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Legalboxer

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So we all are indundated with these lists the next couple of days... why not share?? Whether its a real list or just your own views, I know I would like to hear what has made an impact with others on this board.. whether its movies, music, TV, fashion, people etc.. the floor is open to any and all for 2003.


to begin with, (i couldnt find the article in the washington post yet) i found it funny that "Trucker's Hats" were both IN and Out this year... never understood why they came into "style" in the first place, but i am glad they are out. :)

Also although I am not big on makeover shows- i definitely enjoyed all the house makeover shows this year! Definitely was a nice boost in reality TV.

Max

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 9:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think trucker hats came "in" partially because Ashton Kutcher wears one all the time on "Punked." At least that's what I saw in the paper. They probably went "out" quickly when people who bought them put them on and looked in the mirror! :)

Personal best/worst:

Best: Hand feeding kangaroos and wallabys in Australia.

Worst: Finding out a friend had been leading something of a double life.

Marysafan

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My Personal list for 2003:

The Best day is a tie between the day I spent in NYC with my dear friends where I realized my life long dream to see the Statue of Liberty on a three hour boat cruise around Manhattan (I still have trouble believing that I was actually in NYC!) and Christmas with all my "children", the grand and the grown, at home with hubby and me.

The best book I read had to have been "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. I am not a usual fan of the murder mystery genre, but this one was an exception. A close second are the books by Nelson DeMille that I have been enjoying this year with "Up Country" and "Word of Honor" being my favorites so far.


The best movie was "Mona Lisa Smile". Partly because it was the only movie I saw in a theater this year, and partly the fact that it was part of a great day spent with my youngest daughter, and it was showing in a brand new absolutely gorgeous theater.

The best thing new on tv this year was "Starting Over". I just wish they had live feeds in that house! But maybe that is a good thing...I do need to live my life every so often.

The best new music for me was Clay Aiken. I actually bought a cd for myself!

The best food was a shrimp and clam scampi from the "The Diner" in New Jersey. The owner made it special for me with fresh clams! It was heaven!

The best gift also is tie. The print "Reflections" by Lee Teter that my girls gave me for Christmas and the book "Michigan's Upper Pennisula: Life, Legends, & Landmarks" by Sonny Longtine from my parents. Both are treasures. I am grateful to my daughters, who always know exactly what I like, and to my mother who never does. Both were out of the park!

The Best news was the recovery of the captured POW's. ALL of them.

I tend not to dwell on the worst of anything...but the worst of the year was the war and the loss of our soldiers, our astronauts, and so many of our great legends and John Ritter, not old enough to be a legend, but a hole in our hearts none the less.

Llkoolaid

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I don't have too many best this year but it wasn't all bad.

The Worst was the death of my father. I am not going to dwell on any more worst.

The Best I hope is yet to come. My sister-in-law, my favorite one had a check-up today with her ob-gyn and baby should be born before tomorrow. Everything is ready to go and was expected to be over by now so hopefully if my family doesn't end this year on a high then we will certainly start next year off on one.

Other good things were realizing what nice people are here at TVCH who listened to me when I needed it. All the new non-smokers and those that are still trying, my pet thread. The great survivor show, I really liked this one. Tess's daily updates to Juju were great. TVCH chat where all my favorite people hang out. Everybody should go there more often, it is the best part of this board for me, you really get to know the people there a lot more than anywhere else.

Hope everyone has the best New Year.

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 11:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The best for me was growing closer with ya'll here at TVCH.

The worst was losing my job....and Nell Carter, Gregory Hines and especially John Ritter.

Spygirl

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The best of 2003 for me:

  • Getting a wonderful job
  • Finishing my Ph.D.
  • Visiting NYC (wow, what a city!)
  • Achieving and maintaining a weight that I never thought I'd see
  • Attending my 10 year reunion
  • Buying a new car
  • Having a surprise birthday party thrown for me
  • Spending a week at Christmas with family (including brother and SIL) and friends


This has been such a blessed year for me, and I'm grateful and humbled. I can only hope 2004 is half the year this one was.

