Well, 2009's just about ended and this has been what I'd call a surprising year for me in many ways. Looking back on the year I see a bunch of things, mostly small, certainly trivial in that grand scheme that I never would have expected to have seen/experienced at the beginning of the year. I'll list some out, then you take your turn:
Twitter-related:- If you told me I'd be following nearly 350 people on Twitter at the beginning of the year I would have told you that you're nuts.
- Never thought I'd win so many things on/thanks to Twitter over the course of one year. CD's, "gift baskets," tickets to concerts but of course the biggest thing I won had no monetary value to it. (yes, I brought it up again!)
Music-related:- If you had told me at the beginning of the year that there was an artist that I would buy all the CD's he's put out and travel 100+ miles to see him...twice, I would have gone through a pretty sizable list of names before coming up with the right one.
- For the first time in years we had a 5-month span of seeing at least one concert per month. Did not expect that.
- This has also been the biggest year for buying CD's/"downloaded albums" in a long time. If you add in the CD's I won this year and singles that companies were giving away my library has grown tremendously.
- Of course I'd have never expected fulfilling a life-long dream (or two) as a drummer this year.
- Related to that, I wouldn't have thought at the beginning of the year that I would have truly revived my interest in drumming again.
- Never would have expected I'd play host to a touring musician either.
Life in General
- Though I guess I should have expected it, I did not expect Kiera to get weapons from Santa for Christmas (just happened to be top-of-mind).
- On a sad note, I never thought I'd lose 2 friends this year, one I knew in real life, and another I only knew thanks to the Internet. Rest in peace, Marty and Jason.
Beyond all that, my life was filled with blessings too numerous to mention this year, I just thought I'd mention some of the "surprises."
What about you? What happened to you this year that you didn't expect would happen?
