So the year 2010 is only a few weeks from being over.
Looking back on it, was it a good one for you?
Highlights:
Lowlights:
What are your plans / goals for 2011?
GOOOoooooOOOOooooO!!!
drama will be deleted, so please refrain
highlights are
- went back to work for national steel car
- bought the s12 (so clean)
- set a date for me and the ball and chain to get married
- youngest son started to talk first word was car
low lights
- gained some debt with visa
- was broken into and got my tv stolen
plans / goals
- get my hands on a shop
- finish the s12
- buy bings s13 lol
- buy a house closer to this time next yr.
- lose some weight (30lbs)
highlights are
- Bought a house (thread coming soon)
- My first child will be born in a couple weeks (thread coming soon)
- I didn’t lose my job.
low lights
- I got less sleep this year then ever in my life.
- I gained about 25 lbs. that I really do not want, but do not have the desire to work on.
plans / goals
- Remodel new house.
- Buy a new car, hopefully something pretty decent.
- Make another baby at some point, and take tons of practice runs at it.
- Finish paying off all debt. This will be hard with the new house begging for me to spend on it.
I will add more, but this is what is at the top of my mind today.
Highlights:
- I was living in Hawaii until May.
- Graduated with a degree in Mech. Eng.
- Started at Moog as a Product Engineer. Which I had the job offer for in December of '09. So I spent my time in Hawaii with that sense of security.
- Have been able to take huge chunks out of my debt.
Lowlights:
- I moved back to Buffalo from Hawaii. Not that I don’t love Buffalo, but holy fuck it’s cold.
- Student loans kicked in.
- Not as fit and active as I was.
- Feeling excessively busy from work.
Goals:
- Buy a house in the spring.
- Start a fun bike project.
- Get back to my workout routine and stick with it.
- Just do awesome shit in general.
Highlights:
-Got some good travel in; Mardi Gras, 10 day San Diego-Portland Coast Highway Roadtrip, home to Minnesota a few times.
-Got a huge start on my exit-plan from my corporate job…now it’s a matter of focus and exection.
-Finished the last of my big home remodel jobs when I completed my kitchen…now house is almost ready to sell at the drop of a hat.
-Running a marathon a few days after turning 30 was huge…was in the best shape of my life.
-Promotion to Senior Designer at work.
Lowlights:
-lost my remaining 2 grandmothers…luckily both passed painlessly.
-Another year of being away from family…can be a lonley feeling at times.
-Didn’t make much progress on my boat project.
-Spent wayyyyy too much time working on 2 cars that yield lackluster results.
Goals:
-Spend more time outside of work being busy on exectuing the exit plan.
-Create a job/lifestyle where I can sell off my house and drive away in one car with $0 debt…live where I want, travel when I want, etc.
-Grow up and finally get into a nice daily driver.
-Finish the boat and enjoy the labor.
Highlights:
Bought a new car
Got 3 promotions at work (on the verge of trying to squeeze a 4th one in)
Gonna be an uncle… again… in a week or so
Moved in with g/f
Went balls deep into Cheeks’ ass
Lowlights:
Got herpes from Cheeks’ ass
Found out about certain manufactorer defects AFTER i bought products… haha
Didn’t get to race my car as much as I wanted to
Didn’t get to go to the LSX shootout
New promotion means that I work every weekend during the summer
Gained a good amount of weight
What are your plans / goals for 2011?
Buy a house
Beat Cheeks in ANOTHER race (because one slaughtering wasn’t enough for him)
Lose some weight
Do something about this herpes shit…
Get Pewter to do oral
Well…got engaged, took her to Barcelona, sold the Volvo S60 R to downsize, got another MR2 (love it), completely gutted and remodeled both my bathrooms, got a brand new 3500 sq. foot driveway, and was promoted to a new dept. at work…all in all, a pretty good year…
Tough things have been trying to knock down some debt accumulated from the things mentioned in the previous paragraph…I actually had ZERO debt entering the 2010 year. I don’t have much now, but debt is debt and I hate it…
Plan for 2011 is to be completely debt free by midway through the year…
Highlights:
Work is going great for both the wife and I.
Debt free other than mortgage.
The 2010 elections.
