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2004 in Rememberance....
And HAPPY NEW YEARS to everyone. I hope 2005 treats you well!
I was reading cjl's post on atpo board - found here: www.atpobtvs.com - I think. It was about how the solistice turns at this time of year and all the religions celebrate the idea of hope. While dozing before dinner on my couch,
I thought about this...and remembered when Pandora opens her box - the remaining item, smiling up at her, after all the monsters have been unleashed is hope. The book I just read, Dogs of Babble, also mentions hope...how it
keeps us going. This season has always been about hope to me - I think, even at times like today in which, well I'll spare you...much too much whinging online from me this year, methinks.
2004 started for me with well a plane ride, a cold, and a death threat from a crank phone caller. It has ended with well just the cold. In between, I've experienced ups and downs.
The ups and in no particular order this is just how they happen to fall out of my head:
1. A birthday party courtesy of pumpkinpuss and cjlasky, and other friends. When I worried about logistics as I always do - they gave me a surprise limo ride.
2. A job. Two actually. A temp one and a full time one - right after each other, just when I'd hit rock bottom and thought it would never happen.
3. A DVD player - finally.
4. Kidbro's wedding in a swimming pool filled with water - at his baby shower.
5. The birth of my neice who continues to amaze.
6. The birth of a friends adorable child and another friend's birth announcement.
(Yes, the year seemed full of weddings and births...impromptu and otherwise.)
7. Meeting some of the wonderful new people I've meet this year from online and off.
The downs...
(ahhh...let's leave this part blank. You can read my journal if you want to find them.)
Resolutions:
1. To write a new story.
2. To be less depressed and more positive.
3. To see at least one play, possibly two.
4. To take a trip somewhere outside NY.
5. To see more of my neice, Kidbro and sisinlaw
6. To let go of past, worry less about the future, and focus more and more on the present, it's all I can control.
7. Try not to piss anyone off, although that may be outside my control.
8. Watch less TV and read more books.
9. Spend more time with friends.
10. Do a better job with my finances. Be more organized.
Now let's see if I keep any of them. ;-)
In other news - I did finish the S2 BTVS DVD finally, just skipped two episodes. And started S3. I like the setup of 3 better. Two is hard to navigate. Favorite episodes in 2? When She Was Bad was probably my favorite.
But the others are: Passion, Halloween, Innocence, Becoming Part II, and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
I was reading cjl's post on atpo board - found here: www.atpobtvs.com - I think. It was about how the solistice turns at this time of year and all the religions celebrate the idea of hope. While dozing before dinner on my couch,
I thought about this...and remembered when Pandora opens her box - the remaining item, smiling up at her, after all the monsters have been unleashed is hope. The book I just read, Dogs of Babble, also mentions hope...how it
keeps us going. This season has always been about hope to me - I think, even at times like today in which, well I'll spare you...much too much whinging online from me this year, methinks.
2004 started for me with well a plane ride, a cold, and a death threat from a crank phone caller. It has ended with well just the cold. In between, I've experienced ups and downs.
The ups and in no particular order this is just how they happen to fall out of my head:
1. A birthday party courtesy of pumpkinpuss and cjlasky, and other friends. When I worried about logistics as I always do - they gave me a surprise limo ride.
2. A job. Two actually. A temp one and a full time one - right after each other, just when I'd hit rock bottom and thought it would never happen.
3. A DVD player - finally.
4. Kidbro's wedding in a swimming pool filled with water - at his baby shower.
5. The birth of my neice who continues to amaze.
6. The birth of a friends adorable child and another friend's birth announcement.
(Yes, the year seemed full of weddings and births...impromptu and otherwise.)
7. Meeting some of the wonderful new people I've meet this year from online and off.
The downs...
(ahhh...let's leave this part blank. You can read my journal if you want to find them.)
Resolutions:
1. To write a new story.
2. To be less depressed and more positive.
3. To see at least one play, possibly two.
4. To take a trip somewhere outside NY.
5. To see more of my neice, Kidbro and sisinlaw
6. To let go of past, worry less about the future, and focus more and more on the present, it's all I can control.
7. Try not to piss anyone off, although that may be outside my control.
8. Watch less TV and read more books.
9. Spend more time with friends.
10. Do a better job with my finances. Be more organized.
Now let's see if I keep any of them. ;-)
In other news - I did finish the S2 BTVS DVD finally, just skipped two episodes. And started S3. I like the setup of 3 better. Two is hard to navigate. Favorite episodes in 2? When She Was Bad was probably my favorite.
But the others are: Passion, Halloween, Innocence, Becoming Part II, and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
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2. Internally or externally?
3. Name a few ...if your picks match my picks ..I'll take you to one.
4. In U.S.A. or out ?
5. Start calling and makeing plans
6. You know how to control the present ?!?!? Tell me !!! Please !! I just try to live IN IT ..and make the best of it ( enjoy the good parts of whatever is happening and TRY to steer it towards what I want to be happening . )
7. Their feelings are for THEM to worry about ... as long as I'm doing the right thing ...THEY need to deal with it !
8. Finding books to read that evoke thought and give a person a sense of haveing done something worthwile with the time spentreading is getting harder and harder.
9. agreed
10. Yup. Yup.
Now let's see if I keep any of them. ;-)