January.

Not getting shouted at at the meeting.
Realising that I actually prefer solitude.
Getting a message from the Taxman telling me that I’d been overcharged on the tax I’d paid, and that I’d be getting a refund.
My then-new boss turned out to be OK, actually.
Help from complete strangers.

February.

I started a new diet this month. It didn’t stick.
Laughing with Rani about me wearing a salwar kamis. It was about visiting her, if I recall correctly.
I got my Statcounter account this month.
My broadband account was reinstated this month.
A £15 Amazon voucher.
Being aware that it is OK to feel various emotions, and even healthy to do so.
“I’ll tell you what else he is. He’s my son, and I’m very proud of him. And if you do anything to hurt him, I’ll have your b*ll*cks for earrings!”
I signed up for Metafilter.
Being helped by some random chaps when my car got stuck in the snow.
I started my Bach Course.
I did some cooking. The first of lots.
I gave Rani her pink Lacus Clyne wig.
If I recall correctly, this was the first month I had the water butts.

March.

We visited a local beauty spot, and I actually had fun.
Green & Blacks Butterscotch chocolate.
Getting one over on Gary, my boss. I was ill, so I phoned in sick. He wasn’t best pleased, so I told him “I’m sure you’ll get over it”, which caused him to hang up the phone on me. I’m laughing about this right now.
Apparently, I burned up a Subaru Imprezza.
Working with Rani.
Refusing to go in to work one morning, when Rani called at 8AM.
I avoided a traffic accident. This is the precursor to the “safe driving” that I’m often grateful for these days.
Tears.
Lots of mone in my savings account.
Seeing an old crush.
Finding the quote “Thank God the first thing every morning when you open your eyes for all the things he has given you. Especially your next breath.”
On the 7th, I was apparently having a bad day. The sole thing I was grateful for was that the day wasn’t any longer than it was.
I found a funny community based on customer service.
Getting another one over on my boss.
I found £20.

April.

Family.
Tears.
Secret of Mana.
Making the filter for the water butt.
INEBG.
This is the month I got my coffee maker.
The pink flowered prunus. I was driving away from a friends house, when I saw a flowering cherry tree that had pink blossom. It was absolutely plastered with blossom, with loads more on the grass. It looked just like pink snow, there was so much of it.
Saving money by removing the touch lamp.
Playing with the water butts. I got so much good feeling from this.
Feeding ducks.
I got some free text messages on my phone from Orange. I get this every month now.
Found £5.
A job list.
It was my birthday this month.
Aspidistra month.
New wheels for the car.
My solar charger.
1000 Clubcard points from Tesco’s.
Rosewood essential oil.
Alice Peacock.
Finding some lolcats.
Laughing with mom.
Making some money on tips.
Playing with the water butts.
Laughng with mom.

May.

Bought The Day Of The Triffids from ebay.
Watching Frefly.
Finding this quote - “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius”.
I met Rosie, the Jack Russel dog who lives down the road from my aunt.
A vanilla candle.
Peter McWilliams.
Seaweed peanuts.
I started the coffee love.
Nat’s veg box started arriving this month.
Laughing about a munter of a customer.
Clubcard vouchers.
I fixed a problem with another blog I have, with the help of the people at AskMeFi.
Laughing at mom surfing like an old hand.
1by1.
“Sniff the carrot”.
I started with Kiva this month.
Being grateful even in the middle of a negative situation.
McVities Caramels.
Being closer to glowing.
Rani gave me a samosa!
Playing with my mechanic’s dog.
I started becoming aware of how thoughts manifest.
Watched Steel Magnolia’s.
Laughing with Nit.
Gary got out of my life permanently this month.
Toffifees.
Having 40 items in a list for the first time.
Awareness that life is getting better and better as I get older and older.
being able to climb in through a window when we locked ourselves out.

June.

My imagination.
Looking back over my blog, 6 months after starting it.
Organic bacon sandwiches.
My new monitor came this month.
Coffee filter papers.
Firefly.
Organic peaches.
Finding the quote “Every misery I avoid is another blessing”.
Life 101 came into my life this month.
Women On Fire.
the Bach Flowers.
Training myself to be grateful.
Providence becoming clearer and clearer.
Finding the concept of positive focusing.
Rani.
Watching Xena.
Getting Gmail working on my phone.
My imagination.
Created some installers.
Playing with Molly from across the road.
I opened my bond this month.
Getting fuel when the petrol station was quiet.
Not tipping my car over.
My uncountable, ever-increasing wealth.
Spooks.
Brushing my teeth.
The garden looked nice this month.
The ladybird breeding kit arrived this morning.

July.

I got my car to the mechanic.
Getting a cheap drill from work.
Having a good time at work with Rani.
Found £20.
Played with the waterbutts some more.
Took some photographs.
I realised this month that I’m more confident than I was a month ago.
Healing.
Hot coffee.
Weird dreams. The red howling smilies one.
Shouting along to Anastacia.
Organic fruit.
Finding a couple of useful settings on my phone.
My bed.
BlogBackupOnline.
Vegetarian meals.
Rani and I coped fantastically with the till crash at work.
Coming Out Party.
I mad ea delicious cobbler with plums and cinnamon.
Teriyaki pork.
I heard from an old friend I hadn’t heard from in ages.
The new shower head.
Doing some coding.
The Streptocarpi.
Being able to write programmes.
Cold milk.
Dialling into The French’s PC.
That I live in a free country.
Making a decison to not do something I didn’t want to do.
I figured out what was up with the car’s ignition.
Being a new person.

