Your Personal Review of 2008

With my sympathies to all of you who had a thoroughly bad year last year, this year can only be better for you. Not being one of life's great optimists, I am not usually given to passing much thought on either having a good or a bad year, what has gone has gone, is in the past and cannot be changed, what is to come - that is what matters. When RICHADA then says that 2008 was not a bad year, I guess that you can assume that out of his 46 it was probably one of the best. Personally speaking, on the whole, in our own household at least, it was one of good cheer and remarkably little sickness ... more

2008 is over tonight and I thought I'd honour it with this review on my 2008, on things that have happened to me, and movies that I have watched, music that I have listened too and finally news from around the world. 6 hours to go before the fireworks go off and I'm already getting through left over liquor from Christmas. I apologise if there's considerable spelling and grammar mistakes, I don't think there is but you never know. JANUARY Heath Ledger ------------------- January 22nd of 2008, I woke up and heard that one of my favourite actors was dead. Not only was that bad, but he had ... more

I have seen this review so many times that I thought I should give it a go and talk a little about my 2008 and how I felt about it. 1) What did you do in 2008 that you have not done before? A lot of things . . . Being free and living my life the way I wanted, for the first time in years; I started my first new job in a travel agency after seven months of unemployment which I really like. I travelled to England, France and Italy for a few days each, and I entered the kitchen for the first time in years (Only to fry an egg, I think)! Also . . . my Ciao 'dot' turning into Bronze, and (most ... more

It barely seems a year since I wrote my review about the events of 2007, and here we are again having celebrated the dawn of 2009 last night. I thought I would take the time today to reread my earlier review, given some of those events are almost forgotten about now - and also to reflect on the events of 2008. I have used the same major headings as I did last year, to help me reflect on what seemed to be a difficult year all round. But let's start with: Environmental Matters Last year was reported to be the third highest loss producing year on record, due to natural disasters, such as the ... more

Oh my...here we are again. I have always wrapped up my year with one of these navel gazing reviews on the review sites...but this was not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination, and indeed it was perhaps my toughest year to date. I thought long and hard about whether to write this article honestly, as opposed to publishing something which simply skirts around the edges, but decided I would publish, if for no other reason than to reflect on the positives, as the one good thing is that I DO feel somewhat stronger going into 2009 than I did one year ago, or even two years ago. To give ... more