2008 IN RECAP, EXCITED FOR 2009!
Well, I’m back from Apex Mountain and we all had a great time there snowboarding for New Years!
I can’t believe it is 2009 already. 2008 was a year full of ups and downs, surprises, excitement, and many happy moments.
In 2008 I…
… rang in the New Year’s at Disneyland, finishing up an amazing one-month-long surfing, snowboarding, and scuba diving road trip throughout the States to Portland, San Francisco, Tahoe, Death Valley, Mammoth Mountain, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Catalina Island, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Snowbird Mountain, Idaho, Mission Ridge Mountain, and Washington…
… went snowboarding at Big White, Whistler, Cypress, Mt. Washington and Apex…
… parted ways with the first video game company I worked for… and moved to a new, dynamic video game company…
… took a three week trip to Costa Rica for some warm water surfing and travelling…
… went camping, partying, and surfing in Tofino dozens of times…
… caught some seriously large Halibut going deep ocean fishing…
… enjoyed grocery shopping at Granville Island every week…
… traveled to Korea for business…
… and Japan…
… started to learn to skate and play hockey…
… sold my Nikon D80 and got my grubby little hands on a new camera set up with the Nikon D90…
… started working on an HD snowboarding movie project…
… went to Trevor Linden’s retirement night…
… completed my AST-1 Avalanche Training course…
… went to Apex to finish 2008 and welcome 2009!
I couldn’t be happier with how this past year has gone. I feel like I’ve learned a lot, tried new activities, grown as a person, realized how wonderful my friends are, made some new friends, and saw lots of new places.
Plans for 2009:
- Take more photographs of people, improving my fashion and portrait photography
- Grab better, more steady footage for HD snowboarding movie project
- Travel somewhere warm
- Travel somewhere cold
- Keep apartment clean and tidy
- Cook even more
- Do something active at least once a day
- Not worry about what anyone thinks of me!
- Finally finish Gears of War 2 because I’ve been a complete slacker
Thank you to my friends, family, loved ones, and coworkers who have filled the past year with so many laughs, hugs, discussions, activities, and happy moments! I hope you all have an amazing 2009.
Tags: Apex, AST-1, Big White, cherries, Costa Rica, Disneyland, fishing, Granville Island, Halibut, hockey, Nikon D90, road trip, scuba diving, Seoul, snowboarder girl, Snowboarding, surfer girl, Tokyo, Trevor Linden, Vancouver girl, waterfalls
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January 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Great, great post.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Kudos on a 2008. Giv’er hell in 09.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Great post. I need to learn how to take better photographs too. How are you planning to do that? Take courses or?
January 4th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Great re-cap Allie and great plans for 2009. Many of those cross-over with my plans; especially the cook more and get better at photography! Here’s hoping we are both able to keep our plans *cough*resolutions*cough*.
See you in the New Year!
January 5th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Looks like you had a great year; good luck in 2009!
January 5th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Wow, when did you find time to work? I’d like to do half these things in ‘09, but business always get’s in the way. I got to work on that. Thanks for the inspiration.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Oops. I should have read the “This is not an avatar comment”. Please delete my giant mug from my previous comment asap!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hi Allie,
I am really glad I started reading your blog in ‘08. Your words are interesting and the pictures you take are mindblowing. Keep it up and have an amazing 2009!
jyh
January 6th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Raj, thanks man!
Huckleberry Hart, will try my best! You too. Keep on ripping it up over there.
Tawcan, I’m not planning on taking any courses. I just want to take more photos and see what I can get out of it. I’m going to try and ask people if I can take their photos more too. Just to try and get some more practice with portraits. I got a lot of experience in university but sadly it’s not as easy anymore to get photos of people
Lindsay, thanks so much! Yes it does indeed seem like we have similar goals doesn’t it? I think you and I are cut from a similar piece of cloth
Hehe yes! They are totally resolutions! But I’ve always loved New Years Resolutions 
vxla, thanks, you too! Keep up the music.
Ryan, fortunately over the holidays our studio closes so we have some extra time off
Plus in between jobs I took some time off and that’s when I went to Costa Rica. Other than that, it’s just careful planning with vacation days! 
Good luck! And no problem, everyone does that with the image uploader 
josh, thanks, I feel the same way about Highly Obsessed!
January 11th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Those are some fun pics!
Happy New Year!
January 11th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Wow what an adventurous year. Your pictures are really great too! Keep exploring & stay fearless
January 13th, 2009 at 9:25 am
great pictures!! like ur blog!
ciao Luis