Some highlights from my year

January: Broke up w/a girl I had been dating for a couple months. Last ~relationship~ i was in and, sadly, last time i got laid

The warranty on my BMW expired too so i was dreading having to pay for repairs myself

February: Don't remember much

March: Met another girl, that was pretty awesome, but didn't make it past april (cause i left the country)

April: Spent nearly a month in Asia on a cruise, one of the best vacations of my life. Really cool part of the world that I'm very happy to have seen

May: Get back from trip, meet up w/a trainer at the gym and start a new workout routine. Also my birthday!

June: Took up golf for the first time in my life. Bought a set of clubs and started going to the driving range/course with friends. Have to say I really like the sport even though I absolutely suck at it

July: I went to a shitload of durham bulls games, trying to soak in as much summer as possible

August: On my way to a Def Leppard/Poison concert I get rear ended(my car not me) by some mexican kid on 40 towards twc pavillion. He was found at fault, Nationwide supposedly picked up the tab but i'm still getting calls from the rental company...ugh such bullshit.

September: Finished up a project and wrote a paper for work. This will be my 2nd publication in my graduate career!


October: Went to the Muse/U2 concert at carter-finley. I had tickets very close to the stage and it was easily the best concert i've ever been to. Absolutely loved it. After 6 months of lifting w/my trainer i was able to lift 225lbs, I started not being able to do any more than 165-175. Feels absolutely great and my BF% lowered 6-7%


November: Had the first Thanksgiving with my family since i was 13, wow!


December: Received a huge bonus at work on top of already a large salary. I've been extremely fortunate for that and by the end of the year i will have earned well over 200k. Thinkin about buying a house (but really a kickass yacht)



Had a few ups and downs, but overall it's been a really good year. In terms of women this is the longest dry spell i've had in years, but I try to look at it positively, I've got a lot goin on w/finishing up my PhD and doin my own thing, maybe it's for the best



Happy New Year!

12/19/2009 1:19:31 AM

posted on TWW a lot

oh and I went to St. John that was fun

12/19/2009 1:20:05 AM

lol that too

12/19/2009 1:20:39 AM

started sucky, middle was awesome, end was so-so

12/19/2009 1:23:49 AM

December: I bragged on tww about how much money i made in the past year.... oh wait that wasn't me

12/19/2009 1:24:00 AM

laughable how bad it was

lifetime would make a movie out of my 2009. not exaggerating

12/19/2009 1:27:23 AM

did your husband beat you?

12/19/2009 1:28:50 AM

funny redneck arent you?

12/19/2009 1:31:14 AM

Quote :

"December: I bragged on tww about how much money i made in the past year.... oh wait that wasn't me"

12/19/2009 1:31:22 AM

i read three things in this thread

i havent gotten laid in a while

i have lots of money

i am very strong now

12/19/2009 1:32:19 AM

you got the redneck part right anyway

12/19/2009 1:32:27 AM

jan: mom had cancer and i stayed out of school for our wintermester to be with her

feb: went back to school

march: came home for spring break, dad had stroke, mom went into a coma after routine surger to biopsy her lung

april: dad had another stroke, mom died, withdrew from school, funeral etc

may - june - drove my dad to therapy, finished 2 electives at school

july - turned 25

aug - nyc vacay, back to school

sept - nov - school ish, some football games, got a new kitten, adopted a puppy doggy

dec - just finished exams and working over the break

bring on 2010!!!

Quote :

"lifetime would make a movie out of my 2009. not exaggerating "

would they make a movie out of your life or my life first? i think my 2009 makes for a good lifetime movie / nicholas sparks love story tear jerker novel

[Edited on December 19, 2009 at 1:33 AM. Reason : .]

12/19/2009 1:32:53 AM

Par for the course, I suppose. It was an expensive year, classes were decent, I bought another bike, GF hasn't left yet, parents are alive, dick didn't fall off, etc. I can't complain. Lost my Grandpa though.

[Edited on December 19, 2009 at 1:37 AM. Reason : I didn't actually lose him, but you get the idea.]

12/19/2009 1:35:03 AM

haha i like your outlook on life

12/19/2009 1:36:29 AM

i forgot to mention that i also got drunk a lot and smoked lots of cigarettes

but i think i'm alloted one year of substance abuse given the circumstances

(do i hear a new year's resolution coming up?!)

12/19/2009 1:37:11 AM

i love chicks that smoke cigarettes even though i just quit.

