I haven't heard a lot of positive about 2009 recently. I'm not going to change that trend, because personally I don't think it was a very good year, either. It's not because of economic reasons like so many others would probably cite, but for other reasons.
I'm not griping to gripe, honestly. 2006 was a good year. In '06, I finally moved away from North Dakota and in with my (now wife) girlfriend Heidi. I accomplished my goal of moving the hell away from ND. We moved to TN and I got a decent job and a promotion. Not a bad year.
2007 was another good year. Great vacations were taken, we bought a new house, got all 3 of our pets that we still have and love right now, and got engaged. I couldn't complain.
2008 was an excellent year. Promotions at work gave me more income than ever, we got married in the Carribean, and had a couple other great vacations. This was probably the best year.
But then 2009....
You see, I normally don't like New Years because it signifies the passing of time and makes me feel a bit older just like my birthday does. This time though, I think I won't be as troubled by it. If we can just shove 2009 under the rug, I wouldn't mind. Why?
Well it started with me getting laid off in January. Now, it IS true I did find a better job. So the stress of being laid off may be nullified by that, but it's made me cautious ever since. We didn't take any big vacations this year...just a couple smaller ones. My 30th birthday vacation plans were foiled by being laid off. My Christmas this year was absolutely miserable, as has been documented before. We wrap up the year with my dad possibly having prostate cancer.
See ya later 2009!
Oh, and did I mention that now I'm finally getting on board with Heidi on the idea that the people here just aren't the people we should be around?? We've been here 3 and a half years and have absolutely nobody to do anything with on New Years. So we'll spend it together here at home. We'll be asleep by midnight. Well, I guess it's a cheap way to do it...
So how was this year to you?? Happy to see it go?
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I have to work tonight. I intend to get everyone very drunk so that they endanger themselves and others just so they can tip me more. I love this country.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I was told that I need to go into the New Year very positive. Last year ended very sourly for me when at the stroke of midnight instead of traditionally kissing my husband, he was no where to be found as he decided to stay home as I went to a party with friends out of state in a serious blizzard. Come to find out, he was cheating on me and then asked for a divorce a month later.
That's not happening this year, I'm not letting it. I'm going to be happy, be a capitalist, and move on.
2009 was more of a transition year for me. I started a new job, found another martial art that I'm passionate about, and decided what I want to do with my life. I hope that 2010 will see me putting my plans from 2009 into action. Plus I'm turning 21 in 2010, which is just nifty.
ReplyDeleteIt was a mediocre year for me. Not great, not horrible. The economy still sucks, but at least it's been somewhat on the upswing lately, and that's not a personal issue. Love 'em or hate 'em, we lost an unusual number of our cultural icons this year, but again (as much as some of them did upset me) not a personal issue. For whatever reason, the beginning of the winter was especially hard for me personally, this year, but that's on the upswing, too, and several good things have happened for me this year, as well. Here's hoping that 2010 is better for all of us, but I don't care either way that its approach means 2009 is on the way out.
ReplyDelete2009 was pretty crap. I pretty much HAD to quit my job or I would've been one of those people on the news for workplace violence. Plus, the Army screwed us over and we got stuck in Ottawa for almost an extra year. The good thing that happened was we got a great puppy. 2010 will see us back in the US, my hubby out of the Army and in a better job, the opportunity to see a fertility specialist and finally get proper treatment and a chance for me to go back to school for a Master's and find work I love.
ReplyDeletethis year was one of the most stressful yet. I'm hoping I dont have another one like this, honestly this one almost broke me. Wont miss this one, the nest one has to be better!! ( I really hope!! lol)
ReplyDeletewell, my husband and i had our son in July this year, my husband got a much better job, got out of the restaurant business, and started grad school. we've gotten current on our bills. i got to spend a lot of time with my mother, which i haven't been able to do in over 10 years. so that's all good. but my father-in-law is dying of liver cancer, which we found out a couple months ago. so it's been a mixed bag.
ReplyDelete2009 had its highs and lows. i'm excited about the new year, and also happy to see this year go.
ReplyDeletethe bad:
my practice was hit very hard by the economic "recession." hard to make the big bucks as a solo attorney when your clients aren't able to pay the bills. spent a lot of time reorganizing and assessing how to maintain profitability (i.e., worrying about whether i would be able to pay my bills).
my paternal grandfather died, and while i don't miss him, his death did create a huge family legal crisis which i was expected to solve since i am the "family lawyer" and was the only one emotionally detached enough to be rational. family is so overrated.
my mother-in-law is very sick and not expected to recover--it's hard to see her in so much pain.
the entire world seemed frightened by every shadow. a lot of bad stuff happened, but that's no reason to get paranoid. right?
i worked all the time. we had no vacations this year. which is about the same as last year. all travel i've done was either for work or family emergencies. it's tough to get away when you're self-employed. i took a week off for christmas and still ended up working two days.
the good:
we were finally able to conceive and we're expecting baby shortly after the new year.
my husband got a promotion.
i was able to visit my parents in wisconsin a lot (even though it was due to my grandfather's problems).
I'll be happy to see this year go. This is the year that I realized I hate this country (not as a country itself, per say, but how it operates and who benefits) and I can't stand what our society as a whole deems as important. When the entire economy of a country is in peril and the people who caused it go right back to doing to same exact things in order to make sure they continue to make $100 million a year, and shows such as Keeping Up with the Cardashians are things that interest people, I'm pretty sure everything has gone to hell. Forget a new year; personally, I'm ready to move to a new planet.
ReplyDeleteLet's see...had a baby, which is good but certainly stressful! I ended up with PPD but am off my meds now. I watch her from home and then my mother-in-law (thank God for her) helps out when she's not working, plus keeps her Saturday night so I can sleep a few hours before working all day Sunday.
