Well, yes, it’s the new year; 2006 and all that. Normally at this time of year I’m wont to do a bit of a look back at what’s changed in my life in the last year, but frankly, 2005 despite starting on a high note has been the shittiest year for, well, I think my entire life; and really the concept of looking back on it really doesn’t fill me with joy; but here, here’s a short one:
Good Stuff:
– Fell in Love
– Entered Pride
– Learned to Swim
– Bought a Guitar
– Visiting Alaska, meeting new friends
Bad Stuff:
– My dad died
– My mum’s become depressed
– Pulled out of Pride
– Got dumped
– Car’s (original) engine died
– Haven’t felt able to work for a while
Yeah, so that’s 2005 in a nutshell. Despite some incredible highs, thinking about 2005 is still so raw that it actually makes me want to cry. Which is how I feel a lot of the time at the moment anyway; distraction is the only thing that’s keeping me sane. That and my new guitar hobby. Not that my mum knows, because it’s money I quite definately shouldn’t have spent.
Anyway, 2006 is to be different. I’m going to start looking at Canada, see if it really is the place I think it is, and where I want to be. I hope it is. I’m going to finish my degree, the first stage of that is actually getting on with my work, which I’ll be doing in a bit. I also need to practice my guitar more. I keep hearing songs I really want to learn to play.
The Canada thing, I’d like to take the opportunity to visit Kara (et al) at the same time, being as Alaska’s closer to Canada than it is to here; and I reckon that the cost of that looks to be a bit over a grand. Which is going to be a bit hard to save up.
I also really need to look and decide where I want to live in Canada. Ack. I don’t know anything much about Canada; not in the physical reality sense. Which is a bit of an interesting thing for a place I’m seriously considering upping sticks and moving to.
Yeah.
Anyway, enough rambly stuff. I had an excellent NYE / NYD, with Chrissy, Lauren, Trey, Nikki, Kate, James and John here; we spent most of the evening playing games, although I have to admit to being the world’s worst Mau master; which is a shame, because it’s a great game. I think also, people were a bit tired for Mau, I’d forgotten how much it is observation when you start out.
But Things went down very well; and Robo Rally was played, and other games. Oooh, it’s all a bit blurry. That’ll be the Alcohol then (Tequila and Dr Pepper / Vodka and Dr Pepper). Aye. Multiple games of Munchkin, Fluxx yeah. All good. Definately. Watched The Manchurian Candidate (the remake) which turned out to be really good… Meh. Generally a good time was had. So yeah.
It’s still weird, Trey being here. I missed her loads, but trying to form a new…relationship dynamic… so soon is hard. It’s really hard. Yeah. But it’s very good to have her back here; I missed her a lot.
