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Review your 2015

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2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
 
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idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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A good year that went by far to quick.
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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I had to deal with a whole slew of self centered unreasonable people at a major client this year.

This major project took 12 months to complete and conclude.

Now I have peace.

I hope not to work with those azzholes again anytime soon.

They complained like crying children.

These are azzholes who think complaining will get them somewhere.

It never does.

It just makes the journey annoying while they vent about things that cannot be changed.

So 2015 will not go down in memory as a particularly pleasant year although it was productive because money is still green.

2014 was much better.

2013 was mixed.

Now is indeed a good time to reminisce.
 
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idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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That's doubly worse imo...and it's happened to me years ago, a Christian myself. My year has been better than the last. My small business has grown by maybe 15%, but if some estimates go well, then next year I may do 30-40% better. Our economy in Michigan is swinging again, and we were one of the worst states in the country back in 2008. I'm blessed to have had no major health problems, although I've purchased readers for the first time (I'm 45) and have had little nagging injuries that don't seem to go away nearly as fast as they did 10 years ago. I also live in a wonderful town where just about everyone is very nice, forward looking, and pretty successful. Overall, my quality of life has gotten better.
 
JC Callender said:
That's doubly worse imo...and it's happened to me years ago, a Christian myself. My year has been better than the last. My small business has grown by maybe 15%, but if some estimates go well, then next year I may do 30-40% better. Our economy in Michigan is swinging again, and we were one of the worst states in the country back in 2008. I'm blessed to have had no major health problems, although I've purchased readers for the first time (I'm 45) and have had little nagging injuries that don't seem to go away nearly as fast as they did 10 years ago. I also live in a wonderful town where just about everyone is very nice, forward looking, and pretty successful. Overall, my quality of life has gotten better.
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For me growth was flat.
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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2015 has been another year to which I am grateful for all the positive and negative things that have occurred. The positive have added to my gratitude, and the negative has added to my humility. Overall, what could be better?

Next year, I hope to have similar experiences which will keep me humble and appreciative for the opportunity to experience the World on it's own terms.
 
I have not achieved much in 2015 at all. But I have changed my perspective over the last few months of this year and I am looking forward to next year and achieving a lot more - which wont be hard. I feel more excited about the future right now than I have for many years so that is something I guess.
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies,
getting cheated by a fake Christian
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are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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Anything you can talk about? Could be useful.
 
ocean515 said:
2015 has been another year to which I am grateful for all the positive and negative things that have occurred. The positive have added to my gratitude, and the negative has added to my humility. Overall, what could be better?

Next year, I hope to have similar experiences which will keep me humble and appreciative for the opportunity to experience the World on it's own terms.
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Well said Ocean!
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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I love life to be as good as it gets.
 
A good year indeed here. No one in my family got sick, and those that had a chronic illness did not get worse but rather got better with the aid of good meds. So, if I had to thank anything this year it would be the pharmaceutical industry. The stuff may be expensive, but the results are nothing short of miraculous.
 
I got a year older.

I drank a lot of great beer.
 
bubbabgone said:
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He claimed to be a devout Christian and used this to convince me into paying him before getting the products, which turned out to be fake when I received them.
He is nothing more than an unscrupulous businessman. Dregs. [emoji20]
 
2015 was one of the best years I've had in a long time. Met a wonderful woman and have a very strong relationship with her, took her to Hawaii and had a fantastic time. Work was great, got bonuses and raises, making good dough. Paid off about 33% of the remaining principle on the house. Read some good books, ate some great food, and had a good year.
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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pretty good. lost my academic research job due to NIH cuts, but i got a good job in industry a couple months later. GF moved from Chicago, and we're planning a wedding. i wrote poetry that i'm proud of, and i'm arranging it into three books. also had to move out of my house and get an apartment closer to both of our jobs, which is kind of sad, but we're doing ok. still have the house, and i'm heading back there Tuesday for the holidays. the changes have been stressful, but it has been a great year.
 
beefheart said:
2015 was one of the best years I've had in a long time. Met a wonderful woman and have a very strong relationship with her, took her to Hawaii and had a fantastic time. Work was great, got bonuses and raises, making good dough. Paid off about 33% of the remaining principle on the house. Read some good books, ate some great food, and had a good year.
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Marriage is the 2nd best day in anybody's life.

