Year in Review 2016
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was mostly the worst of times, but there was some good stuff in there too.
The worst of times ((OK, it wasn’t actually the “worst” of times. That was hands down 2006.))
On a global scale, the US election makes 2016 the worst. I probably don’t even need to say anymore than that. Also, Brexit. Also also, all the celebrities dying ((Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, George Michael, Prince, David Bowie, Alan Richman, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leonard Cohen, and Muhammad Ali, to name a few)).
On a personal level, I was sick and/or injured for (and this is not an exaggeration) about 3/4 of 2016. I started the year with a horrible cold that led to the 100 day cough, followed by food poisoning, followed by zombie eyeball disease. I also seemed to have developed seasonal allergies, which I’ve never had before. I was OK from mid-March until mid-June (that was my 3 months of health for the year), when I sprained my left ankle and then got bursitis in my right hip from running on the apparently not fully healed ankle. The bursitis was eleventy billion times worse than the sprained ankle and all the people who told me that I probably shouldn’t run a half marathon on my very tight hip will fortunately never let me forget that I should stop making such poor life choices. And just to put a nice bookend on my year, I caught a cold on my last day in NYC ((On a happy note, while my throat was wicked sore on that last day in New York, it felt substantially better the next day and the cold has persisted as mostly a runny nose, some sneezes, and a slight scratchy throat, which I take to mean that my immune system is actually geared up to be functional for 2017.)). My mailbox got smashed, which means I have to go across town to pick up my mail for the next month and my glass shower doors got smashed, which are going to cost me a fortune to replace.
The best of times
This was an outstanding year for me for travel, as I completed my quest to visit all 10 Canadian provinces with a trip to St. John’s in June, I knocked 3 travel-related items off my list of 101 Things to Do, visited two continents that I’ve never been to before and, most impressively if I do say so myself, went somewhere that Dr. Dan has never been before ((Dr. Dan being one of the most travelled people I know))!! As part of this travel, I got to visit the easternmost points of both North America *and* Australia, I have officially been to both ends of the Trans-Canada Highway, and I visited an above average number of lighthouses.
My mom and my niece visited me in June, which was pretty super fantastic.
There’s also been some potential progress recently on three things that I’m not prepared to blog about just yet #VagueBlogging. You’ll either hear about them in my 2017 year-in-review blog posting or they will amount to nothing and I won’t even remember what I’m referring to when I read this posting this time next year.
My hockey team won our divisional championship at the end of the 2015/16 season, which was awesome, but then the team folded for the 2016/17 season because we couldn’t get enough players to come back. Which really seems to sum up the year. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
In conclusion, F – -, would not 2016 again.
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