Thoughts at the end of the year… | Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated

It’s Saturday morning, Decmber 31, 2005. We’re a few hours from the end of year another of my allotted lifespan, and I’m looking back on the preceding twelve months.

This year has been one hell of a ride for me. I started out with a nice home and a good job and wonderful, intelligent kids and a girlfriend, and a goodly number of great friends. Now, a year later, I’m missing the home.

But in many other ways, it’s been a good year. We’ve eaten well, laughed, loved and lived, and life has been good for me.

Business-wise, our little office is doing well, and we’ve had an interesting year’s worth of good projects. As it should be, all our clients are doing well, too, even after facing down a hurricane which put this area in the dark for weeks. Our handling of the hurricane was a lot different than Katrina in New Orleans, and the mainstream media has forgotten us because we’re successful (for the most part) and New Orleans is still a disaster due to a combination of factors, many of which can be traced back to poor decisions by generations of local politicians.

I’m still looking at the “house” thing. I suspect that in January I will put together a deal which will get me out of my tiny little FEMA-supplied sanctuary and into a real home.

And tonight, in the tradition that forms us, the kids and I will celebrate the passing of the old year by doing some fireworks…

7 thoughts on “Thoughts at the end of the year…”

Yes, you sure have had one ‘heck of a ride’ this past year. Here’s wishing for you a wonderful prosperous and a ‘no hurricane’ (well, at least where you live) 2006
Happy Happy New Year to You and Yours

No doubt, you have had, *one hell of a ride* this past year.
Here’s wishing for a new year full of wonderful happenings, and NO Hurricanes ( well at least where you live)
Happy, Happy New Year to You and Yours.