Meme Sheepings
Because I'm bored and, well hey, haven't had a year as eventful and exciting as this one (well, in a way I'd like to remember that is).
1. Was 2008 a good year for you?
Its been a crazy year, a year with one sudden and massive change after another. At the end of it all (hopefully) I'd say this was a very good year, but, like with any massive change, actually going through it wasn't always all that pleasant.
2. What was your favorite moment of the year?
I can't think of any one single moment. Several with Renee, several with Hermes, the two most important being in my life right now.
3. What was your least favorite moment of the year?
Moving day itself was especially miserable, the way my old job became toward the end, and pretty much the entire winter at the beginning of the year that I spent getting sick.
4. What are your plans for 2009?
Figure out where I need to be with Hermes and start working on getting there; work on developing secondary divine relationships (especially as Odin and Loki are now being exceptionally vocal); sometime this spring hopefully get out to Oregon to check the place out and, if it truly is as awe inspiring as I have been lead to believe, move my ass out of this toilet of a city and get out there.
5. What countries did you visit?
I was living in the ghetto at the start of the year. If you think that isn't like being in another country with its own (rather unfortunate) culture, go live there a year then see what you think.
6. What date in 2008 will remain etched in your memory?
April 20 something or other (I am not good with dates) when Renee and I recognized we had been dating for two years and started calling it what it is; Halloween, big spiritual day for me.
7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting through all the change with my sanity intact, without being too overwhelmed by stress, without running and hiding. Receiving the hint that my spiritual path is supposed to veer off from where it had been going and going there with only minor struggle. Finding out that I can be in a relationship with another person.
8. What was your biggest failure?
There have been plenty of little ones along the way, things I wished I had done sooner (like left my job, back when I first wanted to, instead of letting it get to the point that it did), things I wish I had stressed out over less, things I wish I had learned by now that I still haven't. Its not anything I'm really twisting myself into knots over, nothing that diminishes all the highlights.
9. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I spend much of the winter sick, and when I get sick it attacks my respiratory system and that is not fun. I had an ear infection a couple months ago.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
The lease to our new apartment. Room mate free, ghetto free, sure I have to walk up four flights of stairs every time I want to leave but all things considered its probably worth it.
11. Who's behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
There were more than a few of those, people who pushed well past my usual misanthropic annoyances with the human race in general and really made themselves something special. No one I feel like mentioning by name, they don't deserve the additional attention a naming would bring.
12. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and other bills. Beyond that, religious stuff, offerings, projects and the like.
13. What did you get really really really excited about?
I don't get that excited about much of anything. I have to say the anticipation of moving out of the ghetto had me excited the longest, I had been looking forward to that date since about a week after I first moved into that dump.
14. What songs will always remind you of 2008?
Don't treat music that way, the least of which because my tastes are fairly narrow and there is not a wide range of emotion expressed within (it works for me).
15. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Fatter or thinner?
I may have lost a little weight, its nothing very noticeable if you examining me closely every day.
b) Happier or sadder?
In the end, happier. Definitely happier. Everyone says so.
c) Richer or poorer?
In terms of money, it is hard to say; I stopped working and am on a fixed income now, and while the fixed income isn't much it is at least fixed, whereas work schedule was always sporadic with some months having so little work that I really didn't have any money at all. In terms of relationships, far richer than I've ever been.
16. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Actual religious practice. My routine building problems and the stress over the constant change (much of which was centered on religion) kept me from doing anywhere near as much as I should have.
17. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Living in denial. Stressing out over everything. Pushing myself to do things that I knew I couldn't do and hurting myself in the process.
18. How will you be spending Christmas?
Going to visit the relatives one last time. Will be spending Christmas morning with my mother, then going to my aunt's house later in the afternoon. Renee will come down the day after to witness first hand the environment that produced me.
19. Which LJ users did you meet for the first time?
I can't think of anybody I met this year that I didn't already know before. I plan to change that as of next year.
20. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Oh yeah. ;-)
21. How many one night stands?
Not really my thing, sorry.
22. What was your favourite TV show?
Still into Lost (this is the one I'm always the most excited to watch), House, NCIS, CSI original, Criminal Minds, and true crime wherever I can find it. I was watching Oz on DVD from Netflix and Dexter is on my list too (saw a few episodes back when we had all the movie channels for two brief weeks before Comcast realized its error, got hooked quick).
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Well, I identify quite proudly as a misanthrope, so technically I already hate everyone. But yeah, there are a few people that I now hate in a very individual way (or at least really strongly loathe and despise, I tend to reserve the term hate for people who have deliberately caused harm to me or someone I care about, thankfully there wasn't anyone like that this year).
24. What was/were the best books you read?
Less book reading this year (something I plan to change). I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series, it didn't end quite the way I thought it would but yet I was very satisfied with where it went (and I didn't read that book for a while out of fear that it wouldn't end right, I put too much time into it all to see it go to shit in the last twenty pages, I am so glad that didn't happen). Renee had me read Scar Night, which was about three hundred pages of slow set up (interesting set up, but still set up) before stuff happened but when something did happen it was good, and the next book in the series so far doesn't seem to be suffering from that handicap.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Dominic gave me Dethklok's Dethalbum sometimes early in the year. They make me smile.
26. What did you want and get?
An apartment in Mount Vernon, a girlfriend, a sense that life doesn't completely suck all the time
27. What did you want and not get?
A moment of peace
28. What was your favourite film this year?
Well, if we're talking about movies that came out this year, Dark Knight was the only one I bothered to see, and yeah I really liked it, it satisfied my love of psychotic killers. :-)
Beyond that, John Carpenter's The Thing and Saw topped my list (I know, I was surprised toom but hey don't judge the first by the sequels that followed, its a different movie).
29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
27. Had dinner with a few friend then hung out at home with the girlfriend, I'm never much for celebration.
30. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Hard to say. Complaints for this year are relatively minor.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Same as before. T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, all black and dark blue, nothing fancy. Leather trench coat and sunglasses about the only real stand out items. A hat got added to my wardrobe in honor of Hermes, I'll occasionally throw a bandanna over my head (I used to be very against having things on my head, easier now that I have far less hair than I once did). I started wearing sarongs on occasion during the summer when it was revoltingly hot and ghetto house was like an oven roasting you alive; I didn't find it as uncomfortable as I find skirts and dresses, but yet I don't wear them that often. My hair is still short and shall remain so from here forth, it started the year purple, went to standard black and then went red, a much lighter color than I've ever had it before and it took some getting used to. Got a new ring, new necklace, started beading and sometimes wearing what I make. Kept meaning to add spikes to my wrists, never got around to buying them. Maybe next year. :-)
32. What kept you sane?
Renee, Hermes (even when he was the problem), people online, my cats, mindless online games and television
33. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
I don't give a flying rat's ass about celebrities. They're not half as interesting as they think they are.
34. Which political issue stirred you the most?
Reclassifying birth control as abortion and making it perfectly legal to deny people medical treatment on grounds that you are a self righteous douche bag. Gay marriage being defeated so many times (you people suck, you seriously suck). I could add disappointment at who Obama is sucking up to recently, but I never turned him into the hero that others did and I'm not horribly surprised; disgusted yes, but not very surprised (and actually I'm less disgusted that he's buddying up to that human hemorrhoid Rick Warren as I am that Obama thought he could appease the rightfully pissed off gay community that supported him by inviting a gay marching band to the event as well ... ooh, well then, I'm all happy now. jackass) .
35. Who did you miss?
No one really.
36. Did you treat somebody badly in 2008?
No one that didn't deserve it. And honestly, I held back every time, I didn't treat anyone nearly as bad as I had been treated by them.
37. Did somebody treat you badly in 2008?
Of course, such is life.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
That after 27 years of near constant bullshit, maybe I actually do deserve to be happy for once.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
I don't know, see my music answer above.
