2012 - A New Year MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I love all the news shows that show montages of important happenings for the past year.

2011 was an eventful year. We had the royal wedding, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and Osama bin Laden was killed. Kim Jong Il died, Muammar Gaddafi was killed. The Kardashians split up, Demi Moore and Ashton Kucher split up, Oprah ended her show. And the Houston Texans made the play-offs!

On a more personal note, my son got engaged and is expecting a baby in June! I’ll have a new daughter-in-law and grandaughter, plus a little grandbaby. Wow!

What has happened in your life this past year? What do you expect in 2012? Changes? Or more of the same?
Ok - there’s your MMP. Hijack away! :wink:

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First!!

Most of the changes in my life were internal rather than external, but my uncle passed, & my little sister graduated high school. and I’m going to be married in 2012.

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Nooooo! I’m always awake. This should could count for something.

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In the last year:

  1. Moved out of the Hood to a nice place with my roommate C.
  2. Had to put Nelly K. Beagle to sleep. :frowning:
  3. Got a “just friend”:slight_smile: I’m not dating.

As far as 2012 goes, if I can upgrade my “just friend”:slight_smile: to my girlfriend, everything else will fall into place.

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Why is my compu-machine showing things too large? Violet the cat sat on the keyboard, so what could a ketteh hiney accomplish?

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2011 was particularly nice because of being able to take the extra-long vacation I’m currently on which meant I could see both Mom and Far-Away Best Friend in one vacation. Did a lot of fun things in real life (park and garden-related as well as family) and survived with a job (as far as I know :D).

2012 should be fun, with my goddaughter (FABF’s daughter) showing up for a while after she graduates (she’s thinking short, no longer than 6 months, but we’ll see how long she really stays) and lots and lots of work challenges. Hoping to get back to see mom in a few months. She’s lost two close friends in the past 6 months and was pretty sad and more isolated than she’s been in a long time, so we decided it’s time for her to get an internet connection and accompanying hardware. I think we’re going to buy it in Mexico, but I’ll fly down to make sure it’s connected properly and that she knows how to use it properly. That way we can Skype with her and have a clearer idea of how she’s doing and she can discover all kinds of cool things on the internet and also terrorize everyone through e-mail and FB. (Yes, I’ll be giving her multiple anti-glurge lessons.)

FABF is grading papers, so I’m on my own for a few hours. Thinking about taking a shower and then wandering into town (it’s a whole 5 blocks, maybe, to the center of town) to buy a few things. Or I might take a nap.

Had a fabulous New Year’s celebration. We got together with the usual suspects and had a nice dinner (including antelope :eek:), seeing slides of the hosts’ vacation in Namibia (very cool trip), going out to watch fireworks (extra cool; there were more professional shows that we’ve ever seen, so you basically had a 360[sup]o[/sup] fireworks display), had yummy desserts, had a concert for about an hour, and generally caught up with each other. This took till 4 a.m.

Hope all the sickies are feeling better. (How’s it going, Nava?)

Hugs all.

GT

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Up, caffeinated, off to irk.

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It was certainly a year of changes - daughter’s divorce and subsequent move (and that’s all I’ll say about that mess), my retirement, spousal unit having yet another surgery - those were the biggies.

I did get to meet 2 Mumpers, so that was a bonus! :smiley: And I learned to make preserves!! But nothing else really stands out.

As for the new year, I’d like some sort of work, preferably with pay. I’d like **FCD **to stay healthy and out of the hospital. And I’d like daughter to get her stuff together and at least pretend to be an adult. I’ll be very surprised if Scruffy lives another year, and not because of her waking me at ridiculous hours - she’s pretty old and I watch her daily degradation. Oh, and I hope the Office of Personnel Management finally manages to finish my pension calculations and get the back pay owed to me. Frankly, I’ll be happy if 2012 permits me to continue to survive more or less in one piece and of sound mind (no cracks from the peanut gallery!!)

Happy Monday, all!!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 42 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 53. Also there are three advisories out. A wind and fire advisory for today and a freeze warnin’ (:eek: Run! Run for the hills!) for tonight into tomorrow mornin’ cause it’s supposed to be a low of 26 Amurrkin overnight. Well, gasp! Winter weather in Winter! What is this world comin’ to!

Rebo sounds like an eventful year. Congrats, best wishes etc to son and future DIL re the baby and weddin’.

Pearl we must have details on the impendin’ nuptials. [del]Nosy[/del] Enquirin’ Mumpers want to know.

As far as 2011 is concerned, it was just another year. I am happy with a pretty stable employment situation. I just wanna maintain in 2012.

