New Years Eve + Christmas Recap
It's New Year's Eve. I almost started that sentence with 'so', but I stopped myself because I do that ALL the time. What's with that? It's weird. Anyhow, I guess today is usually the day I do that crazy yearly recap.
This year wasn't too bad, aside from the last two months in regards to our financial situation. Tony got back into school at the beginning of the year, I continued to bring my grade point up from that abysmal 0.0 GPA that I acquired the first two semester. Things have been pretty good overall.
I spent Christmas Eve here at home with Tony and we opened gifts. I got him Skylanders and an extra figure, some new boxers (one with mobile campers, one with moustaches), a disappearing dinosaur mug, and some Playmobile knights with wolves.
For my mom, I got a coffee mug and lots of tea and hot cocoa, a nice little necklace and earring set, and some peppermint bark. I got Bud a beer mug with playing cards and snack mix.
I got:
From my mom! the traction sucks on them, but they're so cute I can deal with it. They'll be great on snow, not so much on ice. My calves are so muscular from riding over the summer, that they're REALLY hard to zip, so I need to break them in.
A fox purse from Target that Tony got for me. I'd seen it earlier in the day, but couldn't justify spending $25 on myself. Apparently, he could.
This is my new favorite hat. Seriously. It's super tall and people seem to find it intimidating because everyone's face falls when they look at me and I'm wearing it.
This one's from my mom and a little more low key than the demon horns or my moose hat, but equally warm!
...and, Hello Kitty Dry-Erase Wall Calendar, Hello Kitty Pajama Pants, Hello Kitty Stickerland Activity Pack,
a bunch of frou-frou bath stuff, cute christmas socks. All from my mom. She knows how to shop for me.
I spent Christmas Day at my mom's and it was shockingly pleasant. No drama (aside from my youngest sister being a twat and messaging my mom on Facebook with the typical MERRY CHRISTMAS BUT DON'T THINK THIS IS AN INVITE BACK INTO MY LIFE bullshit), good food, and gifts all around. I got to see my mom's new place, too, which is really nice and will be amazingly moreso when they get it fixed up.
Finally, here's a terrible photo of me with a classy fly strip in the background:
This year wasn't too bad, aside from the last two months in regards to our financial situation. Tony got back into school at the beginning of the year, I continued to bring my grade point up from that abysmal 0.0 GPA that I acquired the first two semester. Things have been pretty good overall.
- I learned CSS finally!
- I started reading more!
- I started writing A LOT more.
- I did NaNoWriMo and technically won.
- I started biking.
- I acquired a kitten (Finnick Samhain).
- We acquired a short-tailed opossum.
- We had a real opossum for a minute there in July.
- We lost the ferrets, Tezzy and Possum.
- We lost some of the rats - just Carbomb and one of the nude boys is left.
- We acquired a uyromastyx named Jackie.
- I was in the campus gay magazine on an article about furries.
- We saw Rasputina and Voltaire!
- We went to the museums for the first time ever.
- We did Anthrocon, despite waffling over it earlier in the year.
- I bitched about a lot of things.
- We got into Game of Thrones!
- I set up a new graphics/icon journal for all that bullshit.
- I opened three different roleplaying forums. I'm also helping start/revamp two others.
- I discovered a great and deep love for Richard Siken.
- Poe was featured on fuckyeahterribleocs!
- We started doing game nights on campus with some fellow nerds.
- We went to the casting call for the Avengers movie when it was filming in Cleveland. No callbacks, sadly.
- We tried to learn to crochet/knit, but it didn't really go anywhere.
- We made a TARDIS for Halloween.
- I made a few fanmixes.
I spent Christmas Eve here at home with Tony and we opened gifts. I got him Skylanders and an extra figure, some new boxers (one with mobile campers, one with moustaches), a disappearing dinosaur mug, and some Playmobile knights with wolves.
For my mom, I got a coffee mug and lots of tea and hot cocoa, a nice little necklace and earring set, and some peppermint bark. I got Bud a beer mug with playing cards and snack mix.
I got:
From my mom! the traction sucks on them, but they're so cute I can deal with it. They'll be great on snow, not so much on ice. My calves are so muscular from riding over the summer, that they're REALLY hard to zip, so I need to break them in.
A fox purse from Target that Tony got for me. I'd seen it earlier in the day, but couldn't justify spending $25 on myself. Apparently, he could.
This is my new favorite hat. Seriously. It's super tall and people seem to find it intimidating because everyone's face falls when they look at me and I'm wearing it.
This one's from my mom and a little more low key than the demon horns or my moose hat, but equally warm!
...and, Hello Kitty Dry-Erase Wall Calendar, Hello Kitty Pajama Pants, Hello Kitty Stickerland Activity Pack,
a bunch of frou-frou bath stuff, cute christmas socks. All from my mom. She knows how to shop for me.
I spent Christmas Day at my mom's and it was shockingly pleasant. No drama (aside from my youngest sister being a twat and messaging my mom on Facebook with the typical MERRY CHRISTMAS BUT DON'T THINK THIS IS AN INVITE BACK INTO MY LIFE bullshit), good food, and gifts all around. I got to see my mom's new place, too, which is really nice and will be amazingly moreso when they get it fixed up.
Finally, here's a terrible photo of me with a classy fly strip in the background: