2014 - your yearly review

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-12-2014 09:24AM

On 5th January I discovered daughter no. 1 was planning a surprise 70th birthday party for me. Not good!
Went to mass and met a friend home for Christmas. We arranged to meet the following week.
6th January was the day we took down the decorations. The house seemed so empty without them but we were glad to see them gone for another year.

Back soon.

seventeen sheep · 23-12-2014 09:46AM

Hmm I spent last new years eve sitting on the couch, having just moved house, heavily pregnant, with my boyfriend and a new teapot.

A year later, I'm still living in the same house (a record for me - I have a habit of moving house an awful lot.) I (just about!) still have my boyfriend and baby. We have the same couch, I think we even still have that teapot knocking about somewhere. (I don't even drink tea.)

In many ways, 2014 has been a train wreck for me from start to finish. But at least I still have all the important things!

Highlights of 2014 - new baby, new (for me) car, and I didn't die. Yet.

Lowlights of 2014 - I got unwanted egg in my sandwich the other day. Who the f*ck puts egg in a cajun chicken sandwich? Oh and the rest of the year, too.

Bring on 2015!

Jawgap · 23-12-2014 09:54AM

I really want to say that changing jobs was the highlight of 2014, but it was really the ex-wife getting re-married.......

Free at last........free at last.........oh! Lord we are free at last!!!

Crashing my bike and all that followed was the low light

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-12-2014 02:47PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

You. sir, are this generations Adrian Mole.

That young usurping whipper snapper! He wasn't born until 1967. I was 23 at that stage.

Saipanne · 23-12-2014 02:49PM

+ New girlfriend
+ Amazing new apartment
+ Got promoted

- I genuinely cannot think of one

2014 gets a 10/10.

Hoop66 · 23-12-2014 03:09PM

+ I'm still working and can pay the bills
+ kids are healthy and happy
+ planned an extension to the house

- wife is very sick
- extension as planned is way over budget

All in all, I'd like to invite 2014 to fuck right off and, once it's got there, to fuck off some more.

Shenshen · 23-12-2014 03:15PM

+ Doing a job I like for a company I like with people I like
+ Loving husband
+ Got to introduce said husband to extended friends and family in Germany this year
+ 4 cats to share the house with
+ Bit of cash in the bank and no current money worriies

- Husband doesn't really like his job and its affecting his mood
- One of our cats got diagnosed with cancer and another with a heart problem. So 2 moggies on drugs in the house now
- My old car isn't getting any younger, so might have to fork out for a new one before too long

Other people certainly had worse years, but I certainly had better

YellowFeather · 23-12-2014 03:19PM

Weird year. Some great stuff happened.

+New job - exactly what I've always wanted to do.
+Lots of travel, courtesy of new job.
+Met loads of new people, tonnes of new experiences, pretty much got to do stuff I had never dreamed I'd be able to in 2013.

Some not so great.

- A few bereavements made it a bit of a highs and lows year.

All in all though, I'm hugely grateful for the year that I've had, and I can't wait to see what 2015 brings!

ShadowHearth · 23-12-2014 03:54PM

The year was all over the place. Still is...

Positives:

Got out of 2 year long depression.
Back in full time employment
Lost 6 stones and went from pants size 42 to 32.
Got a few friends back that I lost during last 2 years and met some cool new people
Sorted my money issue and now can even afford put away some

negatives:

Got p45 from girl I was 10 years together with. That sucked, but thanks to that I had all the positives listed above done this year.
Started to get bold, so I just shaved my head, the good thing is that I can pull off shaved head look

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jacksie66 · 23-12-2014 03:58PM

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Saipanne · 23-12-2014 04:05PM

Saipanne wrote: »

+ New girlfriend
+ Amazing new apartment
+ Got promoted

- I genuinely cannot think of one

2014 gets a 10/10.

I will provide 2013 as a contrast. I hope someone in my 2013 position can see that there is a way out.

2013

+ I made a new friend
+ Found a job in November

- No job since 2012
- Living with parents at 33
- No money and paying debt with dole
- No friends, as all have emigrated
- Single, three year relationship had ended
- Mental state not the best

2013 : 0/10. It quite literally was the worst year of my life. Interview after interview, with no job offer in sight. 2014 is like a strange alien world, to me.

So I suppose the message is hang in there, and don't give up. Things can change in the blink of an eye.

The Diabolical Monocle · 23-12-2014 04:09PM

Dunno really .... fairly bland as with the last few years.

2015 however, I know for a fact that 2015 is going to suck a fat one.

Penny Tration · 23-12-2014 04:12PM

Got a raise in work.

Quit that job for a job I love, with more money.

Quit smoking.

Went to France for my first ever 'away' rugby match.

Relationship has just gotten better and better.

Parents finally split up for good (good thing!) and get along very well as friends.

Mental health stabilised.

8/10

Collie D · 23-12-2014 04:16PM

Fairly average. No crushing lows or amazing highs. Happy with that.

2015 has a long way to go to beat the awesome day in 2009 when I opened a fun size pack of Fruit Pastilles and they were all purple/black ones.

cloud493 · 23-12-2014 04:18PM

I'm going on the idea that if my projections for a good year are low, when I have a really good year eventually, it'll be incredible.

Saipanne · 23-12-2014 04:19PM

Collie D wrote: »

Fairly average. No crushing lows or amazing highs. Happy with that.

