Best and Worst of 2008

Those who know me know I rarely write about myself as I am about giving you info you can use. But this post looks at 2008 from my perspective. Plenty sites and folks shared theirs. I thought 2008 would be grand because:

1. It’s an even number. Always had better luck with even numbers.
2. My youngest started kindergarten.
3. My oldest started high school.
4. It’s not a year ending in “7”.

The one thing that bugged me about ’08:

1. 20 years after graduating high school makes a gal feel older.
2. My family dealing with the loss of my fabulous dad at the end of ’07.

Well, it turned out to be a memorable year, but not quite for the reasons I imagined. Thankfully, my business remained steady as ever, although some things got in the way.
Good things:

1. My son’s preschool graduation. It was adorable complete with singing and dancing and little caps ‘n gowns.
2. Blog turning eight and giving away lots of great prizes and welcoming even better guest bloggers.
3. Jumping out of a plane because of the blog birthday and inspired by skydiver Peter Shankman. Now I have a story to tell! OK, I admit it that we put up the skydiving bet in hopes it would spread the news a little further.
4. My daughter’s high school volleyball team winning the city championship.
5. Working with the greatest clients.
6. Getting sucked in twitter and Facebook where I met lots of new friends and colleagues plus renewed old acquaintances (Whoops…. there goes “Auld Lang Syne” in my head).
7. Dumping Sidekick and its lousy network service for the TitaniumBerry (hey, it’s not black!). It does a better job helping people reach me away from my computer.
8. The end of the election campaign.
9. Gas prices dropped.

The icky parts about 2008…

1. My youngest started kindergarten (It means he’s not a baby anymore).
2. My oldest started high school (It means she ain’t no baby no mo’).
3. Health challenges for my middle child and his needing to attend a program after school four days a week. Tiring for him.
4. Herniated disc leading to ESI and a spinal headache (more painful than it sounds) requiring a blood patch.
5. Hurting my thumb within a week after the last injection leading to an UCL tear known as skier’s thumb. This mean I couldn’t type articles and blog posts for over six weeks. Still can’t until pin comes out next week — had to do blog entries in a few sittings. Talk about feeling guilty about many things — work, getting things done in the house, not being able to play tennis.
6. Dealing with the election campaign.
7. Economy. Economy. Economy. Family member was laid off.
8. Gas prices.

I’m looking forward to a fine ’09 as it begins with getting the k-wire out of my thumb. I hope soon after that I’ll be on the road to returning to my previous working and athletic schedule.
How about you? How was ’08? What do you expect in ’09?