It's 5:00 a.m. and I'm on the laptop in a Hampton Inn in
SmallTown, North Carolina. The MooChef family is on the road visiting Chef's
mom. PQ and I have been up since 2:30 a.m., Chef is snoring peacefully in one
bed, and KQ is sleepgrinding her teeth in the other (and now you know why PQ
and I have been up for a while).
Anyway, on to the subject at hand...
As usual, I'm stealing borrowing a blog post idea
from the incomparable Ms. Qand doing one of those end-of-the-year reviews. (And
thanks, Q, for the sweet shout-out in one of your posts this week... I'm
feeling the love! You know I think you're great!)
It's been an eventful year for me (as were the previous
two), but this one has had more ups than downs, and you can't ask for more than
that. As 2006 approaches, life is good, and I'm thankful.
And now for the Year in ReMoo...
January:
KQ hits the double digits and turns 10.
LJ and Chef get engaged (I think it was Jan. 5, but I'm not
sure... I'm terrible for not remembering!)
Chef turns 34.
February:
LJ gives birth to a new bouncing baby blog, MooAlex, on
February 8!
LJ and Chef celebrate their first
Valentine's Day.
First anniversary of LJ and Chef's first date is Feb. 28.
Number of Moos in February: 14
Favorite Moo of February: I
pithy the fool!
March:
After much lawyer wrangling
to get Chef's divorce finally finalized, LJ and Chef get married on March 13 in
the Outer Banks of NC.
Number of Moos in March: 11
Favorite Moo of March: Wedding
photos...finally!
April:
Not a very eventful (is that a word?) month.
Mom's birthday... no comment on her age!
Number of Moos in April: 18
Favorite Moo of April: The
question game: Round 1 (aka, LJ's Eulogy)
May:
The final Star Wars movie debuts on May 19.
Apparently, I
wasn't too happy with it.
MooAlex comes down with mad
troll disease.
The
Wedding Singer becomes my most traffic-inducing post.
Number of Moos in May: 38
Favorite Moo of May: Kiss
and make up
June:
My Aunt
Margaret passed away.
MooAlex gets a redesign.
The Moo was #20 in the Blogette Awards.
Number of Moos in June: 28
Favorite Moo of June: French
Kissin' in the USA
July:
First official MooChef
family vacation in Nags Head, NC.
Guest-bloggers take
over the Moo July 3-8.
Dickhead problems start.
Number of Moos in July: 21
Favorite Moo of July: Shuck
U and the seahorse you rode in on
August:
My first root
canal.
Dickhead problems continue.
Hurricane Katrina eclipses my tiny personal problems.
MooAlex's first spinoff, The
Summer of Blog 2005, debuts.
Number of Moos in August: 21
Favorite Moo of August: Fun
with hats
September:
PQ
turns 15 and discovers that he knows everything.
I am blog-interviewed for
the first time.
Second MooAlex spinoff, Dogs
inTubs, debuts.
More Dickhead problems.
Number of Moos in September: 28
October:
Business trips to Boston and Denver.
Dickhead problems peak.
Number of Moos in October: 18
Favorite Moo of October: The
one about penises
November:
"You
be the Moo" debuts and various GuestMoos take over for much of
November.
I
turn 41 (but I'll only admit to 38 if you ask).
I decide to give
peace a chance.
My friend has a cancer
scare that turns out okay.
Number of Moos in November: 37
Favorite Moo of November: The
mouth of babes
December:
Business trip to Roanoke (last one for a while, I hope).
Dickhead problems settle down, and a ceasefire is in effect.
KQ hurts her arm, and the kids lose their paternal
grandfather.
First official MooChef
family Christmas (all parties sufficiently spoiled by too many gifts).
Number of Moos in December: 13
Favorite Moo of December: Naughty
fonts
That's 2005 in a nutshell! Looking forward to more blogging
in 2006...
This article was published originally here
