Outside of traveling and work, the biggest change of the year happened in April, when I packed up all my belongings into a big moving truck and drove with my sister, her husband, and my parents in a caravan down to Largo, Florida. I had to get rid of a lot of my stuff, which luckily many of my friends bought, I had to give some stuff away, and I still had a lot of stuff to take with me. It is amazing how much "stuff" I have, and I'm only 25 (at the time of the move). Since my plan was to get a job on a cruise ship, I moved into my sisters house, where she was kind enough to give me lots of space to store all my stuff. As I found out later, it is apparently very common for cruise ship musicians to live with someone in their family, for sake of saving on rent.