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I know its a tad early but I'm really looking forward to seeing the back of 2007 it's been a crap year for me from day one.
My Partner mis-carried on new years day and it's been downhill from there.
although in the last week I've started a new Role in work which Im loving and my partner is expecting again (due in March) so I'm Looking forward to 2008
I'm sorry to hear about your loss Block G Raptor... I wish you and your partner all the best and a fantastic 2008!
2007 has been a good year. I was a newbie to this city in 2006 but now I've adapted and feel confident that Dublin will be my home for the forseeable future.
2008 will see the end of my 20's and introduces me to the big 30! I'm actually looking forward to it!:D
My hopes for 2008 is that I will finally be able to buy my own place, tired of being a tenant!
this year has been one of the best years of my life .
- my baby daughter was born in august
- rovers beat the gaaliban in the courts
- that enough for me
Sorry to hear that BGR.
This year's been a lot better than the one before.
-Did my Leaving
-Got the course I wanted in college
-Began working as a journalist and I am loving it
It's been a good year.
Enemy In Camp. Enemy in Camp!! Ban Him Ban Him !!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
ha ha fair fecks to lad, what type of journalism sport, current affairs?.....
I've started out in sport but I wouldn't want to be tied down to it. I'd rather be doing something like Paddy Agnew.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Fair play to yeh. flirted with the Idea of going back to college as a mature student to do journalism a few years back, but for mainly financial reasons decided against itQuote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
highs- first baby being born
first baby smiling
first baby crawli.........you get the picture.
lows - losing my job thanks to some spectacular corporate corruption
highs - using that experience to create a real and achievable plan to bring me where I
want to go work-wise, both in terms of job satisfaction and salary.
lows - realising how much it will cost in money, time, and effort.
2008 - got my brother's wedding to look forward to, 3 weeks or so back home in Ireland.
Also, I will take the first step of my plan in 2008.
hasn't been a bad year, got this job in the area I studied for in college, after a year of bumming about. Jobs goin ok, on the down side it meant movin here from Galway, but at least theres no traffic chaos!! Also got back into playing sunday league after a couple of years out, the RDFL not quite the standard of the Donegal League but can't complain :D!! Started posting on here which is great too!!!!
Next year, who knows, avoid gettin sacked!! Maybe move in wit da better half somewhere rather than sharing a house with the landlords dog from hell GRRRRR!! hopefully avoid relegation with the club! Maybe see Celtic getting to the last 8 'fingers crossed smilley' !!! I hope to edit this post sometime around 20:12 tomorrow evening to tell you all i'm a 12 millionaire (or even 6millionaire, I wouldn't complain)!!!
Myself and the Missus were blessed with a baby boy this year (There's a trend emerging on this thread). Which was the highlight of my life, never mind 2007.
Also spent much of 2007 refurbishing a house we moved into in Dec 06. Still bits to do.
An eventful and busy year.
Hopes for 2008? - Baby and Wife remain healthy and safe, Ireland team get back on track and a few good albums are released!
2007 was a good year for me (second half anyways).
Done the JC, made alot of new friends (lost some along the way though), got a girlfriend, my own football has been improving, maturing as a person and no relations or friends have passed away.
Lets hope 2008 can be good too!
Good stuff Kildare Lad, nice sense of perspective for someone still in their school years.Me 2007?, so much happened I will spare ye the details.
2008? All I want is Harps to win the Premier,World peace and Halle Berry to arrive at my door and say "Hey Cheifo, how u doin".
Looks like its Halle Berry so...:DQuote:
Originally Posted by cheifo
Weird year for me
Wnet along the lines of
^^ Shels being kicked out of Setanta & Europe
^^ Pats not sucking
vv wws dying
vv Pats starting to suck again
^^ Got a proomotion and a change of scenery in work
^^ Pats starting to not suck so much
vv New work sucking the life out of me
I'm generally an optimistic person but this year was the toughest of my life. Mainly due to Peter.
I'm getting married in May. Not sure if thats a ^^ or vv
Its been quite an eventful year, actually, now that i think back on it.
Group of friends broke up for a while as people moved on to different places.
Got myself a car, an old one but a good one.
Enjoyed my own web development project and helping other people with their projects in my IT course.
Hated a lot of the rest of the course, and screwed myself over by not doing as well as I should - I got a 2.2, had aimed for at least a 2.1
Lost my cushy part time number, jumped from job to job for a while and got a nice taste of different areas, including a nice ego booster working as a face for a bank around UCC.
