2005 - Another year over...

Sleepy

As 2005 ends I can't help but feel that the last year was a bit of a non-event. No great romantic involvements, achievements in life or skills acquired. I'm a nicer guy than I was this time last year and I've a better job but somehow it still feels like the year sort of passed me by.

Best memory: Seeing Tony Joe White rock Whelans.

Worst memory: Realising that in the last year I've only managed to meet the people I love most a handful of times each (due to living in different places, friends travelling for the year etc.)

How was 2005 for you? What are your best and worst memories of the year?

MrJoeSoap

A good year, not a great one.

College has been alright, work has been consistently average. Didn't manage to leave the country once, finally got a car but still can't afford to drive.

Roll on 2006, this is going to be a great year.

joe_chicken

Sleepy wrote:

...I'm a nicer guy than I was this time last year and I've a better job...

If I achieve that much in 2006 I'll be a happy man by the end of it, thats enough to make any year good IMO

anyway....

Best Moment: Getting together with the girlfriend
Next Best Moment(a close second): Seeing The Presidents of The United States of America rock out The Temple Bar Music Centre

Worst Moment (kinda the same as Sleepy): Not seeing people I should see more of

All in all was a good year

shifty sparrow

2005 was the worst year ever.

it started off good, nice bloke, good group of mates, new and exciting things coming up.

Then aroung May it went all belly up, it went from bad to worse until the end of October when on the same day something brilliant happened and also something awful. So glad 2005 is nearly over bring on the even numbers thats what I say.

On a good point though maybe all the poo stuff will mean next year will be better?

monkeyfudge

It was a very stressful year for me both at home and at work.

And that's impacted on my health as well...

So.... not my favourite of years then... can't imagine next year will be any better though. But I am formulating an escape plan...

ShiverinEskimo

Got my Degree with Merit First Class - Yey!
Failed to get a good job with it cos didn't want to go to dublin - Boo!
Decided to go to Oz next year - Yey!
Was promoted in my ****ty job - Yey!
But it is a ****ty job - Boo!

Do grand. Roll on 2006.

BoozyBabe

Been a horrible year up until a few months ago.

Well, not horrible, just feeling V trapped & like that's how it would be forever more.

Best bit:- getting the 2nd chance after 3yrs of desperately wanting it (but thinking it'd never happen) with my (now) bf.

Somehow I feel 2006 is going to be one of the best years ever, looking real forward to it!!!

Best wishes to you & yours for 2006

swingking

2005 was a terrible year for me personally. I failed my college exams and had to repeat them. I never got to see my friends as much as I would have liked and ended up in hospital during the year.

Best Moment: Oxegen 2005
Worst Moment: Failing college exams

fischerspooner

Best Moment: Meeting my girlfriend
Worst Moment: Meeting my girlfriend

g'em

fischerspooner wrote:

Best Moment: Meeting my girlfriend
Worst Moment: Meeting my girlfriend

New job on top of research, more money, paid to go to Central America to teach scuba, fab house, fitter than ever... all the good stuff.

But still managed to royally ***k up any hint of a romantic dalliance. Ah well, can't have it all. Still, bit sick of being single after two years....

Stephen

It was a very good year for me

Lost 2 stone weight, finished my degree with (2nd class) honours, got a permanent job, passed my driving test 1st time and bought my first car.

No major bad points besides being in and out to the doctor several times during the year and missing the old college lifestyle.

December Son

Bit of a rollercoaster of a year really.

The worst:
Starting work in january for a company that will remain nameless. Sucked. ass.
My long term relationship getting stagnant and eventually ending
Being unemployed for 2 months. fun for a week or 3, but 2 months and i was starting to freak out.
My new job being almost as much of a pain in the swiss roll as the last one.

The best.
Seeing Slayer in june
Seeing sigur ros in november
My long term relationship getting stagnant and eventually ending. Enabled me to meet the most amazing girl and moving to washington DC in january to be with her

Roll on january and 2006!

fischerspooner

don't you need visas etc. to move to USA?

Jonny Arson

Em not a great year for me either but not the worst. It should have been a much better year for me than what it was partially due to my own fault..... I feel I wasted the last 12 months alot.

Highs:

- seeing my amazing sister getting married. Proudest moment of my life TBH
- being 10 times more grown up and wise about life than I was 12 months ago
- doing things I never did before and meeting more people than ever
- Oxegen..... what a booze fest weekend that was!
- working in an office environment boosted my confidence greatly
- getting more luck with the ladies this year
- witnessing Shamrock Rovers been relegated to the 1st division is a moment I'll treasure forever

Lows:

- failing my 1st year of college and now repeating the year. Painful.
- still haven't settled into college
- losing contact with some friends
- still having no other half in my life
- feeling life is a bit stagnant at the moment


well I'm healthy, my close ones are healthy and honestly that's all that matters.

