Daily Question: Tues. Dec.29 2009

Wow, this year has really flown by...

What was your biggest "thing" this year? Accomplishment, disappointment, heartbreak or joyous.... something worth remembering.

I guess the fact that my neice got married earlier this month and I'm going to be a Great-Aunt in June! Yes, pregnant before marriage.

Becoming a CNA at the top of my class, then having no one hire me because of no experience.

The biggest joyous thing for me this year was being able to quit working at Home Depot and feel like I'm starting my life now. I started my new job on December 1st and I'm loving every minute of it. I'm so grateful to have found a job in this horrid economy, but it took me a year and three months after graduating to find it. Now I know there is always light at the end of the tunnel.

Am beginning to wonder about the light at the end of the tunnel....I think someone blew mine out! On the positive side, I lost 20 lbs this spring, and have succeeded in keeping it off, plus since getting some new blood sugar meds in July, have finally started losing again, to the tune of almost 30 lbs this year!

Rescuing our newest bobcat boy Aiya

Most of my year was pretty bad and it didn't begin to improve until fall. I guess the biggest thing was my husband got sick and had to have two major surgeries last spring and summer. He is ok now though. I think 2010 is going to be great.

Originally Posted by CATTYBIRD

I guess the fact that my neice got married earlier this month and I'm going to be a Great-Aunt in June! Yes, pregnant before marriage.

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...same situation on my side in this case my Nephew is dad now...

Got married in July.

I met Angelo and he changed my life.

My mom's death.

Finding a litter of kittens in our window well. It really changed our summer, our lives.

The best thing is family and friends.....my sister and I are back in touch after many years of not speaking. We're not really close yet, but we're trying. And I enjoy chatting with my one of my closest friends who moved to Texas a couple years ago. We lost touch, but have found each other again and I cherish my friendship with her. I think I said this right around Thanksgiving, but it bears repeating......I am surrounded by family and friends who truly care about me and support me and I love and care for these people. And that's what matters most.

The only sad thing that happened to us during 2009 (other than some financial issues, which I think everybody went through) was losing our little 14-year-old tiger queen, Banshee. She was the feline love of my life and I will never forget that girl. I miss her so much even now and I think about our little girl so often. She was my life and her loss is something both DH and I still struggle with. We may be lucky enough to share our lives with even 100 cats throughout the years and we will always love our furkids, but there will only ever be one Queen B.

I'm looking forward to 2010 and to everything the new year will bring.

My mom died.

I had a lot of big things happen to me this year.

I hit my 30 year anniversary for my IT career.

I decided that 30 years in IT was enough and I retire from that career on Thursday. The doors are wide open again.

DH and I are having our 20 year wedding anniversary tomorrow (and no, I won't decide that 20 years is enough!).

I regained my friendship with my sister when I cared for her after her hip replacement surgery.

Hmm my accomplishments was getting to being a senior citizen and still breathing, lol. Of course my life will never be the same without my darling Misty who I spent almost 16 wonderful years with, not over that loss yet.

Moving into another home was fantastic and altho I was forced to do it, I am so glad I did altho the move was a real pain. I'm thankful for my family especially my older sister and I was smart enough to let go of previous friends when I knew it was time to do so. I have recently connected with friends of the past, sometimes they can be the best ones.

I would have liked to be in better health but I have to take the good with the bad. I am thankful I adopted Autumn from a shelter even tho she is a nutcase. I wish she was more friendly with people but she hides when anyone comes into the house, no one ever sees her except me. Yet I'm glad she's not sitting in a cage waiting to be adopted.

Hopefully 2010 will be a better year for all of us.

My year was a little boring but I'm not complaining
I had three semesters of college (including summer semester) back to back, no breaks at all until this December..
I got a new baby cousin who was born in May 2009

First off I wanted to say how sorry I am to hear about the loss of jcat and Misty8723 's mothers. My heartbreaks for you. January 22nd will mark 8 years since my mom died of a heart attack in her sleep. I was 17 and she was only 52. I'm so sorry for you lost. 2002= nothing but my mother's death to me, it was my last year in high school and my uncle, her brother died 11 days before she did of cancer but all that was over shadowed by her death

Originally Posted by Snake_Lady

Wow, this year has really flown by...

What was your biggest "thing" this year? Accomplishment, disappointment, heartbreak or joyous.... something worth remembering.

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Accomplishment-Moving in to my own apartment! I moved in October and I couldn't be happier! Even though I'm back at my old house washing clothes right now! Don't know what you got until it's gone!

Disappointment- My relationship with God has wavered and I don't like it one bit. I'm so sad that my foundation isn't as strong as it was a year ago. I don't pray every night like I used to. Also I dropped my classes in like March...I just got frustrated for some reason. I did pick them back up this coming January...same teachers and all.

Heartbreak- My daughter's teacher died October 12th, 2009. She was 21 years old and more a friend then anything. She took my daughter to the circus ON HER OWN TIME just because she adored my daughter, before she died there were plans to go to Chuck E Cheese. She even called my Aunt Mary...Aunt Mary lol. Her name was Da'Nel. She'd been sick with a "cold" like 2 weeks before she died. Turns out she had Swine flu & Pneumonia. She died in her sleep. I had texted her a few days before hand and saw her at my daughter's school. She was such a sweet girl. My aunt spoke at her funeral and it was so sad to see her lying there. Another teacher and I laid flowers and balloons on her grave on the 4th, which would have been her 22nd birthday.

Joyous- Getting my Shane Fitzgerald Kennedy and watching my daughter celebrate her 5th birthday!! I also got a new bedroom set in May for me and my daughter and I LOVE it!

Something Worth Remembering- Ephesians 3:20
"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" This was my theme for this year and I think God truly put this scripture in my heart. So much so that I got it tattooed on my leg in February lol. This was everywhere and in everything for me in 09...there's a song that goes with the scripture and imagine my surprised when it was sung and Da'Nel's funeral.

We were married!

Biggest good thing was adopting Genever in Jnauary!!

Biggest bad thing was my dad dying in May, and being back in PA for almost that whole month before. No good. In general this year was pretty crappy overall actually.


Come on 2010!!!!