Worst Ten…2009
And of course as a correlation to the best ten moments of 2009, there had to be a worst ten moments/experiences of 2009. I am not sure if this indicates that I am a negative person or not, but it seems to me that the ability to find the ten negatives was easier. I am going to go with instead that I had such happy moments to choose from that it made it difficult, where the negatives were far and few and hence easier to select. How is that for positive thinking?
- Getting up early one Sunday morning, heading out, when arriving at the truck finding the doors locked. The keys, in my sometimes bad habit (since broken) were in the ignition. Making it worse, the spare set of keys were in the dashboard storage drawer formerly known as an ashtray.
- Lawn mower wars… There have been several of those – seems that every time the yard was about 2 weeks over due for mowing the stupid mower would break. It has convinced me that I should just give up on trying to be nice and helping my roommate with the mowing. It has further convinced me my plans in the past with portable corral panels and/or electric fence combined with stock was really correct. Anyway – that one put a strain on a friendship that was ugly too and that makes it even worse.
- Realization at some point early in the year, with the down turn in the economy and the stock markets huge downturn that I was going to have to put off until probably 2010 until I could pursue purchase of the property that I would really want to have.
- Another morning when I was helping with watching and feeding dogs for a friend while they were out-of-town and the poor dog was sick. The dog had been sick before (and had seemed to recover 100%), but still not fun when it passed at the vets office that morning and subsequent calls and such.
- Having my truck break down right around the first of March when I was getting all my stuff together to head to Gulf Wars. Actually break down does not do it justice, the engine seized with a horse trailer in tow, in the middle of almost no where.
- Same stupid truck dropping a transmission in early July about thirty minutes out after picking up horses on the way to an balsa wood joust up in Michigan. Thankfully I did get a friend to get the horses home and such, but still, lost a LOT of money and just gave up on at that awful truck that had become a pit. In both cases it was not so much the truck breaking down as the not going to do medieval horse stuff that sucked it.
- Realization in the middle of the summer that all my efforts from the previous 12-15 months were for naught, as the fair amount weight that I worked so hard to get off had found its way back.
- Shortly after the previously mentioned weight gain, I further realized the injury/chronic issue with my foot was going to keep me from exercising at a level I really needed to anytime in the near future to get back to tackling that weight issue the way it really needed.
- Going out to the car early one morning (I am starting to see a trend with early morning starts) to get my laptop (mine used at the office that is) out of the backseat floorboard and realizing that the bag was there with all the accessories but the laptop was missing. Quickly retracing my steps, it was indeed a case of had to be theft. All the freaking reconfiguring and setup I would have to do and worse the thief only had about 2.5 hours of battery, no power supply, and a fairly secure password locked system for my user ID (probably in hibernation) and even more secure administrator password. Would have to have a clue for them to have made it worthwhile.
- Getting the call early one morning (see I told you) where in I learned that there was a miscarriage and the baby was lost in June. Really this one bugged me off and on for a while and still there are little reminders here and there, like a baby blanket a close friend gave me just days before – it made it from the trunk of the car to under the back seat in the truck and there it remains – where I find it on occasion.
