2010 is in competition with 2000 for the worst year of my life. 2000 was the year I lost my dad...it sucked, but otherwise not too much awful happened. If I tried to write a sentence about the bad parts of 201, it would be the world's longest run on sentence. I will limit myself to the 10 worst events of 2010.- Losing Alex
- Losing my job
- Doug's grandmom's multiple death scares
- the demise of our 2 year old water heater *
- Having to replace our 1 year old AC*
- My steering going out on 295 and the repairs that followed*
- Cleo peeing everywhere in our house for months and worrying we'd have to get rid of her
- Finding out our basement floods and then having to replace the sump pump
- Repairing the head gasket on Doug's car*
- one I can't write because Doug would be upset with me if I did...it has to do with his family
* all these expensive events occurred within a month of finding out I had lost my job, decimating the savings I'd set aside to get us through until I found another job.
So it was a rough year. I learned a lot this year. I think one of the most important things I learned spiritually (or maybe I should say it was reinforced) was that we are not promised an easy life; we are only promised that God will be with us through the trials. This is a lesson we could only learn through experience. That being said I hope we do not ever have another year quite this tough.
I am grateful that a lot of things turned around. I did end up getting rehired, and now I have tenure which is nice (but it does not mean I can't be laid off, only that if I am laid off the first job that opens up in my department will be mine).
2011 is going to be a wonderful year. It has no choice!
~On a side note, there will not be any news Monday...maybe Wednesday. It's a long story of incompetence and tears, but it I am getting what I should have in the first place, just a few days late. GRR~
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