12/19/2009 1:39:57 AM

My best year yet

12/19/2009 1:57:28 AM

Jan: Begun Spring semester with 2 classes at NCSU

Feb: Nothing

March: Nothing

April: I got kicked out from the in-law's Easter festivities

May: Registered for 1 class for the 10 week summer session.

June: 1 year anniversary.

July - Acquired 2 new family members. Hiro and Zoe were only 8 week old beagle pups when they came home to my wife and I.

Aug - Turned 23. Dropped out of Fall Semester because there's no way I'm going to teach myself Physics II for Engineers succesfully.

Sept - Nothing

October - Nothing

November - Told my boss that I had evaluated my life and prioritied and need to finish school. I searched and found a 3rd shift job working on Fraud cases. I returned back to NCSU and enrolled during Spring semseter for another 2 classes. Had thanksgiving with me, myself, and my two dogs. I started hanging out in bars again. I've also started meeting people on t-dub irl and have enjoyed my experiences thus far.

December - I've had the Lexus for 1 year now, although it still feels like I got it just the other day. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I'm enjoying my new job. Christmas is coming up. I might be invited over to my in-laws, who I have given up on caring about since the Easter incident. Actually, I stopped caring way before that, but Easter was kind of the OMFG REALLY? moment that pushed me over the edge.

My life is pretty boring.

12/19/2009 2:10:35 AM

Jan: Was working full time at a Vet Clinic.

Feb: Accepted to Grad School into NCSU's Public Administration program. 25th birthday.

March: Got married, was a small affair with only immediate family. Spent a week in Boston & loved it. Had a big wedding reception with all the family & friends.

May: Signed on to work for a mayoral campaign for an election coming up in Nov which I would worked heavily on for the next 6 months as Volunteer Coordinator. This was a pretty big step for me because I volunteer or intern with campaigns a lot, but this was my first time getting a real position. Made it on the local news once and local radio a few times over the summer for various political campaigns & causes & so forth which was kind of fun. And the previous year I had made it onto WUNC/NPR's The State of Things, so I had to keep the trend going. I also wrote several editions of a pet themed newsletter for the vet clinic that I started that had 300+ subscribers.

August: Organized a really successful community Pet Food Drive. I started up one last year at the vet clinic, billing it as an annual thing, but this year we 1) had a much bigger turn out even with the recession & 2) I got commitments from the people involved to keep it going even after I left so that now the structure is in place to make it a permanent fixture to help out the local shelter every year.

I also finished up a 3 year run at my first full time job during that month.

I also started grad school that month.

September/October: Went to 4 different weddings all over the state.

November: They mayoral campaign I was a staff member for during the last 6 months won by about 100 votes. For those last few weeks every other night at least was an all nighter working on the campaign or school stuff. Saw a lot of the family for the Thanksgiving holiday.

December: Finished my first semester of grad school in the Public Administration program here at state. Straight A's so far, but I'm still waiting for a couple of grades to post. I'm most proud of my Public Policy Analysis assignment to do a Cost Benefit Analysis of some government project which is probably the biggest school project I've done... maybe only second to a research grant project I had in undergrad.

I'm hosting a going away party tomorrow for a friend who just graduated from grad school and is moving away for first job. And I've got plans for Christmas with my family on the 24th & 25th, and then heading down to Charlotte to see the in-laws later in the month. And I'm going to finish the year by having a new years party.

12/19/2009 3:16:03 AM

^ That's awesome. Good for you on your accomplishments. Starting a yearly pet food drive is just amazing to me. Good work.

12/19/2009 3:39:53 AM

January: Found out I was bipolar and I went through all that awesome drama

February: drank a lot

March: drank a lot

April: drank a lot

May: drank a lot moved out of Raleigh

June: Worked at Lutheridge and turned 22

July: Worked at Lutheridge spent a week at Atlantic Beach

August: Left Lutheridge, moved to Atlantic Beach, started at a new school

September: Just did school stuff, I hadn't made any friends yet

October: Made a friend, hung out with im all the time

November: same as october

December: same as november.

12/19/2009 9:05:42 AM

January--Started my second semester of law school.

February--Big snow on my birthday! Trip to Florida to go diving. Found out my sister was pregnant

March--Trip to Wisconsin for Spring Break. Spent a few days in Chicago. Engagement party in New Bern.

April--Bridal shower for me! My sister miscarried

May--Bachelorette Party! Finished my first year of law school. Started my job at a law firm in Greensboro.

June--Got married!! Honeymoon in Charleston, SC. Found out older sister was pregnant again, and this time, very healthy baby!

