Monday, December 31, 2007

retrospective, by pen

2007 'lights

The Highs
-watching K.Lo grow
-had an N.Lo
-deepened love for The Office
-J.Lo makes me laugh every day
-enjoyed the iPod
-discovered Brett Dennen, Josh Rouse
-went to see Waitress twice
-made new friends, got to know existing friends better
-joined writers' group, actually wrote something
-J.Lo's computer resurrected/hijacked by ME
-figured out cookies
-ate lots of cookies
-lots of fun emails
-started a new blog
-sometimes K.Lo slept
-some golden family moments
-no traffic infractions
-the Library Book Sale
-visits from family and friends
-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
-can say I've been to Connecticut

The Lows
-Being Green, for a little while
-The Death Sick
-the Writers' Strike
-mostly K.Lo didn't sleep
-that time I considered leaving the country/briefly hated life
-haven't seen m for yet another long year
-Ash moved away
-missed Kim's wedding
-those last 3 weeks being pregnant were really vexing
-giant bag of money did not fall from sky

The In-Betweens
-moved on from 2 friendships, still have yet to rumiblog on these matters
-overly eventful travels, on occasion
-debt level, didn't make any headway
-sometimes my house seemed really clean and organized, and sometimes it seemed a mess
-patience level had many valleys and peaks
-my garden grew really well, but we ended up not using a lot of the tomatoes, or the herbs, which sadly fried
-I read a lot of good books, but really need to read more
-the price of gas goes up, but then it goes down
-not sure ethanol is the answer

3 comments:

erin j said...

No bags of money for me either...sigh...
IMO, ethanol is NOT the answer... we can talk about this sometime...
HERE'S to 2008 and sleeping kiddos, good friendship, and three more additions to our group!

Cue said...

Good ones!

ps: Watching "Waitress" w/ parentals currently, minus this break. :)

ashley said...

So much happens in a year...

And yes, that moving thing was truly a low point, was it not?