2009 in review

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January
flu

February
Ping
Funeral (Marie Power, family friend)

March
50th birthday party, for me and Stu
Great Aunt Stella Rose died
Baby shower for tammiehayne
Won a set of beer glasses at a restaurant
Corrie event, An Evening with Michael LeVell
new Canon SX110IS camera

April
movie Duplicity
movie The Soloist

May
Visit to Graham - Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges, London
Henry VIII exhibit in London
ping
Gave up Corriblog.tv
Joined Glenda's Coronation Street blog

June
IgoUgo travel blog featured one of my trip stories
movie Star Trek again, with Mom

July
Tall Ships
Pride parade
Foggy cruise on Liana's Ransom (fired a cannon!)
movie Public Enemies
Halifax Highland Games

August
Zombie walk (watched, not participated)
Natal Day Tribute concert
Corrie AGM and ping
Martinique Beach
movies: Julie and Julia, Time Traveler's Wife

September
Holly Clarke's wedding (family wedding)
Joined Nubody's gym
Bought an ipod!

October
Book signing, Diana Gabaldon

November
Graham visits
Trip to Montreal
flu (mild swinish)
movie: The Fourth Kind
New Canon SX120IS camera (the 110 got stolen!)

December
Back to the gym
Photo shoot (R., J., and S. for their mum's Xmas)
Work Christmas do (turkey dinner, games, something a bit different this year than the usual)
Movies: It's Complicated

NEW:
Things and museums:
arrived in the iPod generation
fired a cannon (small one)
went to see the Zombie walk
Musical Instrument Museum
Rijkesmuseum
Beaux Arts and Chateau Ramezay museums in Montreal
Played guitar hero for the first time. Badly.
had a tequila shooter (yes, all these years i've never got round to it)

New Places Visited:
Amsterdam, Brussels, Bruges
Eyam, Martinmere wetlands park, Lyme Hall

Movies and live performances:
Star Trek (twice)
Duplicity
The Soloist
Public Enemies
Tribute concert ("Kiss", "Beatles", "Fleetwood Mac" clones)
Julie and Julia
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Fourth Kind
Blondie (concert)
It's Complicated