IN: Show us what you 're looking forward to in 2008 . [ Updated 20 June 2008 ] I just took a look back at the things I said I was looking forward to this year . I checked off 4 more . Not bad .
What likely happened in 2008 before I checked things from my list ?

OUT: I completed 4 new year 's resolutions .

IN: And I waited more . I saw group after group take the ride , and group after group emerge . I did not , however , see my friends emerge .
What may have happened to the writer 's friends ?

OUT: They might have snuck away from the writer 's view .

IN: I was perfectly content renting our 2 bedroom house in Moweaqua for $ 425 a month . Joe was the one who had the bug up his butt to OWN something . Of course over the next 2 years we lived in the last house , when we fought he would say it was HIS house(coz he paid all the bills ....... he conveniently forgets that any money I make from singing usually goes into the household ) . Naturally his attitude made me grow to hate that house . And all the things that we were going to do to make it our home , never got done .
Why is the narrator unhappy with their house ?

OUT:
They do n't like the person living in it .