2008 lows and highs
 

So 2008 is almost gone, what has been your high point and what was your low points .......... let's hope 2009 is great for us all !

My low - Watching my Mum have a very up and down year (details you don't need to know) and finally loosing her job from Woolies :( - I don't like it when she is down makes me down too (I can be a big softie)

My High - (1) My operation in June enabling me to ride again and (2) meeting my new man !!! (who luckily for him rides and owns a pointy in black, a man with taste or what)

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High: Seeing Springsteen for the first time in over 15years, once in London & once in Cardiff.

High (2) Getting promoted after 18years

Low: The god awful summer which didn't make my kids holiday what it should have been. (pretty trivial on the scale of things)

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High point - AR08 weekend. Great ride down, made a new friend in Dan (aka wrc sixty three) and shortly after arriving, my freind called me up to tell me I had been awarded a first class degree in chemistry. 4 years of hard work at uni and the best result to show for it.

High point - seeing metallica. I have never ever felt so much emotion as when the ecstasty of gold started playing - all hairs on my body stood up on end. Looking right into james hetfields eyes during creeping death (opening song) is an image that will stay with me forever.

Low point - passing of maria's granddad :(

Roll on 2009

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Highs: Showing everybody that I know that self belief is a wonderful thing. Actually being able to ride a bike again & being told I'm a modern day miracle by the Physio for getting fit so fast (See lows for details :p)
Getting out on track a few times & loving every minute of it even if I'm not fast enough to race...........YET :)
Spending lots of time on the org & meeting some of you in person. Strangely tho, I'm still here lol ;):D:cool:

Lows: Crashing in January & splitting my Pelvis & breaking my back leaving me in a lot of pain & 4 1/2 months off work.
My caring employer telling me to take my time getting fit & back to work, then cutting my wages without telling me leaving me massively in the red in the bank

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Low point - I lost my Snap-On 10mm 3/8 drive socket

High point - I found it a week later

Been a very boring year.

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That is a classic, I think I just wet myself :mrgreen::mrgreen:

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High point, dunno.

Low point, now. Merry f##kin christmas.

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Highs - getting my Gixer and my Merc and getting to know a really good friend also my promotion at work (if you can call it a promotion)

Lows - Family issues, problems with work.

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Highs........

meeting Mike thru the Org and us getting together :cheers:

AR08, Ecosse and x 3 North Wales rideouts

my unforgettable holiday in June.... 3,500 miles clocked up in 10 days touring Europe, Prague and Budapest, was fantastic

my son finishing his apprenticeship and being made a permanent member of his offshore rapid response and rescue team

All in all it`s been a really happy year for me... the happiest i`ve had in years!


Lows.....

My hip surgery not going as well as I thought it would and as a result a lot of time off work sick recently :(

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Its frankie boyle ladies and gentlemen!

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My dad went ape when he lost a tool once

found it near my bike. i was in trouble.

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High, Passing my exams and getting promoted.

Low: finding out via the paper that our lovely neighbour had died, RIP Mike.

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High: Attending the AR08 and meeting a whole load of fantastic people

High: Retaining my job (originally a temporary 6 month contract - been extended twice now) & progressing really fast with 4x pay rises

High: going to norway/finland in 2009 (ok thats next year but i paid for it this year..! :p)

Low: my grandad passing away a couple of months ago

Low: Not having enough spare cash to do a masters degree then being too lazy to apply for a funded doctorate course...

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Low spot - being referred to a neurosurgeon in jan for a few probs Id been experiencing ( which thanfully havent re occured to the same degree) and
dropping the bike in the car park at the 'Glencoe massacre' which bizzarely caused a huge loss in confidence :(
High spots - going to the AR, NW3 and the glencoe massacre and putting a load of names to faces, also Going to the States and doing NYC,L.A and San fran in 16 days. All in all a good year for a change, roll on 2009.

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your not the only one. Wish I could run away as far & fast as I can from home right now.

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High Points
Got promoted to the next grade (we have grades at my work (i.e 1.1 , 1.2 , 2.1 etc)
Passed my bike test first time and bought my bike (Said promotion meant I could finally afford to do it!)


Low Points
I haven't done no where near as much cycling as I normally would and have put some weight on!
Still single after a few small relationships this year!
Am now skint because of the bike! :)

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It's the reason that Evie and I have gone away this Christmas, last Christmas was so low that I wanted to get away from family giving me grief for not seeing them.
Don't have to this year, off to the Cathedral at 11.30 for midnight mass, sooo Christmassy!

