2006 has been a pretty good year for me. I finally got myself out of debt, although wiping out my savings to do it, so I'm not yet financially secure Zool. I spent a week in San Francisco in a swanky hotel and reconnected with an old friend there. I spent a business weekend in Montreal, drinking and flirting more than working. I spent a week in Tennessee replumbing and repainting the old farmhouse (while sick with the flu), and spent a weekend in Chattanooga reconnecting with another old friend. My sister and I have gotten closer this year than we're probably ever been. My mother isn't getting better, but she isn't getting worse either, so that's as good as it gets, there. My youngest niece is settling in to college life, with less trauma than her freshman year entailed. My oldest niece has gotten a really cool job and at last a really good boyfriend, so I can stop worrying about her (no, I can't). I feel better this year than I have in ages, and am starting to see that maybe my life isn't actually over yet.
I don't remember when I joined, or when I finally delurked. I should remember that.