FlightMan

Positives.

I got a 12 day business trip to Oz, and managed to get the weekend at my sister in laws in Brisbane, who emigrated in 2007.
23 days in Florida with my family was fantastic fun and a great break.
Looking at my kids, they are growing up with some decent manners and morals.
Another decent pay rise, bonus and review. That's 6 out of 6 now.
Wife got a part-time job at the employer she left when we had kids. She doubled her wages and reduced her hours and is doing a fantastic job there, her managers words.



Negatives.

Having been through one "change ( redundancy ) programme in Oct 07 to Feb 08, I'm now in another.
Lost 3 staff due to costs/redundancy, all leaving this week. All will be missed, both personally and professionally.


I know it's been a strange year for many, so how have you faired?

Removed.

Crap

Scoobychick

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Positives.

Inherited some money.
Took a three week road trip in the USA.
Mortgage went down.
Lost weight.
Gained a nephew.
Met a couple of awesomely great peeps from here.
Got the car remapped.
My house only flooded a few times (right now being one of them).



Negatives.

My godfather and uncle died.
My nan died.
Business wasn't too good.
Some other stuff that I don't want to go into here.
My house flooded a few times (right now being one of them).

I would say that for me 2008 has been a year of ups and downs and I won't be particularly sorry to see the back of it.

MMT WRX

My sisters in laws, who live here in Chesterfield, had their bungalow flood last year, 6 feet deep. Its taken 15 months to get it all sorted but they're frightened to sleep at night now when its raining.

What happened to yours?

GC8

Sally bought a cottage with a stream that runs through the kitchen.....

SunnySideUp

Spent 2 nights worrying about my Iceland money!

Spent the days thanking Gordon Brown for giving my money back

Labour tore up a Tory agreement on my Pension

Houses on the beach cheaper than they have been for 4 years and still dropping

Another year older

The end of the Infraction fiasco

Still have the ability to get banned

News that we are pulling out of Iraq, job done

There was no summer

Scoobychick

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Yep that just about sums up what is happening in my kitchen at the moment Usually the stream runs along at a trickle at the back of the house but at the moment due to the hideous weather we're having it has turned into a raging torrent. I went into full Flood Defcom 1 mode about an hour ago, stacked everything up, checked the sump pump was working then retired upstairs with my laptop.

Happy days

tanyatriangles

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Crap.
Little or no summer, eldest got made redundant twice, uncle seriously ill, I got diagnosed with blood pressure problems, extrememly high cholesterol and glaucoma in both eyes.

Scoob cost me nearly £2000 for new head gaskets, plus some remedial welding on the heads, plus a new clutch only a year after the old one was done

It's now letting water into the passenger footwell, dunno where from, but I suspect the windscreen I had fitted about 6 weeks back

Positives? Our house in France is now worth a LOT more..........but it wouldn't sell as no-one in the UK can afford one out in Euro land any more

Youngest got in and started at Hull Uni doing chemistry.

It's the solstice on Sunday, the nights will start drawing out and the birds will soon be singing again, tra la la

njkmrs

Been pretty good really .

Couple of good hols to San francisco,Vegas,San Diego (1 trip ).Then two weeks in Florida .

Interest rates fell putting mucho back in my pocket each month .

Couldnt sell a property that was up for sale .

Cant complain really .

Look forward to next year .

davyboy

Started in the worse way possible, details I won't go in to but I don't think I have ever felt the emotional pain before.

Went to New York (excuse for the pain above)

Decieded to start racing motocross again after an 11 year break

Bought a motocross bike

Went to Corsica

My nan died

More bad news, details I won't go in to

Won a race

Won another race

Went to Austria

Got a trophy

Got another trophy

Finished 2nd overall in a local championship

Bought a new motocross bike, and sold the old one

Bought the wife a motocross bike

In summary, up and down. I'm expecting next year to be a bit more stable.

sparky d

i had my ups and downs but hey , had some good trips away in the scoob , i managed to fit in le mans , nurbergring , swiss alps , and few local meet and drives with fellow scooby owners , so imo not too bad a time really , apart from the crap weather we got this year ,

Simon C

Work wise its been pants. I hase come to the realisation that the company I work for don't care for the staff, and I want out.

Life wise, not bad

Moved to my own pad.
Went back to archery after a 12 year lay off and am doing rather well (5 medals from 7 comps) and shooting at european level in 2009

Just need the new car and new job and lifes sorted.

J4CKO

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Not dead, can still get it up...

Anything else is a bonus !!

Good

Went perm at work - good move
Kids doing ok at school
Got middle one into the secondary school we wanted
went for a week in Atlanta with work
Plenty of other travel, even if only Aberdeen and London
Started Cycling to work - just passed 1000 miles
£1500 tax rebate last week


Bad,

Nothing really major

Reversed the wifes car into a Neighbours car
Clutch going on Saab


As years go, not epic but I am not complaining.

thesyn

As above I'm still breathing so by definition it has been a good year.

ScoobyDoo555

All in all, OK.

Made the FATAL mistake of not setting enough personal goals (very "middle-management", but I found it works! )

Of those goals I set, I'm now Apple-Accredited for their music packages - not something I'd intended to do, but I went for it due to some serious self-doubt in other areas.

After pretty much "acing" the qualification, it restored a lot of my faith.

Spent some quality time with the kids/family (despite the cr@p weather)

The one thing I DID learn, was that when faced with adversity, I don't panic (yes, I worry, but not panic) and sort the problem.

For next year, I've got plenty of goals, and this time I'm setting deadlines.

Onwards and Upwards - focus.

