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Green Room - Break - Day 7

In the lead up to the New Year, everyone is doing "Best and Worst of 2011" lists. I'm sure many people within the sound of my typing this have done it. Maybe even the people reading it.

So, what were the highlights and lowlights of your personal 2011? The biggest highlight is pretty obvious - participating in Idol. But I'm sure there were some lesser things that happened as well.

Maybe one of them could be your Free Topic entry!
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I'd rather not share the lowlights (they were pretty low) in a community post, but a highlight is that my husband started a new job he pretty much loves, and my FIL broke free of his neurotic, energy-sucking wife. :o

*and woohoo for first!

Edited 2011-12-28 16:14 (UTC)

Hmmm. My year was pretty even, overall. Not too much suck, not too much amazing. Kind of the same old same old. I wonder if I'm getting boring in my old age?

EDIT: I completely forgot Dragon*Con somehow! That was absolutely the highlight of my year. Best con EVER. Got to spend an hour hanging out chatting with an actor from my favorite show (Jim Beaver of Supernatural). Pretty much the entire rest of my year is a low point after that *LOL*

This morning I am at work, drinking Kahlua hazelnut coffee (YUM!) and not having a gosh darned thing to do, once again. Maybe I'll get something written for Idol.

Wow it's quiet around here! I hope everyone gets back here after New Year's!

Edited 2011-12-28 16:39 (UTC)

My lowlight started off the year in January and has kind of hung over my head ever since. Personal relationships can be hard. *sigh*

I guess I have two highlights... Hanging out with Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day at Dragon*con was pretty spiffy! And then hubby actually listened to me for what I wanted for xmas and got me a couple of things I REALLY wanted [which rarely happens with him]!

This week, I am taking advantage of the week off [work and idol] and putting new [linoleum] tile in my kitchen! Back to work!

Edited 2011-12-28 16:27 (UTC)

Let's see...some highlights: my baby girl, climbing two mountains while pregnant, seeing a nesting pair of bald eagles, berry picking, canoeing, going camping, spending the year clean and sober. :)

Oh! How could I have forgotten Dragon*Con? That was absolutely the highlight of my year! I had the best time EVER. Got to spend an hour hanging out in the lobby of the Marriott with Jim Beaver (an actor from my favorite show) just chatting.

Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day, huh? Wow, that's pretty impressive!

Well, I go to D*c as a handler, so not as impressive as you might think. [although it chuffed the heck outta me!] Though trying to get Wil, Felicia, Robin and Amy through the Marriott lobbies to look at costumes without being mobbed is easier said than done. 'Specially when Wil's in a kilt! *grin*

I think a year that's pretty even isn't such a bad thing. And it doesn't necessarily make you boring! :-)

Enjoy that coffee... it sounds yummy!!! And get crackin' on that Idol entry, slacker! :-p

LJ ate my comment.

Basically, I was saying the summer of 2011 was too damned hot, and it lasted half the year.

I'll add that LJ sucked.

When my allergy pill kicks in maybe I'll think of some high points.

(although high temperatures do count.)

You have had quite the year indeed. :-) Congrats on making it through the year clean and sober!

My year has been a bit of a mixed bag... some really oustanding stuff and some really spectacularly craptastic as well. Still, I think "breaking even" for the year in terms of good and bad isn't a bad thing overall. I'm going to work my ass off to make sure that 2012 is going to be a damn fine year. Until the whole "end of the world" thing hits us anyway.

Just another day in Ye Olde Salt Mine here... slow day which is good. Only have the balance of today and tomorrow to get through before another wonderful 4 day weekend! I think *all* work weeks should be like this! :-) I'm hoping to get one of the free topics up but we shall see how that all plays out. My wonderful and lovely lady is returning home today though I probably won't get to see her until Friday. Still, it will be nice to have her back in the same time zone!

Hope everybody is having a great day!!!

Ugh. Heat really sucks. Really, really sucks. Hope 2012 isn't as rough for you!

Yikes. I hope your husband's injury isn't too bad? But right on for him getting a job he loves. That's *always* a good thing. Glad you had a good 2011! And here's to more in 2012!

Glad that you have a couple of good things to put in the "win" column for 2011. Sorry there were some bad lowlights though. Here's hoping 2012 rebounds for you in a big way.

Congrats on the first!!!

If the world ends in 2012, I hope it waits until after they reveal who the leak is on The Closer.

The highs were pretty awesome. I got a temp job, then turned said temp job into a permanent one. With benefits.
Also, that whole "buying a house" thing was pretty sweet. And weddings! There were three of them this year, and hooooboy, I'm wedding'ed out.

Most importantly, though, no one in my family (or near-family) died this year. My aunt did get diagnosed with leukemia, but she's getting checked in about a month so they can call her in remission.

In all, 2011... No bad.

Highlights:
BABY!
Losing ~60 lbs
Getting a little time to bake again as baby got older
Husband got away from job he hated to great new job in May
New job this week!

Lowlights:
Old job super not pleasant after returning from maternity leave
Never sleeping enough due to aforementioned baby
Still needing to lose ~30 lbs

Edited 2011-12-28 17:27 (UTC)

How's the baby doing?

Lowlights: completely fading away from school after the spring. My resolution this year is to get myself back on campus and get myself a thesis topic

Highlights: driving to Michigan for a concert, not staying the whole time, and meeting online friends. Winning a round of the Sherlock (BBC) challenge fic fest. Getting a sub job.

Meeting the guy in my icon, not making an idiot out of myself, hugging him (!) and hopefully sitting down and writing my thoughts on why his album means so much to me.

GUYS. I am being published, just got the word this morning. It's in a non-paying magazine, but it's exposure, and to top it all off, it's the piece I wrote for the Narcissism challenge (titled in the magazine as "Shadowmaid"). And its the magazine's premiere issue! Whee! Comes out on January first and if you'd like to read it then, it's on exilesmagazine.com.

WOOO HOOOO FIRST!!!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for you!!!

Lowlight of the moment: Trying to figure out how I'm going to budget for all the Operation Gallbladder bills :shudder:

2011 was not a spectacular year for me. The biggest highlight has been marred by some behind-the-scenes situations of which I don't feel comfortable discussing in public. The lowlights? Too many to count.

2012 HAS to be better. It just HAS to be.

Yikes. That is terrifying. I'm glad that it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been and am keeping good thoughts that he is okay. I'm glad that he's making progress. :-)

lol... that show is still on? My sister used to watch it but I thought she said it had gone bye bye.

Lowlight? Can't really think of one. My aunt passed away, but we weren't close. It's been an overall very stagnant year.

Highlight was absolutely visiting Florida in October for a wedding, hanging out with friends and trips to various theme parks and Star Trek: The Exhibition at the Kennedy Space Center! It was over a week of sensory overload, and it was amazing.

With all the Star Trek and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I was in nerd heaven. XD

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