Today is OYKW’s day of natality. Last night he made an executive decision. I let him get away with it once a year. :smiley: Since we’re bein’ treated to dindin at the good Eyetalian place he gets to have his requested brekkie for brekkie, that bein’ his executive decision. So I shall make waffles, bacon and scrambled aigs for brekkie in a bit. He’s still asleep so I figure on bein’ nice and not start cookin’ until eight this mornin’. He’ll spring to life when he smells bacon fryin’, which I shall do fully clothed thankyewverymuch. :stuck_out_tongue:

For now I need more caffiene.

Happy Moday Y’all!

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Small children need to learn that 4:50 is not morning.

Now, shall we go to the library or stay home today? Must uncross eyes in any case.

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**LiLi **- just sell them to the next passing circus and go back to bed. You’re welcome. :wink:

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My best friend’s husband got a new truck complete with snow plow and so he’s going to come and plow our drive for a really, really reasonable price. This means Sticks vs. 300 feet of driveway with just a shovel won’t have to happen again! Yay!!!

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The big news for me was my transfer and subsequent move to Merrylande and becoming Mooooooom’s stalker. All tied up in that is the ongoing debacle of trying to sell the NC VunderLair, and the heartburn that involves. I hope that is done SOON.

On a much happier note, VunderKind finished his edjumakashun during the summer term, and got his first related job just before Christmas.

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Well, I am happy to see 2011 go into the books. It was certainly a year of huge changes for me. I was hospitalized for nearly 2 weeks in May, after which I decided to retire from my job after nearly 34 years, then on top of all of that, I moved nearly across the country to New Mexico and have started all over again. I’m still retired, though, and must confess that I am not looking for any work. I will, however, consider doing part-time volunteer work. Soon.

I am settling into retirement, but to be honest, it’s been lonely here and I have not been able to make friends yet. My sole friends are via the internet. So if anyone out there is in the Albuquerque NM area, please feel free to PM me. I am learning to crochet and I wanted to do ceramics or pottery, so there’s a few of my interests. I want to get out and meet folks, but do not drive or have a car.

Happy New Year 2012 to all!

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2011 was a sleepwalk year interspersed with travel. Got the New England amusement park trip, another through Virginia and a third to Indiana and Ohio. Many trips to Knoebels. For the year we finished with 18 different parks, 7 new to us (first time visits) and 32 total days in parks. All far and away a personal best for us.

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Bday brekkie has been consumed and will soon be just a memory in the septic tank. :smiley: The fun just keeps on goin’. There’s an invitate to a bday lunch at good Chinese at 12:30 p.m. in addition to dindin at the good Eytalian later today. It’s gonna take some hard work to unspoil OYKW after all this!

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Happy New Year Everyone! I am back from my UK parental visit where I had a blast.

2011 was a year of busy-ness and crazy-ness including mom-in-law cancer diagnosis, myself & mr ems moving across country for work, starting new jobs, short sale on the house in Cali, knee surgery and many other things. We fully realise how blessed and fortunate we are to have each other and jobs and insurance in what has been a tough year so we are looking foward to what challenges 2012 can throw at us.

I am enjoying my last day of vacation by going to Target, de-Christmassing the house and doing laundry. Back to reality…:smiley:

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Oh yea 2011 marked the exodus of the galbladder too, I forgot about that.

Swampy, to answer your [del]nosy[/del] equiry, PB and I plan to me married quietly, by our pastor, as soon as possible. (probably within the next month or so, hopefully.) We’ll have the big do later, when we get the bread.

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Wow, I didn’t realise Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher split up. Of course, I don’t follow celebrity gossip, so that might be a reason…

It’s odd… I was at a client’s house when I learned about the big stories that happened the first part of the year: the shooting in Tuscon, the tsunami, the tornado in Joplin. Interestingly, I was also spending nights at a clients house when I learned about some other big stories of the past few years: the earthquake in Haiti, Michael Jackson’s death, the start if the gulf oil spill. For some reason, those big events – something that impacts others, and not me directly, is what I remember, and always associate them with specific people I meet, albeit for a short time.

For me, I went back to school. Nothing fancy, just part time, but I did it and by god I did it well. I was in a rut, financially and emotionally. My grandmother, who has a Ph.D in psychology, understood my situation and, knowing the value of education, convinced me to go back to school. My wife decided to return to school as well, and has been more successful than I have been. My youngest son is in preschool, my oldest in first grade. Both are doing phenomenal, even though my oldest’s teacher is fairly worthless.

My parents and my brother have had changes in their lives that have caused me endless stress, anger and worry. Although, that is hardly a 2011-specific issue. I think a big part of my depression is a result of what my normal, vibrant family has become. 2011 saw my dad fall off the wagon - hard, and my worthless brother’s approval and support of this new ‘lifestyle’.

So… an eventful year, full of serious suck. However, my children and wife are healthy, and that is priceless.

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So… There just happens to be a loaner sawzall at my house right now. Don’t ask me why I just had to wait until my mom was taking a nap to try it out. :smiley:

We’ll see how thrilled she is when she gets up…