2005: How's It Going?

[dr_mabeuse]

So far this year is shaping up to be one of the worst I can remember, not only for me, but for a lot of people I know. A lot of friends are losing businesses, having marriages break up, having trouble with their kids, getting sick.

I'm just curious as to how things have been going for you. Has this year been worse than others? Better? About the same?

It would be nice if we could blame the stars.

 

[impressive]

It sucks. Period.

EDIT: The big thing is that it's sucking on so many levels: the world, the nation, the state, the community, the home, the mood. No wonder I'm in a funk!

 

[minsue]

Yup, so far '05 bites.

 

[Blackie Malone]

Last year was much worse for me...but this year is showing promise of being somewhat shitty too!.

 

[Dar~]

2005 hasn't been that bad a year for me. I have been trying to get surgery approved throughmy insurance. After Three months of medical tests, I finally get to apply for approval at the beginnning of April.
My husband is retrainng into firefighting, which makes him happy.
I've made a lot of new friends, the downside to that is that we are military and will be leaving them in five or six months.

My main bitch about 2005 is that I havn't been sleeping, so I constantly feel exhausted. Thats all medical though.
Dar-

 

[Boota]

2005 is going to be my year. A few bad things have happened, and I'm still looking for work, but a lot of positive things have been coming to me lately.

So far, so good.

 

[NoJo]

2003 was my annus horribilis. 2004 was better. 2005 is -- unpredictable.

 

[logophile]

I'm sick of being poor.

I'm sick of not being able to turn the heat up past 58 when the kids aren't home. I'm sick of only feeding them meat once a week and being grateful for an invite to dinner at my sister's. I'm sick of skipping meals when they're at their dad's cause it saves money.

My mother's health is deteriorating to point where she's a danger to herself. She'll probably burn the house down around her, her husband and her 4 dogs. She lives 6 hours away. There's nothing I can do about it.

Our government is pissing me off, embarassing me, ashaming me.

I think I've met someone really great, someone who matches my level of romantic ferocity and loyalty and I can't even get to him to see if it's real.

2005 has sucked. I'm scared for the future.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

It's been the first new year since 2000 that I can honestly say things are better for me. For the first time in my relationship with my SO of almost seven years, I feel like we're both trying really hard to make it work. I've never been more happy with my writing than I am this year. Financially, things are okay right now but I'm plagued by worries about future finances due to the uncertain economy. My baby has turned into a smart little boy who insists on doing everything himself and will go off to school this fall. I'm both terrified and excited for him and myself.

 

[Boota]

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you
have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm
you against the present."
--Marcus Aurelius


No matter how bad something looks, remember Carpe Diem... seize the carp!

 

[rgraham666]

As always, up and down.

The political news sucks, but I've learned to not let it affect my mood too much.

I'm going back into therapy, as soon as I can be arsed to look for some, and that doesn't bother me anymore.

I'm not always writing a lot, but I am writing, so that's cool.

I'm making a lot of new friends. Mostly on line but I don't have a problem with that.

And my on line life is affecting my real life positively. I've met some people whose company I really enjoy. And a week from Saturday I'm meeting someone new. A woman I've found most enchanting on line.

So 2005, is turning out good.

And it's all good if you're still around to bitch about it.

 

[tolyk]

I'd say 2005 is treating me alright.. Just gotta make sure not to slosh my problems from previous years into this one, and muddy the water, so to speak..

 

[cookiejar]

Shitty. Weird working hours, the winter is dragging, I just got out of the hospital and my writing stinks. Spring can't come soon enough.

 

[English Lady]

Hmmm well it seems to be going ok so far. Got a "new"suite, made some money with my writing, hubby has been alot more stable of late *touch wood* even the usually hard month of February went by without any major incident. I'm going to meet lots of cool Lit Authors in May and I feel healthier, alot healthier than this time last year. Ok so we've not moved yet and I don't see as much of my Dad as I'd like but mostly were doing ok

though we could be deeply in the shit and I'd still say the year was going well..I always hold hope for the future and count the blessings I have. (Can'thelp it. Optimist here *L*)

 

[dr_mabeuse]

2005 hasn't been that bad a year for me. I have been trying to get surgery approved throughmy insurance. After Three months of medical tests, I finally get to apply for approval at the beginnning of April.
My husband is retrainng into firefighting, which makes him happy.
I've made a lot of new friends, the downside to that is that we are military and will be leaving them in five or six months.

My main bitch about 2005 is that I havn't been sleeping, so I constantly feel exhausted. Thats all medical though.
Dar-

Oh sure! Easy for you to feel good. You've got that cool dancing scene in your sig. (If I stare real hard, I can see the Ballerina's panties!)

 

[cloudy]

So far, it sucks.

I kept saying that 2005 couldn't be as bad as 2004 had been, but I lied.

 

[Guest]

 

[sophia jane]

I'm having a decent year so far. But I may have a different answer after my dr appt next week. Crossing my fingers that my year stays healthy.

SJ

 

[Liar]

So far it's winter. That means it sucks by default. Other than that, no disasters.

 

[Op_Cit]

Bad on all fronts. I would say worst year ever if I wasn't certain that it would be an invitation for it to get worse. Cheer up, if there's one thing I've learned in life it's that it can always get worse.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

So what is it? Is George Bush the Anti-Christ or is something else at work?

It's gotten so bad that we're burning sacred candles over here to try and drive the bad spirits away, and I've gone back to my original sig line to see if that will change my luck.

 

[Guest]

It's going pretty good for me, so far. Certainly can't complain. In fact, I feel happy and quite settled. Feeling settled is a good feeling. That doesn't mean my life has become predictable and boring, though, oh, no, no, no. Far from it. I just feel very secure about everything. No worries on my mind. It's a wonderful feeling.

And I have begun talking in short sentences. Very short ones. Like this. Perhaps I am robot. Nah, too squidgy for that.

 

[minsue]

So what is it? Is George Bush the Anti-Christ or is something else at work?

It's gotten so bad that we're burning sacred candles over here to try and drive the bad spirits away, and I've gone back to my original sig line to see if that will change my luck.

I don't know what in the hell it is. A number of times so far, things have started to look really promising for the year and then just when it gets my hopes back up it kicks me in the teeth.

I think I'll just be spending the next 3/4 of the year in bed. Wake me for '06.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Same ol', same ol' here. Some good, some bad. Some of the bad has been really bad but that doesn't even put a shine on the bad I've already lived through and the good has been surprisingly good (actually getting money for a story, getting a job under a boss who is actually fun to work with). So overall I have no complaints beyond the obvious and the usual.

 

[impressive]

I keep hearing that song from "Hee Haw" ...

Gloom, despair, and agony on me (ohhhhhhhhh)
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery (ohhhhhhhhh)
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

Everybody now ...