Dan

SiPie

Can't complain when I see some other people's accounts of their year.

Positives....

Off on Tuesday to San Francisco for 3 days over Christmas, en route to New Zealand for 4 weeks holiday, so will get some summer after all in Jan 2009 and miss the Scottish weather. Will mean my wife gets to see her brother who lives in NZ who she misses loads.

Still in a relatively secure and decently paid job and having my efforts recognised..

Friend Helen has recovered from an aggresive breast cancer.

My own mental health improving year upon year and able to live a relatively 'normal' life nowadays (touch wood).

Remain very happily married.

Done more than my usual lazy **** efforts for charity and feel better having given something back.

Negatives.

Watching my dad finally being hospitalised due to his Parkinsons and now having to feed a once strong man his dinner is one of the tougher things I've ever had to do.

Band split up due to drummer 'making it biggish' with his other band (however a good 2008 for him).

Lost a friend at 42 to Lung Cancer. RIP Ian.



Hope 2009 is good to all on Scoobynet and those who have struggled through 2008 have an easier time in 2009.

Wagon Gaz

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Sh1te! got made redundant, had a 10wk old pup die, and the Scoob nicked and written off

Roll on 2009

little-ginge

Negatives:

My fiance lost his Gran at the start of the year, whom I classed as my 3rd 'nan'

we had to make the decision to have our dog put to sleep

Same with the cat 6 mths later

My health continuing on it's ever present nose dive...long story

'dinking' my other halfs BMW whilst he was abroad on business



Positives:

We gained our 2nd nephew

We got a new pup in November

Spent 2 glorious weeks in California

My dad getting the all clear, 5 years after major surgery etc for oral cancer

Celebrating 10 years with my lovely other half

And something which made the year a bit more pleasanter for me.. seeing my all time #1 band in concert

BOB.T

Mixed! Massive highs and massive lows that I'm not prepared to disclose on here.

Still, I'm doing well in what should be a stable job (touches wood) and, for the moment, have my health so I can't grumble!

I hope 2009 brings people what they're looking for!

cookstar

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Some of the highlights of 2008

Been promoted twice this year, now in a very secure and well paid job.
Paid off lots of debt
Bought a nice house.
Fulfilled a long time goal - multiple properties and being a landlord.
Passed my motorbike test.
Bought a sports bike.
Spent a week in Croatia meeting other halves family.
Spent two weeks in Spain with my entire family.
Spent a week in Sri Lanka for Dads wedding (best man)
Have a baby on the way (6 months gone)
Was best man at my Brothers wedding.
Have been told quite a large inheritance is coming our way.

Some of the lows

Selling the scoob.
Other half lost a pregnancy - knocked me for six for quite a while.
Lost a member of family on my partners side.


So on the whole a good year

Turbohot

2008 has been not too bad for me. A lot of growth and development has taken place in various aspects of my life, including my personal experiences.

I gave up smoking in 2008. Well done, me!

My girl passed GCSCs in flying colours.
My boy has continued to enjoy his work, and got on with it sincerely.
Family in India are ok, younger sister got married.
Work doing super, I developed two new projects that I am very happy with.

No major negatives at all. TBH I don't like looking back at few minor punctures here and there. I'd rather move on with positivity.

So, all good so far.

Snazy

Its had its highs and lows.

Started 08 off sick and in the Caribbean, returned to the UK and had surgery on my arm.
During time off for recovery discovered mum had cancer.
Returned to work after 6 months off, reduced hours.
Found out a close friend had cancer.
Have lost 6 stone in weight, have been diagnosed with more problems with my arm, have 2 lovely Malamutes now, mum is having radiotherapy after she had chemo... previously refused both.
Still with the missus, 6 years in March, sold the Scooby....

Been quite dramatic really, and 09 looks to be much the same.

Bring on 2010 lol

M444GY

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one word . sh_te


shop i was meant to be in , in march im still not in and ive been pretty much skint for the whole year paying solicitor fees and fighting the f*ckin bitch old owner of the shop .

was meant to get the keys on mon 15th and now im waiting again due to the sneaky fooking landlords adding stuff to the contract after it has all been signed and approved 4by2 ****** . always trying to get the extra penny !!


lets hope 2009 will be better for me and u guys as u will be able to get cheap tyres from me hopefully if i ever open

sti-04!!

Very strange year.

Good
Made cracking money before the market went bust
Resigned from the wage slave trade & began to grow my business's

Bad
Few issues that i dont want to get into
Lost a very special friend due to my carry on & inability to behave

Not much there compared to a few of you not the worst year though, 2009 will be a challenge.

Roll on 2010

davegtt

Been a good year and it was well needed.

3 month holiday to 7 different countries.
Seeing a woman I think the world off
Cut down on drinking which I feel alot better for (minus this weekend lol)
Started to enjoy work alot more than the last few years


Bad? Not entirely sure to be honest. I try to not dwell on stuff when it doesnt go well for me and the positives so far this year have been good enough for me to forget many bad things.

TelBoy

Worst year ever. Although 2009 could actually end up being worse.

monty1

not too bad realy,

met the other half
got a new house in a nice place
works good no major issues
new dog

strange thing happened though spent a few weeks looking for the wrx,the day my brother died(cancer got him) our lass found the subaru in the local rag,the right colour with the bits and pieces done to it,and we got him down £500 aswell.

tony

Fat Boy

Good things

Had some great sex

Downside

Still hoping to meet someone...


Not really, pretty decent 2008, despite breaking my back on Xmas eve last year - at least the year got better as it went on.

I think doing this at the same time next year will be an eye opener

Coffin Dodger

Was alright I guess