Sunday, January 1, 2006 - Year 2005 in Review

Well.. 2006 is finally here.. YAY!! and I MUST say that 2005 was a MUCH better year than 2004. To sum it up 2005 had less drama, better friendships, less lows and more highs and just an overall better year. To recap here are some of the main events that shaped my life in 2005. The year started off kinda.. blahish.. There was a major blizzard and our plan to go to Saskatoon for new years fell through. I felt horrible for ditching Harder.. driving to Paul's was scary and all we did was bum around and watch a movie.. It was better than the previous new year's but not what I had anticipated at all. January went alright, busier than hell at work, lots of overtime put in and I even applied for a team sup. position at work, I didn't get the job, but it gave me insight for the future and hope that someday I'll be able to get a promotion at work. February was pretty decent too.. celebrated Valentine's day with Paul of course and hmm ya that was about it.. March and April weren't the greatest months.. We found out my Gido (grandfather) had cancer and he under went some major surgery and was in the hospital for a long time. He finally went home sometimes in April I believe, he pretty much just lounged around and was sick a lot, he started getting worse and was finally hospitalized and a few weeks later he lost his battle and past away at the beginning of November. It was a very sad time of course, but he finally was no longer suffering and in pain. I had got the chance to visit him about 2 weeks or so before he passed away and am very happy I got the courage to do that and got to see him before he passed away. It was one of the hardest things I did, because I was scared to see him so sick, but it gives me peace to know that I got to see him. As for the rest of the year... May was alright, nothing to exciting there.. in June Paul and I went on our first road trip together and ventured to Saskatoon for Ryan's 23rd birthday.. This definetely was the funnest part of the year.. I got to meet a lot of Ryan's friends, got to see him drunk very drunk and most importantly got to see him pee on a dumpster.. probably not something everyone wants to see there friend do.. but when its Ryan.. its frickin' hilarious. July and August were alright.. there was a lot of festivities going around in Regina because of the centennial and also exhibition.. we took in a lot of different things.. the most memorable one was Canada Day and watching fireworks off the Albert St bridge. In July my sister and 2 kids came to stay with us.. it was kinda chaotic but fun, they stayed for 3 months and left in October. In August Paul celebrated his 22nd birthday were he got some kick ass presents from me of course.. In September not to much happened.. except the insane busy-ness at work started and hasn't stopped. In October Harder came down for my birthday, it kinda sucked cause I was sick and miserable, but I was a trooper and still had fun, we went out to the pump and "pumped it up" and also went and did some karaokee the next night at the crown and hand.. the highlight of the weekend was trying to find ryan a rubber chicken. Right before my birthday my Grandma passed away... and this is where all the drama from 2004 finally comes to an end. Because of the situation with my aunt we hadn't talked to my Grandma in over a year, so her passing didn't upset me at all, however it upset me that Marla was taking my aunt's side again and going to the funeral and bailing on me for my birthday. I had pretty much had enough, Marla had been constantly ditching me for her other friends for well over a year and I was sick of it, I was very close to just ending my friendship with her because I didn't like getting treated that way.. when finally it all came to an end. Marla kept calling me to go out and wasn't hanging out with her friends at all when finally she told me that her friends had just stopped talking to her.. I was happy that her friends were not talking to her as mean as that sounds, but I had finally got my friend back.. she started hanging out again with a couple of her friends, but not my aunt.. something happened apparently some back stabbing and lying and they don't talk anymore. I was so relieved that all the drama and tension was gone. I don't think I've even realized until writing about it how happy I am to finally have Marla around now and back as the friend I had had for the past 10 years. So, this definetely was a turning point in 2005, my Grandma passed away and that drama was gone, and Marla stopped being friends with my aunt and even more drama was gone.. phew...! Then in November... I celebrated my 1 year... yes ONE YEAR anniversary with Paul! It was great.. I never thought I'd date someone that long.. well I mean I didn't think someone would ever date ME that long!! haha. Then December.. Christmas was different this year, Gido wasn't around :-( and everyone came here for Christmas.. considering Christmas was pretty good because I was surrounded by lot of family I don't always get to spend Christmas with. OHHH and of course I can't forget to mention the GREATEST Christmas present EVAR.. I got a PROMISE RING from Paul.. (I still wonder where my earrings are.. hehe) I was beyond excited and just totally.. speechless!! It was the greatest gift and ahh just wonderful :-) So that sums up 2005 and to celebrate it last night Paul, Marla and I went out for supper and then went and played pool for a couple hours and then came back here and hung out with my parents, played some games and ya.. just hung out. It was a lot of fun and definetely the best New Year's I've had in a LONG time! 2005 was overall a decent year, I learnt a lot, and a few lows and a lot of highs and can't wait to see what 2006 brings!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!