Happy Happy!
Dec. 31st, 2008 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljOverall, it was a low key year for the most part, with too many funerals but with some travel to new places, a wonderful memorable trip to London with me mum, a pay raise and a good concert. Still, i probably wouldn't rate the year more than a 4 or 5 due to the first item mentioned.
I went out for some groceries and as expected, the store and parking lot were pretty busy. I noticed a crowd across the road and wondered what that was. I realized they were all in line by a truck selling lobster for $5 a pound. The lobster fishermen have not been doing too well this season. People are not spending and as a result, the price they're getting is really low. The stores aren't even giving them $5 and are selling it for between $8 and $10 so the fishermen are loading up the trucks after the boats come in and driving up to the city, selling it out of their vans and people are buying.
We're supposed to get a blizzard, or at least a good sized snowstorm overnight tonight. I'm home, warm, have tea, bread and most importantly, cookies! I've got the DVD Xpress thingy hooked up to my vcr and have been spooling my old tapes of Corrie episodes from tape to file and then bunging them on dvds. I have figured out the movie editing program that came with it so i can splice out the commercial breaks. The tapes are old so aren't great quality but at least they'll be preserved.
Summary of the year under the cut, mainly for my own records...
January
Aunt Jean's funeral
Aunt Millie died (Ontario)
movie: Juno
February
Ping
Start writing one a week Corrie episode update for UK timeline
March
Corrie actor Steven Arnold in Halifax.
Coworker George Cole died
Aunt Joyce's funeral
Trip to London with Mom
April
Bit of back trouble. Not too bad but lingering
Out of town ping (Stellarton)
May
Dinner with Dutch friend from VT site
Ping
Movie: Iron Man
June
Yard Sale (Mom's)
July
Two courses at work
AGM for Downeast Streeters
August
Ping
Movie: Mamma Mia
September
Graham's visit
Movie: Igor, Batman Dark Knight
Cape Breton road trip
Job re-evaluated for higher pay
October
Municipal election
Ping
Eddie diagnosed with terminal cancer, Keith with kidney failure
November
Back pay received to May 28
Open house at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blueberrymoon's
Nominated for best new travel writer on igougo.com and featured as such in their newsletter. (didn't win, though)
December
Eddie's funeral
Johnston ladies' lunch
New things:
Work, Courses:
A+ course (PC hardware/software)
Business Objects Web Intelligence
Visited:
Canterbury, Brighton
Cape Breton Island
Movies and live performances:
Juno (January)
Phantom of the Opera (West End, London, March)
Lion King (West End, London, March)
Iron Man (May)
Mamma Mia (August)
Batman: Dark Knight
Igor
I went out for some groceries and as expected, the store and parking lot were pretty busy. I noticed a crowd across the road and wondered what that was. I realized they were all in line by a truck selling lobster for $5 a pound. The lobster fishermen have not been doing too well this season. People are not spending and as a result, the price they're getting is really low. The stores aren't even giving them $5 and are selling it for between $8 and $10 so the fishermen are loading up the trucks after the boats come in and driving up to the city, selling it out of their vans and people are buying.
We're supposed to get a blizzard, or at least a good sized snowstorm overnight tonight. I'm home, warm, have tea, bread and most importantly, cookies! I've got the DVD Xpress thingy hooked up to my vcr and have been spooling my old tapes of Corrie episodes from tape to file and then bunging them on dvds. I have figured out the movie editing program that came with it so i can splice out the commercial breaks. The tapes are old so aren't great quality but at least they'll be preserved.
Summary of the year under the cut, mainly for my own records...
January
Aunt Jean's funeral
Aunt Millie died (Ontario)
movie: Juno
February
Ping
Start writing one a week Corrie episode update for UK timeline
March
Corrie actor Steven Arnold in Halifax.
Coworker George Cole died
Aunt Joyce's funeral
Trip to London with Mom
April
Bit of back trouble. Not too bad but lingering
Out of town ping (Stellarton)
May
Dinner with Dutch friend from VT site
Ping
Movie: Iron Man
June
Yard Sale (Mom's)
July
Two courses at work
AGM for Downeast Streeters
August
Ping
Movie: Mamma Mia
September
Graham's visit
Movie: Igor, Batman Dark Knight
Cape Breton road trip
Job re-evaluated for higher pay
October
Municipal election
Ping
Eddie diagnosed with terminal cancer, Keith with kidney failure
November
Back pay received to May 28
Open house at
blueberrymoon'sNominated for best new travel writer on igougo.com and featured as such in their newsletter. (didn't win, though)
December
Eddie's funeral
Johnston ladies' lunch
New things:
Work, Courses:
A+ course (PC hardware/software)
Business Objects Web Intelligence
Visited:
Canterbury, Brighton
Cape Breton Island
Movies and live performances:
Juno (January)
Phantom of the Opera (West End, London, March)
Lion King (West End, London, March)
Iron Man (May)
Mamma Mia (August)
Batman: Dark Knight
Igor
