My Year In Review (As Seen On Julia's Blog-I Steal...Weeee)

Well, although the year, isn't quite all that over yet, I feel like posting this now. If anything crazy happens in the next few days I'll edit this.

In 2005 I;

* Graduated from university with two majors.

* Returned to said university for a third major.

* Saw The Rolling Stones, The Tragically Hip, Maroon 5 (sarcastic yay), Chixdiggit, Death From Above 1979, K-os, Zeke, Controller. Controller, numerous local and out-of-town indie bands.

* Joined a band myself, began playing shows again......being on stage is very addictive.

* Cut back, sinificantly, my trips to the Valley....while increasing my trips to Moncton. Spent Halloween and Remberance Day there.....no NYE though.....this year anyway.

* Went to Karaoke Party in Moncton (Mel Rox!), can't remember half of what I sung......it was all embarrassing I know. Britney Spears? Was I drunk?

* Worked again this spring/summer for the first time in years-got paid crap and physically tortured, but proved to myself I had the drive now to work anything. Going to bed early EVERY Friday and Saturday night in the summer is damn difficult to want to do.

* Moved most of my apartment-on my back-from one part of Allan St. to another (except for when Julia lent me the car, that was a life-saver), went to work at my horribly draining job the next day, my back never recovered until I finally quit in August.

* Smashed a thousand dollar laptop.....having no money and breaking large investments makes you want to puke I discovered.

* Personal revelations included realizing I was in a bit of a slump......this is still ongoing, but steps have been made to fix that. I also re-learned how to pour my heart out and embarrass myself, and take it in stride.

* Saw Joel Plaskett on NYE.....I'm predicting the future on this one....Vince will buy my ticket today on his way to work......it's for his birthday this year, NYE be damned.

That's that.....sure I'm forgetting stuff, but it couldn't have been too significant I guess. 2006 I know for a fact will be crazier, especially since I have already made some huge decisions in my mind that will impact my life BIG TIME. 2005 was all prep in my opinion.

P.S. Hit the embedded link in the title to really laugh your ass......I almost fell out of chair reading it yesterday. Hysterical.


EDIT: * People I met in 2005....Damn near everyone in Moncton-Melanie, Kevin, Nicole, Dan, Devin, lots of people basically...also Mindy.....and from Halifax, Craig and Jon (met Shane last year oddly enough), that girl at the Seahorse who lit her cig at the wrong end and leaned on my head to keep from falling down hahaha....the drunk guys who borrowed my bass at Reflections. All the people at the Lawrence St. pad Xmas party I drunkenly talked to, laughed with, shared my champagne with. Dale Fahey, more or less this year, although I was aware he existed years ago. Danielle, who I was in class with for months, but never really talked to until the last week although we sat beside each other haha. The dudes at Duffy's who I see every now and again on Spring Garden. Oh-Beardo and Alfred, although there's another case of being aware of them before, just never spoke to them until this year. Ummmm.....Katie, although this won't happen in person until NYE, er, I mean Vince's bday.....but we have talked on MSN, so there's something......Lots of people I met once or twice-various bands and their girlfriends/boyfriends/entourage, friends of friends, co-workers of friends (Il Mercato at Peel Pub!)....my mailman whom I really dislike. For having no real social life to write home about, I meet way more new people then I should it's starting to seem.

* Started smoking....again, for the third time....quit...again...for the third time.