one this past summer (public health internship). Two more to go this coming summer and fall!
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  • The Happiest of New Years to you!!! 2012/2013 sound like busy years for you, but VERY exciting and fun years too! I can't wait to see it all unfold for you. And you'll make a wonderful Registered Dietitian. :D
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    • Aw, thanks :) I hope so!
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  • Wow....you're right - so much to look forward to and so much to keep you busy! I think I may go batty-insane with all that on my to-do list! :P Cheers to you for tons of success knocking'em dead this year (in your wedding dress, at your master's presentation, and at your internship in DC)!! :)
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  • I'm getting married October 13th too! How exciting! Is your venue in the DC area? I live in Northern Va, so I'm interested to see what other local brides are planning.
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    • Aw yay! Yes - DC area! Where is yours?
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