1. Was 2008 a good year for you?
Its been a crazy year, a year with one sudden and massive change after another. At the end of it all (hopefully) I'd say this was a very good year, but, like with any massive change, actually going through it wasn't always all that pleasant.
2. What was your favorite moment of the year?
I can't think of any one single moment. Several with Renee, several with Hermes, the two most important being in my life right now.
3. What was your least favorite moment of the year?
Moving day itself was especially miserable, the way my old job became toward the end, and pretty much the entire winter at the beginning of the year that I spent getting sick.
4. What are your plans for 2009?
Figure out where I need to be with Hermes and start working on getting there; work on developing secondary divine relationships (especially as Odin and Loki are now being exceptionally vocal); sometime this spring hopefully get out to Oregon to check the place out and, if it truly is as awe inspiring as I have been lead to believe, move my ass out of this toilet of a city and get out there.
5. What countries did you visit?
I was living in the ghetto at the start of the year. If you think that isn't like being in another country with its own (rather unfortunate) culture, go live there a year then see what you think.
6. What date in 2008 will remain etched in your memory?
April 20 something or other (I am not good with dates) when Renee and I recognized we had been dating for two years and started calling it what it is; Halloween, big spiritual day for me.
7. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting through all the change with my sanity intact, without being too overwhelmed by stress, without running and hiding. Receiving the hint that my spiritual path is supposed to veer off from where it had been going and going there with only minor struggle. Finding out that I can be in a relationship with another person.
8. What was your biggest failure?
There have been plenty of little ones along the way, things I wished I had done sooner (like left my job, back when I first wanted to, instead of letting it get to the point that it did), things I wish I had stressed out over less, things I wish I had learned by now that I still haven't. Its not anything I'm really twisting myself into knots over, nothing that diminishes all the highlights.
9. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I spend much of the winter sick, and when I get sick it attacks my respiratory system and that is not fun. I had an ear infection a couple months ago.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
The lease to our new apartment. Room mate free, ghetto free, sure I have to walk up four flights of stairs every time I want to leave but all things considered its probably worth it.
11. Who's behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
There were more than a few of those, people who pushed well past my usual misanthropic annoyances with the human race in general and really made themselves something special. No one I feel like mentioning by name, they don't deserve the additional attention a naming would bring.
12. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and other bills. Beyond that, religious stuff, offerings, projects and the like.
13. What did you get really really really excited about?
I don't get that excited about much of anything. I have to say the anticipation of moving out of the ghetto had me excited the longest, I had been looking forward to that date since about a week after I first moved into that dump.
14. What songs will always remind you of 2008?
Don't treat music that way, the least of which because my tastes are fairly narrow and there is not a wide range of emotion expressed within (it works for me).
15. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Fatter or thinner?
I may have lost a little weight, its nothing very noticeable if you examining me closely every day.
b) Happier or sadder?
In the end, happier. Definitely happier. Everyone says so.
c) Richer or poorer?
In terms of money, it is hard to say; I stopped working and am on a fixed income now, and while the fixed income isn't much it is at least fixed, whereas work schedule was always sporadic with some months having so little work that I really didn't have any money at all. In terms of relationships, far richer than I've ever been.
16. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Actual religious practice. My routine building problems and the stress over the constant change (much of which was centered on religion) kept me from doing anywhere near as much as I should have.
17. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Living in denial. Stressing out over everything. Pushing myself to do things that I knew I couldn't do and hurting myself in the process.
18. How will you be spending Christmas?
Going to visit the relatives one last time. Will be spending Christmas morning with my mother, then going to my aunt's house later in the afternoon. Renee will come down the day after to witness first hand the environment that produced me.
19. Which LJ users did you meet for the first time?
I can't think of anybody I met this year that I didn't already know before. I plan to change that as of next year.
20. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Oh yeah. ;-)
21. How many one night stands?
Not really my thing, sorry.
