This year? :: Looks at watch::
Best: getting some Diet Dr. Cherry coke from downstairs
Worst: forgetting the remote downstairs
Oh, you mean 2002? Okay
Best: discovering my voice as a poet, graduating with Honors from college, getting my second tattoo, becoming assistant to a choreographer who has become a valued friend, getting a kickass summer internship
Worst: breaking up with my boyfriend, having no “real” job at the moment
Ah, so far, 2003 is more consistent in its highs and lows.
Ah, the best:
Meeting my SO, the most amazing man in the world.
Promotion to a kick-ass job.
Worst:
Continuing health problems, including a stint in the hospital. But, that could also go onto my “best” list, since I’m grateful for every day of life, no matter how long it will last.
Organization wide pay cut at my non-profit kick-ass job.
Hmm, good question.
Worst: Losing a good friend over something stupid, my great-grandfather dying, and finding out my mom has diabetes.
Best: Rescuing a starving kitten, who is now happy and healthy and purring at my feet, and getting to know my older sister better now that she’s off to college.
Hugs to all the people who have lost someone close to them this year.
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Max
Best: Getting married. The wedding was everything I wanted it to be, and the marriage is even better.
Worst: I have to agree with iampunha–nothing seems that bad when you have someone who loves you by your side.
Worst - crashed my motorcycle, crushed my leg, went through three surgeries, spent the whole summer (and I mean the WHOLE summer - from Memorial day through Labor Day) in a cast, on crutches and watching lots of sunny days go by out the window.
Best - Accomplished what everyone said simply couldn’t be done. Consolidated two broadcast television stations into one facility, rebuilt the facility and swapped networks on the two stations. In 90 days! (and while on crutches and having surgeries…)
My best and worst things are interconnected:
Worst - the death of my dad in January
Best - using the inheritance money to substantially improve my quality of life.
Well, you know, it’s always the little things… 
Anyway, stuff that happened in 2002 –
Best: getting my Master’s degree, getting accepted to a PhD program, making my triumphant return to the stage
Worst: one of my classmates committed suicide. I didn’t really know him, but of course it was terrible anyway. And some of my friends were pretty close to him…
Best: the birth of my darling baby girl Danielle. She is the joy of my life. We waited twenty-one years for her, never believing that she’d actually come. Now that she’s here, I’m finding that it really is true: you have no idea how much you will love a child until you’re looking into those tiny bright eyes.
Worst: This seemed to be a year for a lot of unexpected, untimely, deaths that were just dumb and unnecessary. That’s the only way I can put it. The 12 year-old daughter of a co-worker who fell down concrete stairs and hit her head, a family friend who died during a routine medical procedure, a cousin in a car accident, our own Poopah Chalupa – when all was said and done not 6 weeks passed in 2002 without learning that someone else was gone for no apparent good reason. That’s something that I’ll never quite understand and that I’ll be very glad to not relive any time in the near future.
Worst: Having my husband leave me and then fickle people followed after him, hurting me even further.
Best: Spending Christmas and New Years Eve alone and finding that I was happier than I had been in years past with the ex.
Best: Changing schools. Ranks up there as one of the best decisions I ever made.
Worst: Compared to the last three or four years of my life, really nothing was that bad.
Worst: Hearing that my mother was diagnosed with liver cancer.
Best: Seeing the determination of my mother to survive and beat it.
Honourable mentions:
Worst: Suffering through six months of Idiot Boss in southern CA.
Best: Applying for one job in the eastern US, to get away from I.B. and to be closer to my family, and getting it.
I’ll go the other way first;
Worst:
Breaking up with some old friends (who called me “family”) and then having them slander and badmouth me all over town, accusing me of hitting their children and dogs on a regular basis (an unbelievable lie).
Remaining Unemployed. Burning through all of my savings and going into debt.
Health Problems. Back and Neck problems have limited by ability to do certain things. At their worst, they severely affect everything. At best, I still need to take it easy.
STRESS. Mountains of it, pressing me down. The cause of the Health problems.
Best: (and now you see WHY)
Breaking up with those “old friends”. Sure, it was painful and took me months to get past it. The slander still hurts. But as I now see in hindsight, these people were slowly poisoning me and keeping me from progressing. It’s like jogging along and suddenly having the ball and chain ripped from your feet. Sure, you are cut and bruised, but you find that you can RUN now!
Remaining Unemployed. 12 months of rest and personal enjoyment, even if we didn’t have the money to do all the trips we wanted (oh gee, as if Disney World and the Cabin were not enough…whine whine)
New Friends. Who would not have been possible with the “old friends” in my life. These new friends have taken me in directions that I never would have conceived of before.
Getting Married. 'nuf said.
Selling my House. Living in the Wife’s house now. The money from my house will pay off all our debts and give me enough money to go back to school and/or try new career options.
Best: Falling in love and into a great physical/romantic relationship with my best friend.
Worst: She moved to Boston to get her PhD. (She had already been accepted before we started dating).
So, the worst insn’t that bad. I still see her once a month for about 5 days at a time.
Worst: A severe health problem.
Best: Beating it. Thanks to all at the SDMB. I never mentioned it before, so I could act like it wasn’t happening. But I’m much better now.
Worst: My wife being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, on top of all her other medical conditions.
Best: Having previously found the SDMB, which in addition to generally adding to the amusement and information levels of my life gave me a place to vent about the above.
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All in all, 2002 was a relatively good year for me.