My family and friends have always joked that I am “The Queen of Lists” – obsessed with lists of all kinds. I make a list for everything. Whether it’s my to do list for work, grocery list, or a fun list, like all the people I plan to look up and “friend” on Facbeook (OK, maybe that’s more stalkerish than fun).
But one of my favorite lists is the annual ‘Year in Review’ list that highlights all the newsworthy events, people, quotes and overall trendsetters from the past year.
I can only imagine what 2009’s end-of-year list may look like with already so many newsworthy happenings just 40 days into the year…
Perhaps it will go something like this:
1. Captain Sully
2. Transparency
3. Timothy Geithner
4. Commode on Legs
5. Stimulus package
6. Miracle on the Hudson
7. Obamania
8. “I forgot to pay my taxes…”
9. Blag-O
10. Gitmo
11. Kanye’s hair
12. A-Rod
13. Poke
14. Spy-proof Blackberry
15. Rihanna
16. Impeachment
17. Flock of geese
18. Octuplets
19. “Yes we can…”
20. Michael Phelps
21. Steelers
22. Bong
23. Slumdog Millionaire
24. Roids
25. MIA
26. Chris Brown
27. Merger and acquisition
28. 25 Random Things
29. Etta James
30. Recession
31. Tom Daschle
32. John Updike
33. Kellog’s
34. Christian Bale
35. Chris Brown
36. At Last
37. Economic crunch
38. Crew cuts by J. Crew
39. Bipartisanship
40. Chief Justice John Roberts
I’ll let you try to figure out what belongs with the other…
So, I wonder who and what else is going to make headlines in 2009? I can’t wait to find out. Until then, I’ll go back to making my own lists.