Highs and lows: 2012 in review

[hvegasooner]

what is your highs and lows for this year


Highs: got to see WWE RAW Live for the 4 year in a row, a lot of great things happening to me. the UK natl champ season, Vandy SEC bball champs, and Vandy making a bowl game two years in a row, friends getting engaged and married, friends having kids, my step sister's new baby


Lows : two deaths in the family, the Cubs and the Titans, NHL lockout, losing friends (every year it seams a friend dies) not having a girlfriend (but not letting that get to me!)


I wish everyone on OS a very happy new year!

[PhilliesFan13]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

The definite high for me was the birth of my first son. He is 8 months old now and doing great.

[Brandwin]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Lows -
My son being diagnosed with a vascular tumor. We have had a long journey with his medical issue. We spent 6 weeks sleeping in a hospital, another 6 weeks at home off or work caring for him and he is still on medication for it, but all signs point to a full recovery. We have another MRI scheduled for 01-07-13 and if all goes well, no more medication.

My Grandfather passing (It was actually on 12-31-11) but still it wasn't a great way to bring in the New Year. He was the father figure in my life and I miss him dearly.


Highs - My son pretty much being a 100% almost a year later.


There are other things I could list, but those are at the top.

[slickdtc]

I've never been one to look back on a year and say, that one sucked or rocked, they're all kinda the same filled with good and bad. But this one was different. So I'll start with the lows...

Right off the bat in the first week of January, my manager was fired. I can trace back the next 8 months of mostly negatives to this mark. All the stability I had just achieved months earlier was thrown into whack. Pay cut, hours cut, everything changing, it was a chore to go to work. I took a demotion and was just getting by. I distinctly remember one day in February or March where it was foggy and rainy all day, and it was the most depressed I'd ever been. I changed jobs in late March, hated it and was at a new job in May. That lasted until August, as it was the same job just a different company. I was miserable. Suddenly I was unemployed for the first time since I was 18, and was completely lost as rent, insurance, and other expenses piled up on me. I was passed over for a solid job opportunity that I thought I had practically locked up. Though I only ended up out of work for a month, the pressure of going backwards when I needed to be going forward weighed on those around me. Me & the fiancé got into it a few times and tensions were just constantly high.

However, in typical underdog fashion, just when the **** was set to hit the fan, I worked my contacts and landed a good job, and also went back to my original job on a part time basis with a different mindset and a better relationship with the manager who had taken over (we ended up being pretty good "work friends"). I was working more, and harder, but I was feeling like myself again. In October/November, we moved out on our own. That's where I find myself now. My next goal is getting back in school and somehow balance all the bills. Working these two jobs ain't bad, but I want a career. I have dreams of starting a family in a couple years, and I want to be able to provide for my fiancé, our future children, and just be comfortable.

It has been a trying year. I couldn't have gotten through it without my rock of a fiancé, or the sage-like wisdom of my father. But in the times when it was just me and myself, I credit music for keeping me going. Discovered so much great music this year that really covered the range of emotions I was feeling through the rough times. The Wonder Years, their tagline of "I'm not sad anymore," and their honest approach to being lost or down in your early 20's, really made every day worth getting through so I could finally see the brighter days that lied ahead.

Putting this all down has really shown me that maybe this year wasn't the worst one yet. It was filled with crap, but it made me appreciate the finer things that much more. It's time to put this one in the past with the past.

See ya 2012!

[Happy29]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

High this year, my wife and I were Baptized in our church on the same day.

My oldest son continues to bring home straight A's every quarter since kindergarten he's now in 4th.

Dale Earnhardt Jr won a race

While some don't believe in that sort of thing for me it was a high my 6 year old accepted Christ as his savior

I'm going to be a great uncle

Lows 2 weeks after my wife and I were baptized she left me.

I was arrested

I went over a month without being allowed to see or speak to my kids.

My wife had me served with divorce papers and no contact orders

My mom went through a small bout of cancer

My sister is currently undergoing treatment for cancer

Not a low or a high, but despite all that has gone on with my wife and I, I'm still madly in love with her and would welcome her home in a heartbeat.

I have accepted the fact that things change and they don't always go the way we would like but things will always work out.

[Chrisksaint]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

I had a solid year, no real serious lows that I can think in the grand scheme of things.