August.

Laughing with June when she pretended to be a lesbian.
Firefly.
Clean clothes.
Laughing with Nat about her inability to put up a tent.
I watched Annie with Nat, and we tried to sing along to Hard Knock Life in German.
Amanda Marshall.
Origami.
Not having to work earlies.
Supporting people on Kiva.
This is Wenna month.
Seeing Chiwetel Ejiofor in a funny film.
Tia Maria coffee and custard creams.
1by1 added networked folder support.
Allowing myself to decompress.
I got a hair cut.
Some free samples.
Finding the quote “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars”, by Og Mandino.
A beautiful sunset.
My car’s suspension. I went for a ride in Max’s Mini.
Earl Grey tea.
Pork crackling.
Free fruit.
This was holiday month.
I found some sea glass for Rani.
The C-Plan worked all holiday.
Watching Six Feet Under.
My car got through it’s MOT.
Free
samples.
Watching Heroes.
Helped some ducklings out of a cattle grid.
Blackout curtains.
Giggling with glee at being able to sleep in my bed.

September.

Posh chocolates.
Getting the mania I asked for.
Laughing with mom while we were trying to tot up a relatives bill from the supermarket. “What’s two 69’s and a 74?” she asked. “A good night in,” I replied.
Wenna.
Getting a coupon for some money off some fuel, just in time.
Helping mom prepare some meat and vegetables for the freezer.
Ray Mears Wild Food on DVD.
Getting some large Ecover bottles.
My glasses.
Watching Wild Gourmets.
Having lots of money.
Lovefilm.
Watching Desperate Housewives.
And Saving Grace.
I made a draught excluder for my door.
Roz, from Smack The Pony.
Into The Forest, by Jean Hegland.
Walking up the garden barefoot.
My wheat bag.
Nearly giving Parmy a kiss.
Reading The Mammoth Hunters.
A very hot shower with the bathroom window wide open onto a crisp autumn morning.
Alice Peacock.
Ice In Crystal.
“Really?”
Apple pie.
Photobox upgraded the amount of storage I have on my account.
Mock the week.
Plant Tycoon.
Felt J up.
Breakfast cereals.
Teased mom about the Lesser Spotted Sesame-Seed-Eating Spider, that this house is apparently overrun with.
Fresh air.
Yemi!
I can take care of all my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs.

October.

Hot fruit tea.
Weetabix Mini’s.
I saw the Dr this month. Having the guts to do that.
Peter McWilliams
Watching Wenna get excited to go for a walk. She does this half growling, half howling thing which sounds really eerie.
Hot baths.
Black Forest gateau.
My bed.
Tracey.
Avoiding a family party.
Looking back over SIT.
Laughing with mom about the Myers-Briggs profiles we took.
I tried jerky for the first time this month.
Giving away a Kiva Gift Certificate.
Free chocolate.
NDO, my ISP.
Watching Reclaiming Your True Identity really made me think.
Lani Nash.
The Grippits.
Howie Day singing Collide.
Realising what I want.
Seeing some really beautiful autumn colour on the trees.
My PC skillz.
Chatting to Nit.
QI.
Watching a documentary on Manic Depression.
Spooks.
“Wenna might look at the toilet!”
My coffee maker.
Raspberries.
Wenna’s squeaky chicken.
One of my Kiva loans got paid back in full.
Getting one over on my boss.
Laughing with mom re dad asking if microwaving the peas for tea was a new idea.
Debbiesausage.

November.

This was NaBloPoMo month.
And the month I left my old job.
Watched A Love To Hide.
Coping OK with my new job.
Gadgets.
Several people wished me luck with my new endeavours.
No more earlies!
Getting some bamboo towels.
Paul McKenna.
Finding £150.
Putting up Nat’s bookshelf.
New shaver heads.
Tasty food.
Lovefilm.
Free samples.
The shredder.
Awareness of my food eating habits.
Reading Man’s Search For Meaning.
Posy points.
Nat gave me some stuff in exchange for helping her with her bedroom.
Getting past level 12 on Boomshine.
Did the Earth’s Children marathon.
Getting my internet connection fixed.
Singing along to a song by Edith Piaf.
I had a fortnight off work.
Watched The Sixth Sense.
New fruit tea.
Tasty fruit tea.
I found a present for someone at a really good price.
Winning Clobyn.

December.

A nice day out with The French.
Getting some nice pictures.
Free software.
My reliable car.
Laughing with Mom and Nat.
I can see.
My beautiful Azalea.
Getting used to my new job.
Wenna.
Starting a new diet.
Sorting out my NYR’s.
Finding a useful website to help create some recipes from the veg box.
Getting Haloscan installed.
It was Christmas, which means lots of presents.
Training Wenna.
Being more self determined.
Paul McKenna.
Completing the Earth’s Children marathon.
Ice Cups.
Fregair.
Spooks. The finale.
Having de-icer in the car.
Finding £20.
Watching Angels In America.
Homemade coleslaw.
Other people’s blogs.
The Pashmina sketch by Smack The Pony.
My car.
A new PC case.
Starting to act on my NYR’s.
Getting Clobyn.
Alice Peacock.
Confidence.
Surveys.
Offering another Kiva Certificate.
Snoozing.
Dressing my bed up with ivy.
Socks.
Having had a pretty good year overall.

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All in all, it was a pretty good year. Here’s hoping that 2008 is even better!