Amy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} doogloose) wrote,@ 2008-12-30 23:09:00 |
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A look back at 2008
Recipe for looking at the previous year... 1 snack-size bottle of espresso vodka, poured into the bottom of a really big mug. Mix in 3 large spoons of hot chocolate powder. Top most of the way up with boiling water, then a splash of milk. Fit in as many mini-marshmallows as possible, then top off with chocolate syrup.
January:
- Started my photo of the day project
- Was debating my future... thinking of naturopathy rather than medical school... was looking into taking doula classes too
- Started a school term, and was having trouble with my sleep due to an 8:30 am molecular endocrinology class
- Made lots of beads
- Found a new home for the last chicken and her coop
- Rolled grandpa's coin jar full of pennies, was over $100!
- We were playing lots of Guitar Hero
- I bought my bass guitar
February:
- We got our carpets installed
- Went to the gym for the first time in forever... loved it and wanted to keep going...
- Lots of studying
- More debating about whether medical school is really in my future
- Bad insomnia
- Washing lots of bottles, lots of torching and jewelry making too
- Had our 7 year anniversary
- Ciaran has her first vet visit
March:
- We play lots of Rock Band
- We go to the gem/stone fair and buy a whole ton of shiny things
- I start my lampwork journal
- Anxiety problems become rampant again
- The blossoms are out in our neighborhood
- We have an epic removal of a tick from Griffyn... he yells at us but lets us pull it out... and seems thankful after it's over
- We are giving Ciaran long-rope privileges at the park, but no off-leash. Still, she manages to lose her virginity at the park.
- I decide to take the summer off from school
April:
- I have a goddess bead featured in a small publication, "Self Portraits in Glass 2008"
- School term ends
- Ciaran has her yearly bath
- Ciaran has food-dominance issues, we start working on them more diligently
- I do some painting and drawing
- My hair becomes long enough to braid into pigtails
- Griffyn basically moves upstairs
- Tyler got his driver's license finally
- I decide to take the summer to figure myself out. I change my mind about taking the doula course, at least this point in time. I realize that I am not ready for medical school or that path... although I do not rule it out altogether.
- We get ready for the Moss St starting up again
- Ciaran destroys Alyson's fig trees
May:
- We start the Moss St
- Ciaran meets Miko and acquires the name "Shithead" after Miko rolls her in it.
- The "Summer of Amy" truly begins... I make lots and lots of beads
- We begin letting Ciaran sleep in her bed rather than crated, and she behaves herself just fine
- The garden fence starts going up
- We do the Mother's Day craft fair at Royal Roads.. the weather is terrible and we are horribly stressed the whole time
- The weather gets retardedly hot
- I start experimenting with glass blowing
- My anxiety starts to get better
- I sleep in most days, and I do glass, and I basically just spend my time making myself happy
- I bake Tyler an extravagent cheesecake for his birthday and throw him a semi surprise party
- My allergies start up for the season
- We adopt Pao, and Griffyn gets officially moved to upstairs
June:
- We start talking about getting a heat pump for the house... although this plan never fully materializes anytime this year
- Sam and I get our gym memberships and start working out
- The garden fences are finished
- Pao and Ciaran become BFF's
- I start losing a bit of weight
- Our apple tree begins to make fruits
- We do the Fernwood Art stroll; sales at the Moss St seem to be slow overall
- We have really hot weather
- I start doing yard work at Alyson's mom's house and realize I really like gardening
July:
- Ciaran has diarrhea all over the new carpets
- Tyler and I decide to make an effort to have "date nights" more often... we have sort of kept this up
- My allergies get to the point of nose bleedings
- I plant sunflowers, then Ciaran destroys them. Alyson feels vindicated for the fig trees.
- My parents go to Thailand
- I start playing my cello again
- Pao has worms
- Pao discovers how to get up onto the kitchen counters
August:
- We do the Glendale Gardens show. Bad weather, decentsales
- Pao gets fixed
- I do some cleaning work for my mom, she buys me some food at Costco... but I think I still owe her some hours
- Tyler has a job interview for violin teaching, and gets hired at Larsen, and loves it right away
- We officially start planning our wedding
- More hot weather. Our garden produces huge zucchinis.
- I go to Vancouver with my mom and Sam, to see a glass show, and to go to Ikea. I realize that my anxiety is doing much, much better, and I actually enjoy the stimulation of going somewhere "new" (even if it wasn't exactly new, just somewhere I don't go very often).
- I start playing with borosilicate
September:
- I go back to school. I feel anxiety but I feel it in a different way - I'm more able to observe it from a distance than actually get stuck in it.
- I continue to question my future... I realize there are things about medicine that really interest me, but I don't know if I want all the stress of becoming a doctor
- We officially set our wedding date
- I go wedding dress shopping, first at shops, and then I find my dress on usedvictoria, and I love it.
- I am feeling stressed about money, and I start thinking of looking for "real" work... then Tyler decides I shouldn't have to.
- I am down about 15 pounds!
