Your Year in Review

[Andrea]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Same as every year. Work to improve who I am.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Yes, but I still need more work.

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
I had three big lessons this year:

Be careful what you wish for because you may get it and find it isn't at all what you thought it would be.

Just because you are in the right doesn't mean the guilty party will pay in any way, shape, or form.

My honey and I can get through anything together.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
Considering everything that went on last year, I think I did really well with the things I meant to accomplish. If I missed something...oh, well!

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
Being in daily touch with my mother after a 16 year hiatus.

6. Do you like cheese?
I adore cheese. Cheese by itself, cheese on other foods, cheese in the middle of foods.....

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
Yes. A lot of new family came into my life this year. I wish I could say I like them all but the truth is there are a few I don't.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
I am thankful for the good that came out of the bad over the year. I am thankful for my honey who held my hand the entire way. I am thankful for friends who were there physically and emotionally.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Same one as every year... to work on myself as a person.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.
Take my honey on a well deserved vacation to Maui.

[uglyboi]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Yes, going to the doctor for a check up. Well it ended up being more than a check up, but hello it's all good.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Surely did.

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
That there is no shame in saying, "I don't know"

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
Spray-painting “Uglyboi Rules!” on the Great Wall of China.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
That I have underpromised, overprepared, an overdelivered.

6. Do you like cheese?
I sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and eat it out of the refrigerator.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
Yes, and boy did they keep me on my toes the last three months. Saying good bye to all of them January 3, 2012.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
Beasley's health. I almost lost her in May. Hemoglobin of 3! Thankful for each person that has had a part of her recovery! Thankful and grateful to the man above who was by our side the entire time!

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
I will stop saying,” Ooh, that feels nice” whenever a security guards frisk me at airports.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.
Marry Beasley (shhhhhhhhhh) and try to be more 2012 instead of 2006.

[BullDog]

Reviving this thread for this New Year!

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?

No I didn't, but I did have things I wanted to accomplish. This year I plan on writing things down. I think of them more as personal goals than New Year's resolutions, but that may just be semantics.


2. Did you keep your resolutions?

Some I did, some I didn't. I did cut out toxic people out of my life and got a new apartment. I didn't lose weight, get into shape or get as far along with my websites as I would have liked to.


3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?

How important it is to stay positive and to not let negative/toxic people bring you down.


4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?

Losing weight and getting in shape.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?

Meeting Belle and moving to Tennessee. It has been so amazing! I really did find true love when I wasn't expecting it.

6. Do you like cheese?

Yes

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?

Belle Also getting to meet people at the reunion in person- some of whom I have known for years online- was another highlight.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?

My amazing partner. She tells and shows me how much she loves me many times daily. I am so happy and feel I can do anything with her love and support.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?

Yes, I will make some more specific goals and write them down. They include:
- lose weight, eat healthy & get in shape
- financial goals with my websites
- start playing the guitar again
- get back to writing fiction again
- have the time of my life with Belle and appreciate and cherish every moment with her

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.

Become a Grill Meister out on the deck

[Turtle]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Nope, don't make New Year's resolutions.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Not applicable :-)

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
Chill and wait, breathe, and wait some more...trust.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
I wanted to get thru my avoidance of large crowds to get to a hot air balloon show. I'll get there.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
The end of my long-term relationship.

6. Do you like cheese?
Hell yeah!

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
Yes, lots of New Magnificent Ones.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
FRIENDS, many of whom are here. Thank you.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Nope.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2011.
New...take a watercolor painting class.

[JustJo]

Wow...I had forgotten even posting in this thread last year. So strange to read my own words...and know now all the things I didn't see coming only a year ago.

Originally Posted by JustJo

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Yes...to make the move from upstate NY to Florida...to successfully transition into a new job with the same employer...and to get in better physical shape.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Two out of three ain't bad

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
That I needed to cut some toxic people out of my life...which I did. Since one was my only blood sibling...that was difficult.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
Weight loss and better physical health.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
2010 was a year of big change for me...starting a new job within my company that required learning a whole new set of skills....my relationship with Scoote...moving to Florida....buying a house (with Scoote)....ending my relationship with my sister and another toxic individual who had been sucking me dry emotionally for several years...and that's just the big stuff!

