"Better than I thought I would be when I would have been happy to stay the same, if that makes any sense. When I consider how I felt last year at this same time, and now...definite improvement in circumstances."

It feels like it's been far more than a year, and yet no time at all. The idea of being able to see all of this again for a second time, to no longer have it be brand new - it's rather dizzying, when she considers how much she can say she remembers now.