To start this off right, I suggest that you follow this link and fire up this song to read along with the post…
2009 was a year that’s hard to put into words. I had numerous failures and struggles, but I also had some of the greatest moments of my life, all within the span of 12 months. I had illnesses that I thought were impossible to get, broke a bone for the first time in years, caused damage to my back that still gives me constant problems, said goodbye to more friends and also began to prepare to welcome my son into the world…
Also, crappy that I couldn’t figure out how to bring the old style “rearview” posts to Word Press. I tired, but failed, so here’s the new style, don’t like it as much… also had to resize all the pics because the old format didn’t work and so everything is pretty crappy quality now… damn!
Jan ’09
January started out with me being sick. I was still able to start a new blog that didn’t last even a month. I handed out the first (and possibly last) NAPpY’s, watched Takushoku finish 17th (didn’t make it this year) and ended up injuring myself ice skating, putting my training and exercising on a hold that would continue the entire year!
Feb ’09
Watched the Super Bowl, celebrated Kenkoku-kinenbi with an envy show and some sushi, introduced you to one of the Yukigaya Pimps, got a new dictionary and welcomed Griffey back to Seattle! My knee still hurt…
Mar ’09
In March I started to finish some games, but I was also fooled into believing that Red Dead would come out waaaay earlier than it actually will. I taunted a child, they found the Cornel, got poo on me, watched a bunch of WBC and started my baseball stadiums of Japan reviews and grabbed Antonio’s package. During the month, I also witnessed someone eating their own dandruff… *shiver*
Apr ’09
Oh April… I hurt myself real bad and said goodbye to a good friend, finished my stadium reviews and didn’t do much posting about anything else except for some old pictures. I went to my first few games of the year with mixed results and celebrated round face’s marriage and baby announcement. I also got my picture in a magazine! I think that April was the last no airplay podcast too…
May ’09
May was pretty exciting. Mornin and I hit up a few games during golden week, we all celebrated round face’s b-day and Mr. Infidel’s farewell as well. I got engaged, got some new sandals and saw a crazy dude walking around Akihabara with a rabbit on his shoulder… Melvis got a year older.
June ’09
June was sparse… Pretty much 3 things. Went to Hokkaido, which was rad, for Tora’s wedding, a baseball game and tourism! Finally got around to celebrating Melvis’ b-day, and mornin and I went apartment hunting, got an apartment and started packing. That’s pretty much it. Oh wait! Also got a PS3, and I paid in all 500円 coins…
July ’09
This is the peak of my year, the zenith of my happiness? It was a good, good month, but only posted 5 times. Maybe I was too happy? In July, I moved, got married, and found out that I’d be a father all in the span of about 1 week. It was sad that I left Yukigaya (Kugahara is a good place to live, but that’s about it…) but the new apartment is a ton better, and especially with a baby coming, I’m super glad that we got out of the old, dirty place. Being married has been great, and knowing that we will have a new family member in about 2 months has also been a source of nerves and excitement. I also shaved my head, played tennis, went to our (new) local 盆踊り, and started to see more and more strange creatures show up in the garden. Tora and dude? also came into town!
Aug ’09
In August I didn’t really do too much once dude? left town. I googled my name, and had a barbecue in the backyard. Also held the NDL draft, which turned out to be my worst fantasy season ever! Just terrible. Melvis and I went to see envy again. August, done.
Sept ’09
September brought my PC a bunch of problems, a trip to Osaka and Hiroshima with mornin, dude? and Mrs. dude? to got to Koshien, Mazda Zoom Zoom, Kyocera Dome, Nagai Stadium and Miyajima. Great trip, never ended up posting about it really though. Maybe to come? Also, mornin finished her graduate school! And we both got iPhones. I also got deep into football for a while, at least until stupid daylight savings time… happy b-day dude?!
Oct ’09
October found me in Yokohama for Oktoberfest again, and in Ikegami for another O-eshiki. Had the Brother and Sister-in-laws over for some fajitas and Wii. I ordered some games from Play Asia and… nope, that’s really it. Oh wait, nope, it was my birthday and mornin’s too. I gave her 8 days of presents!
Nov ’09
People started having lots of babies around this time of the year (Casey and Apoc) and I started thinking about moving to Word Press. Had a nice Thanksgiving with the wife, shaved my head again, maybe for the last time before I go home later this year. I jumped back up to 12 posts this moth, but most of them sucked and I just complained about stuff… The old no airplay had died…
Dec ’09
In December I moved over to Word Press and also found out that I was going to have a baby boy! Round Face’s baby girl was born. The wife and I bought a new camera and started taking photo walks around the neighborhood. We also had a Christmas Movie Marathon and I ate turkey! I made it through another year… A year of strife and celebration. A year that hopefully made me wiser and stronger. A year that I didn’t really accomplish most of the things I thought I would, but a year that I did many things that I didn’t expect. 2009 was a good year. I think 2010 will be a whole new one, I can’t even begin to imagine what things will be like on this day in 2011, but I wish for the best.
2010…
Mornin and I are gonna have a baby boy, right about 2 months away now, and we are planning to travel as a family to America in July, to see my family and have a small wedding ceremony. We’ll visit my sister and grandmother in Arizona and my Father and grandpa (hopefully) in Las Vegas. It should be an interesting year, I’m not really ready to come up with a list of things that I want to do/achieve besides those two just yet, maybe soon though. I still need to post some pictures from the first two days of this year, and describe the craziness that those two days were…
here’s to a new year!
