Good-bye 2005!

Usually, I get very sentimental around year-end. I'm sad to see another year go. But this time, I feel quite the opposite. I'm so entirely sick of 2005, that I can't wait to start a brand new year afresh. I'm sure once I look back on it, I'll appreciate 2005 for making me stronger emotionally. But for right now, I can't wait to say good-bye 2005 and make plans for 2006, which I expect to be a million times better.
Looking back there was a lot of good a lot of bad and even more ugly! And since I love making lists, here's some highlights and lowlights from 2005.

The Good

• I started my new blog and made some new blog friends!
• I got accepted and started Graduate school which earned me two A's!
• I finally met my friend Amit in person in NY!
• I went to three concerts with my good friend Raeshel, who I don't get to hang out with very often.
• My doggie's still pulling through after 6 months of remission and over a year with lymphoma!

The Bad

• I suffered straight through 3 months with a full-time job, 2 night classes and a truck-load of homework!
• I got divorced from one of my company's departments. That's where all my cool hip buddies were!
• Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey announced their separation on my birthday! And I who was rooting for them all the way ever since the very very beginning when they started dating. Never again! Celebrities can rot in $&%# for all I care now.

The Ugly

• My neighbor died on the 27th of December.
• My uncle in Alberta was diagnosed with liver cancer.
• I was in two car accidents, both not my fault, the latter affected me emotionally.
• I still have no boyfriend!
• I still don't have my own apartment.

Life Lessons

Now that I got two A's in school, I should really strive for an A where it really matters. Life! I feel that at 25 I'm way behind in my life lessons. There is so much about being an adult I don't know. It's so difficult too. I know that I should sign up for a 401k, yet the big packet of info explaining what the heck it is (I still don't get exactly what it does) is sitting on my chair-side table collecting dust. The only reason I know what a muffler and a bumper is, is due to the fact that they are both damaged parts of my vehicle! Otherwise, I wouldn't know one end of a car from another. I'm also completely clueless about house stuff too. I was reading Bev's entries about her wonderful new home and all the repairs and home improvement projects her and her hubby are undertaking and I feel like I'm reading a foreign language. It's stuff I should know, but don't and it just shames me. I really wish I could step away from school and work and take a year off just to take some lessons from the school of life! I know I need it before I can take the next step.

Give me an "A"!

Actually, give me two A's, because that's what I got for grades for my two graduate courses.

Contemporary British Novels - A
Book Publishing - A

And now my grade point average is 4.0 baby! Yay! I've never had a 4.0. Granted this is based on two classes, but still! I'm allowed to revel in all it's glory!

I just gave birth to my term paper

After a period of gestation, and labor that lasted for 7 days, I am happy to announce that I am the proud mother of a 15-page paper. The paper was born at 8pm on Friday December 16th, 2005. It weighs in at 50% of my class grade. After the paper was born, only a little cleaning up needed to be done before it was in the arms of its mother. In a few days, both mother and paper will receive their final grade and can go home either very happy or miserable.

On the Verge of Tears

I'm way too personally affected by things sometimes. Two people aren't
very happy with me right. Mostly because they don't want to believe me
when I point out one of their errors and instead of investigating it on
their side, they simply chose to wage a bitter back and forth battle
with me. I have to stand my ground and provide proof but two people in
question take things very personally and feel as if I'm trying to hurt
their feelings by making them look bad. And because they take it
personally, I feel like I'm responsible for hurting them. Which in turns
hurts me. I've been so worried about this I barely got any sleep last
night and I'm on the verge of tears this morning. What makes this a
double-edged sword is if I didn't point out their errors and let things
flow, the end result will be people coming back to me telling me why I
didn't catch the mistake in the first place. I don't need any of this
right now. Especially with the damage to my car due to an accident and
school work (3 classes, 15-page paper, a presentation and a proposal),
this is not the time for this kind of crap. Ahh feels good to rant. I
feel a little better now! Yet I still wish I could stop feeling bad
about the situation all together!

If I had a Sugar Daddy, I would make him buy me this! ::swoon::