NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, it's time to rate how good your year's been. Give reasons.

Mine's been a right mixture, which is why I'm rating it a 3. It's had some real highs and real low lows.

I had a absolute shite job working for a complete arse at the start, but luckily got a much better job. Better pay, less hours, more holidays. So that's a real positive.
Also won the Hong Kong indoor rowing competition. Another positive.
Joined a dragonboat team and competed overseas in a couple of internationals. We came 2nd in the HK international as well. So that was a real positive.
Met lots of new people and made new friends. good as well.

So far, so good.

Real crap thing was breaking up with my fiance in a real shitty way too, I might add. We'd been together just over 5 years. When we were back in NZ on holiday in July, she told my parents we were going to get married next year. When we got back to HK, she told me she was going to put my name on the title to the house she has back in NZ as joint owner. I gave her a fairly significant amount of money (~$12000US) towards paying my half. She went off for a couple of weeks on work. Came back and told me she hated me and I had a day to move out or she was throwing all my stuff on the street and calling the police. She has spoken to me since, so I'm still a bit in the dark as to why this happened.
Huge turnaround there, and a bit of a shock, as you can imagine.

Luckily I found a nice place on an outlying island quickly. Nice neighbours (French, yet polite and helpful! Can you imagine?), cheap rent, lovely views.

This month has definitely been a huge plus. I finally got all my back pay and a pay rise, so I got around $8000US this month. Whoo-Hoo! I paid off my VISA, a personal loan and spent a fortune on pressies for myself. A new computer, a rowing machine, a new cellphone (nokia 6600), a bunch of books and some nice clothes (including an Armani leather jacket which is now my pride and joy).

So what of you?

yay! 8 out of 10 no major illness phew

A good year.

When your an older teenager every year gets progressivly better because you can do more and get away with it more easily :D

A good year.

When your an older teenager every year gets progressivly better because you can do more and get away with it more easily :D

How old are you ? I am 37

Nothing particularly good happened, but a pretty big amount of crap did.

I'm still alive aren't I? So all in all, a pretty bad year. :(

How old are you ? I am 37

17,
so does not getting ill constitute as a good year by the age of 37 then :rolleyes:

2005, err

Became permanent in Job
New PC replaced old POS which blew up
Lots of new gadgets
Given Sys Admin access at work

It feels like I've taken several steps back this year, in regards to myself as a person.

I've lost my sense of discipline and my speaking ability has deteriorated (like I stutter a lot and my speech is usually slurred).

But it's not all bad - you need suffering to have pleasure. Suffering can make you stronger as a person too.

9/10

spring, properly gelled with friends at sixth form, got lots of good friends from there now, saw loads of brilliant gigs, broke up with my old girlfriend, fell in love with my new girlfriend.
summer, fucked up a levels but still managed to get into university, got extremely drunk multiple times, climbed in norway, left for uni.
autumn, got very very very badly drunk during freshers week, settled into uni life, met loads of cool people, climbed a couple of times a week.
winter, got home, saw my girlfriend, finally had sex after a three month drought, saw all my old friends again, got very drunk, played in the snow.

For me, 2005 had a lot more 'downs' than ups. It certainly wasn't all bad, but I won't be particularly sad to see it end tomorrow. We'll have to see what happens in 2006.

I don't know how I survived. It has been a terrible year.

Awesome year. My son was born. Some not-so-great stuff happened too, but I've forgotten what it was. :D

Bleh. Took care of some old legal troubles, had to replace my car because it broke down, a month later the replacement broke down. Went on a few dates, nothing long term came of it. High points included the return of one of my friends from his world travels, visiting my oldest friend and his wife in Florida, and not getting deleted from NS for a while. Kind of a boring year.

Awesome year: made lots of new friends, won a scholarship and did well in other exams.

9.4/10

17,
so does not getting ill constitute as a good year by the age of 37 then :rolleyes:
;)

I rate my year a generic meh out of ten.

left uni, hospitalised, depressed, lost lots of friends, back living with my parents... so pretty shitty: 3/10
but then i met amy so that's something positive at leat (4/10)

It started out good. I had a good paying job that was kick-back and I got to boss people around. Then my supervisor had to go and relapse into tweakerdom and try to pull me into it with her so I quit. Why is it everything seems to go better when you're working? The rest of the year has been pretty depressing, but survivable.

On paper it seems pretty good.

Graduated with an advanced degree (albiet the minimum amount possible to still be 'advanced'...), started working 'in the industry,' though it's been spotty and mostly in reality shows...

But I was homeless in July, and that sucked. I'm not really making anymore than I was before college, and I could have done what I'm doing now without college. But college was really for me.

But I'm poor, I didn't get any work this month, which also happens to be the month that my rear window got shattered.

Meh, probably pretty good but since I'm broke as hell right now I'm gonna say it sucked.

A 6/10, nothing really special.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/trashcat.jpg

TrashCat is in a bin... what do you think my year was like?

TrashCat is in a bin... what do you think my year was like?
*resists urge to type it*

*resists...*

*fails*

RUBBISH!!

I'm so sad...

*resists urge to type it*

*resists...*

*fails*

RUBBISH!!

I'm so sad...
You get hit in the head with wadded up bits of paper and empty drinks cans and see if you like it...

Is it any wonder I destroyed your couch?