22. What was your favourite TV show?
Still into Lost (this is the one I'm always the most excited to watch), House, NCIS, CSI original, Criminal Minds, and true crime wherever I can find it. I was watching Oz on DVD from Netflix and Dexter is on my list too (saw a few episodes back when we had all the movie channels for two brief weeks before Comcast realized its error, got hooked quick).
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Well, I identify quite proudly as a misanthrope, so technically I already hate everyone. But yeah, there are a few people that I now hate in a very individual way (or at least really strongly loathe and despise, I tend to reserve the term hate for people who have deliberately caused harm to me or someone I care about, thankfully there wasn't anyone like that this year).
24. What was/were the best books you read?
Less book reading this year (something I plan to change). I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series, it didn't end quite the way I thought it would but yet I was very satisfied with where it went (and I didn't read that book for a while out of fear that it wouldn't end right, I put too much time into it all to see it go to shit in the last twenty pages, I am so glad that didn't happen). Renee had me read Scar Night, which was about three hundred pages of slow set up (interesting set up, but still set up) before stuff happened but when something did happen it was good, and the next book in the series so far doesn't seem to be suffering from that handicap.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Dominic gave me Dethklok's Dethalbum sometimes early in the year. They make me smile.
26. What did you want and get?
An apartment in Mount Vernon, a girlfriend, a sense that life doesn't completely suck all the time
27. What did you want and not get?
A moment of peace
28. What was your favourite film this year?
Well, if we're talking about movies that came out this year, Dark Knight was the only one I bothered to see, and yeah I really liked it, it satisfied my love of psychotic killers. :-)
Beyond that, John Carpenter's The Thing and Saw topped my list (I know, I was surprised toom but hey don't judge the first by the sequels that followed, its a different movie).
29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
27. Had dinner with a few friend then hung out at home with the girlfriend, I'm never much for celebration.
30. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Hard to say. Complaints for this year are relatively minor.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Same as before. T-shirt, jeans, sneakers, all black and dark blue, nothing fancy. Leather trench coat and sunglasses about the only real stand out items. A hat got added to my wardrobe in honor of Hermes, I'll occasionally throw a bandanna over my head (I used to be very against having things on my head, easier now that I have far less hair than I once did). I started wearing sarongs on occasion during the summer when it was revoltingly hot and ghetto house was like an oven roasting you alive; I didn't find it as uncomfortable as I find skirts and dresses, but yet I don't wear them that often. My hair is still short and shall remain so from here forth, it started the year purple, went to standard black and then went red, a much lighter color than I've ever had it before and it took some getting used to. Got a new ring, new necklace, started beading and sometimes wearing what I make. Kept meaning to add spikes to my wrists, never got around to buying them. Maybe next year. :-)
32. What kept you sane?
Renee, Hermes (even when he was the problem), people online, my cats, mindless online games and television
33. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
I don't give a flying rat's ass about celebrities. They're not half as interesting as they think they are.
34. Which political issue stirred you the most?
Reclassifying birth control as abortion and making it perfectly legal to deny people medical treatment on grounds that you are a self righteous douche bag. Gay marriage being defeated so many times (you people suck, you seriously suck). I could add disappointment at who Obama is sucking up to recently, but I never turned him into the hero that others did and I'm not horribly surprised; disgusted yes, but not very surprised (and actually I'm less disgusted that he's buddying up to that human hemorrhoid Rick Warren as I am that Obama thought he could appease the rightfully pissed off gay community that supported him by inviting a gay marching band to the event as well ... ooh, well then, I'm all happy now. jackass) .
35. Who did you miss?
No one really.
36. Did you treat somebody badly in 2008?
No one that didn't deserve it. And honestly, I held back every time, I didn't treat anyone nearly as bad as I had been treated by them.
37. Did somebody treat you badly in 2008?
Of course, such is life.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
That after 27 years of near constant bullshit, maybe I actually do deserve to be happy for once.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
I don't know, see my music answer above.