What were the highlights and lowlights of your year?

Tuesday 30th December, 06:32 AM JST

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PuffinMuffin at 03:24 PM JST - 30th December

lemme go ask Saturn.
Taka313 at 10:19 PM JST - 30th December

Highlights:

Being hired for a new job at twice the salary and leap-frogging my old boss in rank (She was/is a real witch).

Watching my children excel at sports and music.

Watching President-elect Obama's victory.

Watching the Vikings win the NFC North.

Lowlights:

Leaving Yokosuka.

Not knowing yet if Al Franken will be the newest member of the Senate.

Finding out that a close friend has a brain tumor.

Taka
takachan at 11:44 PM JST - 30th December

Highlights: - Low prices on everything/gas due to the recession - Trips to Cambodia and Hong Kong - One year closer to finishing training

Lowlights: - Barack Obama - Getting married - No savings

Here's to 2009!
cleo at 12:17 AM JST - 31st December

highlights -

Having the lasik operation and being able to throw away my glasses.

Son coming home safely from a year in forn parts.

Daughter announcing her engagement.

Hearing that a dear friend has recovered from a bout of serious ill-health.

lowlights -

Too many funerals.
Good_Jorb at 12:41 AM JST - 31st December

Highlights - My wife got a job in police services(in Canada, not a Cop).

30% increase in my salary, exercised my stock bonus from a previous engagement(Oil & Gas) before gas prices tanked and not currently working in oil & gas.

Stayed healthy and car free for the entire year.

Lowlights - Parents separated for awhile.

Partisan politics blackened both eye's of Canada's political system.

More snow then would have otherwise appreciated.
Nessie at 12:59 AM JST - 31st December

Congrats on the Lasik, Cleo. Glad to see they didn't rob you blind.
Nessie at 01:01 AM JST - 31st December

Lowlight: Hearing an old girlfriend was killed with her two kids by her husband, who then killed himself.

Highlight: Seeing my nephew/neice twins.
cleo at 02:24 AM JST - 31st December

Thanks, Nessie. It actually worked out cheaper (with insurance etc) than a new pair of glasses!
Betzee at 02:38 PM JST - 31st December

High Points:

Overhearing my neighbor's young daughter's continually expanding vocabulary in conversations with my cat, knowing I had provided her with her "first pet."

Watching (on TV) a friend win an Academy Award.

Receiving recognition for my work in the form of a hefty raise.

The election results.

Several memorable trips/vacations.

Low Points:

The stock market tanking.
USARonin at 02:49 PM JST - 31st December

"Receiving recognition for my work in the form of a hefty raise.

The election results."

-Not to worry. The latter with proposed tax increases will soon take care of the former. Spend it fast.
frontandcentre at 11:58 AM JST - 5th January

Lows: Almost all of my investments sinking in value

Highs: Further advancing in my profession, Obama's election, witnessing the dismay of the blindly Republican supporting right wing faction on these boards thereafter (I'm still laughing about that)