Best and Worst of 2009
Post on: Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 11:58 pmCategory: Photography | Tags: New Years, Year in Review
I wouldn’t say this was a great year or one of the worse years but just has had a lot of up and downs. I’m not sure about you but I am looking forward to 2010 and spending this new decade in my 30′s. That’s right I will be 30 in 42 days, I’m not really counting (I only know that because of the Olympic count down clock… sorry to say BUT it was a waste of tax payers mola)
January
- Vancouver Snow problem finally melted
- Shoveling peoples driveways – the extra cash and exercise was nice
- My 15th Dragon Boat Season started
February
[- A teammate took this picture after practice one day]
- Turned 29
- Aidan and I attend Twestival, where I met Rebecca and Raul
- Left work because the crappy hours they were giving and how they ran everything.
March
- Bathroom renos just started
- Went into the hospital (March 29th) after my 3rd gallbladder attack at 3:30AM did not see the doctor till 8AM
April
[Flowers I got when I was in the hospital]
- April 2nd, I had gallbladder surgery. It was expose to be emergency surgery, but kept getting bumped due to the idiots gang members who kept getting shot at.
- 2nd year of Comment for a Cause raised $186 towards the MS Society of Canada
- Went to a Meet n Tweet
May
- Bathroom Renos finally finished
- Was given the okay to start Dragon Boating again
- Got the idea to put a dragon boat team together of bloggers/twitter user for a charity event
June
[Video is of Lard's Black team in the 2000 meter race]
- Paddled with Scott’s womens crew when they came up to Vancouver and came home with a medal. Lets just say my team got jealous
- Went to Ideas on Tap (another blogging/twitter meet up)
July
- My boo turned 2
- Attend my 1st Renaissance Festival
- H2O Geeks Dragon Boat team started practicing
- Celebrated my 1st year living in this house
- By accident my brother broke one of my dragon boat paddles
- chopped 8 inchs of hair off
August
- One of my many Cousins got married
- My H2O Geeks Dragon Boat team placed 7th out of 24 teams at Paddle for Kids
- Attend a WordCamp and finally met Tyler
- My Childhood Cocktail (bird) passed away, she was with us for 18 or so years
September
- Last Dragon Boat Festival of the season, came home with a ribbon
- Attend my Moms co-workers wedding as her date
- Got a new camera – Cannon PowerShot SX120 IS
- Purchased a new dragon boat paddle
October
- Went to a Halloween Party at a Hostel
- Annual Movie Night, Halloween Theme, was a busted (barely anyone showed, they lost out on the best fun.. more food for my best friend and I)
November
- Spent 9 days visiting my best friend and her hubby in Indianapolis
- My great Aunt (my late grams younger sister) turned 80
- Finally met Allie and Greg
- Had the housewarming party (18 months late)
- Attend my 1st real hockey game (watching friends play in high school but that does not count)
December
- Annual Movie Night, Dragon Theme
- Was in-charge of Christmas Dinner
- Paddling Club’s Annual Reindeer Paddle – it was a very high tide that day
Hope 2009 was good to you and I hope 2010 will be a better year for all of us.
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:zoned: Wow that is an amazing year, you should be really proud of your accomplishments. I look forward to reading much more of your posts this year. Also if you need some encouragement for taking a photo a day let me know I’m there for helping.
And I’m so happy we met! Lovely to see you always!
Awesome year! Love all the photos!
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