Reflections on 2006
So this past year has been pretty rough for me. First year in my life that i didn’t have a job at all. It was wierd but ok I guess. I’m in school so it wasn’t like i wasn’t doing anything, so I guess that’s why I feel it was ok. It wouldhave been nice to have some sort of money flow coming in but I want to get my degree and move on with my life. I did some things I wasn’t proud of last year, and if I could turn back the clock I wouldn’t have done those things. One of them cost me a good friend. I’m working to repair that friendship and right that wrong but I don’t know if that will work. I can only hope it will.
I have two more quarters of school left until I get my degree in Computer Information Systems-Network Engineering and Security. I’m proud of that, but can’t wait to be done with school. My sister got engaged this year, date is set for April 2007 I think, and my parents finally are having their dream house built. They should be able to move into the house before April hopefully. 2006 also ended the struggle with getting my car back from the guy that was working on it, although not in the way I would have liked.
He just stopped returning my calls and updating me on the progress, and in August I get a bill from Gene’s Towing, saying they towed my vehicle because it was ‘abandoned’, even though it was sitting at said mechanic’s shop. Needless to say that really pissed me off, and I also found out he did this to a couple other people I know also having their cars worked on, one of them a good friend. I could deal with the car being towed and what not, hey shit happens right?, but I found out that when Gene’s Towing held their car auction he bought my car back- luckily covering the towng bill- and then put the motor, which I paid for, back into the car and sold the car as his own, making a nice profit.
I talked to a lawyer about suing him just to get the money I paid for the engine back-$2300-, so I could at least buy a new car, but my family’s lawyer advised me that it would not be worth it, since it was just a small amount. I would, IF I won , take home maybe $500 after I paid for the lawyer fee, and all the court fees. I kinda wish I had pursued it, as it was more about the right thing to do than about the money.
That brings us to the fiasco with a good friend. I lost a great friend in the process and his roomate who was starting to become a good friend. I almost lost my couple other good friends, as we all have been close since high school. To be honest this was the hardest time I have ever been in in my life. I’m gratefull I still have my friends, but sad that I lost a really great friend. You never really know how much someone means to you until they aren’t around anymore. I’m in the process of righting that wrong, and hopefully reclaiming him as friend, I know that if that does happen it won’t be the same as before, and to get it back to that level I will have to work hard on the friendship, which I am willing to do. There is one person who was instrumental in helping me keep my best friend, I will be having a nice long chat with said person also.
That brings us to X-mas season. This was the first year in my life I didn’t have the means to get anyone, anything. Let me tell you that is a feeling I will not go through again. I know the spirit of the season if giving, but I just feel akward getting gifts from the people that care about me when I have nothing in return to give them. I know I shouldn’t feel this way as it’s not within the holiday spirit, but hey that’s just me. I think that comes from having to work hard all my life to get everything I have and everything I wantes. Nothing was just handed to me. Anyways that was pretty much my year. Overall not a good year but I brought most if it on myself. You live and you learn.
Grik