- I decide I just want to be a homemaker
- I start trying to get my health plan at school sorted out
- I have my interview and article with the Times Colonist about my glass goddess beads
- We watch lots of Babylon 5
- I have lots of headaches
- There is wedding-related stress, and I have more insomnia
- I start working on Christmas stock
- We have a situation with electrical bills for the house... everyone is panicked about getting everything up to code... I am very worried about money
October:
- I finish knitting a sweater, that I never managed to block properly and so have not really ever worn... which is a shame because it's so cute.. I really need to figure out a space to block it
- My knee swells up
- I get very depressed about knee replacements
- My knee starts to get better again and I cheer up
- We are having barking issues with Ciaran in the back yard
- We harvest our apples for cider
- I get hired for a kennel job... but decide not to take it
- I decide to start trying vet clinics for a p/t job
- Mass bottle washing for Christmas
- We start letting Ciaran off-leash... and she behaves!
- I pay off my student loans
- My health plan has apparantly kicked in, so I optimistically send in my receipts at the end of October
- We start watching Heroes
November:
- I get a sweeet camera for my birthday
- I have my interviews at the cat clinic and get hired!
- Obama gets elected!
- I turn 24
- I play my first show in ages, on bass, and I really feel like I'm on top of my anxiety!
- We gets lots of rain
- I start using Twitter for a while, but give it up when it stops posting to my LJ, and I try to fix it, but can't get it to work anymore.
- Take the bridesmaids dress shopping
- Get WOTLK for WoW
- We do the Oak Bay Studio tour
- My car dies
- I get mail from the health plan and am optimistic that they are sending me a cheque - however, they are sending me a letter explaining that I'm not actually on a plan yet... so I have to spend even more on drugs
- I get sick for midterms, from a combination of stress and actual illness, and get a doctor's note to get out of them (which I have only ever done once before)
- My right shoulder also becomes buggered
- We do the worst craft fair ever, like seriously, it was the Craft Fair of Doom
- I decide to resurrect my car rather than buy a new one
December:
- School term ends
- Christmas is wonderful!
- New job is exciting... now thinking maybe I can balance a job like this with being a homemaker, rather than taking 4+ more years of university... maybe I can still do more school later if I want to, but have kids first... I would like to have kids before I'm 30 rather than after
- Griffyn comes home with a really nasty gash in his shoulder, we clean it out as best we can and hope it will heal (it does)
- We run out of oil and it is very cold for a few days
- We do the Moss St Christmas craft fair, and it was decent, but sales not nearly as good as last year
- We get a lot of snow (luckily, the cold snap wasn't at the same time as the oil run-out)
- I repaint my countertops (well half of them)
- I start learning to sew
Recipe for looking at the previous year... 1 snack-size bottle of espresso vodka, poured into the bottom of a really big mug. Mix in 3 large spoons of hot chocolate powder. Top most of the way up with boiling water, then a splash of milk. Fit in as many mini-marshmallows as possible, then top off with chocolate syrup.
January:
- Started my photo of the day project
- Was debating my future... thinking of naturopathy rather than medical school... was looking into taking doula classes too
- Started a school term, and was having trouble with my sleep due to an 8:30 am molecular endocrinology class
- Made lots of beads
- Found a new home for the last chicken and her coop
- Rolled grandpa's coin jar full of pennies, was over $100!
- We were playing lots of Guitar Hero
- I bought my bass guitar
February:
- We got our carpets installed
- Went to the gym for the first time in forever... loved it and wanted to keep going...
- Lots of studying
- More debating about whether medical school is really in my future
- Bad insomnia
- Washing lots of bottles, lots of torching and jewelry making too
- Had our 7 year anniversary
- Ciaran has her first vet visit
March:
- We play lots of Rock Band
- We go to the gem/stone fair and buy a whole ton of shiny things
- I start my lampwork journal
- Anxiety problems become rampant again
- The blossoms are out in our neighborhood
- We have an epic removal of a tick from Griffyn... he yells at us but lets us pull it out... and seems thankful after it's over
- We are giving Ciaran long-rope privileges at the park, but no off-leash. Still, she manages to lose her virginity at the park.
- I decide to take the summer off from school
April:
- I have a goddess bead featured in a small publication, "Self Portraits in Glass 2008"
- School term ends
- Ciaran has her yearly bath
- Ciaran has food-dominance issues, we start working on them more diligently
- I do some painting and drawing
- My hair becomes long enough to braid into pigtails
- Griffyn basically moves upstairs
- Tyler got his driver's license finally
- I decide to take the summer to figure myself out. I change my mind about taking the doula course, at least this point in time. I realize that I am not ready for medical school or that path... although I do not rule it out altogether.
- We get ready for the Moss St starting up again
- Ciaran destroys Alyson's fig trees
May:
- We start the Moss St
- Ciaran meets Miko and acquires the name "Shithead" after Miko rolls her in it.