Cassie

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spy, I'm so glad for you. (BTW, you look gorgeous in your new profile pic :) Congrats on all your accomplishments this past year, especially your PhD, Dr.Spy. Long may the good fortune continue for you.

Spygirl

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you, Cassie. It has been a good year and I did not realize it until I was typing out that post.

Cassie

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
2003 has been the worst year ever for me, beginning on December 30th last year. It's been one thing after another. I'll definitely be up tonight, sending it on its way and welcoming in 2004.

Zules

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, may 2004 be a gentler year for you.

Cassie

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Zules :)

Eliz87

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh boy, let's see:

THE BEST:

- Watching my toddler grow and learn every day and finding out I'm expecting another!
- Spending January and February in South Carolina (away from the Ohio cold!).
- Celebrating my second wedding anniversary.
- The wonderful new friends I've made at TVCH. I've been around since BB1, but have never ventured to the other areas until this year.
- Coming in 2nd place in my fantasy football league.
- The capture of Saddam Hussein.
- Clay and Ruben
- Survivor: Pearl Islands
- Last Comic Standing (specifically Dave Mordal)

THE WORST:

- The passing of my mother.
- My husband being laid off for most of the year and still waiting for gainful employment.
- The power outage on August 14th -- my son's first birthday!
- The war and the negative affect that it's had on the economy.
- There were a lot of reality shows that just stunk.
- The cancellations of "Philly" and "Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire". I loved those shows.
- The allegations against Michael Jackson.

Legalboxer

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
expanding some on mine - both personal and pop culture


BEST:

-CLAY
-Getting to take a group of kids to a Baltimore Orioles Game in the Governor's SkyBox
-Lance winning his fifth Tour De France - watched EVERY DAY of that race, sometimes more than once and it was just unbelievable that you could get that involved with every moment of a 3 week long race.)
-Syracuse Winning the NCAA Basketball Championship
-Finding TVCH
-LOTR
-A Reality Couple actually getting married
-Rupert on Survivor
-Playing Golf with my mom (who knew she would want to play)
-Elizabeth Smart being found
-Saddam being found
-MADE on MTV

Worse:

-Columbia shuttle
-Being unemployed the last 5 months (but then again, i got to find TVCH)
-Bennifer dragging on
-Most reality dating shows
-Skin being cancelled (sorry but i was one of the few that LIKED the romeo/juliet plot)
-John Ritter dying so suddenly
-Kobe

Not1worry

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BEST -

-DH returning safely from Afghanistan
-Our family trip to Disney
-My daughter learning to read so well
-My son overcoming the struggle of subtraction
-My best friend finally getting pregnant
-Getting an assignment to FL
-Saddam being found
-The release of the POWs
-Getting our boat and enjoying it
-Getting digital cable with the digital video recorder
-Getting a new computer
-Losing 10 lbs.

WORST

-DH deploying to Iraq
-Finding out DH would be gone an extra 2 months
-Having our orders to FL get deleted
-The capture of the POWs
-400+ service members killed
-Pretty much the whole month of November
-Needing to replace the AC compressor in the van for the 3rd time in a year

Reader234

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best>>

TVCH atmosphere, Adven's game, Starting Over...

WORST>>>

Big Brother 4,

(if you hadnt noticed I'm not a list maker!! I am joyful of the many blessings I've receive, focus on the positive, refuse to look at the negative!! *G)

Yeah Rah Dr Spy!! {{HUGS}} not1

Texasdeb

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best: music - Clay
Reality show - Survivor
Chat Room - TVCH
Personal - Still healthy, employed, & basically happy.

Worst: 18 yr old son seems so lost. Can't reach him.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
best: husband will not lose his job in another couple of weeks.

worst: son's struggle with college!

those are my very personal things.

best and worst for the world around me are:
best: good friends and family reunions
worst: war and devastating acts of nature--fires, mudslides, earthquakes, etc.

Whoami

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best:

-Our TVCH Long Beach Gathering. So many wonderful memories.
-Going to San Diego in August for Sis's wedding. Side trip to Sea World and petting a dolphin.

Worst:

-losing FlyOnTheWall
-Squaredsc leaving the board

More to come I'm sure. Just what pops to the brain for the time being.

