The Yes Year

Happy New Year everyone!

It is a tradition to look at the year that is about to pass, isn't it? So I figured I would bombard you with some statistics...

  • I exercised over 200 times this year. Not that it made me particularly fit but at least I am in better shape then ever before.
  • I worked approx. 2 extra work months this year. Will I never become wiser?
  • I finished 28 book. This is a record low and I blame the two items above.
  • I read books from 13 countries. 16 written by men, 12 by women. And there I just exposed one of my obsessions...
  • I visited 11 countries this year, 5 new ones, and Asia for the first time. Thumbs up for that one!
  • I flew at least 73,859 km. I will go to environmental hell for sure!
  • I got upgraded to business class three times (+ one upgraded hotel room) and made my "friends" hate me.
  • I was away from home because of travel approx 68 days.
  • I only passed 4 out of 10 New Year's Resolution.

But life isn't just statistics. To really figure out what I have been doing this year I decided to go through my Facebook profile and look at what I was doing when I wasn't working, exercising, or reading. This is what I found:

I started the year with "big" plans. In January I stated I had a new mission in life. Become rich enough to afford a personal shopper to take care of annoying clothes shopping! In February my plans grew into starting some evil money-making religion since the government seemed eager to protect religion from any criticism. In March it really took off and I decided to say yes to everything and wait for exciting things to happen. Oh man did that one come and bite me later...

April was quiet but I learned two important lessons: to not place my coffee cup under the automatic antibacterial soap dispenser and to always check the content of the web pages you use in a demo. Otherwise you might send out stuff about "man boobies" and such...

In May, saying yes to everything got me a trip to San Fransisco where I spent most of my time eating cold medicines and becoming addicted to Starbucks. In June I finished my exercise New Year's Resolution to exercise on average twice a week and got nickname together with the boyfriend at the gym as "the Sporty couple". How tacky is that?

In July, the "yes" thing really went downhill and July's Facebook status messages were mostly bitching about late night marathon telcos and not seeing the summer. Not that I learned from this. In August I said yet another yes which brought me to Japan. There I got to know gadget toilets, cubicle meeting rooms and girls that all wore shoes they couldn't walk on. Very interesting cultural experience.

In September, another yes brought me to Korea where I discovered the wonders of Korean cuisine and how frustrating it is that you can't easily scrape your plate with chopsticks. October was spent in a windy country where the waterfall would go upwards because of crazy weather and in room at a seminar with 500 other geeks and not feeling particularly unique. November was then spent joking about the swine flu which had spread like wildfire among all those geeks.

In December I was just cold. So cold that I contemplated risking burning to death rather then going outside when the fire alarm went off...

Eventful year huh? :)

And now I am gonna work on my New Year's Resolution! Stay tuned for the silly idea I got to keep myself insanely busy in 2010...

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"friends" ?

I resent the quotation marks!

though it sounds like a pretty good year to me!

Friend vs "Friend"

Friends without the quotation marks would have been happy for me ;)

Friend vs "Friend"

"Friends" would leave anonymous comments and in any case wouldn't care enough to question the quotes.

Further, anyone who is genuinely and unselfishly happy for someone else getting upgraded is not a real friend, they're just retarded. Or so rich they always pay for business class anyway. ;)

Upgraded to Friends"

Hehe you have a good point there :)

I think I will drop a quote because you both were nice enough to read and comment on my blog. Might drop the other one if I get no more threats about being staked if I get upgraded again :)

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Gerður Jónsdóttir

I am an Icelandic mediumgeek who lives in Oslo, Norway. I work at Opera Software making user interfaces for mobile browsers. I like reading and traveling most of all but there are many other things I like sticking my nose into. I have secret liking for getting upset about religious and political matters. Those are topics you are likely to find some entries about on my blog in between other things that happen to interest me then and there. Please note that the opinions here are my own and have nothing to do with my employer, family, or friends.
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