MrJoeSoap

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

- being 10 times more grown up and wise about life than I was 12 months ago

- Oxegen..... what a booze fest weekend that was!

Hehehe

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

think i'm in the category of hoping that 2006 will be the 'breakthough' year that 2005 wasn't.

Zane - maybe a little less posting on boards might help?!

2005 was cool. Got a degree.

azezil

I'd say mostly good, had some romance, feel i've grown as a person, did some things I was curious about some good some bad, more illness than usual this year was the only real downer.

Not the most exciting year of my life but a worthwhile one.

Nightwish

2005 was a pretty turbulent year for me...
Highs:
Seeing Nightwish twice in the UK
My new boyfriend
Passing 3rd Year of college

Lows:
Splitting with my boyfriend of 7 years
My wallet and phone being stolen within 3 weeks of each other
My doggy being terminally ill
My sister moving to Australia for a year

flanger20002003

Not a bad year, though not as good as it could have been...

The Highs:

Winning the Irish Times School Mag Senior Overall Award, with my friends
Going to Belfast for a week, to paint a mural in the Ulster Museum
Getting my first real job
Seeing Jimmy Eat World in Belfast

The Lows:

Little activity in the romance department
Missing Oxegen
Starting the LC year...grrr!

Rb

2005 was a bit meh for me.
Did great in my college summer exams, then went back in September and did absolutely nothing all semester and now have exams on the 5th which I can see myself returning in August to repeat.

Got a great job in May that I'm still working in part time and don't think I'll ever get sick of. Still actually enjoy working there(for the most part).
Met some great people from working there too.

Made a few bad choices during the year also.

Romance wise it was shi'ite, some short term flings and a load of random scores and that was about it, but that doesn't really concern me.

Feel I've grown up quite a bit over the past 12 months, though I still haven't a clue what I want to do in life.

I'm looking forward to 2006.

Crucifix

My summer was pretty bad, but otherwise an ok year. I really feel I haven't grown as a person, and that I'm not much more mature.

'twas an insane year. I ran in an election for something I swore I'd never do, and consequently got elected. Am in a middle-long term (relatively) relationship now. I passed 3rd year in college, no repeats. Moved out of home into college, and am fairly self-sufficent now (for this year at least, cos I've a bit of cash!)

On the downside, I've plenty of negatives out of the job I'm presently doing, but I'm not about to go into that now. I've also started putting on a bit of weight which is down to the lack of exercise I'm getting by living on campus.

Still, it is really strange to look back on a year ago.

Atrocity

What a strange year it was. So much crazy stuff, I can't believe it all happened. Naturally, it went downhill very fast and I went from having everything to having nothing. I'm not sad to see it go.

maeve49

Well I have to say that 2005 was a mixed year, it started off bad losing a clsoe relative and then there was a horrific incident close to where I live, but then time moved on and the things that really made me happy was getting laser treatment on my eyes so no more glasses, buying a new apartment and gettign a new car, all fairly materialsitic things, but also being in a job I really like, making lots of new friends this year and putting a better and brighter perspective on my life, only other crap thing was that am finishing the year the way I started without a relationship so I would like that to change in 2006. Overall its not been too bad a year you have to take the bad wit the good! Roll on happy times in 2006!

Le Rack

Best Memories

Getting with a guy I adored for yonks
Going to Iron Maiden
Making the Irish Team
Besoming part of a band and playing some fantastic gigs

Worst Memories

Dumping someone, just after Valetines...
missing a few gigs...
three friends trying to kill themselves in one night

Dave!

Le Rack wrote:

three friends trying to kill themselves in one night

F*cking ell...

For me, this year has been ok... It was definitely an improvement on the last 16 years, but maybe a little disappointing. I had spent the previous year, and most of this year planning things that I wanted to do, and building up expectations especially re: college, but never got to do them for one reason or another, and college has been a major let-down I'm still doing the same... making loads of plans and the likes, which I won't end up doing if I don't get a move on. But there's always something stopping me, and one thing in particular. After this is done, I'm free!

So hopefully 2006 will mean a total change in my life, and I can start living it.

simu

Twas good for me!

High: meeting my bf

Low: some acquaintance turning into a bunny boiler!

But the highs were higher than the lows were low or sth!

