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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Hello, 2010
Another year is passing on, and I must say, it’s been a reasonably eventful one.
January and February were uneventful for me. I was working for the Evil Cable Empire, not really loving it but managing nevertheless. There was snow, it was cold, and generally the status quo stayed the same. Our year in snippets:
- We bought a new couch (which is pretty great).
- We saw Spring Awakening (which I loved).
- I joined my very first D&D campaign.
- We saw The Drowsy Chaperone again (to much less satisfaction than the first time).
- The Cleveland International Film Festival started again (and we loved it from start to finish).
- We saw Spamalot (and it was only okay).
- We saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee again (and it was exactly as expected).
- We went to Knoebel’s opening weekend.
- We saw Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin live in concert (it was pretty great).
- I lost my job at the Evil Cable Empire.
- I started knitting again.
- Johnathan started working for the hospital again.
- I finally got my wisdom teeth out.
- We went to Walt Disney World for two long, long weeks (it was really, really hot! but fun).
- We saw They Might Be Giants in concert (it was a Flood show – pretty fun!).
- We saw Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm in concert again (last year’s concert was better).
- I got the flu twice – the “regular” flu and H1N1. It was a “fun” month.
- I got a job at the hospital working at the new help desk.
- We saw Mamma Mia! (it was enjoyable).
- We saw Wicked (still a great show).
- We quit our D&D campaign.
- We visited Allison in Bloomington for a few days. (She visited us in Cleveland a few times, too.)
In other news, I watched 361 movies this year. It’s not quite one movie per day on average, but just about. I’ve seen a lot of good ones, a lot of bad ones, and a lot of mediocre, unmemorable movies this year. I really loved doing this, though. It was nice to have something to work toward this year, particularly after I became unexpectedly unemployed.
In addition to my 361 movies, I read 26 books. I seemed to let my “50 Book Challenge” fall by the wayside this year in favor of films, and that is okay with me. I completed 24 projects: 4 scarves (none for me), 10 hats (about half of them for me), 3 headbands, 2 coffee cozies, 1 pair of mittens, 2 market bag (very stretchy and wonderful), and 1 tank top (not my favorite project). I partially completed one set of fingerless gloves for myself, I made one flip-top mitten for Johnathan (the other is still in queue), one more market bag, two hats for me, half of a sock, part of a scarf for my brother (for which I have once again changed patterns), half of a second tank top (which I loved, but didn’t have the patience to finish), and another try at flip-top mittens for Johnathan which ended up not working as well as planned. Not to mention, one of those 10 hats had to be ripped out and started over again because I made it far too big for a normal-sized woman’s head.
As far as “big things” go, this year has been nothing compared to last year. I’m okay with that. A job loss was bad enough, I think!
2009 hasn’t been bad to us. I hope that 2010 will be better.
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