July--moved to a place in Cary

August--Trip to Wisconsin with my Grandmother. Finished my internship in Greensboro. Started my 2L year at UNC.

September--Nothing exciting happened.

October--Back to Wisconsin again to help my Mom post-surgery.

November--Thanksgiving! Baby Shower for my sister.

December--6 Month Anniversary! Celebrated by going to Wisconsin and seeing the Marquette game. Little sister is engaged. Going to see Phantom of the Opera tonight. Husband's birthday. Christmas parties. Exams. Being half way through my law school career. First snow of the year!

12/19/2009 10:24:56 AM

I think 2009 was the year of marriages... seriously everyone got married this.

12/22/2009 2:23:34 PM

Quote :

"April: I got kicked out from the in-law's Easter festivities "

haha please elaborate

12/22/2009 2:29:07 PM

December: Off probation. All that matters

12/22/2009 2:31:22 PM

January: Almost moved to DC with live-in bf. That fell through, then we broke up.

February: Moved from Cape Canaveral to Orlando. Had an awesome craigslist roomie. Started hanging out more with good girlfriends. Briefly reconciled w/an ex in Raleigh, but that fell through.

March: Craigslist roomie goes to rehab for coke addiction. I move in with my best girlfriend. Start dating a colleague.

April: Still dating colleague, but not that into him. Got a raise. Loving living with the gf.

May: Compete in Muddy Buddy with boytoy. Vacation in San Diego and LA.

June: Boytoy takes me to St. Pete Beach for a romantic weekend for my bday. We break up. My roomie moves in with her bf and I move into her condo in Winter Park.

July: Start dating a really hot Ironman triathlete. Vacationed in Vegas. AWESOME trip.

August: Not a ton ... spent most weekends at pool or beach. Had a lot of fun nights with girlfriends

September: Vacationed in Austin with girlfriends. Broke up with triathlete. More girl nights.

October: Attended Halloween Horror Nights at Universal. Attended Food & Wine Fest at Epcot. Lots of girls nights.

November: Got a roommate. Went to Raleigh for 10 days over Thanksgiving break.

December: Lots of holiday parties. Met a couple of cool guys. Currently dating a tennis pro who spoils me, but it's complicated. Leaving on Thursday for another 11 days or so in NC!

12/22/2009 2:39:18 PM

Quote :

"November: Had the first Thanksgiving with my family since i was 13, wow!"

dude, wait what? so for half your life you've been having thanksgiving without your family?

12/22/2009 2:41:13 PM

January - got a new car (technically end of December, but whatever )
- went to NYC for fun, as well as to see my orthopaedic surgeon one last time for final check up

February - great ski trip with college buddies at Snowshoe, WV

March - great ski trip with high school buddies at Lake Tahoe
- my dog got really sick for a week or so

April - engagement party for my sister in NJ

May - frat bro's wedding down on Pauley's Island, awesome time
- another frat bro's awesome bachelor party, which was camping out at Cape Lookout
- moved in with friends short term to escape a crappy roommate situation

June - frat bro's wedding in Southport
- weeklong vacation on Hilton Head Island

July - weeklong vacation on Long Island, NY as well as NYC
- frat bro's wedding in Raleigh

August - moved into a new place with two of my best friends (who I'd lived with previously)

September - took my car to a weekend long track event with Porsche Club of America (probably single most fun thing I did in 2009, will do again 2-3 times in 2010)
- bachelor party in Myrtle Beach for my future brother-in-law

October - celebrated being with my company for a full year
- my sister got married in Charlotte
- restarted going to the gym with a renewed effort after stopping in June

November - Thanksgiving with the parents, nothing else comes to mind

December - Christmas with my family, and not sure what to do for NYE yet

That's all that comes to mind.

12/22/2009 3:00:18 PM

January - March: Applied to grad schools and stressed out a bunch

April: Turned 22, named crisis line volunteer of the year, raised over $3,500 with my Relay for Life team successfully organized a karaoke contest w/ bmel, 2 year anniversary, wait-listed for grad school then ultimately denied -- led to crying a lot

May: Graduated, got a puppy

July: Organized big surprise party for my bff that moved to NY

August: Went to Ireland, started a class just to help with grad applications (YUCK)

September - October: nothing really besides school and work and stress....

November: asked to be featured in an end-of-year publication.. 10,000 mailings were printed

December: OH YAY GRAD APPLICATIONS ARE DUE.. THROUGH FEBRUARY. AWESOME.



