2006...How Was It For You?

[dragonboy]

What were your highs, lows & in betweens?

Hightlights: Finally getting to see the Jacket live! My sister's wedding, visiting my parents amazing house in Spain, Paris, moving house & setting up my new school & Hawaii.
Lowlights: My weight gain & inability to lose it.
Movies of The Year: Nacho Libre & Cars.
TV Show: Boston Legal & Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Food of The Year: Pizza & Ice-Cream (same every year)
Drink of The Year: Beer & Jack & Coke (same every year)

[BH]

Fantastic!  I made about 3000 new friends.

[dragonboy]

Fantastic!  I made about 3000 new friends.

I hear you BH! The forum is always a highlight for me.
I had to stop myself from checking in a couple of times whilst I was in Hawaii  :-[

[Angry Ewok]

I had a pretty rough year... but the highlights more than made up for the bullshit. Or, at least, they've help me shut out and repress the bad stuff.

+ Those few MMJ Fans that have become my close friends. MMJ giving me and my best friend that much more to connect with. Always a good feeling to share passions.

+ Got to meet MMJ, finally. They posed with the Vikings for a few photos and autographed all of our Ryman Auditorium posters. Not to mention I saw them in concert three times.

+ I was given the privilege of being an Okonokos Listening Party Host... That honor is shared with Alan, as is our MMJ Facebook club reaching over 1,000 members in a matter of months.

+ MMJ's Okonokos and Acoustic Chorale!

+ Got a new job that is perfect for me, and continues to be a boost to my self-esteem - which is definitely needed.

+ Hit the halfway mark in my reading the Bible - more importantly, I'm "getting it" and feeling much better as a person because of that.

+ The new James Bond movie didn't totally suck. I know it sounds weird with the rest of these, but that was something that came to mind.

[ManNamedTruth]

What were your highs, lows & in betweens?

Hightlights: Finally getting to see the Jacket live! My sister's wedding, visiting my parents amazing house in Spain, Paris, moving house & setting up my new school & Hawaii.
Lowlights: My weight gain & inability to lose it.
Movies of The Year: Nacho Libre & Cars.
TV Show: Boston Legal & Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Food of The Year: Pizza & Ice-Cream (same every year)
Drink of The Year: Beer & Jack & Coke (same every year)

Hightlights: Seein the jacket for the first time too. This here forum and all of you. Roger Waters was exceptional. Seein a couple people I haven't seen in some time.
Lowlights: No progress as far as career and finding a special lady
Movies of The Year: Nacho Libre (same for me, not much good movies this year)
TV Show: Weeds, Conan O'Brien
Food of The Year: Sun Chips
Drink of The Year: Captain and Coke

[red]

Overall, it was a good year.

Highlights:  Seeing the Jacket!  Taking a month-long trip to New York/Boston with a friend.  Met some great people this year, made some new friends.  Oh yeah, The Hold Steady tore me apart too.
Lowlights:  After returning from said trip, I hit a wall and feel like I'm going nowhere in life, and fast.  Girlfriend-less year...
Movies:  Borat, Casino Royale, The Departed, The Science of Sleep.
TV Shows:  Kenny vs. Spenny, Extras, Veronica Mars, Degrassi: Next Generation.
Food:  Pizza, Ice-Cream, Peanut Butter & Honey sandwiches.
Drink:  White Russians, Crown and Coke.

[Specialist]

Highlights: Seeing MMJ four times, seeing th DBTs 3 times, finally being able to see Neil Young, finally seeing Radiohead.

Lowlights: Wasting my life away indoors, brother-in law's passing, father's health, money issues

Movies of The Year: Can't afford to go to the theatre alot, i'll go with Casino Royale too

TV Show: Lost, NFL network

Food of The Year: whatever's cheap

Drink of The Year: Dr. Pepper on good days...Dr. Lightning on bad

[Mr. T.]

i'll never forget 2006.

