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Re: Highs and lows of 2011
Highs: H coming home from deployment, starting grad school, my sister FINALLY moving out of my parents house.
Lows: uncle diagnosed with terminal cancer, issues with my administrator at work, doing the pseudo-single-parent thing until June.
All in all 2011 wasn't a terrible year, but 2012 looks like it's going to be rough with my uncle going downhill so fast.
28/100
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Highs: moving! Buying a house! Having a good job (finally)! Meeting new people (including AF_EOD), my mom visitng us, J's family visiting us.
Lows: Bella losing her hair at the beginning of the year, having a BSC boss before I moved, my dad losing his job (but he got another so yay!)
2011 was pretty decent. I am super excited for 2012!
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Highs: Going back to school. Adopting my second puppy. Becoming debt free.
Lows: Thyroid surgery, miscarriage, deciding on divorce, and now going through a cancer scare.
Shittest_year of my life thus far....
Highs: Learned to surf, move to a new base, got a new job, new puppy, passed my national certification exam! (today), flew home for first time in over a year, had all my immediate family and inlaws here to visit us at once
Lows: job searching, aunt passed away, hit the 2 year mark of TTC with no success
Overall 2011 was a good year. I'm looking forward and feeling positive about 2012 so far.
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Highs: pregnancy/baby, puppy, my sister got engaged
Lows: struggled to find a job with no success
Highs: moving to VA, my sister's wedding, Blizzcon 2011, H's homecoming, exceeding my reading goal, saving a boatload of cash!
Lows: leaving my friends in SC, H deploying, H's grandmother dying (and how I was treated by the IL's around that time), unexpected weight gain that came with me switching BC.
67/200
Lows: My grandmother dying, C's grandfather dying, More foot surgery, C's pilonidal disease diagnosis and recurrence, Financial struggles after PCS, dealing with becoming parents and our evolving role, unemployment stress.
Highs: Went to Germany, saw more of England, moved back stateside, found a house to rent that we love, got pregnant and had a gorgeous daughter, became closer to C once we worked out our issues and have adjusted well.
All in all I hope 2012 brings me a new, quality job and a safe deployment for C.
Lows: not too many this year. However applying for jobs having interests shown in me and then hearing NOTHING back is starting to drive me crazy.
Highs: Buying a house. Getting my puppies! E making the decision to go to school, and my life starting to feel "normal" after my mom's death.
All in all I hope 2012 brings me a degree related job, and a bigger savings account!
High: Living with H at the beginning of the year and finding out we were moving to Hawaii in the middle. Oh, our mid-tour to New Zealand
Low: My dog unexpectedly died about a month after I moved to Korea, while she was in the care of friends. That was absolutely devastating. The icing on the shitcake was going to pick up my car from that friend, once I pcs'd, and finding that the car was in terrible shape mechanically, full of trash, and had major dents in two places on the same back corner, not that she ever mentioned it, let alone apologized. fvcker
High: returning from our third deployment. Receiving orders to a duty station we chose. Starting school and doing well despite hectic deployed work schedule. Paying off a ton of debt. Buying DH a new car. Successful summer family vacation on r&r.
Lows: grandfather who practically raised me health deteriating quickly. Hardest year on our marriage due to more than just our typical blended family issues. More doctors appointments for my injury and not being sure if I will make it to 20yrs in the army
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Highs: pregnancy, healthy twins (obv), getting orders out of this shithole, quitting my job to sah, its been a pretty amazing year.
Lows: Having the babies in the NICU for 2 weeks-hardest two weeks of my life, failing at breastfeeding, raising my babies far from fam, health scares, high anxiety, etc
Highs: Moving for the last time in a few years, Becoming a homeowner, going back to school. Finally feeling like my life has purpose. DH doing his job in the Big Air Force.
Lows: Long TDYs and back to back Deployments, seeing my moms disease get worse and not being able to be there for her. Ugh.
Highs: Married DH, went to Vegas twice, made it through "hell semester" of nursing school, made a 4.0 the semester that H deployed, H came home early from deployment and was here for our first holidays
Lows: DH's first deployment shortly after we got married, overwhelming stress of deployment/hell semester combo, went to the ER for a severe anxiety attack, dealt with incapacitating anxiety for 3 weeks after, friend that introduced H and I was killed in a car accident, a friend in nursing school died suddenly of an enlarged heart
I would say that it was the best and worst year of my life. Anti-anxiety meds were a life-saver and I have DH home so all is well!
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Highs: Getting engaged in January and married in April, enjoying a 2-week vacation back home for the first time in a year, moving into first house with H, adopting a pup, finally getting my first degree-related job since graduating in 2008, meeting new friends
Lows: Good friend from HS passing away unexpectedly due to cancer, grandfather not doing well at all--in and out of hospital (currently), random bouts of homesickness..especially when someone close to me got married or had a baby and I wasn't able to be there
Overall, a solid year. Looking forward to 2012!
Highs: H returning from deployment, Hawaiian vacation, my nephew being born
Lows: Feeling like I am stuck in my job, with no real way up
Highs: Birth of WeeMan, getting to see our families, several times.
Lows: DH and I both struggling with depression, and feeling isolated in our current community.
Really, overall the good outweighs the bad. Definitely a year we will remember.
This was pretty decent year, 2012 is going to bring a lot of changes and challenges, but I'm really looking forward to it!
Highs: Visiting family in Maine, finding out I was pregnant again, moving back on base, making amazing friends, DH getting accepted into OTS and pilot training (still so stinking proud of him!), having an amazingly awesome med free birth to a healthy and gorgeous baby. DH finally getting a new car! Seeing DD#1 absolutely adore her little sister.
Lows: Only because its fresh...but the first two weeks of DD#2 at home were insane. DD#1 was a beast and the baby caught a cold.