2008! Good or bad year?

[Sigma]

Hi there! This year is about to finish and I just want to wish you all a GREAT 2009! For what we know, it'll be a year full of surprises, Dolores is coming back & Arkitekt will be releasing new stuff! Hopefully we'll have more updates about Fergal and maybe Mike as well!

I'm having some little extra time now and I'll have some more starting next year because of my new job and I want to be more active on the forums since I've been kind'a disappeared lately.

I just want to share good and bad experiences that made this year special!

Let's start with the bad things, I quit my job in AT&T because they offered me an 'nice' opportunity in the US, once there I ended up hating the place (Pittsburgh) and I just lasted for a couple of months before coming back to my normal life in Mexico City. Back home I followed love to a place in the middle of nowhere in a beach located in Mexico's Pacific Coast... there was nothing there (Literally)!!! Back home (again) my lease ran over in October and I still was unemployed so I had to return with my parents! I carried my stuff in bags more times this year than any other time previously!!! It was crazy!

Not everything was bad, my internal clock changed a lot when I was working at AT&T in the nightshift so I slept all morning and had all day free until the night arrived and then I had to go to my job, those were really productive days, then I traveled to the US, the main destination was pretty boring but as soon as I got a car I drove to Maryland and met Alex! I had such a great day!!! After that I decided to go to different places each weekend insted of staying home alone and that's how I ended up in NY and met Rami! Damn we walked all over the place!!! It was absolutely great! Then WV and finally just before going back to Mexico I went to Chicago for July's 4th celebrations! Back home and full of inspiration I finished a bunch of songs in the recording studio for 2 different projects, one that will give me the opportunity to travel back to Europe next year (Hopefully I'll catch Dolores somewhere there again!) and the other one being something more 'mainstream' brought me the chance to perform live again after 4 years of staying off-the-stage and it was for Latinamerican TV! Nice experience! After that, Fergal sent us a message telling us that he really liked the song! If we're lucky enough we might have the chance to produce a couple of tracks with him next year!

Well I think I've written enough! Tell me about your 2008, would love to read some other stories! Merry X-mas to everyone out there!

[Wasted]

for me it was hard in a sense that i had a lots of building to do , and a year before that, and I still have a lot of things to do, but hopefuly it will be at least partialy over till this summer (that is if everything goes well of course). The good thing is that i made a lots of friends and learned a lot surfing the net and working on the comp which is a good thing, except that i am not interested in much more then writting, playing games and listening to good music

[Zudeek]

For me this was more bad than good year... 

It was bad because I finished a relationship with the one I loved. It was so hard, and I was down most of the year. But in the other hand, I got a promotion in my job, and that came back my encourage again. 

Now I hope 2009 get better; starting, I'm ready to go many concert: Alanis, Radiohead, Metallica, Depeche... and of course, openning my heart again. 

My best wishes for everyone 

[cranspektrum]

Unfortunately for me it was one of the worst years of my life, that's why I was so depressed and was absent from the forums most of the time. My parents are complaining all the time and nothing is coming right. Things are still bad at home, I'm not talking with my parents so much, and it's been 2 months I don't talk to my father. He insulted me, told me pretty bad things and he still didn't recognized his mistake.

I got a temporary job but it finished. I'm thankful for the lovely people I've met there, they helped me do not feel so bad with my personal problems. And weeks ago I bought my first cellphone, it's really cool because I can take pics of myself, and this has been a good therapy for me.

Oh I have too many things to do! I still didn't finished to save things from Zombieguide Forums and the website... too many plans and promises for the next year, hope I'll get a new job and to study, I do love to study! ^^

Seeya and thanks for everything, my dear friends.

[IrishPretty]

Oh guys, I've read your stories, I see it hasn't been a very good year for any of you...
nice that you still find some good aspects of it!

It wasn't a good year for me either...
My grandfather died, so you may understand why I'll never consider 2008 a good year.
Many other things took place:
I had to see my baby cousin in hospital too many times, one of my father's aunts died, one of my best friends went to study in London, I had to save all I was earning cause I had no money this year after the tours, so I couldn't get my driving permission and had to miss lots of concerts I would have loved to assist ( Amy Winehouse, Madonna, The Police, Bob Dylan, Amaral some more time... )

But, like you, I can get the good things as well:
-My baby cousin is fine, he's only got a little problem with the position of his feet while walking, but it's something that heals and he's got a completely ordinary life
-I knew two very important people in my life, Lalo, my king and Katy, mi Italian bambina.
-I went to Amaral's concert in Sevilla and it was an old dream come true, it wasn't as exciting and touching as Dolores' concerts were, but it was a greatly awesome show and Eva is such a lovely person!
-And Spain won the cup and Obama won the elections.

2009 will be a better year
Happy New Year for everyone!!!!

[Wasted]

well actualy thinking of it i really wish a new computer in the new year because it was really painful working on this old one which i cant fix on the other hand the net got cheaper and i started learning Russian which btw is a lot more complicated then i thought but i am gonna learn it because there is so much more things going on in russian then in my (small) language

[Sigma]

Hey thanks for your replies! Whatever happens next year I'm sure Dolores will bring some happiness to our lives with new music and live shows near our locations, again, I wish you all the best and see you around in 2009, we'll have a bunch of surprises, meanwhile I'm finishing my New Year's present for you, hope you like it !