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So no festive spreading of joy? No fine wishes for a productive, prosperous and pleasing new year? Come on TMO liven up!
So happy 2010 everyone. I hope (and if I were a religious man I'd pray) everyone has a better year next year.
So 2009? A superlative to describe it?
PF: Shite
Started unemployed and in debt, ended up in a job I don't care for much still in debt. Made a stupid mistake thinking having an ex move in might have promise - it didn't. Lost a very dear friend, got disowned by my family and discovered I was mentally unwell. And to add insult to injury I'm spending the last few hours of it with explosive diarrhoea and the shivers thanks to food poisoning. Wonderful.
Still next year is going to be a lot better. Got a trip to Reykjavik and possibly China to look forward to. Going to get my head sorted, and I am determined to get myself a woman. Thinking of resorting to caveman type tactics as being nice doesn't work. Looking forward to crapping with confidence again.
Sorry bits there were TMI, but I feel in a caring and a sharing mood tonight as I sit back in my sleeping bag, alcohol free whilst I bid farewell too three lovely young german ladies who are off for a night of fun, whilst I lay wondering what highlights the TV has to offer.
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I had a good year. A good couple of years, in fact. Jan 2008 - Dec 2009 is probably the longest stretch of things going really well I've had since leaving university. I hope zolo continues the trend of things being really quite good.
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Here is a (rubbish) picture of the car which drove into my house on Christmas day, severing a gas main and necessitating the evacuation of the surrounding area.
We had no heating, water or cooking ability for most of a week, and there is still a big hole just outside my front door which I enjoy falling into. LOL!!111!!1
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mostly a shit year, but some positives. made amends with someone i treated awfully, made amends with another who treated me pretty badly (both meant a lot to me). spent a lot of time in the country. cut out a few negative people from my life. met a lovely girl but fucked it up. worked a few things out. feel like i am turning a corner now i am thirty years old. had the loveliest new year's i can remember. overall 4/10 but laid foundations for a much better 2010.
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Overall an excellent year even though there was the death of my grandpa, job has just been carrying out the motions really and I haven't bought a house yet but obviously the arrival of a daughter more than made up for all of that. I have my final interview for a new job in 23 hours and 20 minutes so there is a chance that zolo could be off to an amazing start. I intend to be on the property ladder (lol gay) by summer which will be nice.
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Good year for me. Reema and I celebrated our first year together, and moved in together. We even got two cats. Work is so-so, but not busting my balls too much.
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Now I think about it the noughties were really quite an excellent decade. When they started I was stranded in Dorset, all my friends had moved away, I was doing shitty temping jobs and the only things I looked forward to were opportunities to take speed, and episodes of Cold Feet (never at the same time, mind - that would just be too much). Even the low points, like getting sacked, splitting up with various girlfriends, or having to move out of various bits of rented accomodation all look more like a shove in the right direction when viewed from the current perspective.
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quote:Originally posted by Abby: Here is a (rubbish) picture of the car which drove into my house on Christmas day, severing a gas main and necessitating the evacuation of the surrounding area.
That sounds quite exciting, especially as it'll be your landlord who get lumbered with the repairs.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Now I think about it the noughties were really quite an excellent decade.
I know you're able to look back on the last decade quite well, but in another ten years you'll be able to look back on the last decade with 2020 hindsight!
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four days in and we already have a contender for the worst pun of the year/decade
It's hard to judge the past decade subjectively. It involves me going from 17 to 27 years old, which is always going to be a period marked by fairly major life changes. It would be a poor state of affairs if I genuinely thought I was better off at 17 than I am now.
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Not a terrible year but could have been better. Started in a job i hated with a passion living 2 hours away from my girlfriend and only seeing her at weekends. Living in a house share with 3 Polish people of which only one spoke good enough english to have a conversation.Still fully overdrawn from uni and not paying any of it off.
by the end of it i have a different job which, while not what i want "to do" i don't spend every day hating. I now live with my girlfriend in a 2 bed place we don't have to share with anyone. I've paid off all Banks i owe money to (just my Nan to pay back now but at least thats interest free)
Also now i don't live in London i have SPARE money. That's a complete first for me. i can buy things like DVDs and games without having to worry too much about if i can afford them.
So things have gotten better over the last year. Hopefully they'll continue getting better this year, i have a job interview next week for somthing i actually want to do.
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: Not a terrible year but could have been better. Started in a job i hated with a passion living 2 hours away from my girlfriend and only seeing her at weekends. Living in a house share with 3 Polish people of which only one spoke good enough english to have a conversation.Still fully overdrawn from uni and not paying any of it off.
by the end of it i have a different job which, while not what i want "to do" i don't spend every day hating. I now live with my girlfriend in a 2 bed place we don't have to share with anyone. I've paid off all Banks i owe money to (just my Nan to pay back now but at least thats interest free)
Maybe I have low standards, but that sounds like a great year. What would have had to have happened to elevate it beyond "not terrible"? New job, financial security, moving in with partner, living in your "own" place for the first time all within 12 months? What more did you want? A trip into space and free donuts for a month?
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: incidently are people going with "Twenty Ten" or "Two Thousand and ten"
I'm hoping to put off any decision for a while by simply saying "this year", "last year", "two years ago" [...] "a decade ago". Hopefully, I should be dead before it becomes a pressing issue.
Procrastination solves a lot of problems, believe me.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: four days in and we already have a contender for the worst pun of the year/decade
You really think that dang won't be able to come up with something worse in the next 10 years? I reckon he'll have it beaten before we finish work today.
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Maybe, but it's everywhere. That and "OhO! What R WE GUNNA clal this decade!?"
What year did world war one start? It wasn't one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. When did england win the world cup? It wasn't one thousand nine hundred and sixty six. What was that book by George Orwell called? Was it one thousand nine hundred and eight four?
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Maybe, but it's everywhere. That and "OhO! What R WE GUNNA clal this decade!?"
I resisted that one. I don't really like any of the contenders so far.
I'll be disapointed in 10 years time to have to start refering to the "20's" as the present. To me the 20's is Chicago mob bosses, pin stripe suits, trilbys and tommy guns.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: What was that book by George Orwell called? Was it one thousand nine hundred and eight four?
I think thick people are confused because they've got used to using "two thousand and" for the first decade of the millennium.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: What year did world war one start? It wasn't one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. When did england win the world cup? It wasn't one thousand nine hundred and sixty six. What was that book by George Orwell called? Was it one thousand nine hundred and eight four?
it is a lot easier to say "Two Thousand and ...." Than "One Thousand nine hundred and .."
so for the next Hundred years i think its an option.
And the years of the 20th century weren't alway said like nineteen eighty five. I've heard people use the format "Nineteen hundred and ..." Which does seem like far too much uncesery effort when you can remove the "Hundred" and it still sounds fine.
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: And the years of the 20th century weren't alway said like nineteen eighty five. I've heard people use the format "Nineteen hundred and ..."
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