It's hard to believe that 2014 is well, over.

This year has flown by - but every year has gone by at warp speed since I have officially become an adult.

Officially being an adult means, I have to pay for, hide and wrap presents for a child.

The rest of the year seems to be divided amongst the two seasons of "Dancing with the Stars."

I don't know what 2015 will hold - with the exception Marty McFly will arrive at some point in October in a DeLorean (someone may want to tell him to tell the Doc to ditch the car when he returns to 1985) - but I know 2014 was nothing like I expected.

This year showed me how things can change so suddenly. I lost Granny in March, after just seeing her a few weeks earlier. I had no idea that day in February would be the last time I would see her. Had I known, I would have talked to her more, had one last argument between our stubborn, too familiar selves.

A few months later, the world lost Robin Williams. I was greatly saddened by his death, growing up with "Mork & Mindy," complete with Mork's rainbow striped suspenders. I wore them with my "Dukes of Hazzard" shirt when I was younger. I apparently wanted to support my favorite television shows in one fell swoop of branding failure.

Then, Joan Rivers passed away. I wasn't a huge fan of Joan Rivers - if anyone remembers the huge long distance wars of the ‘80's, they remember Rivers' commercials, with her saying, "Can we talk?" as she belittled AT&T and hawked Sprint. Well, guess who Mama worked for? And as a card-toting member of the union, she was loyal to the core for whoever gave her a paycheck and helped her dress her baby in tacky t.v. themed clothing.

Posthumously, to Mama's chagrin, I found myself liking the comedienne after hearing more about her life.

"She still promoted the competition," Mama said, not as quick to forgive in death.

Some celebrities had their private photos hacked and leaked without their permission. People were quick to say how they shouldn't have taken them in the first place; but mostly, people were wanting to know where to see them for free.

While the privacy and rights of some celebrities was horribly violated, the Internet came under attack when Kim Kardashian attempted to break it.

As we know, naked and nekkid are two different things - and she was, well, nekkid.

"Why? Oh, my Lord, why?" was all I heard as my child ran into my office.

"I saw a nekkid woman on the computer," he cried. "Why?! Does she not have clothes? Please, tell me someone set a timer on the camera and was not standing there, taking a picture of that!"

My 10-year-old has seen a lot of unintentional nekkidness this year - first, when a news clip showed Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball, and then when he was on a news site that had a link about Kardashian's attempt to break the Internet.

"Mama, I hate to say this," he said moments later. "About that picture, of the naked woman..."
I waited for him to finish.

"I'm craving Krispy Kreme donuts now...."

I could see his point. There was a whole lot of glaze going on. We later found out that her posing nude helped Kardashian's self-confidence. If the last few years have been her with low self-confidence, can you imagine what she's going to do now?

2014 told me I was all about that bass, "‘bout that bass, no treble," which is fine, but I don't think I am shakin', shakin', like I'm supposed to.

Aside from pop culture happenings, I saw a lot of changes in myself.

I tried to release my vise-like grip and let my child take swimming lessons over the summer, convinced I didn't want him to be like me and not learn to swim until nearly 20.

I was informed by Cole he wasn't entirely too sure about the cleanliness of the water with so many strange bottoms in it. Did they bathe before swimming?

I decided to homeschool my child, which has been a challenge but worth it. He has told me he wasn't sure he was getting the ‘full learning package' so I went out and bought him four workbooks to enjoy.

It is also the end of 2014 and I still have yet to use algebra. But more than algebra, I found I hate Common Core math.

2014 gave us ice bucket challenges as a way to raise money and awareness. v

And selfies became an everyday - almost every hour - occurrence for some. Hashtagging also didn't make things trend just because of the symbol formally known as the pound sign.

"Did you have a good year?" Granny would ask as the year would wind down. I told her once, no, I hadn't and was ready to tell her all the things bad that had happened.

Instead, the old gal looked at me and snorted.

"Well, what did you do about it? If you didn't like it, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. Don't focus on what was wrong - look at what went right.

"That's what's wrong with a lot of your generation. Y'all a bunch of spoiled young'uns. I blame MTV. Y'all think everything is supposed to be flashy and exciting like one of them music videos. It's not. Life ain't pretty. It's real. And it's supposed to be lived to the fullest."

With that perspective in mind, 2014 was lived to the fullest - full of love, learning and embracing change.

I can't wait to see what 2015 brings.

Sudie Crouch is an award winning humor columnist and author of the recently e-published novel, "The Dahlman Files: A Tony Dahlman Paranormal Mystery."