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Ooo where have you gone? Im off to Finland/Norway for my birthday in January so I guess I can make up for my poor christmas then :smt114

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How could I possibly forget you Gid ? :D

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High.....Suzy was reborn by YC:cheers: and she did NW3

Low point, her engine gave up the ghost, and the electrics before the AR

High..... I got Bikedolfs engine and the top yoke, n shiny bits:cool:

Low....she blew her electrics again
High...the AR
High....Im indoors got a new hip
High....The Ecosse Glencoe Massacre
Low...I had a bit of a mental nervous type of a breakdown thingy and went a bit depressed and mad:(
A bit Higher I'm gettin better
Low..I fell off the black SV


Low...one of my team was killed in a tragic accident at work at the beginning of this month. I was honoured to go to the mosque and pay my respects. Our whole team attended, and we stood together and got through a really rough time.

So all in all a sad and happy year. The bad times are hiding under the rug, which i beat periodically to hide the lump, so it can be forgotten;)
The good times never will be:p

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High : bought the sv

Low : still never found a gf :(

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Low - Losing friends.

High - Remembering those friends.

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That was careless, where did you lose her?

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highs:
finding the bike of my dreams
my fabulous degree/job
teaching part 2 in the summer
city breaks with my mum
finding an awesome new man

lows:
high-sideing said bike of my dreams
my best friend's wedding
teaching part 3
a string of duff "relationships"
my best friend's stepdad passing away

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highs
honeymoon in the bahamas can't believe its nearly a year ago
finally getting rid of the ex husband after 9 years of seperation/divorce
paying off and cancelling the overdraft
seeing friends and keeping in touch with the northern lot

lows
the feeling of unease when someone comes back into contact after 9 years when you don't want them too and all the memories that come with it

the fall out with my sister

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Lol same, but replace the SV with a van and that's my year. :p

Apparantly fat ugly stunters aren't a girl's ideal type of man. Can't think why?

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Ahh wasnt your high point meetng me :( or Sam LOL

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I'm inclined to put the same thing as chris...but as no-one likes a morbid b@stard ( :P ) I'll say:


Lows: various ****, crashing was a bit of a low breaking my pelvis and almost murdering my SV and it was 'my fault' to make things worse, my friends daughter/family friend being in a horrific car crash that claimed the life of one of her mates and left her in intensive care with severe head, organ and other injuries all caused by some heatless scum that ran off without calling an ambulance.

High points: aforementioned girl makeing a miraculous almost complete recovery to be let home just in time for xmas, passing my bike and car tests (was only particularly bothered about the bike) , aquiring my sv, enjoying my sv, becoming an uncle and probably some other stuffs

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highs:
leaving the fiance
getting an awesome job
moving back out of my mums house
getting back on a motorbike
turning 30

lows:
feeling bad for leaving the fiance
moving house twice in 4 months
not making it to spain in the vw and thus having no holiday
turning 30

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2008 highs.

Errr AR08

2008 lows

F'kin loads.

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You women will never understand the special relationship a man has with those things that have 'Snap-On' embossed into them :D

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Or for the more thrifty...

Halfords professional.

:thumleft:

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We're in St Davids in Pembrokeshire. I was amazed at the midnight service, it was packed!!!! Almost at standing room only! Made me feel very very Christmassy.
Don't think I'll have another Christmas at home again.

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Am I missing something? :confused:

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lows, my youngest admitted to hospital sufferring with pneumonia and asthma.

highs, the little fellow not giving up and coming home.

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yes. long story. quite painful.

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Lows? You don't want to be bored reading it all, and there's a lot of it...

Highs? Well, most recently, my youngest's favourite xmas toy. Yes, it's a motorbike :D and he didn't put the thing down all day, even demanded to have it with him at the table. Good lad!

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High point....getting the rr & my eldest son (8) who's been doing martial arts for 3 1/2 years getting a standing ovation in front of around 2000 people when he performed in the Havens Got Talent competition,getting back on speaking terms with my dad...oh & my new job.

Low point....not been able to keep the sv as well as the rr & almost losing my new job through the credit crunch(but kept it so could be a high point)my OH losing her job,my grandfather passing away & a mate of mine being sent to prison for a crime i'm sure he did'nt commit:(

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lows - being burgled whilst asleep, being knocked off my hayabusa in London.

Highs - doing Enduro Africa, getting the busa back repaired, doing john o'groats to lands end in 13 hrs for charity.