Another Rap-up type thing

It’s more than two weeks late but I really don’t care. I’m doing this anyway.

Positives of 08:

• Getting into Queen’s!


• AS few jam sessions at Xanadu music


• Reconnecting with old friends Suzan and Roisin, both of whom I went to camp with way back in the day!


• Frosh week again!


• Getting together with Anna, doing a lot of just fun singing and even doing a duel performance in Toronto in September!


• Continued fun with Shout Sister


• One very memorable and fun trip to Brantford in June


• Making it through an entire year with the most amazing and beautiful guide dog ever! Also being told by Chuck on several occasions how well we were doing


• An interesting support group leading to a summer with a few new friends which was great times


• Many fun drunken escapades watching Georgette start doing Thursday night performances at Brandi’s


• Mindi!


• Shannon!


• One hell of a great Christmas… lots of awesome presents!


• Grandpa quit drinking May 21st


• Older step sister finally moving out


• Uncle Bill’s 50th birthday party


• May 2-4 crazy party in Ottawa with the crew!

Really excellent O and M lessons and finally having the ability to walk independently downtown therefore giving me a ton more freedom

Negatives of 08

• Constant arguments with my father


• Apendix surgery that left me in pain for a stupidly long time


• Still no job


• Hard courses last semester resulting in my realization that environmental science was not for me


• Old neighbour died of Cancer


• Grandpa’s liver started to fail


• Remember all that awesome weight I lost last year? It came back with a vengeance. Is it wrong that I joked with someone recently that if I were to gain much more weight I might kill myself by over dosing on diet pills so I could at least die trying? I thought it was funny… others were concerned for my mental health.


• Remember those friends I mentioned that I met at the support group? Not friends anymore. They loved drama and bullshit, and God knows that shit follows me, so this year I said enough and as a result don’t talk to those people anymore


• I sat around and did a lot of nothing for the first half of 08 because I was just lazy and complacent.

Hopes for 09:

• I’d like a job please.


• Getting off academic probation and not having to worry and stress so much about school.


• Find a major or medial that I can actually stick with and finish


• Work on the self-esteem. It’s slowly getting better.


• Lose weight… but when do I not want to do that?


• Move out on my own again.


• Learn better tolerance, patience and discretion because these lessons seem hard for me.


• Work on building a more stable relationship with my parents


• Work on being more positive in general because I can be pretty bitchy.

Over all, I’d say that 2008 was a great year. I feel like I’ve made progress with meds and things. 09 looks like it’s going to be a good year if everything works out. I’m relatively happy today. Went out with Shannon last night, made new drinks and had a really good time. The Pizza Hut Delivery guy made good fun of us. It was a good night. I hope everyone is having an enjoyable weekend.