Jbean

Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 10:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok, here are mine:
best:
-changing jobs, even though it was not by choice. i am happier and healthier because of it.

-finding a friend who is truly a "kindred spirit" (in the words of anne of green gables). don't know how i could live without this amazing friend, now.

-getting to see martina mcbride in concert. she is amazing!

-my 10 yr high school reunion.

-realizing that i am a good, worthy person. for some (wonderful) reason, i have become ok with myself. age, weight, the fact that i may never get married. i am happy with it all. i love my life, family and friends, and think that i live the good life.

worse: none for my personal life, thank God. i have been truly blessed this year.

there have been a lot of deaths this year, as far as icons go:

john ritter, robert palmer, bob hope. legends in their own ways. those were all sad.


Pamy

Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with Who, that get together and the Dec gettogether one of my year highlights!!

God, it hasn't even been a year since we lost FLy?? I will never forget sitting here reading about it with tears streaming down my face.
I know she still smiles down on us.



Wapland

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 1:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Worst
*flood
*best friend's son's cancer

Best
*trip to East coast camping with best friend's family
*new home renovations
*new job
*son's first half of school year without teacher aid (6 years in the making)
*tvch Christmas Exchange

Whoami

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 1:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thought of another one:

Worst:

Sitting here riveted to TVCH while the California Fires were in full swing. Not hearing from people like Moonie, Cjr, Wiener for hours.

Best:

Moonie's first post after they were hunkering down for the night with the fire on its way to her house. I cried with relief to see her name on a post!

Eventually hearing that our TVCH California friends came out of the fires virtually unscathed.


Pamy

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
aaaaaahhhh Thanks to whoever put the little fly in my post!!!

Mamie316

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My worst I guess could also be my best..I found out that I have high blood pressure, it was really making me sick but now that I am on my meds, I have totally changed my life too. I exercise more now and watch my diet. I've lost so far about 28 pounds and plan to keep doing it! So the worst became the best! My other best is that I finally got to see my beloved Jon Bon Jovi in concert. What can I say, he's my dream man!

Herckleperckle

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best

• Starting a new life in CT with my dh
• Continuing a close relationship with my mom, dd, and ds
• Renewing a friendship with my old college roommate
• Finding TVCH and all the lovely, caring people here
• Enjoying my baby Herc
• Having an abundance of down time


Worst

• My job situation (NONE after a year of looking)
• Realizing my mother is deteriorating not only physically but mentally
• My weight gain
• The spectre of doom that creeps into my thoughts uninvited -- due to the state of the world
• Realizing that full retirement is just a dream for now
• Uninvited aches and pains

Colordeagua

Friday, January 02, 2004 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My best and worst is all basically wrapped up in one -- a cancer diagnosis. (It was actually in November 2002.) Bad that is was cancer. Very, very, very good that it was ONLY DCIS -- a very early breast cancer. DCIS does not require chemo treatment. I had a very easy time with 33 radiation treatments and started five years of Tamoxifen. No problems / side effects from it. I had horrible "cancerhead" for about the first six months. That is pretty much gone. This holiday season was much better than the last.

Herckleperckle

Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 2:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Color, I am so happy that you are doing well and enjoyed your holidays this year!! I am very glad that you experienced no side effects from Tamoxifen, too! That is wonderful.

My maternal grandmother, mom, and sister have all battled breast cancer successfully, but I know how emotionally and physically difficult it can be. During those same years, I was devastated to lose 3 coworkers from a relentless form of breast cancer.

Jbean

Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
color, i am glad you are ok, too.

i forgot about my worst when i posted a few days ago, so here it is:

WORST: may 4, when tornadoes hit the area severely and totally ravaged and destroyed towns only 10 miles from here, and two other towns about half and hour from here. that was about the scariest night of my life. hope we don't get any more like that this year.
:(

Colordeagua
Member

10-31-2003

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jbean, Weather-wise not too much worries me except big wind -- that IS scary. Think I had a "wind shear" on my balcony last summer. Have a birdbath (two pieces -- bowl and pedestal) made of cement with pebbles embedded in in it. Each piece is VERY heavy. The bowl blew off the pedestal!!