I finally did my first solo flight today and I'm walking with my head in the clouds still. I felt surprisingly comfortable. The weather was absolutely perfect, (finally, after like 13 cancellations due to rain, fog, re-training due to being rusty).
Clear sky from horizon to horizon, light air traffic, and only a slight breeze.

I even nailed my first approach textbook. The second one I came in a bit too fast I thought but just called a go-around and did it again just fine. I started with a practice hover, pick up and set down facing in all 4 directions. Completely alone. Then I radioed air traffic and took off into the closed traffic pattern. I did it for 25 minutes.

Now I have a kind of adrenaline recession even though it was a few hours ago. I didn't notice my hands shaking until afterwards when I landed back at the airport of origin, and my instructor extended his hand for a congratulatory handshake. It's just a milestone in my training, a significant one, but I fulfilled part of a life dream, so it's kind of a big deal. I was actually relaxed and calm enough as I was flying alone cruising along, scanning for other air traffic, scanning the instruments, watching the guages, flying the outside picture. I thought to myself, you've dreamt about this moment off and on since you were 7 yrs old.

In short it was really cool. I'm thrilled today.