Sum Up Your 2011!

[Pike]

How was your year?

Mine:

I started out still in Washington working at a Sears store 45 minutes away from my house. Yeah, the job market was horrible where I was. It was pretty boring and really the only other big thing that happened here was that I started dating Hux in April (oh, and I played lots and lots of games, but that's a given.) In September I got a new job at an Office Max about two minutes from home, but that wasn't very long lived because I decided to move back home to Montana instead!

So now I'm here working at Kmart, but I'm doing better off financially than I have in a while and I hope to keep saving up (and looking for a better job, of course) so I can pay off my car and have lots of visits with Hux and such Also I'm just happy to be back home!

Okay EoFF, regale us with your tales of the year!

[Hollycat]

I'd like to sum up my year with a video, should it please the court
Peter Griffin Plays Black Ops - YouTube

[Agent Proto]

First half: LoTRO
Second half: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Derp derp.6_9

[Madame Adequate]

Well I started out crazy, ended up even crazier. Played lots of games, wrote some words (actually quite a lot, but because I dropped one book halfway through I don't have a complete book yet), Jess and I decided we were diverging too greatly in what we desired from life so we broke up, and then I began dating Steph pretty soon after that.

[fire_of_avalon]

Aside from a few bright spots, 2011 hasn't been great for me. My year began with the death of a friend in a freak accident. It continued with increases in stress at my previous employer, detachment from friends and family, living more and more inside my own mind and doing more and more of absolutely nothing with myself.

I failed to meet most of my goals and felt for the vast majority of the year I was in an inescapable rut. I too often find myself starting over again, resetting myself and making desperate leaps at my goals again instead of moving steadily forward.

I've had some time to think on these things, obviously.

The result of that was the personal realization that it doesn't matter if I'm loved the way I think I want to be, it doesn't matter if I have a group of supportive friends and family like the people I envy or like the TV tells me I need, and it doesn't matter if my experiences with relationships (familial, friendly and more-than-friendly) are typical and follow that of my friends and peers. If the choices I'm making that actually do please me lead me into spinster-dom then a spinster shall I be and proudly so. I can't deny the past that's shaped me into who I am and I can't reach for goals because I want to catch up to everyone else. For the last year I've let covetousness lead me around like a cow in a nose halter without even asking myself why I want what everyone else in my social circle has?

Because they seem happy, and happiness is a hare I've been chasing for a long time with no luck.

Since my best friend's wedding in October, I've found myself pretty often facing this terrifying sinking feeling that I'm just not wired for happiness. That there's some smurfed up synapse preventing the good-time chemicals from putting themselves into the right places in my little brain.

But then I got stubborn and indignant again, I regrouped and since then I've been making quick, improvisational changes to my life (as is my nature) to experiment and see what's going to feel better. Thus far, with one slight exception of personal feelings I'm resolving, it's working. I'm making changes for me as opposed to staying miserable for the sake of others' convenience.

I will take the bright and good things 2011 has offered me; the consideration of new and old friends, their new found happiness, my sister's child and my rediscovered sense of self, into 2012.

[Sylvie]

Don't feel like summing up the whole thing, but it came to a successful end. Some guy kept coming into the place my girlfriend work. Initially, he asked her out for dinner, so I told him it would be wise to stop. He did it again the other day, so I told him that he's not only going to listen to me for real this time, but he's going to go into the store, and he's going to apologize for putting her in an awkward position while she's working. And he did that today.

[Laddy]

Ugh.

[Quindiana Jones]

I trolled a lot.

[Pike]

I just realized I forgot to mention one of the more exciting things that happened to me this year, which was getting a book published (aww jeah)

I hope all of you guys have great years this coming year! <3

[rubah]

got a degree, moved cross country, got a job.

goal for 2012: get my cat back in my life!

[Iceglow]

I started off well, with the 3DS Launch finally getting me some recognition at work. Then things sagged horribly with the move to tech and my disappointment at another lateral move. Things improved in the later half of the year with promotion and improved attitude towards work since I got some assurances. However my new years resolutions are simple: Get fitter than I am now, get a new job where I will be happier and preferably, paid more.

[Levian]

Finished school
got a job
went gay
moved to another town

[Hollycat]

I just realized I forgot to mention one of the more exciting things that happened to me this year, which was getting a book published (aww jeah)

I hope all of you guys have great years this coming year! <3

can I have a copy? I promise to read it!

[Tigmafuzz]

First 3 months of the year: Got two degrees, a promotion, a new guitar, and a new rifle, then fixed up my computer a bit.
Late April: Was cheated on by girlfriend of 3 years.
May: Lost my job, abandoned plans to move out off apartment, alienated dozens of friends, sold guitar to help pay bills, starved a bit.
June: Almost flunked, was barely able to get out of bed, made a new friend at temp agency.
July: New friend encouraged me to keep getting out of bed, keep going to work, keep going to school, etc.
August: Got my third degree, got my old job back (not the same position exactly, but better) and received my fourth black belt.
September: Turned 19, started feeling a little better about myself, started to get over my ex.
October: Got new roommate, new friend starts hitting on me even though I don't realize it.
November: Used my ridiculous new cash flow to go to Chile with an old friend and visit her family, had a great time.
December: Got back to US, found out my new friend and my roommate both wanted to go out with me, had one date with each, then one date with both, all three of us ended up moving into a new house, continued dating new friend.
Last night: Had a "New Year's Eve, Eve" party with lots of friends and a few friends of friends, stayed up late with ex-roommate (now housemate) and ex-friend (now girlfriend) drinking and playing games.
This morning: Woke up in bed with both of them, high hopes for new year.

I just realized I forgot to mention one of the more exciting things that happened to me this year, which was getting a book published (aww jeah)

I hope all of you guys have great years this coming year! <3

can I have a copy? I promise to read it!

She posted a link somewhere to buy it online. I would find it for you, but I'm not that kind of person.

[Pike]

I just realized I forgot to mention one of the more exciting things that happened to me this year, which was getting a book published (aww jeah)

I hope all of you guys have great years this coming year! <3

can I have a copy? I promise to read it!

She posted a link somewhere to buy it online. I would find it for you, but I'm not that kind of person.

It's in my signature.