2006:  The year in review

In my first entry of 2006, I wrote this:

For 2006, my goals are to finish my online course and to finally get my green card (15 years in the making… it’s been a long wait).  I hope we’ll learn to make some money with our dye sublimation and sandblasting equipment (we’re taking classes for those in March), and I plan to kick the stock market’s butt with some good investments.  I hope that when 2006 draws to a close, Flippy’s back will be fixed, all our pets will still be with us, and that our bank account will be ample.  Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can make life less stressful.

I did indeed finish my vet assistant course, and I even took a real estate course (I couldn’t have seen that one coming!).  I got my green card, and I took classes in sandblasting and dye sublimation.  Flippy’s back is much better (she’s replaced that with other problems, poor Flippy!), and the pets are more plentiful than ever.  Funny how that happens.  The one goal I didn’t meet was for money to be “plentiful”—it’s not quite as plentiful as I would like, especially with Flippy’s surgery bills and our vet bills.  I’ll just work on that goal again in 2007 and hope for a different outcome!

2006 was definitely the year of the cat, and caring for my first set of foster kittens a year ago changed my life.  I completed the vet assistant class this year, I took a couple of CEU classes, I had a “behind-the-scenes” job interview at the vet’s office, started a nonprofit, and adopted out some cats!  I feel that I’m on a path which makes me happy, and I want to continue to pursue it though education and work experiences.  It’s nice to feel on the path to something.  I’m working on the sidelines, doing some of the real estate stuff we learned in our night school class, but that’s just my effort to pay the bills.  My heart is in working with animals, and in writing about it.

My goals for 2007 shall be to sign up for a vet tech course, to try to get at least one donation for the nonprofit, to apply for federal nonprofit status, and to close at least one loan for my very patient real estate broker!  A definite goal is to just try to feel healthier, too, and to live with less stress.  I will continue to provide the very best care I can for all of our pets, and I will continue to love the Toronto Maple Leafs even if they don’t make it into the playoffs (although my love may have its ups and downs).  And one more thing—in 2007, I shall make chocolate bread pudding at least once.

I appreciate all my online friends and acquaintances—I’ve learned so much from all of you!  Thanks for your blogs and for your comments here—you teach me something every day.  Happy New Year!

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/31 at 11:59 PM

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  1. You never know when one of your goals may be realized.

    Posted by Roxie, Sammy & Andy  on  01/01  at  09:47 AM
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