Hello, new thread! Goodbye, stupid year.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2025: This too shall pass. Like a kidney stone.
Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, and wish everybody a Merry Thanksgivukkahmas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering.Take stock, reflect, butch, moan, vent, celebrate. We are all here for it. So long 2025; do better 2026.
Pix - Dec 10, 2025 6:40:13 pm PST #2 of 37
The status is NOT quo.
NoiseDesign - Dec 11, 2025 11:36:16 am PST #3 of 37
Our wings are not tired
Hey look.
I'm just going to give 2025 the side eye.
dcp - Dec 12, 2025 6:23:40 pm PST #4 of 37
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Cards sent.
Vortex - Dec 16, 2025 10:11:26 pm PST #5 of 37
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wow, top ten! Been a minute since I could get away with that.
kat - Dec 17, 2025 6:05:01 pm PST #6 of 37
"Either you’re brainwashed or you’re weird." - Barbie
Hello, new thread! Goodbye, stupid year.
I am totally seconding this.
JenP - Dec 18, 2025 4:02:47 pm PST #7 of 37
Thirded.
And cards also just dropped off at post office.
erikaj - Dec 21, 2025 4:18:51 pm PST #8 of 37
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Not a great year here, either...taking my thyroid pill every other day helps a little, and I guess my story might come out next year. I hope I can rediscover some activist enthusiasm next year. I'm a little bored with what I've been doing, but also not in a place where I could say "Wow, a massive new project--bring it on." which I don't know if I would. Maybe it's not a bad thing if work, even principled work, doesn't eat up my life, although part of me still wishes I could save the day or something. Is this a good place to say that maybe next year, I'd like some kisses I don't have to unwrap? Because I would. (If there is anything to the whole Intention thing, I guess I need to talk about that, somewhere.)
chrismg - Dec 25, 2025 8:32:41 am PST #9 of 37
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Top 9!
Happy Holidays guys, and wishing for better news in 2026.
quester - Dec 25, 2025 12:59:35 pm PST #10 of 37
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
top 10?
I have no hope 2026 is going to be any easier than 2025. But, I'm willing to be surprised.. in a good way.
got my cards out before today. personal victory.
And so far, I've gotten cards from dcp, JenP, and Susan W! I have gotten none from my family or distant meat-space friends. So Buffistas rock!
Laura - Dec 27, 2025 8:10:20 am PST #11 of 37
Our wings are not tired.
It's been a year! Personally, it wasn't the best of times, nor the worst of times.
On the family front, my eldest son broke up with his girlfriend and moved in with me over the summer. My brother died over the summer, so my son has now moved into his uncle's former home with his cousin. Hopefully, that will all work out. Another year passed without contact from my younger son. One grandson turned 5 this month, and the other turns 3 next month, and they have no idea they have grandparents less than an hour away. DH has been burning the candle at both ends with renovations to his mother's place to accommodate her physical limitations, basketball, work, and life. My business, now 38 years old, hasn't been going well since my "retirement," and I don't see that changing.
The horrific events in our country weigh heavily on all of us. It's difficult to hold on to any hope, and I have taken to relying on the distraction of late-night comics, editorial cartoons, and too much television. It has to get better? The pendulum has to swing this year?
I can't say that the stress in my life is worse than ever because I have lived through worse times. There is one huge difference this year that I am experiencing. In the past 70+ years, I have been the calmest and most patient person you could imagine. I've always felt that things like stress, worry, anger, jealousy, and a bunch of other emotions were unproductive and didn't work for me. I don't know what the trigger was, but the first thing I noticed was that my patience ran out, like one day the container broke, and it all ran out. Gone. So much so that DH teases me about my noticeable lack of patience. And I am feeling stress for the first time, which is a new experience for me. Work stress, family stress, health stress, world stress, all of it. All my life, I lived a Serenity existence, effortlessly choosing to change what I could and accept what I couldn't. It's gone. The strangest part of it all was how rapidly my emotional responses changed. I'm working on it, see above "change what I can", and hoping I don't have to end up accepting this new reality. But for now, serene, calm, and patient Laura is gone.
I sincerely wish all my beloved Buffistas a 2026 that brings all we can hope for and more.