Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


Goodbye and Good Riddance 2009: So long and thanks for all the fish.  

Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2009? Don't think we've forgotten about you


JZ - Jan 01, 2010 5:29:10 pm PST #327 of 549
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

my boyfriend to whom I'm not married yet have amazing kinky sex with and make Mobius strips with in our spare time

And who doodles romantic messages to you on the eggs in the fridge and on your car's snowy windshield. Don't forget that part.

I'm loving reading everyone's stories, so very deeply.

(No urge to write my own as yet; I can't even begin to think how to sum up the last decade.)


Steph L. - Jan 01, 2010 5:34:28 pm PST #328 of 549
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I make a huglike, nontouching gesture in your general direction, Steph.

Ahahaha!!! Thank you!!!

And who doodles romantic messages to you on the eggs in the fridge and on your car's snowy windshield. Don't forget that part.

I have pictures to commemorate those very events! (Though the eggs were far from romantic: [link]


sarameg - Jan 01, 2010 5:39:38 pm PST #329 of 549

Someday, when we meet, Steph and I will wave our arms at each other in odd gestures.


erikaj - Jan 01, 2010 5:42:51 pm PST #330 of 549
Always Anti-fascist!

I've got NO CLUE what I would say. Cause I used to be one of those crazy driven planner chicks that would want to kill herself for not publishing a novel by this age.


Sue - Jan 01, 2010 6:12:22 pm PST #331 of 549
hip deep in pie

I'm a sucker for a happy ending too.


Kate P. - Jan 01, 2010 6:43:10 pm PST #332 of 549
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Aw, Steph, reading that made me tear up. I'm so happy for you and Tim.

Happy New Year, friends! I'm sitting in Mark's dad's living room checking in on the board while Mark brushes his teeth. We told his family about the engagement earlier today and his parents both got a little weepy. I think this might be the best New Year's Day I've ever had. Here's to 2010!


beth b - Jan 01, 2010 6:53:33 pm PST #333 of 549
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

congratulations to you and Mark, Kate.


Beverly - Jan 01, 2010 8:21:58 pm PST #334 of 549
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

::offers Teppy salt, in lieu of hugs:::


DebetEsse - Jan 02, 2010 8:18:43 am PST #335 of 549
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I got a box! It was full of goodies! There were 3 kinds of chocolate bars; I'm pacing myself, but the bits I've eaten are wicked yummy. And Doctor Who (The Deadly Assassin), with The Doctor (Baker)in the Gallifreyan garb on the front (which is particularly appropriate, as I have End of Time half-watched ) And comic books! RASL,and Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, neither of which I knew of, but both of which I am excited to read (It took be an embarassingly long time to say, "Oh! Jeff Smith!")

The summarize: Thank you, Tom, you are a most excellent Secret Santa.


askye - Jan 02, 2010 8:19:10 am PST #336 of 549
Thrive to spite them

Teppy I love your happy geeky ending.