2006: A Year In Review
2006 seems like it came and went pretty quick. You probably aren’t asking and don’t care what I did all year; since that’s the case, I’ll ask for you and pretend that you do indeed care.
“So, what DID you do all year, if you didn’t spend it sitting in front of a computer, posting messages on the internet?”
Well that’s a good question, I’m glad you asked.
I started 2006 in a really horribly way – with a wicked hangover. New years eve was spent at Betsy’s bachelorette pad, and involved wayyy to much alcohol. I don’t even really remember what, other than 151 and some corn whiskey bottled as ‘moonshine.’
Here’s a little bit of a laundry list, I might elaborate on some of these later on:
-In late December 2005 I did finally get my promotion; that coupled with a nice year-end raise has made things a bit more financially comfortable
-I worked my ass off in January though April. It’s audit season in our office, and we were a person down, so I worked some late late nights and weekends. Seriously, I think that might be the only significant thing I did the first quarter of the year. I worked, and I slept.
-In April, I decided to start saving money to move out. Since I was still paying off credit cards from college, I set a very modest goal of having $3,000 saved up by year end. (Actual year end savings: $3,400)
-Switched banks for my savings money. Twice.
-Made my first ‘real’ live concert audio recording (Matt Nathanson at Streetside Records, 4/29/06 – get it here: http://www.archive.org/details/mn2006-04-29.instore
-Saw DMB twice in May: Saint Louis (which was both the tour opener, fantastic, and the return of JTR that I’d been waiting 5 years for), and Kansas City.
-Was in Charlie’s & Katie’s wedding in June. DVD of the wedding = not done.
-Was in Christine’s & Matt’s wedding in July. DVD of the wedding = not done.
-Saw DMB twice in August: Both in Ohio. Night one was meh, night two was really great (other than the walk to and from the parking lot) Government mule = great.
-Found out in August that things with Laura’s mom were much more serious than we had thought
-Bought Laura a camera she wanted/needed (the Canon EOS-30D) for her birthday / our anniversary.
-Saw Tim Reynolds in September (and recorded tape #2)
-Went to Maria’s wedding in September, where Laura did some wedding photography
-Saw Matt Nathanson and Carbon Leaf in October (and recorded audience tapes #3 and 4)
November and December seemed really busy, but in retrospect, all it seems like I did was work, goof around, and help take care of Laura while she was taking non-stop care of her family.
So, all in all, a shitty start and a shitty end to an otherwise alright year. In all fairness, February is just about here already, and 2007 hasn’t exactly started off ideally either, but at least there’s still time to make the eleven and a half months to come better.