Year in Review

In talking with Jason last night, he asked me to post the events that stood out the most for me in 2003. So lemme try to remember...

Skiing for the first time since 1995 (it felt so great) · seeing Saba have so much fun on the little baby hill (not even the bunny hill!) · getting bronchitus in March and May and having everyone think I had SARS both times · walking around Montréal with my middle sister in heavy snowfall and walking right into le Festival Montréal en Lumière by accident, where we then waited in line with little kids to go snow tubing · meeting Yvonne during her stay in Toronto · going up the CN Tower for the first time and enjoying at yummy dinner at the 360 restaurant · getting covered in streamers at the Blue Man Group performance with Justine and Brad · Dennis buying a shirt I wanted at the Coldplay concert to rub in the fact that I couldn't get one in my size · playing ping-pong with Tommy, Janice, and Nelson during lunch · visiting Las Vegas where I lost my camera and got so upset that I didn't get to try the Cheesecake Factory as planned · gambling for the first time at Luxor and having the dealer ask for my ID, then telling me where to put my money, and then telling me where to put the chips · experiencing two rounds of layoffs and an acquisition at Ironside · going out to dinner after the David Copperfield show with my youngest sister, Dennis, his "buddy" Kelvin (who had just met him a few days before), Kelvin's "friend" Vivien (who he had met a few days before as well), and Vivien's friend who we all just met that day · meeting with Lucy in Montréal for the first time since 1999 · stargazing and playing Clue by candlelight during the blackout (and learning that my youngest sister is really a pyromaniac) · meeting Ryan Malcolm at the Mariah Carey concert · a night out at Einstein's with Jason and Jen (I won't go into the details :P) · waiting outside Roy Thomson Hall with Justine and Darryl for a famous person to walk down the red carpet, only to realize that we had just missed Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins · pulling a gazillion all-nighters and suffering emotional breakdowns · getting into a nasty argument with our "superstar" · getting punked real good by my CSC318 group ("we're switching back to the fridge for the last assignment!") · trying Thai food for the first time at Purple Rice with Justine.