2007

Looking back on what I said at the end of 2005:

• I said we'd have a couch by the end of 2006, and we cut it close! We got our couches on Christmas Eve.
• I was planning to go back to school, but it didn't work out. A definite will-do for 2007, however.
• I wanted to get my health taken care of more. I was working on this until we lost our benefits, and am now working on that again.
• Charles's OSER project I predicted would take off in 2006. We got more buy-in and name recognition through some public speaking engagements, but progress on the project itself has slowed.
• I predicted we'd pay off our Capital One card. We did, then maxed it out and paid it off again a few times, as our financial situation changed. We're doing well at managing our credit, in my opinion.
• I planned to fix up the Explorer. We did finally fix the power windows, because it got broken into and we figured we might as well replace the window motors at the same time as the glass. We didn't get an audio upgrade, however.

In 2006:

• January
• My niece's second baby, Angel, was born.
• Henoc, my co-worker of many years, got married.
• We went to the Queen Mary.
• February
• I got in a car accident in the Explorer.
• We went to SCALE, where my husband spoke and we manned a booth for his OSER project.
• I started getting into genealogical information I didn't get from my relatives.
• March
• I went to the National Aquatic Conference and level 1 of the National Aquatic Management School. I met some really awesome people there, from New York state, Philadelphia PA, and Albuquerque NM.
• My uncle Jorge (my dad's brother) and his wife Lupe celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
• April
• Our Explorer got broken into at the parking lot of my work. Grrr. They stole my swim/carry-on bag that Charles got me for Valentine's day of 2005, clearly thinking it was a purse.
• We went on a FamilyLife marriage retreat in Valencia, which was awesome.
• May
• I was making the long drive from Oxnard to Loma Linda to teach with my friend Jenny again.
• I started scanning my mom's pictures. I still have many more to go!
• We went to Castaic Lake for Memorial Day.
• I got my new laptop.
• June
• I had my birthday in June. =)
• Busy, busy, busy at work. I was running the 50m x 25y x 7-14ft pool at VAC, with a crew of 17, the other manager got the rest of the guards and all the shallow water.
• July
• Much of the same.
• August
• My work hosted the girl's Junior Olympics.
• I quit my job.
• September
• We moved to North Hollywood.
• October
• We got new furniture and joined the YMCA. (Unrelated, I'm just saving space!)
• November
• My parents, sisters, and myself went to Sea World. Following that, Charles and I went a couple of times.
• Thanksgiving, of course. (Which at my parents' house was canceled two days before and then un-canceled at 11am that day.)
• December
• My sister had surgery in San Diego, where we spent a week living at the hospital.
• We got our insurance cards.
• My godparents came to visit, I hadn't seen them since March of 2005.
• Christmas, again canceled and then un-canceled at my parents'. At Charles's parents, Christmas as usual!

Goals/predictions (not resolutions, goals are better) for 2007:

• Charles and I will both take some college courses, but neither of us go full time (or even half-time).
• I will continue to work on my health.
• We will finish paying my parents, and probably pay the car off when we have enough saved to write them a check.
• Charles will probably become "full time" or a "project hire" at Disney.
• We will finally build our media server.
• I may one day finish scanning mom's pictures...
• I will attempt to acquire evidence for all of the dates and relationships already in my genealogical database while continuing to add more.
• I plan to take a trip to Minnesota in May for a good friend's college graduation.
• I will try to find a good (but not too-expensive) cooking class some time in 2007, so I can make more foods at home. =)

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Happy new year!