6. Do you like cheese?
Yes, especially my son's cheesy grins.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
Well...Scoote came into my life in 2009, but our relationship changed signficantly in 2010.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
Wow...most thankful? I've had a year full of blessings...a good relationship, a new home, no snow to shovel, continued stability with my diabetes, doing well at a new job, surviving several rounds of layoffs, less negative drama, my son doing well at his new school with honor roll and Odyssey of the Mind....so many things!

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Yes...to complete coursework to earn my Project Management certification, to take Scoote and the boys on a truly nice vacation, to improve my finances by paying down debt and increasing savings....and to follow through on that neglected 2010 resolution...and get in better physical shape.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2011.
Ummmm.....can't think of a thing.

2011 was tough year...the hardest I've had in a very long time...with my mother's cancer, tremendous stress at work and relationship changes....it's like my life got turned upside down and shaken.

In the end, it has all turned out....my son is doing very well....my mother is making progress and we are having time to basically say a very long goodbye...and my health is better than it has been in a decade.

The end of the year has taken a brighter turn...despite the ongoing challenges...and I have high hopes that 2012 will be an excellent year.

So.....for the coming 2012:

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
* Yes, to get my Project Management certification, to improve my finances, to take a nice family vacation and to get in better physical shape.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
* Mostly....I received my MPM certification in the mail just yesterday....the PMP (the gold standard in the industry) will be this spring. My finances are shot. We did some weekend trips and had a week in the Bahamas, thanks to Scoote's work at Papa John's....and I've improved my health and lost 10% of my body weight even though I haven't exercised like I planned.

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
* That I need to follow the flight attendant's instructions...and put on my own oxygen mask first before helping those around me. This is true in all of life...not just on planes.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
* Financial stability....at this point more important than getting in shape.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
* There were two...the end of a relationship that I thought was the forever one...and my mother's terminal cancer and the role I've needed to take as her caregiver.

6. Do you like cheese?
* Yes, and I would like a grilled cheese sandwich right now, please and thank you.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
* Yes, several friends on the site who have been incredibly supportive and helpful....several new work colleagues....and someone who makes me smile and laugh and feel like myself again.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
* That hope is eternal....and life finds a way. And...that my son is doing beautifully and growing into a truly good person I'm proud of every day.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
* Get my finances repaired and stable again. Continue with my new eating patterns to continue to improve my health. Continue my career growth by getting my PMP designation. Build friendships and keep them dear. Let myself be cared for the way I care for others.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.
* Be on the top of someone's list.

[CherylNYC]

Originally Posted by Medusa

Reviving this thread for this New Year!

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?

Nope.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?

See above.

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?

Dyke bikers are the best, most supportive people on earth.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?

Finish and rent out that studio apartment on the ground floor of my house.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?

Getting hit by a car in April 2011.

6. Do you like cheese?

I loooooooove cheese! I look forward to being able to eat it again in my next life. For the remainder of this one, I'm happy to watch others eat cheese. If we go out to dinner together I hope that you will order something with cheese so I can watch.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?

I think so. This may be what they call 'dating'.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?

Not ending up in a wheelchair, or worse, as a result of getting hit by a car in April. There were 9 breaks to my lumbar spine, including 4 breaks in L5. I had no spinal chord injury, which seems impossible. Or miraculous. Or both. Even more miraculous, because nothing was displaced, spinal surgery was not necessary. My pelvis was shattered, but the doctors put it back together beautifully. My broken ribs didn't puncture my lung. My broken hand healed perfectly, which is important when you're a professional sculptor. My femur was not broken, which seems impossible when the extent of the soft tissue damage in my thigh became known. My bones are strong, and writing that I was fortunate seems like the world's biggest understatement. My body produced a huge adrenaline surge that carried me through months of aggressive PT. I healed as fast as a teenaged athlete. No, I'm not exaggerating. I was dragging my knees around the track for two glorious track days in August, just four months after I got hit. (I was between surgeries.) My friends took care of my needs before I even knew I had them, (see #3). To top it all off, even though I've had a few setbacks, I'm going to get 100% function back by late winter of 2012, just as I said I would. Not 90%. Not even 98%. I will absolutely get 100% back. Period. And I'm still financially solvent. That's its own miracle, and I never take it for granted.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?

