What is the best thing that happened to you in 2008?
 

The best thing that happened to me was getting custody of my 15 year old daughter...What about you?

That is something worth celebrating for sure. I met some cool new people but 2008 has'nt been great to me both personally and professionally. 2009 better make up for it dammit.

Seeing Cirque du Soleil members randomly performing in the middle of the street in Montreal Canada during Jazz Fest!

2008 was my graduating year as well as the first 7 months or so of freedom without school. So, just being able to experience all things Ive never been able to. The work life, woohoo hah.

I haven't failed a class.

This post pretty much covers it.

That's awesome Predator...electrician right? My hubbies thinking of getting into the union.


Well, I met lots of cool people, found lots of sweet music (thanks to MB), and it snowed this month. Not too exciting this year...but not bad.

Discovered MB
Discovered Megaupload, Rapidshare & Mediafire (through MB)
Got Hired at the Apple Store

And most rewarding of all...

Met my current gf.

Ah - bliss.

2008 has been my first education-free year of freedom. Ive met some amazing people, been to some amazing places, and took part in the climate caravan and climate camp which was incredible. whoo!

Nope, I is a mekenik. Caterpillar field service technician. I'm not a fan of unions.

2008 has been a kind year to me. It's had it's ups and downs, but I'm not complaining. A holiday abroad and I've still got my job.

Our childminders husband was rushed to hospital a few weeks ago.
He spent 5 hours on the assessment ward before being seen.
When they finally attended to him, they rushed him into intensive care. His face went purple, his ear went black and he had two coronaries.
After which, his hands and feet went black and he died the next day. He left a wife and two small children aged 8 and 3. He was only 41 and fit as a fiddle.
A very sad end to the year which put everything into perspective and got me counting my blessings.

Finding a girl who's a trained chef , kinky as hell and who thinks the sun shines out of my arse.

Awful taste in music but i'm beyond caring about that.

Formed a band, played a show.

Got a taste in music.

Had some good times.

I dunno.

kyle

Turning 18.









Wooooooooooooooooooo.

Finished school, and came away with some pretty good marks despite doing very little study.
Of course, now I have a year and a half to earn 18 grand before going to uni, which puts a damper on my year off.

I guess I had an okay year. I think I've met someone who's going to be my best friend through college. I switched to a completely vegan, not just vegetarian, diet which has been good for my moods. This year was kind of...boring for me. I read a few good books but I did last year and I've managed to maintain a 3.8 GPA but that's nothing new. If next year the Democrats deliver universal health care (or at least give it back to minors since Bush for some reason decided to take away that), get out of us Iraq (and hopefully all the middle east) and fix this financial mess I'll probably be happier the year happened.

That's quite the wish list you've got there...

That's not even me at my most idealistic ;_; just my most realistically optimistic.

Very meh

While they're definitely all possible, they could all very well take more than a year to do.

Also to add to my best things to happen in 2008: LeBron saying he may resign with the cavs this summer :tramp::tramp::tramp:

threesome

I agree. Neopolitan Ice cream is the ultimate 3some. Great post.

Thanks friend.

Even better if it was spelt correctly! Merry Christmas!

And a happy new year Adam.

Thanks gice, I hope you also have an enjoyable time with family and friends.

I sold everything I owned and moved into a tent for 9 months

That's badass

Yeah I have been living in a tent in 3 different countrys for 8 months now I am indoors for a few weeks at home visting family for the hoildays its way to cold here in canada tooo camp :(

Hmm....been a funny old year for me. A lot of people I knew passed away. I nearly joined them.
I bought a housebus, finished my restoration, bercame branch manager of where i work and found myself a new lady.

The pluses far outweigh the negatives for a change

What do you do about showering and such?

I guess turning 21 was my greatest moment of 2008, but even that wasn't so great;

Got some Jack Daniels, and Jagermeister. Since I've never drank anything harder than smirnoff ice, I just started with a Jack & Coke. I wanted to get ****ed up, and I got impatient, so this dude got us some skunk weed and I smoked some of that. Bad idea. I've never felt like throwing up the last few times I've tried weed, but after a while, my stomach started really hurting.

Didn't throw up, though. Didn't pass out either, though, but I spent the rest of the night on the bathroom floor, still aware that stuff was going on but not exactly conscious enough to engage in any of it.

Next morning, I woke up, and was dying for a smoke (Tobacco, not weed), until I realized someone stole my cigarettes and my cash (Only 20, but still). It ended up being the one guy who got us the weed.

So yeah. Next year, a friend of mine'll be turning 21, so I redo my celebration then.

public showers, showers at the beach, lakes andnot showering

Probably graduating was what 2008 was all about.
Didn't find love.
Didn't do anything worth-while.
Oh, I started going to the army, but apart from that? Nothing really.

I couldn't live like that lol. I shower probably 10 times a week :bonkhead:

oddly enough,.....i think i could live like that,....for a time atleast,...i've always thought about packin it all in and hikein the Appalachian trail,...or runnin off and livin in a yurt for a year or so in mexico,.....

lord knows lucy and i deff have our differences and arent fond of each other,....but good on her for checkin that out,....i've often wanted to myself

Strange year this 2008 thing... basically it changed a pattern for me that I'd been in since moving to the States from Australia three years ago. My wife was the main income earner, and I helped out with the kids etc to save on day care, etc... I also worked in a grocery store.

Well this year I was lucky enough to resume working in the education industry (where i was working prior to moving here) and my wife stopped working altogether, so the roles were kinda reversed... except I started working my old job and my new one simultaneously...

So its been exhausting, rewarding, complex and somewhat interesting, but altogether, I have acheived alot this year... a really conflicted year with alot of great stuff and difficult stuff all rolled into one...

In 2008 I...
Graduated from my Bachelor of Arts
Got a tattoo
Crashed my car (again)
Adopted a puppy
Ran out of money
Started a band!

Uni has and will probably remain brilliant. I'm a much better person for it.