It Was a Decade to Remember! Welcome to 2011!!!

We started off this decade with a nation wondering who they had elected president. We ended it with the nation sending a very clear message of who and what they want in politics.  In between a lot of things happened, and the world changed forever. 

A few of my memorable points follow below:

• After days of wrangling ending in the US Supreme Court, George W. Bush was our President.
• Terrorists knocked down the World Trade Center Towers, and hit the Pentagon.
• America invaded Afghanistan and toppled Saddam's Iraq,
• Facebook and Blogs are born, and what is xBox?,
• Ipods arrived and phones that do more than talk are born,
• The Internet got fast enough to use,
• The world figured out what most use the Internet for :)
• Everything you buy now has a microchip in it, making even toasters smart,
• People got more sensitive, and then less sensitive,
• Leno quit then got his old job back,
• Conan got hired and then fired,
• Aliens, asteroids, ice, fire and volcanoes destroyed the Earth on the big screen, while almost the same thing happened in real life,
• California was the place to live, now the place to leave,
• Bigger was better until the world collapsed then smaller was better,
• Credit was everywhere, and then nowhere to be found,
• No money down and 0%, then all down or 30%,
• Wall Street went from riches, to rags and back to riches in one year,
• Home prices doubled, then doubled again in places, only to collapse and are still falling,
• Everyone owned a home, now everyone is past due on a home,
• We have several hundred less banks in the world,
• Banking became automated, then a friendly face and no automated phone systems became king,
• We doubled the size of our deficit & added trillions to our debt,
• Patriotism swelled, and then pacifism returned,
• Tax payers became Tea Partiers,
• The White House & Congress got a "shellacking" by voters,

Some things don't change; how a smile affects someones day, the feel you get when you know someone has your back, tearing up at a good movie, the cuteness of babies, the meow of a kitten, the unconditional love of your pets, the warmth of friendship, and falling off to sleep knowing that the sun will always rise and reset a troubled day into a new one full of hope and promise.

Happy New Year,

D