Graduated from college
visited london, reykjavik and stockholm - and father ted's house
city did pretty rubbish, royo headed off for sunderland
my sister had a kid and made me, a staunch atheist, the godfather
ran into some money difficulties as 2 companies and the revenue commissioners stalled on giving me my dues.
currently half way through a Masters Degree from which I hope to, next year, get a solid job and move out of home, hopefully with my girlfriend. If you'll have me, micls :D
2007:
highs- Started a new business,
- Its still going strong
- Finally started building a new house
- Started helping out in the Harps club shop (finally putting my money where my mouth is, so to speak)
- Higsy joining Harps.
- Promotion
Lows - Both the Athlone games at the end of the season
- Financial strain for 3/4 months starting new business
- Death of Harps fan on the terrace at the cobh game (reality check)
Bit of both - From the unreal atmosphere in Kilkenny where Athlone were holding Cobh and we were coasting 3 up. 800 Harps fans singing and then the news coming through that Cobh had scored. We picked ourselves up again and rocked the hotel bar afterwards :D
2008 - Getting married in August (still time to do a runner yet :D )
- Hopefully Harps staying up in the Prem.
- Moving into the new house.
- Harps stadium to be started by March.
Looking forward to 2008 tbh.
Highs - Hitting the 3 year mark with my girlfriend and still going strong
Living the life of a degenerate drunk for half a year in Cork
Trip to Prague was fantastic
Realising my time here in Ireland is hopefully coming to an end (for the time being at least)
Getting more freelance media work in Dublin
Middle Ground - Moving onto a respectable, well paid Dublin life
Limerick 37 - Bit of a blah year all around
Lows - Realising my time here in Ireland is sadly coming to an end (for the time being at least)
Fianna Fail being re-elected and the subsequent realisation that I have zero respect for the electorate anymore
Realising that to get ahead in the Dublin media game you have to be in a certain circle, or at least treat this certain circle with complete reverance
All in all a bit of a nothing year truth be told, glad to see the back of it
That's the opinion I formed as a Junior Reporter in 1996 / 1997.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Although I did figure out that being a decent writer and a decent Journalist are two different things completely.
Highs:
finding a fella who can put up with me
putting heartbreak from previous years behind me and enjoy love the way it should be
My eldest son getting almost straight A's in his end of year report & being streamed in top class
My youngest son turning into a sought after goalie in the mini leagues
Watching Luke Fitzpatrick playing for Mons
Alvin being in Goals for Mons
Mons finding & retaining Danny Woods
Doing the whole corporate box thingy at Croke Park for an Ireland game
Learning loads from other clubs in CPO Programme
Taking the kids to Electric Picnic
Seeing Crowded House in Marley Park whilst Mons were beating Shels 4-0
Ian Brown in the Phoenix Park
CEO in work retiring
Handing in my resignation at work
Finally getting a job in the area I want to be
Lows:
Death of 2 friends
Mons not fulfilling full potential
Alvin going to Galway
Luke going to Waterford
Putting up with s**t from CEO
Gall bladder problems
Being constantly broke
My eldest being diagnosed with Asthma
All in all it was a fairly good year. Next year hopefully will be even better as working full time will sort out the finances a bit and hopefully my sweetie pie boyfriend (god he will kill me for letting people know he is a sweetie!) and I will continue to be blissfully happy. I hope my kids will continue to be the wonderful well rounded (not in the way that I am) delightful human beings they are and that my family are safe and healthy.
Lows:
A lot here...it's been a horrific year.
• My iPod and mobile stolen on a weekend trip and some fecker running over £100 worth of calls on it.
• Getting fired from a printing job in the summer.
• Getting let go from a printing job I worked for two months in when it looked like I was odds on to get the job
• Lack of temping work in run up to Christmas, had about 3 weeks off with no work which crippled me financially. Also getting so close in a number of interviews only to fail to land it by a whisker.
• Quit a bar job becuase the landlady was a b!tch.
• No travelling done this year, very disappointing.
• News that my extremely moody Aussie housemate was staying on in the house rather than leaving as originally planned.
• Two housemates left this year. Great ones too. Their replacements have been ****.
• Girlfriend putting pressure on me to leave London - had to break up with her as things weren't working out.
• Longford Town getting relegated of course and losing the Cup Final.
Highs:
• Just starting a new job this week, fingers crossed.
• Getting a good reputation working as a temp, hopefully more temping work to fall back on.
• Brilliant housemates (bar two), the best ever house Xmas party last week!
• My sister giving birth - I'm now an uncle. Amazing feeling, and his first Christmas coming up.
and that's all the highs.