End of the Year Round-up
Dec. 31st, 2005 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brinshannaraWith seven hours to go until the end of 2005 for me, I thought I'd take a few minutes to write.
First of all, my DSL chose today to come back to me. Welcome home, beautiful. ;)
Second of all, I am in the most demand on NYE than I've ever been. Seriously. It's kind of freaking me out.
Two years ago, I went to a party my friend CB invited me to. We all know how much fun that was. :P But it was the only offer I had, save for my parents' house. At 26 years of age, I was not going to spend New Year's with my parents.
Last year, I was invited to the same party again, but wound up spending NYE with PF and her husband, WD, at the casino. (And unfortunately, the troll of a former neighbour, JK.) So I had two offers.
This year, I have four. Or had four. It's complicated. First, there's dinner with my family and my brother's GF's family at a restaurant. Then dessert at my parents'. Then I was going to go to the casino with PF/WD again, only they have apparently bailed on me (despite the plans not being that firm in the first place). Then, JB and NC want me to go out with them to a bar. But CB wants me to go to that same party with her. Also, MG is having a spontaneous NYE party at her new house.
Honestly, I just want to stay home and ring in the year by watching Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with my sweetie. So, due to the lack of a sweetie and the abomination that is Ryan "Could I Be Any More Fake" Seacrest who is co-hosting with Dick Clark, I have elected to (reluctantly) venture out this New Year's Eve. As of right now, it looks like I'm headed out with JB and NC, meeting them at the bar (God only knows where this place is) around 11ish. CB will not be happy with the fact that I'm not going to the party with her, despite the fact I told her that I had plans with PF. She doesn't know the plans with PF fell through. MG understood that the whole "spontaneous party" thing meant that yes, I probably already had plans and is cool.
It's been a heck of a year. I feel like I haven't stopped doing stuff all year long. And I kind of haven't.
School from January - April, then May - August, then September - December. Work from May - September. Eesh.
In terms of a social life, this was the year I actually got one. It was my most social year yet, and though some of it was fun, a lot of it was exhausting. I'm not into going to bars and clubs, and the prospect of wandering St-Denis at 3am and running into the youngest son of family friends (with a mohawk, no less) isn't necessarily my idea of a good time.
But the people this year were, on the whole, pretty good.
- CB has started treating me better over the last half of the year. She still pisses me off and such, but it's much less so now than it used to be.
- CG, as always, has been wonderful.
- PF - somewhat flakey, as demonstrated by the plans for tonight, but usually decent.
- MG has been lovely.
- JB has been a wonderful addition to my group of close friends. Romantic interest towards her or not, she's a great person and I'm glad she's in my life.
- NC is a good person, and though I don't really see us ever being friends independent of JB, it's been pleasant hanging out with her.
- TM. Oh, T, my Irish friend with the speech impediment. He's such a nice guy, a good guy, but he is the neediest person I've ever encountered. More needy than me. By a lot. Which is saying a TON. Still, his presence in my life, for the most part, was welcome and pleasant.
- CR, my firefighter friend, is someone I've known for at least half my life, but we didn't used to talk much or hang out pretty much at all. We changed that this year, and it's been really good getting to hang out with him more often.
Those are pretty much the people I've hung out with this year, outside of school. School people... well, the sociologists are getting to know each other, which is interesting, but I'm discovering I don't LIKE a lot of the people in my classes, due to their utter stupidity. HOW DID THESE PEOPLE GET TO UNIVERSITY?! Ugh, I must resolve to not be so annoyed by people. And so...
New Year's Resolutions
1) No Coke, at all, until April 1st 2006, whereupon a single Coke in a restaurant/bar setting will be acceptable.
2) Be more patient with people who aren't that bright. It's no more my doing that I'm relatively intelligent than it is their doing for being relatively stupid.
3) Less swearing, in preparation for my annual "No Swearing During Lent" thing.
4) DO MY READINGS. Dammit, I am determined to do my readings for class, and not just for the essay/test/etc.
5) Read over my notes (or, in the case of Italian, type out my notes) the night after class. Discuss concepts/theories more frequently to get them stuck in my head.
6) Write more.
7) Read more.
8) Spend less time messing around on the Internet.
9) Spend more time hanging out with people in person.
And on that note, I have to finish getting ready for dinner, then run to the dep quickly for my emergency "OMG I HAVE A MIGRAINE HELP" caffeine withdrawal supplies and then ... go.