In the spring I got pretty good grades from my matriculation exam and easily got into the university which was my first choice. However, spring was also marked by the worst floods in decades in my home town, and our house, even though the water never made it inside, suffered some structural damage.

The summer I don't remember as fondly. I started my military service, and ended it a week later. The greatest tragedy of that experience was the loss of my beautiful, long hair, which is just taking forever to grow back. The good thing about the briefness of my military career was the fact that I could attend uni a year earlier than I had planned to.

And the fall was maybe the best I've ever had. I got a great deal on an apartment, my studies got off to a quite a good start, and, being a pretty introverted person, living alone feels like heaven.

Overall, 2005 has been good to me.

If ever it could be said that I had a "mixed year," it was this one. My income increased because I became eligible for Social Security, so I've been paying off my bills left and right. On the other hand, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and the operation was lots of fun ... NOT!

On a scale from 1 - 10, where ten is perfect health and you win the lottery, and one is where you're hovering between life and death because your creditors beat you up for non-payment, this has been about a five.

You get hit in the head with wadded up bits of paper and empty drinks cans and see if you like it...

Is it any wonder I destroyed your couch?
That was you???

BASTARD!

*chases with broom, shouting "Thomas!" in a Tom&Jerry fashion*

That was you??? BASTARD! *chases with broom, shouting "Thomas!" in a Tom&Jerry fashion*
TrashCat is too fast for you!

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8/10

Good grades, and I met the girl that I'm now deeply in love with, and dating.

On the other side, I've edged a little closer to getting thrown out of the house by my parents, and I can no longer stand to be around them.

This has been a pretty crap year overall, mostly because I so utterly loathe my dead-end retirement job. No, I'm not old enough to retire, but that's how it feels. They fooled me into thinking this was going to be a fast-paced, technology orientated chance to deliver Spanish as a second language from a distance. Instead, I'm an overpayed marker who has way too much time to hang out on NS. The only thing that has kept me sane is the hope that I'll get into Law School. That and sex. Lots and lots of great sex. But this year was definately a stinker. I've never felt so useless.

This has been a pretty crap year overall, mostly because I so utterly loathe my dead-end retirement job. No, I'm not old enough to retire, but that's how it feels. They fooled me into thinking this was going to be a fast-paced, technology orientated chance to deliver Spanish as a second language from a distance. Instead, I'm an overpayed marker who has way too much time to hang out on NS. The only thing that has kept me sane is the hope that I'll get into Law School. That and sex. Lots and lots of great sex. But this year was definately a stinker. I've never felt so useless.
Trust me on this ... if you had "lots and lots of great sex," you're definitely not "useless!" :D

s0-so, first half incredible, second half, shit.

Almost Every day i wake up and go to work come on here go to bed.
You tell me?

Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum.

Run to the bedroom,
In the suitcase on the left
You'll find my favorite axe.
Don't look so frightened
This is just a passing phase,
One of my bad days.
Would you like to watch T.V.?
Or get between the sheets?
Or contemplate the silent freeway?
Would you like something to eat?
Would you like to learn to fly?
Would'ya?
Would you like to see me try?

Would you like to call the cops?
Do you think it's time I stopped?
Why are you running away?

2005 is one of the most interesting years in my life. I can't really elaborate though.

Well, I've had worse.

It had it's huge ups, like a job promotion, but very big downs as well.

Several hard and bad rows - I think fights might be the better word - with a person I love, plus I didn't get to even see that person the whole year.

I got to know some new people and made new friends... hey, I actually discovered NS General only this year. That's a definitive up :D

On the other hand I had a couple of not-so-nice dates, too. Put me off it for now.

And I learned a good few things about myself, both positive and negative.

It's been so-so, I'd say

Edit : No, no sex. Well, none worth talking about anyway

2005 kicked alot of ass. I was in a great program at uni, made new friends, met my boyfriend, got my first job, quit my first job, and read some good books. I think I only really started posting here often in 2005, so that's a good thig too (I think).

My year was very good. Not as devastatingly awesome as last year, but still very good. I wish I got a little more outdoor activities in. I spent a considerable amount of the year nursing various minor injuries. I had a lot of sex. :)

My year was incredible. Sure, there were some bad things, but there were more important good things than the small kind of bad things that happened to me this year. And not just to me. Friends had lots of fun and luck this year, so did family, and there were just lots of good things that happened in general this year.

Most of the good things that happened to me are a little too personal to be telling you guys about, or at least that's how I feel, but... yeah.

One's that I turned 15 and a half, but the bad part is that my parents won't allow me to drive. Lol. Still won't, even though I'm 16 in less than a week. But lots of good things came with me getting older... I'm understanding more, and I did learn a darn lot more than what I used to know.

Another thing's that I got lots of gifts... and went places with friends... for just no apparent reason. So that's nice... Made lots of friends, too...

I got good grades in school -- nothing at all lower than a C anyway, but mostly above B.

And, yeah. That's really all I can remember right now -- I know there are more -- but as I said most of the good things that happened are a little personal, plus there are fewer (yet more important) good things that happened than all the small, minor bad things. Awesome year. :)

Also, for me, it was the longest year in my life to date, and what's worse is that I don't want it to end. :(

Oh, yeah, and I was introduced to NationStates in early 2005. And introduced to LOTS of other awesome things!! *Excited just thinking about everything that happened this year* ...