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, and I'd like a Romance. Or at least some action.

amen.

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.

Hey, rookie. Gimme a quarter. Just kidding.

So, 2007. Looking back, all I can see is The Biggie, which was moving in with The Boy at the beginning of December. But that followed months of discussion and hard work on renovations, so it really feels like it took up almost half the year.

Moving hasn't been easy, and we're both still adjusting to it (and each other), and there are many, MANY renovations yet to be done, but I'm still unspeakably happy that I get to come home every day to this amazing man whom I love so much it's scary, who seems to love me back just as much.

I know more than just moving happened, but the move was so huge and life-changing, it's telescoped everything out of proportion.

I didn't make it to the F2F, but I did get to go to San Francisco at the end of the summer and see Buffistas there. I also got to see Liese when she was in town in November, and SA when she was here in early summer, and possibly other Buffistas who I'm forgetting in a shameful yet not surprising memory lapse.

2007 was good to me, and I hope 2008 will be the same way, for me AND for all my Buffistas.