The Year in Review. A Narcissistic Almanac. [NOT SPELL CHECKED]

The year in review. Narcissist style. I still can’t spell ‘Narcissist’ properly. I always have to get it spell checked. I always put in an extra ‘c’ or an ‘s’. I never realized that my blog name would give me so much trouble. If I had known that earlier I would have used something easier to spell like ‘Life of Bob’ or something like that. Much easier to spell. Ignore the grammatical/spelling errors. This was written in a rush while I was supposed to be a contributing member of society.
This is going to be one long boring post. I recommend that you do not read it. Of course the first thing anyone does when they are told not to read something is to read it. Human nature. This is just a log of things from 2007 so that I can read this on the cusp of 2009 and laugh at myself. I suggest you read just the last part of the post and wish me a Happy New Year. Less painful all around.

Well, it’s the first New Year I’m coming around to after starting my blog. I haven’t posted as much as I like but I suppose it’s doing ok. Haven’t gone into the list of ‘Fantastically Successful Blogs’ yet but there’s always next year I suppose.

Where do I begin? First I’d like to wish everyone have a Healthy Wealthy and Wise 2008. I’m not sure whether that is grammatically correct but I suppose that it will have to do. I chose it because I’m going to review the year in that order. And we begin.

Healthy

This year was a rather unhealthy year for me. I caught the flu twice which was rather unusual since I only get the flu once a year and that’s it as far as sickness goes. But this year I got,

Sore Eyes
Flu
Diarrhea
Diarrhea
Flu
Diarrhea
Diarrhea
Food Poisoning
Diarrhea (During Christmas )

As you can see Diarrhea was the sickness of choice this year. I have no idea how this came about. My stomach was never a delicate affair and could handle anything put into it. Even taking into consideration the unhealthy combos that I put up with. Nothing major at any rate for which I am thankful. For example, I could have been afflicted with Jumping Frenchman of Maine. Let me tell you, the firecrackers would not have been fun.

As a result of being afflicted with Diarrhea I am one of the few people who actually weigh LESS after all the Christmas food. Sad situation. I have also got fully acquainted with our loo. I can navigate it in complete darkness. Even with the mop and brushes and things lying about.

Wealthy

Since my last job, my salary has more than doubled. So has my work but I enjoy it. Of course, With Great Wealth Comes Great expense. Due to this I have been financially destitute for most of the year. Always on the brink of financial collapse. But needless to say I made it through the year with only the equivalent of one month of salary as debt. This is worrying since I don’t even live a life of debauchery. I debauch very little in fact. Mostly during the weekends. I will be adding budgeting and money management to my New Year resolutions.
Still didn’t win a lottery though.

Wise

I completed the final year of my degree. Which would technically make me a degree holder if it wasn’t for the fact that I have a few subjects from the 2nd and 3rd year to complete. I never thought I’d get through the final year so I was dumbstruck when I found out I had gotten through. For the final exam I studied a grand total of 6 hours for each subject for a total of 1 day/s. Did I mention that I did not go to lectures even once? I didn’t even know who was lecturing us. That’s why I was dumbstruck. Sometimes my amazing awesomeness amazes me no end.

Learned about industry standards and such. Trying to put all that into my website. Nothing much to be seen there as yet because it’s a work in process. As usual I’m on the cusp of giddy success.
What else happened during this year? A lot of things actually. This year probably saw the most amount of change for the good I think.

Best of 2007

Discovered My Chemical Romance. Took me awhile to like them and after that they have not left my phone the entire year. Discovered Breaking Benjamin and Arctic monkeys as well. These three bands were the holy trinity in my music list. Yes I realize I lived an empty life before I found these musicians.

Made a bunch of new friends. Most of them from the forum I idle at when I’m supposed to be working. Great bunch of people. No one can call me anti-social now because I did the whole meetup thing and everything. Although I was terrified most of the time.

Fell in love with V for Vendetta. That was the best movie by far for me this year. I don’t think it was released this year but I only got to watch it this year and loved it. Notable mentions movie wise are –

Transformers (This has got to be watched in the theatre! So awesome!)

• Hairspray (I sooo wanted to dance for this movie)
• Resident Evil (Watched it just last week)
• Bourne Ultimatum (This guy is cooler than James Bond)
• Blood Diamond (Who thinks that South Africans speak the coolest English?)
• Casino Royale (Daniel Craig makes for a much tougher Bond)

I have a pretty basic movie taste. I prefer to just switch off my brain when I watch movies. I love shallow movies with lots of stuff happening.

Started wearing jeans. Heh heh heh.

Started spending loads of time on the Internet as well. At least 10 hours a day on it. This is because of work of course. But now that I see the advantages I’m trying to exorcise my PC of the dialup connection and get ADSL. Dial up is a device of the devil.

I was depressed for a couple of weeks. Complete and utter despair. No joy at all during that time. It was quite the experience.

I found out that I am terrible at first meets. Absolutely horrendous. I just can’t seem to make any conversation. This gets better after the first meet though. But the first meet is always tough.

All in all 2007 was a roller coaster ride. The highs were really high and the lows were really low. I’m hoping that 2008 is going to be better and I think it will be better. All the signs are that next year is going to be the beginning of something really beautiful.

Happy New Year Everyone.