That's all I want to say. Let's move to the next

[Tree]

Hightlights: Seeing the PIXIES and holidays in Portugal which were amazing!
Lowlights: My weight gain and  I´m not playing soccer anymore....
Movies of The Year: Silent Hill, Borat and Little Miss Sunshine
TV Show: Family Guy, Invasion
Food of The Year: The 30cm-diameter-Burger
Drink of The Year: Beer & Schweppes Californian Citrus Summer

[megisnotreal]

Highlights: being promoted to program director, meeting MMJ (and seeing them three times), getting a new niece by birth and three new nieces by marriage, becoming more independent, getting published, finally becoming comfortable with who I am, meeting Andrew Thompson (on my birthday!), getting an awesome roommate

Lowlights: living with an asshole, moving out of said living quarters, asshole going crazy over me, having surgery, rejection, being in the hospital, losing my dog of 14 years, rejection, finding out I can't have kids, having my wallet stolen, rejection (what? it happened a lot.)

Movies of the Year: Everything is Illuminated, Borat, and, because we watch them at least once a month, The Big Lebowski and Run, Ronnie, Run

TV Show: Mr. Show, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report (guilty pleasures: Breaking Bonaduce, My Super Sweet 16)

Food of the Year: crunchy shrimp rolls from Yuki's, my local sushi-porium... gyros, baby carrots, cheese fries, tiramisu, magic brownies  ;)

Drink of the Year: Maker's. Maker's. Maker's. Sweet tea. White Russians. Maker's.

[Jaimoe]

I got married, visited Cuba and France and saw legendary CBGB band Television. I don't know if I will top that until I have kids.

[Klarify]

Hightlights: Seeing MMJ live, finally happy with my appearance, went on a Cruise
Lowlights: Steve Irwin dying (I was a big fan), nothing else totally bad
Movies of The Year: Little Miss Sunshine, Superman Returns
TV Show: Heroes, The Office
Food of The Year: Papa John's Pizza
Drink of The Year: Coka Cola  ::)

[ManNamedTruth]

HOLY SHIT I FORGOT! Highlight of the year: Steelers winning Super Bowl XL

[FarmerYoda]

2006 was ehh.  it was good at times. and it was bad at times. Being accepted into this new school program was better than anything i could ever hope for... it's made me think and realize and know myself better than ever.
yet
i've also been sick for about 70% of the this year.  sinus infections, the flu, headachy, whatever. i lost a lot of new friends to the "real world" out side of boston, going away to college.

but i went to many good shows.  saw MMJ for the first time :-*.  and learned a lot.

so it had it's goods and bads.
werd.

[colleen]

not so hot.

let's see,
lows: 1/3 life crisis of sorts (you don't want to hear about it), barely any skin on skin for collie all year, debt and way too many responsibilities

highs: seeing MMJ 5 times!!!!! Keep in mind this represented probably 50% of my recreation for the whole year, but still....each of those shows made my year. And meeting Jim James at one of them, although I'd like a do-over on that because I acted like I'd just been taisered after shaking his hand. Other highs: getting to work in Italy this past summer, realizing how dear to me some of my friends are. And joining this forum has been a treat.

in betweens: that's too personal.

[SMc55]

Highlights for me:
- a weekend in Glasgow with my best mate: meeting Patrick and Bo and seeing the best band in the world
- seeing Alice Cooper at Monsters of Rock
- the looks on my nephews' faces when they spotted us at the airport in Bordeaux
- going to Ireland with greggy and little greggy
- changing my name back to the original
- friends - how shit would life be without them?
- seeing my boy starting to grow into a fine young man

A very dear friend died on Christmas Day. She was so special. Losing her makes me want to appreciate what I have more.

[FarmerYoda]

OH! i forgot about Deval Patrick... word.

[EC]

i'll never forget 2006.

That's all I want to say. Let's move to the next

word.  a monumental year of all sorts.
i'm liking 2007 pretty good. :)

[ali]

2006 was a pretty good year all in all... here's hoping we all have an even greater 2007


Hightlights: incredibly long-awaited trip to europe/finally meeting english side of family. getting to know you lovely people here!
Lowlights: my cat lucy dying (she was 18), and not being there to say goodbye. still single (beginning to wonder if this is going to be a permanent situation)
Movies of The Year: weirdly nothing sticks in my memory...
TV Show: grey's anatomy (my entire household is now officially hooked - my flatmate nearly cried when they started advertising the new season on tv last week)
Food of The Year: chocolate
Drink of The Year: becks or ninth island chardonnay
Music of the Year: this has really been the year of mmj for me... but thanks to the wonderful people of this forum, i've discovered andrew bird, mward, midlake and lots of other great bands....