- The "Summer of Amy" truly begins... I make lots and lots of beads
- We begin letting Ciaran sleep in her bed rather than crated, and she behaves herself just fine
- The garden fence starts going up
- We do the Mother's Day craft fair at Royal Roads.. the weather is terrible and we are horribly stressed the whole time
- The weather gets retardedly hot
- I start experimenting with glass blowing
- My anxiety starts to get better
- I sleep in most days, and I do glass, and I basically just spend my time making myself happy
- I bake Tyler an extravagent cheesecake for his birthday and throw him a semi surprise party
- My allergies start up for the season
- We adopt Pao, and Griffyn gets officially moved to upstairs
June:
- We start talking about getting a heat pump for the house... although this plan never fully materializes anytime this year
- Sam and I get our gym memberships and start working out
- The garden fences are finished
- Pao and Ciaran become BFF's
- I start losing a bit of weight
- Our apple tree begins to make fruits
- We do the Fernwood Art stroll; sales at the Moss St seem to be slow overall
- We have really hot weather
- I start doing yard work at Alyson's mom's house and realize I really like gardening
July:
- Ciaran has diarrhea all over the new carpets
- Tyler and I decide to make an effort to have "date nights" more often... we have sort of kept this up
- My allergies get to the point of nose bleedings
- I plant sunflowers, then Ciaran destroys them. Alyson feels vindicated for the fig trees.
- My parents go to Thailand
- I start playing my cello again
- Pao has worms
- Pao discovers how to get up onto the kitchen counters
August:
- We do the Glendale Gardens show. Bad weather, decentsales
- Pao gets fixed
- I do some cleaning work for my mom, she buys me some food at Costco... but I think I still owe her some hours
- Tyler has a job interview for violin teaching, and gets hired at Larsen, and loves it right away
- We officially start planning our wedding
- More hot weather. Our garden produces huge zucchinis.
- I go to Vancouver with my mom and Sam, to see a glass show, and to go to Ikea. I realize that my anxiety is doing much, much better, and I actually enjoy the stimulation of going somewhere "new" (even if it wasn't exactly new, just somewhere I don't go very often).
- I start playing with borosilicate
September:
- I go back to school. I feel anxiety but I feel it in a different way - I'm more able to observe it from a distance than actually get stuck in it.
- I continue to question my future... I realize there are things about medicine that really interest me, but I don't know if I want all the stress of becoming a doctor
- We officially set our wedding date
- I go wedding dress shopping, first at shops, and then I find my dress on usedvictoria, and I love it.
- I am feeling stressed about money, and I start thinking of looking for "real" work... then Tyler decides I shouldn't have to.
- I am down about 15 pounds!
- I decide I just want to be a homemaker
- I start trying to get my health plan at school sorted out
- I have my interview and article with the Times Colonist about my glass goddess beads
- We watch lots of Babylon 5
- I have lots of headaches
- There is wedding-related stress, and I have more insomnia
- I start working on Christmas stock
- We have a situation with electrical bills for the house... everyone is panicked about getting everything up to code... I am very worried about money
October:
- I finish knitting a sweater, that I never managed to block properly and so have not really ever worn... which is a shame because it's so cute.. I really need to figure out a space to block it
- My knee swells up
- I get very depressed about knee replacements
- My knee starts to get better again and I cheer up
- We are having barking issues with Ciaran in the back yard
- We harvest our apples for cider
- I get hired for a kennel job... but decide not to take it
- I decide to start trying vet clinics for a p/t job
- Mass bottle washing for Christmas
- We start letting Ciaran off-leash... and she behaves!
- I pay off my student loans
- My health plan has apparantly kicked in, so I optimistically send in my receipts at the end of October
- We start watching Heroes
November:
- I get a sweeet camera for my birthday
- I have my interviews at the cat clinic and get hired!
- Obama gets elected!
- I turn 24
- I play my first show in ages, on bass, and I really feel like I'm on top of my anxiety!
- We gets lots of rain
- I start using Twitter for a while, but give it up when it stops posting to my LJ, and I try to fix it, but can't get it to work anymore.
- Take the bridesmaids dress shopping
- Get WOTLK for WoW
- We do the Oak Bay Studio tour
- My car dies
- I get mail from the health plan and am optimistic that they are sending me a cheque - however, they are sending me a letter explaining that I'm not actually on a plan yet... so I have to spend even more on drugs
- I get sick for midterms, from a combination of stress and actual illness, and get a doctor's note to get out of them (which I have only ever done once before)
- My right shoulder also becomes buggered
- We do the worst craft fair ever, like seriously, it was the Craft Fair of Doom
- I decide to resurrect my car rather than buy a new one
December:
- School term ends
- Christmas is wonderful!
- New job is exciting... now thinking maybe I can balance a job like this with being a homemaker, rather than taking 4+ more years of university... maybe I can still do more school later if I want to, but have kids first... I would like to have kids before I'm 30 rather than after
- Griffyn comes home with a really nasty gash in his shoulder, we clean it out as best we can and hope it will heal (it does)
- We run out of oil and it is very cold for a few days
- We do the Moss St Christmas craft fair, and it was decent, but sales not nearly as good as last year
- We get a lot of snow (luckily, the cold snap wasn't at the same time as the oil run-out)
- I repaint my countertops (well half of them)
- I start learning to sew