Lowlights:
Throwout bearing on GTO went, cooked slave cylinder. Fixing involved dropping trans.
Didn’t make a single track day.
Continued the fatness.
Goals:
Full downstairs remodel on the house.
Hit at least 2 track days on tracks I haven’t been to. (Calabogie and Nelson Ledges are high on that list)
Lose some of the fatness.
Highlights:
Bought a house/rental property
Learned a lot of Home Improvement Crap
Expanded my retail business
No.1 seller on eBay for 7 of 11 months this year
Great bonding year with my wife and kids
Debt free, minus mortgage
Lowlights:
I still live in Buffalo
Goals:
Move out of Buffalo in 2011.
Highlights:
New job
Got a house
Lowlights:
No time
Didn't buy a car
Goals:
Buy another LS1 car
Move to a regional security engineer position
Probably get engagedGot engaged! Was hoping to get into a new job by now but it may have to wait till 2011. Good year overall.
I’ve still got a whole bunch of stuff for you dude… make time
Don’t go too far 
Thread needs more pics:
Highlights:
- paid off all student loans and all renovations
- completed CSP designation
- took wife, kids, and my mom on a nice vacation
- bings.ca had a strong year
- forum merge was largely (and debatably) and success
most importantly though:
Kingston was born in April. He and Ving are getting along fanastically. There were health concerns at first but they have been largely eliminated.
And spent a lot of good time with the family
Lowlights:
- it was very scary when Kingston was diagnosed with a heart murmur. he’ll still likely need surgery eventually, but the condition is much less severe than first suspected.
- drove my S13 like 6 times and didnt improve much on my 2009 lap times
2011:
- going to pay off the wife’s student loan before her mat leave expires
- gonna get a mini-van
- successful transition onto the executive team in Feb + new building and new perimeter office
- I want to take my kids to Austria to see thier grand parents, but this might have to wait for 2012
- cars… i really think i need to get rid of at least one of the 240’s and into something more professional
- find a babysitter and get some one-on-one adult time with the wife so that she can regain her sanity
flying out to San Diego next month to check out Orange County/Long Beach to either keep it in contension or rule it out.
I’ll start with the bad.
Lowlights:
Lost my job on April Fools day.
As a result of lost job, acquired more debt, ugh.
Highlights:
Prior to losing my job, did lots of travel - Seattle, Paris, Dallas, etc
Got a new job at the end of June. Not bad in this crap economy.
Got involved in a local Pit Bull rescue group, started fostering, kept our first dog, have since fostered and found homes for 2 dogs, fostering our 3rd right now.
Made a crap load of new friends, reconnected with old friends, saw so many people get married, start families, and be happy.
Plans for 2011:
Pay off/sell my Subaru
Pay off what I will hopefully feel is a significant amount of debt
Foster more dogs, start training my dog for canine sports
Start riding horses again, because it’s been far too long
Educate a bull?
Pitty Love Rescue, based here in Rochester NY (but we have some fosters in Buffalo)pittyloverescue.org
Highlights:
Kept my job even though the location I work at is failing miserably.
Got a promotion/relocation offer I’m working on negotiating
Took an EPIC vacation to Thousand Islands in August
Gained a lot of great friendships this summer
Getting (Waiting on Erie County still) divorced
Got my ACL repaired finally.
Lowlights:
Spending way to much $$ on my house in order to sell it
Not being able to pay off as much debt as I’d like to
Gained about 20#
Lost a lot of muscle endurance/strength due to my ACL surgery
Plans for 2011:
Relocate paid for by work to outside NY
Be rid of and sell my house
Pay off some debt
Head back to school for my EMBA (Work sponsored already)
Loose at least 20#s, and get into a lot better shape
Start working to live instead of living to work.
Highlights
-EDIT - Finished my MBA. Forgot about that already. 
-Went to Thailand
-Went to Cambodia
-Got a promotion
-Got another promotion
-Got my wife knocked up
-Got my house for sale
-(Hopefully) will have an offer accepted on a nicer house before year’s end
Lowlights
-Nothing that matters
Plans
-Move to way nicer house/location
-Have a kid
-Keep on keepin on
:tup: I didn’t know about this. Congrats dude.
are you sure you meant to put this in the “highlights” section?