Happy new year everyone, time to take a look back at 2005.

Top 10 events of 2005

  • Jen getting pregnant
  • Jen having a baby
  • Surprise parties (giving and receiving)
  • Finishing the cupboard
  • Making new friends
  • Learning to play euchre
  • Achieving my ATM
  • Teaching a Unix course
  • My first Ebay purchase(s)
  • Managing to keep this blog going for the whole year

Top 10 Music of 2005

  • The Killers
  • Modest Mouse
  • Arcade Fire
  • Rise Against
  • Green Day
  • Jack Johnson
  • The Shins
  • The Gorillaz
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Ben Kweller

Top 10 Movies and TV that I saw in 2005

  • Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
  • Bad Santa
  • Garden State
  • Doctor Who
  • Motorcycle Diaries
  • Serenity
  • Lemony Snicket’s Unfortunate Series of Events
  • Lost
  • Little Britain
  • Battlestar Galactica

Discoveries of 2005

  • Hospital food is even worse than I imagined
  • Online poker is addictive
  • Changing nappies isn’t as scary as it sounds
  • PVRs rock
  • I know more about Canada than many Canadians
  • Firefox (or did I discover that in 2004? hmm)
  • The Battle of Wesnoth
  • I can be funny sometimes

Worst things of 2005

  • C-sections
  • Dubya
  • Rising transit prices
  • Overly credulous people
  • Everyone having parties when we can’t make them
  • Missing every single YULblog meet
  • MySpace
  • Accidentally using salt instead of sugar in a cake mix
  • Bureaucracy getting in the way of progress and creativity
  • Loved ones getting sick