Although I may not feel that I personally accomplished a lot in 2008, I’d like to think that I made my mark in history and I will be able to tell my kids and grandkids about the time when…
1. I voted for Senator Barack Obama who became the first black President ever elected in the United States of America.
2. I went to the Cubs first game in the Central Division Playoffs at Wrigleyfield during their record-setting season and saw the Cubs go 100 years without winning the World Series… my wounds are still not healed.
3. I worked for (and maintained employment at) a General Motors-exclusive advertising agency during a time where the American auto industry was on the verge of extinction until they were granted millions of dollars of emergency government loans.
4. I was the “end person” for a close friend who successfully completed the Chicago Marathon… maybe some day I will actually run it myself or maybe not...
5. I went to Mardi Gras in St. Louis (second only to New Orleans).
6. Gas reached upwards of $4 a gallon and I was forced to change my lifestyle and cut back on visits to Justin in Columbia because gas cost $200 for the trip there and back – more than a plane ticket.
7. I ACTUALLY watched Michael Phelps win his record-setting eighth gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
8. I lived in Chicago during the 10th snowiest winter on record with more than 23 inches of snow at the end of December.
9. Justin and I bumped into Rolland Burris on the eve of the New Year after his extremely controversial appointment to the vacant Illinois U.S. Senate seat left by Obama by Governor Rod Blagovich who is on the verge of being impeached.
10. I saw David Cook the 2008 American Idol winner from Kansas City switch on Kansas City Plaza’s Christmas lights over Thanksgiving.
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