I had more to say, but I can't manage to articulate it all.
Have a very happy (and safe!) new year, everyone!
First of all, my DSL chose today to come back to me. Welcome home, beautiful. ;)
Second of all, I am in the most demand on NYE than I've ever been. Seriously. It's kind of freaking me out.
Two years ago, I went to a party my friend CB invited me to. We all know how much fun that was. :P But it was the only offer I had, save for my parents' house. At 26 years of age, I was not going to spend New Year's with my parents.
Last year, I was invited to the same party again, but wound up spending NYE with PF and her husband, WD, at the casino. (And unfortunately, the troll of a former neighbour, JK.) So I had two offers.
This year, I have four. Or had four. It's complicated. First, there's dinner with my family and my brother's GF's family at a restaurant. Then dessert at my parents'. Then I was going to go to the casino with PF/WD again, only they have apparently bailed on me (despite the plans not being that firm in the first place). Then, JB and NC want me to go out with them to a bar. But CB wants me to go to that same party with her. Also, MG is having a spontaneous NYE party at her new house.
Honestly, I just want to stay home and ring in the year by watching Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with my sweetie. So, due to the lack of a sweetie and the abomination that is Ryan "Could I Be Any More Fake" Seacrest who is co-hosting with Dick Clark, I have elected to (reluctantly) venture out this New Year's Eve. As of right now, it looks like I'm headed out with JB and NC, meeting them at the bar (God only knows where this place is) around 11ish. CB will not be happy with the fact that I'm not going to the party with her, despite the fact I told her that I had plans with PF. She doesn't know the plans with PF fell through. MG understood that the whole "spontaneous party" thing meant that yes, I probably already had plans and is cool.
It's been a heck of a year. I feel like I haven't stopped doing stuff all year long. And I kind of haven't.
School from January - April, then May - August, then September - December. Work from May - September. Eesh.
In terms of a social life, this was the year I actually got one. It was my most social year yet, and though some of it was fun, a lot of it was exhausting. I'm not into going to bars and clubs, and the prospect of wandering St-Denis at 3am and running into the youngest son of family friends (with a mohawk, no less) isn't necessarily my idea of a good time.
But the people this year were, on the whole, pretty good.
- CB has started treating me better over the last half of the year. She still pisses me off and such, but it's much less so now than it used to be.
- CG, as always, has been wonderful.
- PF - somewhat flakey, as demonstrated by the plans for tonight, but usually decent.
- MG has been lovely.
- JB has been a wonderful addition to my group of close friends. Romantic interest towards her or not, she's a great person and I'm glad she's in my life.
- NC is a good person, and though I don't really see us ever being friends independent of JB, it's been pleasant hanging out with her.
- TM. Oh, T, my Irish friend with the speech impediment. He's such a nice guy, a good guy, but he is the neediest person I've ever encountered. More needy than me. By a lot. Which is saying a TON. Still, his presence in my life, for the most part, was welcome and pleasant.
- CR, my firefighter friend, is someone I've known for at least half my life, but we didn't used to talk much or hang out pretty much at all. We changed that this year, and it's been really good getting to hang out with him more often.
Those are pretty much the people I've hung out with this year, outside of school. School people... well, the sociologists are getting to know each other, which is interesting, but I'm discovering I don't LIKE a lot of the people in my classes, due to their utter stupidity. HOW DID THESE PEOPLE GET TO UNIVERSITY?! Ugh, I must resolve to not be so annoyed by people. And so...
New Year's Resolutions
1) No Coke, at all, until April 1st 2006, whereupon a single Coke in a restaurant/bar setting will be acceptable.
2) Be more patient with people who aren't that bright. It's no more my doing that I'm relatively intelligent than it is their doing for being relatively stupid.
3) Less swearing, in preparation for my annual "No Swearing During Lent" thing.
4) DO MY READINGS. Dammit, I am determined to do my readings for class, and not just for the essay/test/etc.
5) Read over my notes (or, in the case of Italian, type out my notes) the night after class. Discuss concepts/theories more frequently to get them stuck in my head.
6) Write more.
7) Read more.
8) Spend less time messing around on the Internet.
9) Spend more time hanging out with people in person.
And on that note, I have to finish getting ready for dinner, then run to the dep quickly for my emergency "OMG I HAVE A MIGRAINE HELP" caffeine withdrawal supplies and then ... go.
I had more to say, but I can't manage to articulate it all.
Have a very happy (and safe!) new year, everyone!
