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per_soloThis year, I managed not one, but two vacations...one to House on the Rock (http://www.livejournal.com/users/per_solo/152319.html#cutid1) Image intensive...and, I got to go to Canada.
I've made a few new friends this year...one of whom is quite scarily like me, in the ways our brains work..fortunately, she isn't a carbon copy of me (Gods help her if that were the case).
I put on a helluva convention this year...one that those who attended said they had a great time at...yes, there was some unfortunate bad with that, but the goal of making the attendees have fun was achieved...and the Guests had fun as well. To that end, I got to meet and hang out (however briefly) with Filkertom, and hope to again in the future...and yes, purchases more music by him, even when I knew my job would be leaving me soon. Now to purchase the Marcon album (Which won't match seeing a woman trying to sign the words to one of his songs, growing exasperated, and mock choking him).
I scheduled my first class in 10 years this year...and might not have a plan in stone, but at least have the start of a plan to be happier.
I learned who I could trust, and who I couldn't, in the last year...and, even amongst those I cannot trust, at least understand that it usually isn't malice, but the inability to learn and grow that makes them not know how to deal with others.
I learned that my friends are there...the true ones, through thick and thin, when I'm wailing, and screaming, and smiling contently...to offer me a hand up when I've fallen, or give me a kick in the ass when I'm dawdling.
I learned that it isn't my fault that my former cell phone died...that it truly was a design flaw.
I realized that i have way too much "stuff"...
I learned there is nothing quite like a fleece blanket, on cold nights. :-)
I attained my A+ Computer Cert this year.
I realized at least a focus on where my abilities/skills should go, and realize that I need to further that focus on people.
I acknowledge that I am as human as the rest of people, and that after I vent, I'm usually ok with people that have wronged me (or wronged me in my head), and that I can generally get past that, if most can acknowledge why I feel wronged in the first place. :-P
I realized, yet again, why I've been lucky in the years to have the family I do...not just blood (Who are the best...and really should bear in mind why all my friends wanted to be adopted while I was growing up), but the adopted families I have...of which I'll be sharing New Year's with several, and placing a call to an extended at the magic hour.
I realized that, though I may not be a writer, I can come up with a million ideas..and in that respect, feel like Serendipity, from Dogma.
And about a million other things that won't come to me, as I'm typing right now.
For all my friends, local and extended, thank you for keeping me mostly sane this year...2005 has been a year of almost constant change, adaptation, and growing...and I'm sure '06 will be much the same. It's hard to look inward, and see the little boy who never thought that 2000 would arrive..that we'd have blown ourselves up by then, but 6 years later, the world is still turning.
Not long ago, I quoted Bill Hicks on my Blog...I'll put that quote here, as well, as I find it a very good one...very...fitting, as it were, and with that, I'll wish you all a safe and happy New Year. :-)
"I need to be reminded where I'm going
I need to be reminded why I'm here
I need to be reminded where I came from
I need to be reminded not to fear".
I've made a few new friends this year...one of whom is quite scarily like me, in the ways our brains work..fortunately, she isn't a carbon copy of me (Gods help her if that were the case).
I put on a helluva convention this year...one that those who attended said they had a great time at...yes, there was some unfortunate bad with that, but the goal of making the attendees have fun was achieved...and the Guests had fun as well. To that end, I got to meet and hang out (however briefly) with Filkertom, and hope to again in the future...and yes, purchases more music by him, even when I knew my job would be leaving me soon. Now to purchase the Marcon album (Which won't match seeing a woman trying to sign the words to one of his songs, growing exasperated, and mock choking him).
I scheduled my first class in 10 years this year...and might not have a plan in stone, but at least have the start of a plan to be happier.
I learned who I could trust, and who I couldn't, in the last year...and, even amongst those I cannot trust, at least understand that it usually isn't malice, but the inability to learn and grow that makes them not know how to deal with others.
I learned that my friends are there...the true ones, through thick and thin, when I'm wailing, and screaming, and smiling contently...to offer me a hand up when I've fallen, or give me a kick in the ass when I'm dawdling.
I learned that it isn't my fault that my former cell phone died...that it truly was a design flaw.
I realized that i have way too much "stuff"...
I learned there is nothing quite like a fleece blanket, on cold nights. :-)
I attained my A+ Computer Cert this year.
I realized at least a focus on where my abilities/skills should go, and realize that I need to further that focus on people.
I acknowledge that I am as human as the rest of people, and that after I vent, I'm usually ok with people that have wronged me (or wronged me in my head), and that I can generally get past that, if most can acknowledge why I feel wronged in the first place. :-P
I realized, yet again, why I've been lucky in the years to have the family I do...not just blood (Who are the best...and really should bear in mind why all my friends wanted to be adopted while I was growing up), but the adopted families I have...of which I'll be sharing New Year's with several, and placing a call to an extended at the magic hour.
I realized that, though I may not be a writer, I can come up with a million ideas..and in that respect, feel like Serendipity, from Dogma.
And about a million other things that won't come to me, as I'm typing right now.
For all my friends, local and extended, thank you for keeping me mostly sane this year...2005 has been a year of almost constant change, adaptation, and growing...and I'm sure '06 will be much the same. It's hard to look inward, and see the little boy who never thought that 2000 would arrive..that we'd have blown ourselves up by then, but 6 years later, the world is still turning.
Not long ago, I quoted Bill Hicks on my Blog...I'll put that quote here, as well, as I find it a very good one...very...fitting, as it were, and with that, I'll wish you all a safe and happy New Year. :-)
"I need to be reminded where I'm going
I need to be reminded why I'm here
I need to be reminded where I came from
I need to be reminded not to fear".
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Date: 2005-12-31 09:29 pm (UTC)I'm glad to be walking into 2006 with you by my side. (Virtually, anyway)
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Date: 2005-12-31 10:34 pm (UTC)Interesting - but yet, Theres more?
Date: 2006-01-01 12:08 am (UTC)Happy New Year to you and thanks for being a friend that means a lot to me.
later,
Tony
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Date: 2006-01-01 04:17 am (UTC)i'll say what i said to jesse, here's to 2006 kicking some serious butt. :)
happy new year!
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Date: 2006-01-01 08:59 am (UTC)Have a good '06...and just think, the woes of '05 are now behind us.
Movies...TV...Ultraviolet...Soon. :-)
Re: Interesting - but yet, Theres more?
Date: 2006-01-01 09:01 am (UTC)Thank you, as well...as said in the above, through good and bad, things always change and usually improve, given the time. I feel honored deeply by the friends I DO have, which makes it easier to not worry over the ones lost.
May the year be all you wish and more.
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Date: 2006-01-01 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-01 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-01 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-01 05:52 pm (UTC)May you have a happy New Year, and to use one of *my* favorite quotes:
...Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night....
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:11 am (UTC)How was your NY?
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:12 am (UTC)Thanks for hosting the party, today, BTW...it was a good time, and a good time for me to get hooked on a new game.
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:13 am (UTC)Glad you had a good time today.
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:15 am (UTC)Good quote...must attempt to store that in memory sometime. :-) Have a good New Year...it's a day old at this point, plenty of time for things to be great.
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Date: 2006-01-02 02:36 am (UTC)see you thursday?
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Date: 2006-01-02 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-04 03:19 am (UTC)