How is your year so far?

[Angry Angel]

I'm having a great year so far. Emigrated to Sweden, finished my Master's after stalling for long enough, got back in touch with a good friend, and I'm living a comfy happy life with my beautiful girlfriend and her son. Now if we can get rid of his idiot father, life would be perfect. But that's for the rest of the year.

 

[miraclefan]

So far...Prettey GOOD!

 

[Santaman]

Lets see, as with the last 3 years this one is rubbish with not much chance of it improving.

 

[TheLonelySquire]

Couldn't be better. While life has it's ebbs and flows and major big hits both positive and negative, I couldn't be more content. Best wife in the world and my newborn daughter make everyday a gift from God.

 

[TheBrew]

+ Column: I'm graduating in two weeks!!!
- Column: I have a final and a 25-page paper due in one week!

 

[The Sneeze Police]

It's been a vaguely unsettling year, but it is slipping by quickly...more quickly than I expected.

This is the first year in a long time that I am glad that cold weather is coming to an end and hot weather is on its way.

I have a new coworker who has been very homesick, but finally seems to be enjoying the new job & new life which is nice to see.

My husband is happier with his life which definitely makes me happier.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Well, I'm healing well after my appendectomy and all the following complications, so that's good but I spent most of the first 3 months in bed recovering. But a lot of family are having problems. My brother is having problems with his back and shoulders, and has high blood pressure and some other problems, he's been referred to an orthopaedic specialist, a nephrologist and a cardiologist in the past few months.
His wife found out she should have been getting regular bone density scans since she was diagnosed with hypopituitarism, but they some how forgot to schedule them. So now they have no idea how her condition has progressed in the last year or so.
My cousin had a baby a few weeks ago, and some how her pelvis shattered. She's lucky to not be paralysed. She's had surgery and she's currently recuperating in hospital, which could take up to 4 months.
An uncle has damaged his Achilles tendon and will be in a cast for a couple of months.

So not the best year so far.

 

[PluckyNinja]

Pretty good so far. I`ve lost 20lbs and still losing. Only like 80 more to go, hehe. I think I can manage 80lbs after I get Wii Fit.

 

[msbae]

Good things that happened (or will happen) this year:

- I got rid of a so-called friend and his bitchy, manipulative girlfriend. Those two are nuts and they deserve each other.

- I decided what I'm going to be doing with at least the next 4 years of my life. (I've already been to college so, that's not it...)

- I got a new cell phone for the first time since 2004.

- 3 cool movies in theaters this summer, including Star Trek, Transformers 2 and Terminator: Salvation.

- New albums from Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne

- Gas continues to go DOWN in price around here. I filled up for $1.89 a gallon earlier today.

- I'll be taking a vacation in Tennessee with my best friend and his wife at the end of this month. I foresee some interesting misadventures and look forward to spending time with my best friend's better half. (Since they live 600 miles away, I haven't had much opportunity to get to know her really well. I'd only met her about 3 months before they got married last May.)

Bad things that happened (or will happen) this year:

- Unfortunately the new phone is a Blackberry Storm, whose touch screen interface I'm still trying to get used to...

- I was unable to get a job in my chosen field of Video Game design, so I decided to take a different job later this summer. I'll create a special thread for it just before I take the job. At least the new job will allow me to play with both computers and firearms on a regular basis... I'll continue to acquire new skills and powers in the process too. *Insert 'fear me, for I have the power to destroy you!' quip here.*

- The new job is taking me away from home but, I knew I'd have to one day leave New Orleans (and every other part of Louisiana) for several years now. Things are bad here and they aren't going to get better any time soon. I may be able to come back in a few years but, I can't see that far into the future.

- Since the new job is taking me OUT of Louisiana, I will not get to see Kiss play at the Voodoo festival on Halloween night. I've already seen them 3 times but, I would have loved to make that night the 4th time.




If all goes well with the new job (and I foresee no reasons why it wouldn't) I should be adding a few long-coveted items to my firearms collection sometime before year's end too. If not, then I will add to it by next summer at the latest. I want that damn S&W Model 686, dammit!

 

[Harvey]

I'm about to finish my undergraduate studies, which is good.

I have to wait a year to reapply to graduate studies programs, which makes me feel like I'm spinning my wheels.

