The Year in Review

In lieu of celebrating New Years and having New Years resolutions (I think I’ve made myself pretty clear on how I feel about all of that), I decided to take a look back at 2006 listing the good things and the bad things or things that I regret.

Good Things:

1. My kids are having a good year in school.
2. None of us had any serious illnesses.
3. Nobody close to me died.
4. I completed another semester in college.
5. We paid off two of our vehicles.
6. We finished the hardwood floor in the dining room.
7. Not selling our house. We’d be homeless right now if we had.
8. We’ve had an extremely mild winter so far.


Bad Things/Regrets:

1. I had to take a break from school instead of being able to finish up my Associates.
2. Allowing myself to become so stressed that it’s affected my health.
3. Coming to the realization that recruiting duty beat us after all.
4. Losing my respect for the military and coming to hate my husband’s job.
5. Being harassed/stalked by people in my husband’s command. (Edited to add that the comments prove my point.)
6. Having to keep my mouth shut these past couple of months.
7. Harboring as much hate and loathing for as many people as I do.
8. Having the kids go to Ohio for the summer.
9. Not speaking my mind more often.


Hmm. Almost all the things in the second list have happened since October. I guess if you take that into account, my year wasn’t all that bad.