Happy New Year! What's the best thing you did in 2013

MADMAT

MADMAT

Location
Ohio
Good answers in here! I guess for me it was getting my Lake Erie rolls so big that the bottom of my feet are all F'd up...even with 25mm padding! And just as good is the fact that my ski is dialed in to handle anything I can throw at it I guess!
 
OCD Solutions

OCD Solutions

Original, Clean and Dependable Solutions
Location
Rentz, GA
2013 was more about posturing for the future for me and I had to put riding on the back burner a bit. I rode less than 12 times all year and gained about 20 lbs. I took a huge risk and walked away from 20 years in the wood industry and jumped head first into aerospace manufacturing. I went from making OSB for Georgia Pacific to servicing robotic riveting machines at Gulfstream.

Initially I took a $30k/yr cut in base salary but it was worth it. Great benefits, overtime and bonuses have already bridged more than half the pay difference and a recent pay raise after a 6 month review already has me almost back on track. Not to mention I dropped a 3hr/day commute and $8k/year fuel bill. On top of all that, in the next month or so my company is also moving us to Savannah so we will be 2 hours closer to all our favorite ride spots.

2013 wasn't the funnest year for us but all the hard work and sacrifice will pay off in the future.
 
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Mark44

Mark44

Katie's Boss
Location
100% one place
Purchased more properties became a Global staff engineer for Nestle Purina and my wife and I bought an estate that we will be moving to in April that has 16 acres and a river running through it. All in all another great year with a wonderful woman............
 
BMWtech

BMWtech

Location
SWFL
Got my B1 on the water after almost a year tearing it down and rebuilding it. Hopefully I can get it to run properly in 2014!
 
Pablo

Pablo

sqeez bth levrs & lean bk
Site Supporter
Location
georgia
Blue said:
Bought our lake house in florida. We were renting but now its ours. Oh and learned to ride out of my backflips...
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I just might start hating u. I love y'all's place Blue. Mega-jealous on both accounts.
 
ProSouth

ProSouth

Seriously, Don't be a dick.
Location
kawasakis suck
well, today i found out for sure that i made a baby in 2013. Will be due at the end of august this year. This is my first child. Im sure i'll also be buying a house here soon too.

also, if we're friends on facebook, shhhhhhhhhhhh. we're not telling everyone until the first doctors appointment later this month.
 
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MCrider

MCrider

Location
Jackson MI
Not to steal thunder from Corey but he's not the only one expecting my wife and i had our first visit with the obgyn today and we are 8 weeks due Aug 16!

If I'm friends with you on Facebook keep it on the D.L.
 
Joker

Joker

...chaos? Its Fair!
Location
La Porte, Indiana
MCrider said:
Not to steal thunder from Corey but he's not the only one expecting my wife and i had our first visit with the obgyn today and we are 8 weeks due Aug 16!

If I'm friends with you on Facebook keep it on the D.L.
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Luckily I like you. Otherwise I could break news to a lot of people for you.
 
makejetskiinggreatagain

makejetskiinggreatagain

Brandon
As much as I regret the ski I chose for the price, I bought my first superjet and really had a ball riding every single weekend. It was my first year that I was able to take the sport serious and really fell in love with it. A big part of that was this community. If it weren't for the countless hours on this forum getting inspired each new day by all of you crazy bastards to push harder in my riding, I don't know if I would have the passion I do for this sport. So you could say discovering the X was one of the best things that happened to me this year. I also discovered flaming gorge, which will be our family trip destination for years to come. What an awesome lake to ride.
 
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