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2008 Year in Review
January starts out extremely excited about our upcoming trip to Rome. Which, for the record, was entirely worthwhile. To celebrate MLK Jr Day, our church brought in a black speaker and I ate fried rice.
In February, I celebrate Chinese New Year midwestern-style with tasty, but bastardized Chinese food. And, of course, we go to Rome! To celebrate the leap year, I obsess about what to feed the neighbors.
March brought appreciation of the 80s. The joy was entirely gone by the time that we found out that an ex-coworker of mine had died. And, the approach of Pupster 6000 was anticipated with fear and trembling.
April started naively enough with the anticipation of buying pretty things to replace stuff the puppy destroyed. As a harbinger of the future, I get the urge to quit my job and bake cheesecakes. The next day brings a lucrative offer to quit my job for wads of cash. The thinking and the job applications begin.
The thinking continues in May, with much pondering of long term goals. Pondering ends mid-May, when I realize that quitting a job is pretty great for self-esteem.
June brings the joy of a job offer and the pain of a rejection (moderately softened by the passage of time). The puppy starts his quest to dissuade us from ever having children. And, I win a Jennifer vs Tim poll.
We journey to Washington in July. Luckily, we both get sick but much fun is had in the TC. Tim discusses our drive back on his journal.
As a goodbye to Indy present, we went to St Elmo's for dinner in August. In preparation, Angel shows us her amazing knowledge of steaks. I also came the closest I've ever been to a woman in labor. Since my birth, at least. And yes, we left Indiana. And moved to PA. And put an offer on a house. And started a job. What didn't happen in August?
September was a continuation of the activities of August. We did our walkthrough of our new house which we did eventuall close on. We worked (Tim got a job, which was not recorded here). We lived in PA. And Tim cared for me when I got sick.
In October, Puppy went to a new doggie daycare in an attempt to calm him down. I think it has just upped his stamina, but there is no way to know. I got potentially age-motivated kudos from my new bosses.
I mused about our new neighborhood in November, and started a new job assignment. Tim was also awesome, and I won another Tim vs Jennifer poll.
December brought a new purple laptop! I went to my first office holiday party for my job, and the pets wished everyone a Merry Christmas
January starts out extremely excited about our upcoming trip to Rome. Which, for the record, was entirely worthwhile. To celebrate MLK Jr Day, our church brought in a black speaker and I ate fried rice.
In February, I celebrate Chinese New Year midwestern-style with tasty, but bastardized Chinese food. And, of course, we go to Rome! To celebrate the leap year, I obsess about what to feed the neighbors.
March brought appreciation of the 80s. The joy was entirely gone by the time that we found out that an ex-coworker of mine had died. And, the approach of Pupster 6000 was anticipated with fear and trembling.
April started naively enough with the anticipation of buying pretty things to replace stuff the puppy destroyed. As a harbinger of the future, I get the urge to quit my job and bake cheesecakes. The next day brings a lucrative offer to quit my job for wads of cash. The thinking and the job applications begin.
The thinking continues in May, with much pondering of long term goals. Pondering ends mid-May, when I realize that quitting a job is pretty great for self-esteem.
June brings the joy of a job offer and the pain of a rejection (moderately softened by the passage of time). The puppy starts his quest to dissuade us from ever having children. And, I win a Jennifer vs Tim poll.
We journey to Washington in July. Luckily, we both get sick but much fun is had in the TC. Tim discusses our drive back on his journal.
As a goodbye to Indy present, we went to St Elmo's for dinner in August. In preparation, Angel shows us her amazing knowledge of steaks. I also came the closest I've ever been to a woman in labor. Since my birth, at least. And yes, we left Indiana. And moved to PA. And put an offer on a house. And started a job. What didn't happen in August?
September was a continuation of the activities of August. We did our walkthrough of our new house which we did eventuall close on. We worked (Tim got a job, which was not recorded here). We lived in PA. And Tim cared for me when I got sick.
In October, Puppy went to a new doggie daycare in an attempt to calm him down. I think it has just upped his stamina, but there is no way to know. I got potentially age-motivated kudos from my new bosses.
I mused about our new neighborhood in November, and started a new job assignment. Tim was also awesome, and I won another Tim vs Jennifer poll.
December brought a new purple laptop! I went to my first office holiday party for my job, and the pets wished everyone a Merry Christmas