Divorce is the 1st. Called regaining your freedom.
 
idea_steed said:
2015 is coming to the end and I start to review it. I underwent some difficulties but luckily none crushed me. Breaking up, changing companies, getting cheated by a fake Christian are the few bad things I recall from time to time.
Overall, 2015 is not eventful and I want my 2016 to be special.
How about you?
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Cheated by a "fake Christian". Look at the bright side; Number One, that isn't a comment on Christianity at all, it could just have easily been a fake atheist or fake democrat, fake is the operative word, not Christian. Number Two, how much could you have lost, I'll bet it wasn't over $35.00. Small price to pay for a lifelong lesson learned and certainly not reflective of a year of better things hopefully.
 
Riveroaks said:
Marriage is the 2nd best day in anybody's life.

Divorce is the 1st. Called regaining your freedom.
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She isn't getting married again! Her first husband was good, then he started getting into really creepy ultra right wing stuff and joining an evangelical church...then he cheated on her....she dumped him big time. Weird thing is, she is a friend of a guy and his wife that I went to high school with, and there were many times in the last 30 years where we probably crossed paths without knowing each other. Met via Facebook, where we realized we are both incredibly snarky and practically share the same brain. Its never too late, and you are never too old to meet the right woman. And at this age, all the BS is gone, we are both independent, neither of us is needy, and there aren't any headgames.
 
Graduated high school. Took a break from the forum, and haven't been infracted once since I came back. Went to college. Fell head-over-heels for a girl who was already in a serious relationship. Passed every class, except for the only one I took notes for: math. Made a lot of new friends along the way, picked up a new hobby (D&D), impressed most of my teachers.

It could have been a helluva lot worse, easily. I'm not retaking math yet, not while my GPA's still vulnerable. Maybe next year will bring romance with it, who knows. All I know is, I've got a good feeling about next semester.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Graduated high school. Took a break from the forum, and haven't been infracted once since I came back. Went to college. Fell head-over-heels for a girl who was already in a serious relationship. Passed every class, except for the only one I took notes for: math. Made a lot of new friends along the way, picked up a new hobby (D&D), impressed most of my teachers.

It could have been a helluva lot worse, easily. I'm not retaking math yet, not while my GPA's still vulnerable. Maybe next year will bring romance with it, who knows. All I know is, I've got a good feeling about next semester.
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. Fell head-over-heels for a girl who was already in a serious relationship.
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I'm so sorry, I remember when this happened to me.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Graduated high school. Took a break from the forum, and haven't been infracted once since I came back. Went to college. Fell head-over-heels for a girl who was already in a serious relationship. Passed every class, except for the only one I took notes for: math. Made a lot of new friends along the way, picked up a new hobby (D&D), impressed most of my teachers.

It could have been a helluva lot worse, easily. I'm not retaking math yet, not while my GPA's still vulnerable. Maybe next year will bring romance with it, who knows. All I know is, I've got a good feeling about next semester.
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I could never do math in college...so I became a communication grad. Now...I do some math at work, but its the software that does the tough stuff.
 
Ray410 said:
Cheated by a "fake Christian". Look at the bright side; Number One, that isn't a comment on Christianity at all, it could just have easily been a fake atheist or fake democrat, fake is the operative word, not Christian. Number Two, how much could you have lost, I'll bet it wasn't over $35.00. Small price to pay for a lifelong lesson learned and certainly not reflective of a year of better things hopefully.
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I lost around $1800. He did all he could to lie, including claiming he is a devout Christian at the beginning and threatening me later when I knew he lied. I actually planned to fight back but my friend who majors in law said I lacked the key evidence and I would lose. Then I gave up and took it as a lesson. Next time I wouldn't trust a person easily, even if he is Pope.
 
2015

Some great

Some good

Some sad

Lost a friend...guess that will start happening more and more now....

Business set records.....our Christmas party is tomorrow, and over 500 are expected. One of my best employees just accepted a job in a role similar to mine....I recommended them for the job. Hate to see them go, but they are ready to manage their own place.

My grandson turns one in a week, and I have another on the way.

My wife works too hard....but I can't seem to get her to slow down yet. Any ideas?

Overall, a pretty good year. Hoping that the next is as good.
 
2015: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....

Several health related issues plague me, nothing life threatening, just irritating and I know they will become worse;

wife is in line for a big promotion soon; yea for her!!!!!

I'm getting older;

a close friend was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and is getting treatment at cancer centers of America;

job is becoming less rewarding;

I know where my next meal is coming from & I still have a very nice roof over my head;

the pay check is still coming in;

the kids and dogs are healthy and happy;

I often think what if...;

I'm getting older; Did I say that already?
 
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