Taking Stock - The Good & The Bad of 2006

At the start of this year, I had high hopes that 2006 would turn out to be a much better year than 2005. 2005 was particularly bad. And September was a particularly bad month that year. It prompted me to want to skip that month entirely & just jump from August to October. Now the year is coming to a close, and I've become inspired by all the magazines that are summarizing the year's highs and lows. I thought I'd try to do the same here:

The Good:
- I realized that I was capable of feeling for someone again.
- I got out of my dating rut.
- I made a new friend who I think will become one of the long-term, good, girlfriends.
- I now have a brother-in-law.
- I finally took a week off from work & went on vacation.
- I've become closer to people in my family I didn't really know before. We all seem to appreciate each other more these days.
- I've started to make more time for myself every day.
- My good friends from NOLA have moved to town & made living here a lot more fun.

The Bad:
- TJH2 moved away.
- I got dumped -- in September, of course. Should have kept with the rule & skipped the month.

On balance, after reviewing the above, I'm going to have to give 2006 better marks than I thought I would. But at the same time, it hasn't felt like a year where the good has well outweighed the bad. Possibly because the bad has happened more recently. More likely, the bad has just hurt more than the good has felt good. Here's hoping that 2007 is a very good year. I'm due for one.