ReplyDeleteHubby and I are both on first shift now -- still at the same places, but at least we have jobs.
My grandma died, which sucked but knew it was coming (lung cancer) so it wasn't so much of a shock. The really bad thing out of it is that she gave pretty much everything to my bastard uncle, who doesn't deserve it, and left the rest of us to split the little bit of money he didn't spend while she was sick. I do believe in karma and think that he'll get what's coming to him in one way or another. Long story.
I think that's about the only really important personal things that changed. I'm hoping for a better 2010, whether personally or globally. Maybe things will turn around some as far as the economy and Afghanistan. And I hope my dad gets better, since he has an autoimmune disorder similar to MS.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Hm. I see ups and downs every year, but this year was pretty okay, overall. I even got to take a short vacation (sans kids!) in June, and I hadn't had a vacation in three years. So I know it's been rough for most people, but I keep thinking we should enjoy what quality of life we have left before things get REALLY ugly. 'Cause I sure think they will.
ReplyDeleteVery happy to see 2009 go. Was a shitty year all around for us. First the first time in years, I'm glad another year is starting.
ReplyDeleteSo I've decided to start 2010 off with a positive attitude and try to make it a better year. :) I hope you and Heidi's is a better year as well!!
2009 only had a couple of ups for us. In January we found out I was pregnant. We were extatic because we weren't supposed to be able to have any more kids. At the time my husbands business was doing great, but about three months later my husband ended up going back to his old job (which he hated )and included less pay. We expected that he'd have to travel for work, but had no clue how much.It was very stressful to say the least. My grandmother had to get tumors removed twice. We found out my pregnancy wasn't covered by our insurance so we got ourselves into more debt. The inheritance I recieved which was going to pay for me to go back to school had to go for medical bills and we're still paying them off! We of course had no time or money for a vacation this year. My brother in-law came to visit twice for the first time in four years, however both timses my husband had to work out of town. The baby came in August and thank god was healthy. We found out that my insurance still wouldn't cover the baby until he was two months old and AFTER he had his two month check-ups and immunizations. Oh and the kicker of the year? Our cars were hit three times, once totaling my car, and all three times they were parked. Not to mention we had three blizzards this year and my husband had to drive 300 miles in the middle of one. I'd say this year has been the year of stress. I'm really looking forward to next year. Hopefully it will be less stressful.I'm looking at goig back to school and paying off the majority of my credit card debt (one should be completely paid off), and loosing the last 10 pounds of baby weight.
ReplyDeleteI am curious about why you moved to TN. Did you know anyone there before you moved? Why don't you want to spend time with anyone there?
ReplyDeleteHmm, no babies this year, so that's good. Car blew up just when we would have been able to pay EVERYTHING off and maybe get a house, on my anniversary in the middle of nowhere, at night, and it was cold, so that sucked. Went back to school, and remembered, oh yeah, I LOVE school, so that's good. DH got passed up 4 times for a promotion even though he was told he was better than all the other candidates, so that royally sucked. Cousin has cancer, so that sucks. I would have to say all in all it's been a pretty neutral year, which in and of itself isn't bad. But then I got to thinking, you don't want neutral, you want fantastic, right? So long last year, you kinda sucked. So I think this year I'm going to grab life by the cojones and have a fantastic year no matter the hell happens!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, 2009 has had it's ups and downs for me. I lost a loved one, but there was also a birth in the family, a beautiful baby girl born to my ex-husband and his wife. I can't say that anything extremely wonderful happened to me in '09, so I'm really looking forward to 2010!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm on the whole quite happy that it is now 2010. 2009 was a bit of a mixed bag. Pros: moved into a flat with my boyfriend that was our own, I've got a lovely baby niece (Dec. 17th), and have gotten close to a friend who I talk to just about every day, which is nice. Cons: I got really sick of being in university, was broke as hell, and had a few other less-than-desirable experiences.
ReplyDelete2010: I will graduate from university (finally!) and I might get married (either this year or 2011). Seriously excited and happy, especially about the latter! I should hopefully find a decent job and start making a little more money. I've made some New Year's resolutions and am really excited to make the effort to make my life that little bit better.
So Happy New Year everyone!
Oh, just one thing:
ReplyDeleteChris, posting like this is a royal pain in the ass. I am giving this Blogger thing a try but I'm a cantankerous little old lady and may go back to the more familiar myspace.
Srsly, 2009, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
ReplyDeleteI started the year diagnosed with mono for the third time in my life, and I ended the year getting my seriously heart broken. It wasn't pretty. But I think I have a 1.5-year plan to get myself out of Pittsburgh (I hate it here) and kick-start the future that I really want. My fingers are crossed that 2010 is much better than last year.
2009 totally sucked, and I'd like to wrap my fingers around the throat of the next person who says "things could always be worse".
ReplyDeletethis has been a decent year for me. i find it bizarre that i'm being remotely positive here, considering i'm usually a tense little ball of negative bitchiness. but i got remarried in january (to a fabulous man who is not an abusive alcoholic, which is pretty fucking great), my son started attending st. john's (thank whatever almighty being there may be that he's no longer in our redneck public school system), and my little fat girl was born (just damn awesome to have one of each and be done with the procreation business). shitty things happened, no doubt...lost an uncle to the bitch that is cancer, had some seriously scary preterm labor complications, had 10 cavities discovered (ok, not a horrible thing, but people putting their hands in mouths is just gross to me, as are people touching feet), and i ended the year with just as many eating issues as i had prior to pregnancy...but i'd call 2009 a wonderful year with a few wretched points along the way. 2010? it'll either be better or worse, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhy've you stopped writing here?
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