Nope.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.

Buy a new race bike!
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And finish renovating my house.

[Medusa]

KindA excited that I am already making good on several New Year's resolutions in the form of:

*stopping smoking

and

* starting to plow through the literally THOUSANDS of CD's that are piled all over the office that contain anything from random music to photos to pieces of writing.

I dumped 40gig worth of shit from my hard drive today backed up everything I own so I can fill it back up again with my new found "treasures"

[blush]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
I don't remember!

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
See above

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
Their truth doesn't have to be my truth.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
I didn't win the lottery.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
I expect more from myself.

6. Do you like cheese?
Yes, and sometimes cottage cheese.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
I've met some awesome people!

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
I got to spend another year with Goof, who makes every day better.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Yes, I want to go on 2 new adventures this year with my family. I want to keep my pinkie promise to my mom.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.
Disneyland!!
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[princessbelle]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Last year i believe it was to get into better shape.

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Not totally however, i did cut out most sugars and did get more exercise. Just not enough

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
Trust myself. Rely on myself. Taking small steps in my life is frustrating but they are finally paying off...my house, my job, my heart. It's all finally coming together.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
Didn't loose all the weight i wanted.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
I met my soul mate and then moved in together. Huge change. But, it's like we've always been together. We fit like apples and cores.

6. Do you like cheese?
Oh yes, very much so. Thank you for asking.

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
My Bully!!!!! Met some awesome people at the reunion for the first time. It was an amazing year for meeting people.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
Meeting Bully, my mom still around, my kids are doing great and healthy and happy and i thank Goodness we both have good jobs. They are so hard to come by.

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Yes, the healthy thing again. But, this year i've made preparations. Lots of them and starting tomorrow it's a go.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.

Live life to the fullest. Enjoy every second of precious time and the seconds between the seconds!!!!!

[Passionaria]

1. Did you make any New Year's resolutions last year? If so, what?
Last year I purposely made none, henceforth broke none!

2. Did you keep your resolutions?
Yes effortlessly

3. What is the biggest/most important lesson you learned over the last year?
This was a year of Many lessons, good lessons, most learned the hard way. (hmmm maybe I should make resolutions and choose my fate?) The most valuable is about self love. But how I learned it? *pout* Serious ******* *pout*.

4. What is one thing that you meant to accomplish but didn't?
Taking a test. Sigh, damn those sweet diversions. I'm on it now though.

5. What was the biggest change in your life over the last year?
Accepting that I AM an Austinite, and need to proceed accordingly.

6. Do you like cheese?
Love it. Although if it smells like dirty socks or worse, ehhh I just can't .

7. Did anyone new come into your life over the last year?
Yes my new Grandson, born on Cinco de Mayo as well as a certain delicious diversion who I adored.

8. What are you most thankful for over the last year?
Reconnecting spiritually. Gaining a new crazy family. Learning to play Everquest. (Anyone who knows me, knows the odds of me playing a game like that are slim to none.) Sigh, sweet inspiration. Now I miss the game and crave my characters.Balmont darling, REALLY??? you suck. *pout*

9. Will you make any New Year's resolutions this year? If yes, what?
Yes, especially after the rogue lessons of last year!! Two I will share are: moving from my Spanglish speaking mode into bilingual, and making dance a part of my life again.

10. Name one new thing that you plan to do in 2012.
Be irresistible. Seriously irresistible.


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