Congrats on the impending uncledom, P-C! Also the writing successes!
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2015: Goodnight moon
Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Thanksgivukkahmas, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering.
Go away, 2015.
Calli - Dec 31, 2015 3:04:36 pm PST #210 of 251
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Kat - Dec 31, 2015 3:24:22 pm PST #211 of 251
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P-C, you have worked so hard and it's so well deserved. Kudos to you!
Amy, I wish I could give you a hug!
Amy - Dec 31, 2015 3:34:51 pm PST #212 of 251
Because books.
I would love that, Kat. I will consider myself hugged anyway.
P-C, that's a great year! But remember, you were Somebody to a lot of people before this year, too.
msbelle - Dec 31, 2015 5:30:46 pm PST #213 of 251
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
This was not a great year for me. Emotions and issues don't run on a 12 month cycle though, so I am not cursing the year or celebrating the new one. I am going to try to be more present and take more ownership of my happiness, fuck the rest of the bullshit (even if that sometimes is my kid). I am going to try to be kinder, not so bitter and assholish (if you want to challenge me on that, I am not sure you have spent any time with me).
I love this place dearly. It is my only safe place at times and each one of you play a part in making it that.
Kat - Dec 31, 2015 5:32:32 pm PST #214 of 251
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wish I could give you a hug too, msbelle.
Apparently I'm in a huggy mood.
I meant to add, even though I don't post that often anymore, I still read every day. I feel like my life is so boring that I haven't much to say. But I love coming here and knowing you people in the box are still here for me.
Steph L. - Dec 31, 2015 5:35:34 pm PST #215 of 251
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I...had possibly the most amazing year of my life, ever?
P-C, I love knowing you had such a great year! It seriously makes me SO happy.
I went from being Nobody to being Somebody and it is so confusing and I don't know how to deal with it.
That's got to be unsettling. In the sense of, the metaphorical ground beneath your feet isn't stable.
Also...last week I found out I'm going to be an uncle.
Hooray!!!
msbelle - Dec 31, 2015 5:36:33 pm PST #216 of 251
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
More hugs in 2016 is a goal, not a resolution, but a goal. I sometimes go weeks with no physical contact with another human and that sucks balls.
I would say dating might happen, but that is most certainly a lie unless one of you people set me up.
shrift - Dec 31, 2015 6:00:44 pm PST #217 of 251
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This has been a year. ita, Ginger, my grandfather. I got my first tattoo. I changed jobs and moved 2000 miles, leaving behind many friends and a city I love. I'm living alone for the first time in 15 years, and it's great. Decorating the new apartment and discovering that I have Opinions about things. Tons of travel. I went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras with Dana. I went to French Polynesia with Lee, which was awesome in the fullest sense of the word. Work trips to Ireland and India. I voted in my first San Francisco election.
There's been too much to process. It probably started earlier than ita what with my unhappiness with my previous role, but I've been saying yes to every adventure. Life is too fucking short.
Things I'm definitely doing in 2016: buying more furniture and putting up more art, buying more plants for the apartment, meditating regularly again, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, and going for my second tattoo with Lee. I'm sure I'll leave the country a few times. I'll get to the DMV at some point for a California license.
Things I'm not prepared to deal with: ita was my birthday twin + 1 day. Was. God damn it.
I love you guys. I probably would have had so many more breakdowns this year if I didn't have this board.
Burrell - Dec 31, 2015 6:51:11 pm PST #218 of 251
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congrats P-C! It feels great to celebrate the good
Ugh, that's a gut punch, shrift, no way around it
Lee - Dec 31, 2015 7:07:25 pm PST #219 of 251
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I really don't know what to say about this year, other than it was mostly just too much.
I did have some good. Charlie, and the house, and the cats, and three amazing trips to the Faroe Islands, and Vegas, and French Polynesia, all with Buffistas, and of course Juliana's Peanut, and I made it to 5 years without sign of cancer.
Unfortunately, even as good as the good could/should have been, it was outweighed by the bad.
January 2nd, I got in my first car accident ever, and it made the news. No one was seriously hurt, and even though by September I started wishing that my car (a VW diesel) had been totaled, the damage wasn't that bad, but dealing with it took up several months.
And then ita.
This was also the year that the ataxia really kicked it up a notch, and I had to really start making allowances for it. I also think I should have starting talking to a therapist about it, but I guess that is a goal for 2016.
Also, I realized that I really kind of hate my job, but am stuck there for a while, if not until I retire.
And then Ginger.
So yeah, pretty much too much, but with occasional bright spots, just about all of which involved the people here, for which I am always going to be grateful.