I'm ready for 2010, this one was a freakin emotional rollercoaster

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM. Reason : on a positive note, I only went to the ER once this year!]

12/22/2009 3:18:40 PM

work, and alcohol

sums it up concisely

12/22/2009 3:20:19 PM

January - Thrilled to have just bought a house, even though it needs some work.

February - It was cold.

March - Working on landscaping the front yard, work getting interesting.

April - Started a job search cause work was shitty.

May - Found out I was going to be a father.

June - Trip to Asheville with wife's work, beginning to tell people of pregnancy

July - Wife gets sick, into the hospital, vacation at Nags Head cut waaay short.

August - Wife back in the hospital at end of month.

September - Start remodeling house, wife goes back to hospital.

October - Still remodeling the house. Wife goes back to hospital.

November - Still remodeling the house and sleeping in the hospital....wife never leaves hospital the entire month.

December - It's cold again. Applied for, offered and accepted new job. More money. Wife is at home with health issues, baby coming next Tuesday. Still not done with house.

2009 blew nuts.

12/22/2009 3:21:57 PM

This year was fucking ridiculous for me.

January - Birthday party went nuts, cops called. Hilarity ensued when my friends had to come pick me up. Raleigh snow was pretty fun. UNC Campout was cold as shit, got below freezing. I dressed appropriately though, haha. Got pretty awesome floor tickets for the game. Played football.

February - Hopped on for an IAESTE national conference in Baltimore, blacked out for a good portion one of the nights. Friend broke my camera during said blackout . Mister Incredible Pageant. I think the UNC game was in February. Played football.

March - Centennial Campus Challenge. Dance comp in Charlotte. Ralphie May with my sister and some friends. Played football.

April - Dislocated my shoulder playing football, maybe end of March. It was out of commission for about 3? weeks, and I missed the South Carolina dance comp. Stopped ballroom dance because there were no more competitions this semester. Introduced to some cool chick

May - Finished up one of my favorite school semesters, where I took 3 awesome nanotech courses. Met some professors and started bugging them about my senior design project for next semester. Got tentative approval for my senior design project. Started work at a summer internship in RTP. Started lifting a shit ton.

June - Worked. Ate. Lifted. Slept. Partied. Researched liquid body armor. Oversaw an intern from Turkey that came here through IAESTE and worked 6 weeks with the Civil department. Grandfather died.

July - Worked. Ate. Lifted. Slept. Partied. Fareako got out of OCS, went with him and some other friends to see a band in Charlotte for friend's birthday. Met punchmonk, qntmfred, and Maya for food. Good times. Said trip was very perilous for Fareako's Jeep Finally got permission from U of Delaware to work on liquid body armor project. Started working out with 225 on bench and weighed 195, having gained ~10 pounds over the summer.

Went absolutely black out retarded on zombie movie night either end of July or start of August. Burned my arm pretty bad, got a cool scar out of it.

August - Cut ties with internship. Started school. Had a weird fallout with a friend. Found a scope and wrote proposal for my senior design project. Took the helm of president for club, and did a ton of start of the year events and meetings. Ruckus Prom? Played football.

September - Tore my ACL playing football on 9/11. Fuck. Doc visits abound. Had to cut down on my activities because I couldn't walk well. Assigned a senior design team, started working with them. Stopped playing football . Got a sweet handicap parking pass to park next to my buildings. Had a GET DRUNK theme party with some friends from back home.

October - Got the hookup from my parents on a new freezer loaded with premade dinners. Durham Beerfest was with a cool chick. ACL surgery on October 9th. Started lifting weights again a few days later in my parent's garage gym. Got a snuggie from my sister . Out of school that following week. Got helped out by my professors on quizzes and tests that were that week. Came back to school on crutches, was on crutches for two-three days then discovered I could walk without them. Started lifting again in my long leg brace. Got a get well present from a cool chick. Halloween was fun. Down to about 180lbs and lifting around 185 on bench

November - Hung out with this cool chick a ton. Handicap parking pass expired . Can't remember much else. Thanksgiving in New Jersey, where I got my ass kicked by my ~14 year old cousin in MW2 . Flew back for the UNC game, BEST. GAME. EVER. Met lucyinthesky? Or was that December

December - Facebook official with cool chick . Went up to Wilmington, Delaware for an interview, and stayed in an absolutely baller hotel. Met pilgrimshoes, pretty cool guy. Daniel Tosh! Finalized senior design project with team, fairly happy with it so far. Got 100g of free sample of one of our important reactants, Fumed Silica. Christmas shopping. Came home for Christmas break. I feel like I should be doing something. Back up to about 190-195lbs and working out between 205 and 225 on bench again

Oh, and posted on TWW a lot.

