*I wrote this before 2012. I really did. And then I didn't bother to edit or post it and mostly had forgotten about it until a friend asked me about my blog today. Sorry friends. If you have been in withdrawal without knowing about my life. I am just a little behind. I am going to start on my list of resolutions tonight. (sneak preview - number one is to stop procrastinating...). Now on to the original post.*
I like to do a year end summary as each year passes in my life. Most of the time it is in my head, or in my journal (you know, those little books of blank pages of paper they used to use in the 1600s and everybody else has since moved on to an electronic version but I continue to buy them, as well as calendars??). I know, everybody these days just has facebook do it automatically for them. Well, this year I thought I would sum it up for you here on the internet in the form of pros and cons. I couldn't decide if I should start with the good or the bad. I've done a lot of cutting and pasting and re-cutting and re-pasting and have decided to start with the bad and end with the good. Just to keep things light and positive around here.
Cons
I applied to exactly 37 jobs over the course of this year. During that time I had four interviews. The only job I was offered was minimum wage seasonal at the mall, which I have grown to enjoy, but it is not my dream job. I did have an opportunity to interview, twice, for my dream job. I am still not quite over that rejection. Sheesh. That one hurt more than when one of my highschool boyfriend broke up with me by just not speaking to me anymore and finding himself another girlfriend (although, in retrospect, my only regret about that is I didn't stop speaking to him first). In conclusion, hopefully 2012 brings with it some better luck and interviewing skills on my behalf.
We moved out of Toronto.
I spent six entire months planning a wedding. For those of you who haven't done it, my only advice would be, don't! No matter how happy you are to be getting married, or how well everybody gets along, this will be a hellish journey through hell you would wish only upon serial rapists and anybody who works at Leon's(see pros for more details).
The world is filled with stupid idiots who in turn fill my blog with babblings about those idiots. This is a con for humanity, but really a pro for my life because otherwise this blog would have to be a lot less sarcastic and a lot more boring and uplifting.
Regis quit Live. That was one of the biggest downers of the year for me. I cry over a lot of television, but never so hard as that final episode of Live.
There really has to be more. Lots more. I am sure of it but for now I think I have covered all of the major events.
Pros
The biggest one for this year is that I got married to the most wonderful husband in all the land and then went on a fantastic honeymoon around Europe for six weeks, completely and totally avoiding all responsibility and pretending I was not a grown up at all.
We moved out of Toronto.
We moved into the cutest little comfy house I have ever seen and I'm happy to be here.
My wedding is over and I never have to do that again. Before I was even engaged my cousin whispered to me, "if you are thinking of getting married, don't have a wedding, elope." I smiled sweetly and thanked her for the advice, knowing my wedding planning wouldn't turn into a horrible mess of awfulness. It did. It absolutely did. I found I was stressed over the colour of the ribbon that tied my lillies together, or whether or not my lactose intolerant guests could manage the blue cheese ravioli I adored, and what to do if it rained, and what flip flops I would wear under my dress to dance in. These are not the sort of things I ever thought I would care about. My wedding turned me into a crazy person who was genuinely upset over these tiny details and thousands of other. Plus I managed to get a raging sore throat and the beginnings of my 'stress' rash on my face (which a doctor told me almost 6 months later had nothing to do with stress and I needed antibiotics to clear it up... oops....) in the week before our wedding. My advice, newly engaged couples, is to elope.
Do I need more? I believe life is made up of all the tiny pros. My puppy making me laugh. My husband doing the dishes (that might have happened in 2010, but the joy of it still fills me all the way through this year and into the next). A day at the cottage. A night cuddled on the couch watching the Charlie Sheen roast (don't lie, you know it was a highlight of your year too). A new friend. Or finding out your old friends are more wonderful than you knew. Winning a minor battle over Leon's. These sorts of things keep me optimistic about next year. 2012 will be the year of my career. Also the year of the dragon. How can anything go wrong? Unless of course the Mayans are right, and then we are all in for a serious amount of trouble....
I like to do a year end summary as each year passes in my life. Most of the time it is in my head, or in my journal (you know, those little books of blank pages of paper they used to use in the 1600s and everybody else has since moved on to an electronic version but I continue to buy them, as well as calendars??). I know, everybody these days just has facebook do it automatically for them. Well, this year I thought I would sum it up for you here on the internet in the form of pros and cons. I couldn't decide if I should start with the good or the bad. I've done a lot of cutting and pasting and re-cutting and re-pasting and have decided to start with the bad and end with the good. Just to keep things light and positive around here.
Cons
I applied to exactly 37 jobs over the course of this year. During that time I had four interviews. The only job I was offered was minimum wage seasonal at the mall, which I have grown to enjoy, but it is not my dream job. I did have an opportunity to interview, twice, for my dream job. I am still not quite over that rejection. Sheesh. That one hurt more than when one of my highschool boyfriend broke up with me by just not speaking to me anymore and finding himself another girlfriend (although, in retrospect, my only regret about that is I didn't stop speaking to him first). In conclusion, hopefully 2012 brings with it some better luck and interviewing skills on my behalf.
We moved out of Toronto.
I spent six entire months planning a wedding. For those of you who haven't done it, my only advice would be, don't! No matter how happy you are to be getting married, or how well everybody gets along, this will be a hellish journey through hell you would wish only upon serial rapists and anybody who works at Leon's(see pros for more details).
The world is filled with stupid idiots who in turn fill my blog with babblings about those idiots. This is a con for humanity, but really a pro for my life because otherwise this blog would have to be a lot less sarcastic and a lot more boring and uplifting.
Regis quit Live. That was one of the biggest downers of the year for me. I cry over a lot of television, but never so hard as that final episode of Live.
There really has to be more. Lots more. I am sure of it but for now I think I have covered all of the major events.
Pros
The biggest one for this year is that I got married to the most wonderful husband in all the land and then went on a fantastic honeymoon around Europe for six weeks, completely and totally avoiding all responsibility and pretending I was not a grown up at all.
We moved out of Toronto.
We moved into the cutest little comfy house I have ever seen and I'm happy to be here.
My wedding is over and I never have to do that again. Before I was even engaged my cousin whispered to me, "if you are thinking of getting married, don't have a wedding, elope." I smiled sweetly and thanked her for the advice, knowing my wedding planning wouldn't turn into a horrible mess of awfulness. It did. It absolutely did. I found I was stressed over the colour of the ribbon that tied my lillies together, or whether or not my lactose intolerant guests could manage the blue cheese ravioli I adored, and what to do if it rained, and what flip flops I would wear under my dress to dance in. These are not the sort of things I ever thought I would care about. My wedding turned me into a crazy person who was genuinely upset over these tiny details and thousands of other. Plus I managed to get a raging sore throat and the beginnings of my 'stress' rash on my face (which a doctor told me almost 6 months later had nothing to do with stress and I needed antibiotics to clear it up... oops....) in the week before our wedding. My advice, newly engaged couples, is to elope.
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| If you must have a wedding, make sure it ends something like this - beer, chips and your very best friends documenting the entire thing for fb to see. |
Do I need more? I believe life is made up of all the tiny pros. My puppy making me laugh. My husband doing the dishes (that might have happened in 2010, but the joy of it still fills me all the way through this year and into the next). A day at the cottage. A night cuddled on the couch watching the Charlie Sheen roast (don't lie, you know it was a highlight of your year too). A new friend. Or finding out your old friends are more wonderful than you knew. Winning a minor battle over Leon's. These sorts of things keep me optimistic about next year. 2012 will be the year of my career. Also the year of the dragon. How can anything go wrong? Unless of course the Mayans are right, and then we are all in for a serious amount of trouble....
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