2015 has a long way to go to beat the awesome day in 2009 when I opened a fun size pack of Fruit Pastilles and they were all purple/black ones.

You jammy bastard.

23-12-2014 04:48PM

- Lost father to cancer.
- Lost well paid dream job to robot (me and 47 others).
- Few friends including best friend also lost parents to cancer/heart attack.
- Stupid car insurance went up €100 for no reason.
- Had to move home because of job loss.

Many more - I'm sure.

No + whatsoever. Never looked forward to see the end of a year in my life. Just been one of those years

0/10

Titzon Toast · 23-12-2014 05:00PM

Busiest year I've ever had, absolutely flat out in work, moved house, our second son was born, got loads of loose ends tied up.
More of the same in 2015 hopefully...

funnights74 · 23-12-2014 05:04PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Busiest year I've ever had, absolutely flat out in work, moved house, our second son was born, got loads of loose ends tied up.
More of the same in 2015 hopefully...

So you're having a second son again next year? sorry but the maths just don't add up.

Grand Moff Tarkin · 23-12-2014 05:14PM

Job+
Family life+
Hobbies and pastimes+

zcorpian88 · 23-12-2014 06:07PM

My 2014 review

Positives: Did a load of driving lessons, going to do the test once Christmas is over.

Got myself on a springboard course, enjoying it

Won 900 euro on a horse a few months back, Thank you Captain Chris!

Negatives: Family life isn't great, father has depression and takes his moods out on everybody.

Still stuck living at home at age 26 because of the lack of work, not from lack of trying either, looking to relocate in the new year. While other younger f**kers in my neighbourhood cheat. (via having children and getting a house almost for free through some local parish pump dickhead TD)

Recently broke up with my girlfriend because we wanted different things primarily (i.e Children down the line, I did, she didn't) and she dedicates way too much time to her PhD and she wasn't bothered to make any effort to come with me to social events (even though I went to hers) Instead of coming out to any social gatherings with me she would instead favour sitting in front of a laptop for hours and hours and failing to maintain anything enjoyable as a couple like general outgoing, fun or even intimacy in the relationship. She was just annoyingly career minded and it just started killing the relationship and I had to get out. The fact that it's so recent has me in bad form right now because of the time of year and I don't have companionship anymore and I'm mad at her for giving me no choice but to end it, because I myself have never called it quits, with anyone else I was with it was amicable. Made worse by the fact that I don't get girlfriends easily. So yeah the quicker 2014 ends the better.

Turtyturd · 23-12-2014 06:32PM

+ Technically last year but started a new job in an amazing workplace which is the complete opposite of the job I left to go back to college.

+ Had my research from said job published.

+ Eldest son started school and took to it like a champ.

+ Baby hasn't pulled down the Christmas tree.....yet

+ Started playing football again after about 10 years, not as quick or fit as I was but some things never leave you.

- I still go through life with a general apathy towards everything, even though I can list out the positives of the year not many actually make me proud/happy. Something to work on next year.

MRnotlob606 · 23-12-2014 06:34PM

2015 bring it bitches !

herisson · 23-12-2014 06:42PM

+Got a great grade in my thesis and PostGrad that i worked hard on
+Got out of a shítty dead end job i hated
+Met so many new and lovely people
+Moved out of home again
+Got a new well paying job

-Lost said new job two weeks ago
-Signed onto the Dole
-Lost way too many family members this year
-Found out peoples true colours
-Got lead on and dumped
-Had my past come back and bite me in the ass hard

I want 2015 to be better.

tyrion1234 · 23-12-2014 06:45PM

- 3 year relationship ended couple months ago
- Have to continue living with her for financial reasons
- She got a new bf and moved him into the apartment below us
- Friendless
- Sick of college

****ty year althogether

SPM1959 · 23-12-2014 06:47PM

A weird year. Some good highs and lows. Really looking forward to starting afresh on Jan 1st.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-12-2014 08:58PM

Now, 7th January was cold and foggy. Went fishing at the lake for the first time in months. Freezing! After 2 hours I had nothing. Decided to have coffee and a few biscuits. Only had the coffee poured when the float dropped. Spilt my coffee but landed a nice 12lb pike.

The 8th was spent doing housework. A good hoovering and dusting was needed after neglect over Christmas.

9th and 10th were fairly uneventful but had a visit from an old friend on the 11th. We finished off too many bottles if Merlot that night but had a great laugh.

boobar · 23-12-2014 09:25PM

- Major changes at work, with lots of stress and hard work needed to get through it.
+ Got through it and efforts acknowledged by management
+ Got to take 3 weeks off at Summer to spend time with my kid
+ got to go to London twice
+ saw the cure live
+ saw Morrissey live
+ Lee Mack
+ no illness or accidents the year
+ made a good bit if extra cash at work
+ wife and kid in great form

- still need to lose weight ...lots of if.
- shower causing problems

All in all great...

Titzon Toast · 23-12-2014 09:47PM

funnights74 wrote: »

So you're having a second son again next year? sorry but the maths just don't add up.

Don't try to be smart, it doesn't suit you.

ðŸ˜€

EDIT
I can't post smileys on my phone sorry!

SMJSF · 23-12-2014 09:59PM

Passed my driving test (first time),
moved back in on my own,
got better at college,
boring summer,
passed all my exams,
finally started a course I first wanted to do since 2012 (CAD),
turned 21,
graduated from the last course.

pretty ok year.

2014 - your yearly review

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