White Knight

thank god over

terrible year

but loooking 4word,optimstic 4 a great 1 this year

always lookk on the brigt side of life!!!1

daiixi

highlights:
settling into another foreign country
heading home for a long awaited holiday & my little brothers 18 birthday
my first trip to the races
wasted weekend at oxegen
saw U2
breaking up with the ex
making heaps of new friends
drinking the new year in on my own sharing my bottle of champers with ME

lowlights:
many many long hours at work
breaking up with the ex
wasting two months on the rebound boy
having extremely good friends leave the country

The Sweeper

2005 was a pretty poxy year for me.

15 minutes into it I rang home to say HNY to the folks, and my da told me my mum had been in hospital since Stephen's Day, but every time I'd phoned he'd made up some "she's in the shower/at the shops/hanging out washing" excuse, none of which were plausible at 00.15. That kind of set the tone for the whole year.

I had started a new job three weeks before the end of 2004, and by Christmas that year knew it was a huge mistake. I'm still in it now, but it's been pretty horrible. The job was suggested to me by two friends who work at the same company, and what I didn't realise is that the job appears to be their whole lives. When it looked like it wasn't working out for me, they weren't impressed and I ended up losing two mates.

I've stuck the place out ever since more for their sake than mine (apparently it would look very bad for them if I quit), and because it was easy enough - a 9 to 5.30, the pay's not bad, the work is repetitive and frustrating but not difficult. Then around October it started going pearshaped and turned into a job with long days and miserable workmates. That's the reason I left my previous job - long hours. I can't help but feel it's been a bit of a waste of a year on that front. That's the last time I take a job on anybody elses recommendation!

I spent the year working a second job as well, determined to get myself completely out of debt, but it didn't quite work like that. When you work all the hours god sends, you can have a tendancy to blow a load of cash trying to have some quality 'me' time on your days off. Hmmm, swings and roundabouts.

Having that much stress about my mother and my job(s) hasn't done wonders for the rest of my life. Thankfully the other half is a patient man or that would've been a marriage with a Hollywood duration.

The best part about 2005 has definitely been the countdown to 2006.

Font22

good year overall i think

highs:
-going to toronto for three months during the summer
-getting my car
-realising how much i appreciate all my friends/family etc (corny corny corny!)

lows:
-being really homesick whilst in toronto at times
-someone breaking into my car
-college finals at christmas, dreading results
-not seeing some of my friends enough at all

SprostonGreen

A bit of a drab year overall I thought.

Pluses:

Moved out of house of **** into a new nicer one, no ****.
Stayed off Class A's.
Fitter and healthier than ever.
Saw some great bands, Pixies, Doves, New Order.
Enjoying work.
Became a godfather.


Minuses:

Being in debt for the first time in years.
No romance, though this was more of a choice.
Dwindling social circle, as friends are falling out with each other.

billy the squid

was at a party last night and a fire broke out in the upstairs of the house at sixteen minutes past midnight. 2006 looks like its going to be eventful if anything.

for me last year was so-so. same crap, different year.

R0ot

Good Times
Meeting my girlfriend
Starting College

Bad Times
Mum being diagnosed with cancer

ST*

billy the squid wrote:

was at a party last night and a fire broke out in the upstairs of the house at sixteen minutes past midnight.

:eek: You wont forget the start of this year in a hurry!

Yeah 2005 was a boring year for me too, but I think I've left alot of my troubles with it. 2006 means a fresh start for me in many respects, so bring it on

Irjudge1

The good:

Promoted at work.
Relocated closer to home - I get three full weeks of time a year back into my life that's nearly two years over the remainder of my working life f**king hell!
Drawda United win the cup.
My relationship with my partner is stronger than ever.
My kids and family are fit and healthy.
I lost a stone weight

The bad:
I regained a stone weight
I am privy to some ugly **** at work.
Made some dumbass decisions at work.
No foreign trips, no real holidays (all to change in the new year)

Overall a good year finished off with a great christmas and a bottle of champagne with the one I love.

Firesuite

These kind of review things normally make me sad, but overall for me it's been kind of a crazy and good year for me.

Good Stuff:

Finishing college after a fairly tough 4 years
Getting a job that I like, with plenty of opportunity
Social life improving in line with the money situation
Getting to go to tons of good gigs and hear loads of new music
Self confidence improving thanks to all of the above

Bad Stuff:

Niggly health things that thankfully are leaving me be now

Up and down Stuff:

Love, has been extremely good and bad at times.

Looking forward to seeing what the next year holds.

Blisterman

Been a great year for me.
Good:
Meeting my current Girlfriend
Passing First Year of College
Going to a few great concerts
Starting Driving Lessons
Winning a PSP

Bad:
Not really going anywhere for the summer
Getting Tonsilitis twice.
Getting Food Poisoning.
Stressful second year in college.
But all in all, the good outweighs the bad by a good bit. I hope 2006 is as good.