Highs:
Moving out of a dorm into apartment
Having my best semester yet this fall GPA wise
Being able to borrow parents truck until I graduate
Getting accepted into Elementary Education program
Witnessing a crazy buzzer beater/comeback in person against VT by FSU

Lows
Anything to do with the Saints outside of Brees records
A BCS title game I don't speak of
The Miami Marlins
FSU football against UF and NC St.

[Watson]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

High-
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Low-
the other two games in that series

The LSU football season, in general

Bountygate and the Saints

Infield Fly


High-
Bringing my 2.0 from my first semester in college to a 3.0

Finishing math FOR GOOD.

Parents paying off the house completely

Opening myself up a little more/being much more sociable to people I don't know (Going to a small HS, I knew everybody since I was 6 and never really had to do that)

Getting an amazing internship (that's only offered to Juniors and Seniors. This is my first semester as a Sophomore)



Lows-
Losing both of my grandparents

Having a suicide scare with one of my best friends.

Working at Walmart...

[BunnyHardaway]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Highs

-Going to ALDS Game 1 in Baltimore
-City winning the Premier League
-Getting back into school and figuring out what I wanted to do

Lows

-Death in the family
-Two car accidents, one broken nose, and one concussion in a month and a half span
-No hockey
-(still) Being too much of a ***** to approach girls
-Not gaining weight

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Lows:
Family deaths - the last one really got to me and is still messing with my head as it was my 18month old cousin who died from Leukemia. I realized at his funeral how weird funerals are and how ***-backwards I think they are.

All the other "lows" of mine seem pretty insignificant and fixable compared real, major things.

Highs:
The whole month of December has been like a period of enlightenment for me. My confidence is ridiculously high. I'm in the best shape of my life. I've been writing songs that I actually think are good. I met some great people and basically went through the motions of a serious relationship in about 2 weeks before she moved to the midwest. I've learned more about myself in the past three months that I have in 26 years and knowing my personality and faults is comforting and lifts a burden of over-analysis and being too hard on myself. I expect to keep things rolling into and through 2013.

Oh. And the Redskins winning the NFC East.

[Jr.]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Lows:
After getting laid off, being unable to find employment for about 5 months.
Finding out that my MA isn't worth as much as I thought it would be.

Highs:
First month of my college coaching career.
Another move, this time to California, completing my cross country move started in 2009 (North Carolina to Colorado to California).
Figuring out the girl I'm with is the one I want to be with for the long haul.

[mike24forever]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Lows:

Being hit by a minivan (hit and run) and paralyzed from the waist down for 4 months.
Not being able to return to work (I'm a highschool physed teacher)
Losing 55 pounds of muscle mass.

Highs:

Surviving the accident.
Closer to my wife, family and friends because of the accident.
Learning how to walk again.
Being on Mike Holmes "Makes It Right" television show.
***CHRISTMAS***

2012 was a difficult year, but many good things have come from it.

[chilli311]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Highs:
-My dad finishing his cancer treatments with everything looking clear.
-Getting a "real" job
-Irish running the table and making the BCS title game
-AJ Smith getting canned

Lows:
-My dad having a heart attack

[ScoobySnax]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Lows:

-I didn't have any real lows that are worth mentioning, so I'll just count my blessings and be thankful.

Highs:

-Got a promotion at my job doing something I enjoy a tad more than my prior position.
- My Wife and I entered a contract to buy our first (and hopefully, last) house.
- A reasonable portion of health.
-A friend of mine who'd been looking for a better job was able to find the job he really wanted last a couple weeks ago.

Semi-Regrets:

-I would have liked to start my own business, but I have not come across that one idea that I felt would go all the way. Part of that is fear of failure, but I can't hit a homer if I'm sitting in the dugout. Hopefully, I'll give it a real shot in 2013.

All in all, I have been extremely fortunate. Praying and hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst in 2013.

[UK0wnag3]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

Highs:
- Getting some reclining furniture
- Going on possibly the best vacation ever and doing all sorts of stuff
- Watching Bristol City avoid relegation on the penultimate weekend of the season, then joining in the pitch invasion

Lows:
- Bristol City's start to the new season. Next year we may have to do the above again
-The NFL season from week 5 onwards (after the Cards had started 4-0)
-Justin Upton trade rumours (Let's keep him in the desert!)
-Not getting any Olympic tickets
-Having to work on the day of the Queen's jubilee (though the pay was pretty good)


Now I think of it, my lows seem pretty trivial...

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Highs and lows: 2012 in review

2012 was a disgusting, awful, atrocious, absurd year.

I guess the only real good thing about 2012 is that my family, friends and I made it to 2013 healthy.