Anyone want to share/confess a few?

Lowlight: Living in a tent.

Highlight: Living in an apartment without roomies for the first time.

Lowlight: Still didn't consistantly have access to the internet or ceramic facilities.

Highlight: Doing a lot of web work and making lots of great pots.

Lowlight: Throwing up for the first time since I was six and going to the hospital.

Highlight: Managed to stay single.

The bar I started in this New Years Eve I played this game with some complete strangers and it was actually pretty interesting. This one, small, gay guy said his broken foot was a great highlight of
2007: "It took the smallest, faggiest one in the whole goddamed place to start a mosh pit: and that was me."

Lowlight: Dismally fucking up a piece of development porting some highly complex system that no-one explained (or documented) from one platform I'd never even seen before, to another I'd never worked on before.

Not that I blame anyone else, because I really should have screamed "what the fuck am I doing?" quite early on, sigh... live and learn I suppose.

Highlight: Surprising Ellie with a trip to New York, seeing the friends and family who lived in the vicinity and generally walking the fuck out of my feet every day to get around the city.

Highlight: Getting married! Woo!

Lowlight: Work... almost every day I had to go to work was a bummer.

Highlight: My friends getting married!

Lowlight: more work.

Highlight: My sister getting married! (it became a bit of a theme this year. We went to five weddings including ours.)

Lowlight: Getting mad at Ellie at new year because she hit my head with something she'd thrown, and throwing something back at her a little harder than i should have. Kinda threw both of us, but no harm done.

Highlight: Getting my tablet PC (which I did back in new york, so this is not in the best of chronological orders.)

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The one, the only, the undisputed king of the world.

Well... since I've been a little too down to post lately, I think it's probably a good time to take part in the forums and stuff.

Highlight: Finished rehab.

Lowlight: Finished rehab.

Highlight: Bought a condo.

Lowlight: Bought a condo.

Highlight: Finally got properly medicated for bipolar (or at least as properly medicated as anybody can figger out).

Lowlight: Had to go crazy to get properly medicated for bipolar disorder II.

Highlight: Had one of the coolest jobs in the MS tech community.

Lowlight: Was going through withdrawals the entire time I had the cool job, and I didn't get a damn thing done.

Highlight: Wrote most of my creation story - probably one of my best pieces of writing.

Lowlight: Didn't finish writing my creation story (yet).

Highlight: Didn't date anyone, so didn't hurt anyone, so didn't get hurt, so didn't have anybody to whom I needed to apologize.

Lowlight: Didn't date anyone because I was too scared to get hurt. Continuing trend that's only getting worse.

Highlight: Met a few great people up at the MS campus.

Lowlight: Mostly met scumbags up at the MS campus.

Highlight: My dentist was *hot*.

Lowlight: My dentist was *expensive*.

Highlight: Crack addict sideswiped me at 70mph on I-5 north, messing my car up real good. Oh, wait... this is probably a lowlight.

Lowlight: Crack addict sideswiped me at 70mph on I-5 north, messing my car up real good.

Highlight: Moved back to Portland to be with my friends and family.

Lowlight: My friends have changed, and my mom has gone fucking nuts.

Highlight: Bought a new acoustic - Taylor - the finest guitar I've ever played.

Lowlight: My strat needs new strings.

Highlight: The year was basically shit.

Lowlight: There were very few highlights, and I have to work to remember them. The year was basically shit. All the highlights are in the upper echelons of shit, and the lowlights are, well, lower. But it was all shit.

There. That ought to cheer everybody up!

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- Rory
- Owner of Neopoleon
- Monster in the sack

On the plus side, at least re-stringing an electric only costs (what I estimate to be) about $10. (Based on it being £6 last time I had to buy a set for mine.)

Shame about your year being shit, as long as it's temporary shit you'll be alright though. And, frankly, most shit is temporary. (OK, so my blinding optimism may be, umm..., blinding me at the moment.)

See, my year could be divided into two parts:

1 - Awesomeness

2 - Work

Pretty much everything that wasn't work was awesome, whereas I friggin' hate my job. Still, never mind, at least home-life is awesome. (Apart from that possible leak on the bathroom floor which doesn't seem to have any discernible origin.)

[edit: sorry, that all sounded a bit smug, didn't mean to sound smug. work really does suck.]

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The one, the only, the undisputed king of the world.

Highlight: I'm not dead yet.  Of course, that could go either way.

Lowlight: My cats died, and my aunt had a stroke.

Highlight: Bought a house

Lowlight: Bought a house

Highlight: Went to Dev Connections

Lowlight: I wasn't terribly well-behaved in Las Vegas.  Can't really expand on that... sorry. 

Highlight: -showed interest in me.

Lowlight: I still don't work there yet.

Highlight: My kids.

Lowlight: Still married to the bible thumper.

Lowlight: Evil landlord screwed me over.

Highlight: I get to sue his ass now.  Kaching!

Overall I think it was a good year, but I really miss my cat.  Not the most remarkable year of my life, but I've got a whole lot of those now.  I've got a good feeling about 2008 though...

 

So, I started this thread, than totally forgot it existed... It's a couple months in and perhaps not a bad time to check back in with people.

