It's that time, huh? If I'm going to say goodbye to 2007, best to do it now, I guess.
I want to say 2007 treated me like the runt of the litter, and it did kick and smack a lot more often than anyone deserved. There were the ever-popular Money Problems, and a Big Car Problem, and a certain sixteen-year-old's determination to screw up his education in new and extreme ways. A book I was really proud of writing has been shunted into a kind of no-man's land due to a certain publisher's eyes being bigger than its stomach, and a friendship I valued and depended on crashed and burned pretty spectacularly.
But. I got a job with people I like, even if the job itself sucks most of the time. (And it does, you know, provide some additional income, so there's that.) I finished writing two books. I found a frighteningly addictive new obsession new fandom, and indulged myself in it. I went to San Francisco courtesy of Lee and got to squee and flail with some of my favorite people on earth. I made some new friends, and got to know some old ones better. My kids are healthy and my husband is a big cutiehead who supports everything I do, and still knows just how to talk me off the ledge.
So 2007 had its high points, for sure. I'd just like 2008 to aim a little higher.
It's occured to me that my 2007 was kind of like Buffy Season 7.
A few good bits, but mostly rubbish.
If Ann Arbor collapses in to a giant infernal sinkhole, I'm blaming you.
Ah, 2007. Before I prettify myself for kicking it out the door, let's see what it brought me.
2007 was the Year of the Car. Rather, of no car. I get my car back, all legal and tagged and good to go on Wednesday, which means I didn't have a car for all of 2007. Which sucked beyond the telling of it.
Money is still a constant worry, but it is better. I hope 2008 is the year I finally get a chokehold on my finances.
I cut off 9 inches off hair in August. My bob is pretty cute.
The closest I got to romance was shacking up in NYC, and it wasn't even the full horizontal limbo, dammit.
I got to go to New York, which was fun, even tho it was a work trip, and I spent a fabulous weekend with my girlfriends in the cutest cabin in the woods with a hot tub. 2008 brings a dear friend's wedding in edona, with will be fun.
All in all, I worked very hard in 2007, but I slacked off on some important things, because of other stresses. I hope to be a better teacher this year, and stay on top of my fricking grading and lesson plans. I also want to take a yoga class to get my back from being a giant ouch tenseness, and go on the pill to keep the communists from turning me into a giant, slavering Ball of Rage and Pain.
Oh, and I'd like a Romance. Or at least some action.
And for my folks to continue healthy. Please, dog.
Oh, that's fine, Aurelia...may inspiration be faster next time.
KO would love that joke, probably.
A year in which women like Erin and Vortex got no action is a year that should hang its head in shame. Lots of truly awful stuff happened to lots of people, and for all of that 2007 is already impressive for all the wrong reasons, but getting Erin and Vortex a little action should be a gimme. That's epic incompetence at even the most basic of basics, 2007, you total loser, you.
Woo! JZ's got ma back!!!
(now could you move your hands down and maybe give me buttocks a wee fondle? They're feeling unappreciated.)
2007 was interesting, for all that implies.
On the surface, not much has changed. G and I are still employed in the same places, still living in our wonderful townhouse, still happily married.
And yet...I once again show that I don't deal with stress well. The causes may be different than previous times(this go-around was a combination of work pressure, running a convention, an elderly sick cat and life changes) but I still ended up depressed, this time with anxiety on top of it.
I'm doing better now. It helps that some of the stressors are gone(the con was in June, Boots died in July), and modern medicine helped some as well. Now we have two insane, but cute kittens running around the house.
Ah, well....2008, I hope you're less interesting, but somehow I doubt it.
Could you at least be interesting in a nicer way?
Erin are you from the UK? Or was the accent used just for effect? (asks the new girl who shyly creeps back into the corner)
Erin is cosmopolitanly Midwestern, as I recall.
Accents and dialects seem to waft worldwide around the board. Some of us are...peripatetic.
Hi, we've met. I seem to be queen of ellipses (one l or two? I never remember) today.