My job is ending in a week and I don't have anything lined up, either.

No woman, no dates of note this year.

My computer broke, and I'm not in a financial situation where I'm comfortable purchasing another one.

Have free housing until July, thanks to an old roommate.

Don't have a plane ticket/ride to my parent's home yet after that (which is probably where I'll go, unless I can find something else... somewhere), but that'll be sorted out this week (hopefully, cheaply).

Ups and downs.

 

[Snow]

Shitty.

 

[RoJoHen]

- Column: I have a final and a 25-page paper due in one week!

It'll fly by. You might have a miserable all-nighter before it's due, but then you're free!

 

[James Bond]

Ummm, what's the word I'm looking for.....?

Ah, yes: shitful.

Not going into details though.

To be fair, it has the potential to get a lot beter, if some things come off. I just hang on and hope.

Shit, but with the candied sprinkles of hope in the future.


J.

Ditto.

 

[Daneel]

If I could sum it up in one word... uneventful. Which I suppose means things are calm and quiet, but it really can't stay this way. I haven't worked yet this year -- in fact, I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. I kind of wish I'd realized this sooner, like when I was in university. I was kind of just going through the motions: graduate high school, go to university, get a degree -- all what I was expecting to do, and what was expected of me, but at this point, all I can think is, "Now what?" I really didn't plan for the future at all, so this kind of makes me uneasy and uncertain. I guess that's 2009 for me thus far.

Oh, and still nothing on the romantic front, but I've kind of learned to accept that. I've been single every other year of my life, and I doubt 2009 will be any different.

On the plus side... uh... there's a new Star Trek movie coming out that I'm looking forward to. Yeah, that's something... kinda.

Beyond that, I got nothing. Well, I suppose I have my health. Actually, I'm probably in the best shape I've been in years (I'll say this for unemployment, it's given me time to work out every day). Oh yeah, and this is the first year I've started off not living with my parents, which is a huge relief -- I love them very much, but if I had to live with them any longer, I probably would've eventually made the papers, with a headline about a "murder-suicide" above my picture.

The family is good... everyone seems in relatively good health and spirits (barring a few distant relatives I don't see too often). My sister got accepted to teachers' college (good for her, having a life plan, not like her clueless big brother), and one of my cousins is a happy newlywed. So all in all, not bad I suppose, in the grand scheme of things.

 

[RoJoHen]

Oh, and still nothing on the romantic front, but I've kind of learned to accept that. I've been single every other year of my life, and I doubt 2009 will be any different.

I'm in the same boat. If there's one thing I would really like to happen this year, it's having a girlfriend.

 

[Daneel]

^^^^^
The thing is, I really don't want to be one of those people who feels they need to have a significant other... one of those people who defines their own existence (and by extension, their happiness) on whether or not they have a romantic partner. I kind of get annoyed with people like that. I don't think there's anything wrong with being single.

On the other hand... having someone to do activities with, someone you can confide in and share your thoughts with, someone with whom you can be physically and emotionally intimate... every once in a while, it sounds like something that would be nice. Most of the time, I don't mind being single --I enjoy my freedom immensely, and I have to be honest, I probably have a few issues with commitment-- but occasionally, it grows tiresome.

Ah well... c'est la vie.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Fairly subdued. I have a steady job and about to move out of my house as I am in fairly good health and fairly good mental state for the first time in a long time. Though a small issue has cropped up, which was not my fault totally.

 

[jamestyler]

The year started off badly with a custody battle, lack of motivation and then reviewing a film which made me regret ever getting into my line of work...

But since I decided to drop everything and change careers about a month ago things have went reasonably well. I'm taking the steps to get that career, I'm ending my time in wrestling with a smile, my lawyer scared my ex into playing nice with our daughter and out of the blue I got an email asking me to review Star Trek (which I am way too geeky not to dance with glee about).

And I've met some less crazy women this year... bad start, but hopefully it'll continue to go nicely.

 

[kustirider2]

Really really bad...

 

[TheBrew]

Oh, and still nothing on the romantic front, but I've kind of learned to accept that. I've been single every other year of my life, and I doubt 2009 will be any different.

I'm in the same boat. If there's one thing I would really like to happen this year, it's having a girlfriend.

My one movement on that front sort of went up in flames due to a miscommunication... we still hang out, but yeah...