Best/Worst of '07, New Year Res and Predictions

[Winnow]

Could break this up into several posts but this might work.

Post something bad about 2007, something good about 2007, your New Year Resolution and a Prediction for 2008. It can be personal or anything that happened in the world.

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Best: My brother did not have cancer after a very stressful week following initial tests.

Worst: Cart banned from VV

Resolution: Eat a healthier diet

Prediction: We get the first substantial evidence of some form of extraterrestrial life

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Not too exciting but those are mine!

[Avestan]

Best: Baby #1

Worst: Actually having to take finals again (grad school)

Resolution: Work a little less to see the new kid more

Prediction: Bush 3-Peat!

[Tyek]

Worst - Arthritis and another year of surgeries.

Best - Watching the kids play their sports and music and watching their growth.

Resolution -Do what it takes to get my son's grades up, drop 10-15 pounds after the surgery. I have not gained much, but having surgery at the holidays makes it hard to stay in shape!!

Prediction - Housing market continues decline through the rest of the year and Dem's win the White House.

[Lynxe]

Worst: In a fight with my Gall Bladder and it is winning.

Best: Test and time have shown my year old twins have little to no serious medical issues.

Resolution: Spend some quality time with that stranger I call my husband.

Prediction: Something so catastrophic with the environment that humans can't ignore it anymore.

[Spang]

Best: 3.667 GPA after first semester

Worst: Funkmasterr put me on ignore

Resolution: None

Prediction: Someone famous dies

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

Best: My grandfather made it through his bypass surgery and my moms stroke was a minor one.

Worst: My best friends wife lost her father.

Resolution: Just try to continue being the best father, brother, son, grandson and friend I can.

Prediction: The Pats will lose to the Colts.

[Marbus]

Best - My 3rd son was born

Worst - Developed fluid on the lungs his first night but Our Lord and the good Dr's and Nurses at ACH brought him through it

Resolution - Start lifting again to loose the poundage. Lost 70 in 2006 but put 10 back on in 2007. Time for the rest to come off in 2008.

Prediction - Continued mass conversion for Anglicans back home to Rome and major developments regarding the reunification of Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

[rhyae]

Best: Met a great guy

Worst: My cousin and his wife were killed by a drunk driver in Wisconsin, my best friend's mother was killed by a drunk driver in Alabama.

Resolution: Get a job I actually like.

Prediction: world peace..

[laneela]

I love this thread. It made me realize that I actually had an incredibly decent 2007.

Best: (in chronological order) I graduated, two of my brothers' wives had babies giving me my first niece and nephew and I got married.

Worst: I got stitches for the first time after slicing my knee up (scariest shit ever for someone who's deathly afraid of needles).

Resolution: Move out of my apartment and into a house.

Prediction: Fidel Castro dies.


edit: BABIES!

[Fairweather Pure]

Best: The birth of my daughter.

Worst: I didn't have anything bad happen to me this year.

Resolution: Get wife pregnant for baby #2

Prediction: I predict I'll have another baby before the year is done. I also expect my wife to excel in her new job.

[Zamtuk]

is her new job making babies?

[Lalanae]

2007 was kind of a shitty year for me. I'm hard pressed to pick only one "Worst" or to find something that I could call a "Best moment"....


Best: Getting a 1-yr contract (for tech writing) with a great group of people after unfairly losing my previous job (see below).

Worst: Losing my job because the menopausal shrews I worked with found out that I was going to be offered a promotion if this particular vendor company won the contract to pick up all of our positions. The vendor in question didnt win the contract but not before mentioning their plans (idiots) to the head shrew who got the gang of shrews together to oust me in the guise of "cutting costs." (I heard all about their plans from another party) Go insecure aging women threatened by younger women!!! grrr

Resolution: Stick to my gym routine so that come summer I'll not only feel comfortable wearing a bikini, I'll be looking for excuses to prance around in one

Predictions: My year contract is up late summer, so I'm hoping that they'll find enough work to keep me on another year. Not really a prediction, just crossing my fingers... Otherwise, new job! Maybe this time I'll be able to get away from HP. I could use a change...

[Legenae]

This too was a shitty year for me.

Best: back to my old position at work (less stress)

Worst: my grandmother died

Resolution: to get pregnant

Prediction: George R.R. Martin will finish writing a Dance with Dragons!