Rory:
"Highlight: Didn't date anyone, so didn't hurt anyone, so didn't get hurt, so didn't have anybody to whom I needed to apologize.
Lowlight: Didn't date anyone because I was too scared to get hurt. Continuing trend that's only getting worse."

Hey! I just wrote a post about this and I am totally in the same place you are... Doubly Singular

Although it took me the entire post and into the comments to figure that out about myself... Here I was, convinced that I was single because I'm awesomely self sufficient, independent, and am not so interested. Turns out, I am scared. I blame Rory. Granted, I didn't even know him when I became this way (and we've never even met in person), but still, I think he can handle taking on this guilt because he didn't have to apologize to anyone else this year.

But... you and I, Rory, can all take heart because...

Cowboy:
"Lowlight: Still married to the bible thumper."

...we may have other issues, but we are not married to a bible thumper. I have to ask, what does one do with a bible thumper? Do you treat your running dialogue with them like on big comedy?

Closest I've been was having a roommate who was a coke addict and fundamentalist. Apparently, me not keeping up on shaving my legs and stuff is a sin because God created Adam first. I wonder if he was high when we had this argument..? It's hard to tell with those people... it comes really natural to them and all.

But we all loose, because-
Massif:
"Highlight: Getting married! Woo!"

Normally I wouldn't say the married guy wins, but Massif seems genuinely happy. I will give you props for either fooling us or really, for reals, getting that stuff right. Kudos.

Happy Leap Year everyone. This means if you're going to get one year good, make it this one- it's a full day longer.

Celes:

But we all loose, because-
Massif:
"Highlight: Getting married! Woo!"

Normally I wouldn't say the married guy wins, but Massif seems genuinely happy. I will give you props for either fooling us or really, for reals, getting that stuff right. Kudos.

Well, apart from using loose when you meant lose. I'd like to say that if I wasn't happy about my marriage a mere 6 months after my wedding day, I'd have been doing pretty badly.

Wait a full year for the rot to set in.

Seriously though, we've been going out for almost a decade now. Getting married was the next logical step and we couldn't be happier about it. (Then again, it's only just gone nine months now, so give it some more time.) We've already been through some tough times, which I shan't go into here, because they aren't my secrets to tell. Let's just say we've very little to fear at this point.

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The one, the only, the undisputed king of the world.

"Well, apart from using loose when you meant lose."

My 'o' key was loose.

"Seriously though, we've been going out for almost a decade now."

I've you've been together that long and still like eachother enough to get married, I think you'll be okay. You've already exceeded most of us, I'm sure.

Highlight: Saw VNV Nation in a small venue.

Lowlight: Stopped working due to being hugely pregnant.

Highlight: Had the most beautiful baby girl EVER!

Lowlight: Mother-in-Law stayed with us to "help" out the first week the baby was born.

Highlight: Had fight with MIL and now she isn't speaking to me.

Lowlight: Car repair, car repair, car repair.

Highlight: Staying at home to raise my daughter.

Lowlight: Winter is taking forever to go away.

Highlight: Getting lots of digital photographic retouching I can do from home.

Lowlight: Getting fat sitting at my computer all day.

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"If you plan to be offended, then don't ask."

"Wow, I must have taken some "disclose your sordid past without reservation" drug today."

You'll be hired by Microsoft yet!! :)

"Yet another girl in college accused me of being a satan worshiper"

I got that all through high school. Actually, they would say I was satan... period. Like... if I was actually satan I would let people bother me excessivly like that.

"...somebody has to make sure the kids have a sanity influence and try to keep that stuff in check."

I hope that wasn't a 'stay together for the kids' admission. If it was: As the daughter of a psycho, don't. Get custody. It's much better for the kids, even if money gets tight. That's my opinion, but it's a qualified one. My lil sis and bro would say the same.

"The marriage hasn't self destructed yet, but I blame that on excessive stubborness from both parties."

"Yet"? "Blame"? Wow. She probably doesn't believe in divorce. What's your excuse?

I believe in fixing things and loyalty and all that, but you can only beat a dead horse for so long before it... I'll save the graphic metaphor. You say you have good and bad stuff & you wrote that on a bad day, but I'm still here going '...and?' for all the good stuff.

Not to pick on or judge you... I'm saying this out of concern. Feel free to tell me to mind my own bees-ness.

"Lowlight: Getting fat sitting at my computer all day."

Is there a solution to that which doesn't involve joing a gym or not eating?

I'm not fat, I always gain weight in the winter (as long as I can remember) and lose it in the summer. My concern is that with the new job, now driving instead of walking, and classes, I'm not going to be moving around as much as usual even when the weather finally does break.

I'm gonna have to do something. :p

I think I'm feeling more fat than actually getting there. Cabin fever, et al.

Think thin!

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"If you plan to be offended, then don't ask."

Or think "Wait, why should I care? Oh, yeah, people think being extremely slim at the waist is beautiful in this time period. Okay. It's better than plucking one's hairline or foot binding I suppose".

I like sitting at the puter all day, but I miss my daily walks. I might start trying to eat faster and take a walk about at lunch to get some sun (whatever that is) and circulation (what? I have feet?).

It's just so damn cold is all. We've had a long winter.