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On every other end of year list I’ve read, everyone has said how bad a year 2006 was. Well, I guess that’s relative. I don’t look back on it in the same way as I do other years – 2003, for example, was a terrible year for me. 2006, on the other hand, wasn’t. I visited three countries I’d never visited before (Italy, Portugal and Holland). I fell in love, fell very quickly out of it, wondered what the hell I was doing and was lucky to meet someone that I really really hope is The One, a person that has captured my heart in ways I could only imagine before. I took on more responsibility at work, lost weight, put it on again, left a gym, joined another, joined yet another. I made some new friends, took more holidays, saw Madonna live in concert three times, started to learn the piano and listened to more music than I ever have in my whole life. And I discovered LastFM. So, to quote my favourite artist, 2006 was a “pretty good year”. …