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 3:24 PM. Reason : lucy]

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 3:26 PM. Reason : weights]

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : and didn't sleep that much at all, but that's normal]

12/22/2009 3:21:59 PM

Quote :

"Facebook official with cool chick ."

This makes me LOL. But facebook is a really big deal.

12/22/2009 3:28:44 PM

I didn't realize yall were facebook official....

and I like how you keep referring to B as a "cool chick" in your whole post. I lol'd.

12/22/2009 3:30:48 PM

This is a cool thread but it's too much work for me.

12/22/2009 3:31:52 PM

well, i mean...you know. haha.

apparently both of our facebooks were set to not post relationship status updates to the feed, so it was a pretty quiet change.

12/22/2009 3:34:39 PM

Whatever yall were official in my book for a very long time, wasn't quiet at all

if you know what I mean.............. >.> <.<

12/22/2009 3:35:57 PM

I would've thought that was a 15 year old girl by the number of fucking smiley faces there.

12/22/2009 3:38:01 PM

Hey, the smiley is an accepted form of communication on TWW

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM. Reason : !]

12/22/2009 3:39:14 PM

(Jan) Saved my house from foreclosure
(Feb-Dec) Worked like hell

12/22/2009 3:40:42 PM

i dig reading these

12/22/2009 3:42:22 PM

Jan: Bought a new truck at the end of Dec. Was finishing up inspections at my WakeMed project.
Feb: 6th year with my gf. Got my old truck fixed.
Mar: Started up 4 projects in Harnett County.
Apr: Moved to my new apt. Turned 23. Working in Chatham Co.
May: Girlfriend moved to Raleigh for the summer. 5 school projects in full swing.
June: Kayaked from US15-501 to US 64. Working hard.
July: 4th of July family reunion. Working hard.
Aug: Trip to Asheville. Girlfriend moves back to Greenville. TWW tunnel painting.
Sep: Girlfriend turns 23. Some football games. Sold my old truck.
Oct: Work slowing down. Some football games.
Nov: My step-granddad got real sick. Thanksgiving was good. Work got real slow.
Dec: Step grandfather doing worse. Picked up a bunch of geotech work here in the last 2 weeks. Picked a big job at Duke.

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 4:03 PM. Reason : =]

12/22/2009 4:02:32 PM

Damn, I didnt realize ^she was that much older than me

12/22/2009 4:05:03 PM

With a birthday in September, there is a cut off date and I think she was put on the other side of it. Moving around to different schools while probably doesn't help.

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM. Reason : -]

12/22/2009 4:09:28 PM

Today, I woke up, took a shower, and changed back into my pajamas.

That pretty well encapsulates my year.

12/22/2009 4:17:14 PM

january - dont remember
february - went to savannah for a week to hang with stuck flex
march - flirted with a lot of co-workers
april - started dating a co-worker...she just happened to be my roommate too.
may - dont remember
june - couple of beach trips
july - visited a friend in blacksburg
august - went camping in tenn. with gf and toemoss
september - my group home, which i supervise, was rated the best group home for young adults with autism in the nation by the toughest accreditation company in the country.
october - dethklock show was awesome. went to the beach again. sprained my knee and ankle on halloween. still recovering.
novermber - nothing of note
december - *shrug* im in my fantasy football league's playoffs? the girlfriend is taking ME out to dinner tonight...im working all day xmas day.

12/22/2009 5:20:27 PM

i'm not going to go month to month but i did have a really great year. all the bad things that happened were mostly (but not completely!) my fault but learning experiences all the same. and i'm really having a great time enjoying life right now!

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 5:25 PM. Reason : ]

12/22/2009 5:25:35 PM

^you had a pretty awesome halloween

Quote :

"dethklock show was awesome"

wish i could've gone, but i didn't really put much energy into going to it

12/22/2009 5:27:19 PM

you would bring that up! and you weren't even there. that i know of.

and

Quote :

"Whatever yall were official in my book for a very long time, wasn't quiet at all if you know what I mean.............. >.> <.< "

brown chicken brown cow!

12/22/2009 5:28:48 PM

hahaha

my b

and nah i wasn't there

[Edited on December 22, 2009 at 5:30 PM. Reason : it could be summarized as though]

12/22/2009 5:30:33 PM