your top highlights from 2007, and your new years resolution!

[nailz]

o shit it's leap year.

[scooterSST]

Originally Posted by Pyramaze51

Nope, it is belts, she is taking Kung-Fu San Soo, I know some forms of Kung Fu do give sash's but not in San Soo.

Did a little research, it's an offshoot of Shaolin Kung Fu, less concerned with sport fighting than self defense.

I received my Black Belt in Taekwondo (WTF) a couple of years ago, it was one of the great moments of my life. But in reality it's just the beginning, I've just scratched the surface...

Congrats to your daughter

[Stingray11214]

Highlights:

1)Went on the "Adventure of a Lifetime": Went to Hong Kong, Macau, and the Philippines in January. Two weeks I would not trade for anything.

2)Got married, which was a direct result of going on "1".

3)Finally got to see Nightwish live. Not once, but twice!

4)Met Sonata at their "listening party" in NYC.

Resolutions:

1) Need to get my health in order.

2) start building my family

3) Prep for two church weddings: One here, and one in the Philippines.

[Yippee38]

Originally Posted by sh0kr0k

Having someone to love who loves me back

What are all of us here? Chopped liver?

most of these can be checked off if I just move to Brazil in 2008. I pretty much have a guaranteed job and a whole new life waiting for me if I choose it. It's looking better every day.

Good for you! Bad for us. That means we'll see you less frequently than we do now.

[sh0kr0k]

Originally Posted by Yippee38

What are all of us here? Chopped liver?

Awww!! You're not chopped liver! I love you too!

Good for you! Bad for us. That means we'll see you less frequently than we do now.

Yeah that might be the case if this pans out. I don't have formal plans at this point, but who knows what the future holds... I would miss you too much if I left!

[DemonOfTheWoods]

Originally Posted by Bear

2007 was one of the worst and best years of my life.

I can easily second that statement. I hate years like that.

Nevermind the crap that happened to me this year. As for highlights,

-ProgPower, of course, and everything involved with ProgPower (the show, the people, hanging with Zak Stevens, Jon Macaluso, the Cellador guys, the Pagan's Mind guys, all the other people I met and hung out with through the weekend, I could go on forever about PPVIII)
-Seeing Primal Fear (that gets its own mention!)
-Seeing Threshold (that too gets its own mention!)
-Seeing Genesis
-Seeing Doro
-Flight of the Valkyries, meeting SwordLord, everything involving our ventures to Minnesota (see BlackRoseMetalHeart's post for full info. She already wrote it all out. No point in writing the exact same thing )

I'm tired and my brain has shut itself off. Other great things happened in 2007but I can't think anymore.

As for resolutions, I used to always make a bunch and never go through with them so I stopped with New Years Resolutions.
This year, I do have one very important resolution which I will make sure I do, and that is to finally get the 3 albums worth of music I have written & recorded finalized, mixed, mastered, and somehow put out so people can finally hear it!
That would make me happy.

[jaimek]

2006 and 2007 were among the worst years I've had - there were a handful of good things about them, but I was very glad to see them both go to ground. The world is not allowed to fuck with me in 2008: I'm moving south in a few weeks, and I'm going to take the opportunity to make a positive change in the things I CAN change.

[Burnout]

As far as highlights go, I got to meet James Malone on the Arsis/Enslaved tour. I haven't made any resolutions quite yet though.

[DarkOne]

I try not to make resolutions, but here are some non-music highs and lows:

Highlights:
My wife and I finally making it to Japan after years of my friend asking me to go.
A week in an all inclusive in Mexico
Hanging out at Progpower

Lowlights:
Getting promoted to management (okay, also a good thing. Sometimes)

Looking forward to:
Halloween at Universal Studios
3 weeks on an Italian cruise

Yeesh. My life really does revolve around my vacations!

Happy new year to all!

Steve in Philly

[Pellaz]

My New Year's resolution? 640x480


I'd resolve to lose weight, but instead I'll resolve to try to eat a bit healthier and to get more exercise.


Highlights of 2007 for me:

• ProgPower USA, the Showcase (FK!) and everyone involved in both. It was an outstanding year
• Dragon*Con, and my small but hopefully valuable contributions to it as a director
• Texas MadFest -- well worth the trip!
• Another good summer up in Tennessee at Blue Hole
• Georgia Rennaissance Festival -- it's imperfect and average at best, but 'home' for me during the Spring
• I'm still making my mortgage payment! Two years and counting!
• Dimmu Borgir live
• Porcupine Tree live
• Cradle of Filth live (the second time around)
• Nightwish live
• The 69 Eyes live
• Virgin Black and To/Die/For live
• (insert other great shows I'm forgetting, here: _________)

Lowlights:

• Grandmother passing in early summer
• Godmother (my grandma's longtime companion) passing a few months later, before finalizing her will (wave g'bye to about $1 million, Paul)
• Cat passing in November
• A/C breaking down during the summer (but not costing too much to fix, *whew*)

I guess 2007 was, on balance, a 'meh' year.....