[Aabidano]

Thinking about it some more, some pretty nasty stuff, fatal in a couple instances happened to me, family and very close friends this year.

On the other hand, a lot of good things happened as well. Looking back it was a damn good year in total, can't really tag best or worst. The bad was pretty devastating, the good pretty amazing, and nothing short of miraculous in one case.

Resolution: Don't believe in them

Prediction: The republicans will win in the upcoming election because the democrats aren't bright enough to run a candidate who has a chance of capitalizing on a potential presidential win, on the slim chance they run someone who can win.

[Dregor Thule]

Best: Won a silver medal at the world championships for the slalom.

Worst: The guy who came in third felt I'd cheated him out of the silver and so cracked my knees with a tire iron.

Resolution: Stop lying so fucking much.

Prediction: This year I'll win the gold!

[Leonaerd]

Best: Won $200 on a 15-0 beer pong run.

Worst: brother had double brain hemorrhage (screen name Podarok, some of you might remember)

Resolution: Do now what I am able to put off until later; get bangin' summer internship

Prediction: Red Wings, Pistons and Tigers win it all.

[Lynxe]

Since Lalanae posted a pic of her new nephew/niece when talking about best/worst, I figured I'd include mine.

Besides... it is probably VV worthy

[Lalanae]

rofl great pic, looks like one is gleefully punching the other in the face

(p.s. actually it was laneela who posted pics, but its an understandable mistake)

[Tyek]

One other prediction - ASU will NOT win the National Championship in College Football.

[Aardor]

One other prediction - ASU will NOT win the National Championship in College Football.

ever.

[Gonzoie - Luclin]

Worst - Wrecked my Monte Carlo

Best - Being at Pete Forsberg's last game with the Flyers.

Resolution - Quit smoking

Predictions - Philly still doesn't win any championships.

[cadalano]

Worst- One of my molars cracked in half vertically down the middle

Best- fantastic new job

Resolution- start working out regularly again

Prediction- cheney dies

[Fash]

Best: Despite 2 very troubling hospital visits for family members, they both made it home with a clean bill of health. I have a close-knit group of friends who make my life fun and interesting. I feel secure in my job, turned down 2 offers to leave, and will be getting a significant raise effective in march.

Prediction: Clinton pulls out of the race for president and Obama picks her up as VP. They win in a landslide, taking the country down with them.

[Tyek]

You forgot the part where Clinton plots and pulls off an assassination of Obama. (I honestly think she would consider a plan like that to get the power she seems to crave) Anyone who picks her as a running mate is insane!! I would guess he would actually choose Edwards.

[Sueven]

Best: Managed to set up a 6-year plan which will set up the rest of my life as long as I wake up every morning and take care of what I have to take care of that day
Worst: One year closer to death
Resolutions: Don't fuck up the long-term plan, play basketball and gaelic football as regularly as possible, refuse to be satisfied with the status quo
Prediction: Time keeps on slipping into the future

[Kilmoll the Sexy]

Best.....had this sweet little dumpling in September. Nothing really can be viewed as bad when I see her at home.

No resolutions and I predict Winnow will be an annoying troll.

[Winnow]

Is that a Terrible Towel she's holding? Brainwashing starts early back east!

[Xyun]

Best: Became an American citizen (may), MOVED TO TAMPA, FLORIDA!! (September 30th), Quit smoking weed (Oct. 25th), Started working out daily (november), Quit smoking cigarettes (Dec. 10th).

Worst: nothing really horrible happened to me in 2007. I think not getting along with my friends/business partners in Atlanta made me somewhat miserable for the first half of the year.

Resolution: Write a book.

Prediction: Barack Obama wins the presidency in 2008.

[Fash]

Prediction: The Olympics in China will serve to unite the U.S. and China against a common enemy.

[Fairweather Pure]

Resolution: Get wife pregnant for baby #2

Prediction: I predict I'll have another baby before the year is done. I also expect my wife to excel in her new job.

Resolution is done. Our next child is due Oct23rd.

My prediction was spot on too. My wife just recieved a 30k bonus for exceeding her sales goal by 30%.

[Noysyrump]

Prediction: The Olympics in China will serve to unite the U.S. and China against a common enemy.

B2s over tibet?

[Spang]

Prediction: Someone famous dies

My prediction was spot on, too!