What will you remember about 2005?

[LadyJeanne]

I'll remember:

- a fantastic trip to Australia with one of my best friends from childhood

- a trip to India and my visit to the Taj Mahal

- getting a new job after a year-long sabbatical

- finally getting the parents moved into their new house

- Katrina, and the all the images of a flooded New Orleans

- visiting one of the alphabet agencies in DC for 'Family Day'

- the White Sox winning the World Series

- having some of the best, most intimate sex I've ever had


What about you? What will stand out about 2005?



Edit to add:

- I bought my first vibrator.

 

[AppleBiter]

What about you? What will stand out about 2005?

I'm not even close to being dramatic when I say that I will remember 2005 as being one of the worst years of my life. The good news is, things can only get better. Here's to 2006!

 

[LadyJeanne]

I'm not even close to being dramatic when I say that I will remember 2005 as being one of the worst years of my life. The good news is, things can only get better. Here's to 2006!

Ah, but you survived to tell about it!

A champagne toast to better times!

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[rgraham666]

Vella and lucky's wedding was the first thing that popped into my mind.

My winning the Halloween contest was next.

That's it.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Vella and lucky's wedding was the first thing that popped into my mind.

My winning the Halloween contest was next.

That's it.

Oh, their wedding! Yes - most romantic event of the year! Far sweeter than Charles and Camilla.

 

[sophia jane]

-falling in love
-a child free vacation (the first in eight years!)
-Hurricane Rita and subsequent evacuation and move
-being on my own

 

[impressive]

What about you? What will stand out about 2005?

- Meeting AHers (mat, cloudy, Bel, logo, min, vella, lucky, chickybaby)

- Coming Together

- Getting two books published

- A very memorable trip to Milwaukee

 

[Liar]

Wow, looking back at it, I've been bloody busy this year.


A winter of not really waking up.
A spring of eye-opening academic experiences.
A summer of well deserved inertia.
A fall of eye-opening personal experiences.

A long and terrible wait.
A relieving phonecall.
A move.
A meet.
A coffee by the sea.
A wedding.
A wedding (again).
A funeral.
A kiss in an elevator.
A cat in trouble.

And a whole lotta more.

 

[zeb1094]

I'll remember the smile on my granddaughts face each and everytime she saw me.
I'll remember the fun my grandson had with our dogs!
I'll remember all the good times with my wife and grandchildren.
I'll remember my fellow man for the good things they have done.
I'll remember my fellow man for the grusome, awful things they have done.
I'll remember that I am only human and can only do so much for those I love.
I'll remember the beautiful people I have met on Lit.
I'll remember the friends I have made online, here on Lit. and other places.
I'll remember what has been done for me by those whom I don't know.
I'll remember having offered my friendship and help and making someone else's day by doing so.
I'll remember all the time the wife scolded me. (hehehe)
I'll remember long lost friends.
I'll remember long found friends.
I'll remember the look on my Doctors face when we gave her a Christmas Card.
I'll remember the dreams (nightmares) I had.
I'll remember the stories I wrote.
I'll remember the stories I didn't write.
I'll remember the stories I started and haven't finished.
I'll remember the things I could have said but didn't.
I'll remember the things I said and shouldn't have.
I'll remember the things I said that made someone feel good.
I'll remember the things I said that made someone feel bad.
I'll remember that I survived 2005.

 

[Guest]

I'll remember being able to walk again with a walker or a cane and being finally able to get rid of my brace, for atleast a couple of months.

I'll remember the way it felt to see something I wrote actually posted for others to read.

I'll remember hearing my doctor tell me there was more damage then he thought and that I'll need more surgery.

I'll remember my mother's face when she heard I actually won something with a story that I wrote.

 

[Guest]

Great thread Lady J....

 

[LadyJeanne]

Great thread Lady J....

 

[Munachi]

my baby brother being born.

peru, and all connected to that

realizing i can still develop quite a lot of feelings for a guy

and realizing that this won't help since peru is just damn far away

"discovering" hiking and mountains

and, just to mention him once more, my little brother.

 

[BlackShanglan]

A small box with a vowel in it, and knowing that I'd been understood.

 

[Guest]

 

[Samandiriel]

I'm trying to forget 2005.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

What I will remember....

The good...

I found out that I could write...
I met a friend...

The bad

I seem to have lost the friend...

 

[yui]

Wow, looking back at it, I've been bloody busy this year.


A winter of not really waking up.
A spring of eye-opening academic experiences.
A summer of well deserved inertia.
A fall of eye-opening personal experiences.

A long and terrible wait.
A relieving phonecall.
A move.
A meet.
A coffee by the sea.
A wedding.
A wedding (again).
A funeral.
A kiss in an elevator.
A cat in trouble.

And a whole lotta more.

You just wrote a poem, didn't you? Is it just that easy for you? You're brilliant.



I will remember the year 2005 primarily as the year that the earth reminded the world who was boss.

I will remember the war, the fear, the hope, the people who have come into my life and those who have left it. The crushes that came and went. The betrayals and the gifts of trust. I will remember that I dreamed of a child, and I saw her face and it was beautiful. I will remember the music and the late nights and the too early mornings. I will remember fires, lightning strikes, a new job, people I could love, and that life really is sweet.

Peace and love,

Yui

 

[sack]

some good, some bad...

- My father sank even further into the Alzheimer's Abyss.
- My mother needs to have open heart surgery for an Aortic Aneurysm which will necessitate a 6-9 month recovery period, IF she survives the operation.
-A special chair in the newly renovated Neighborhood Music School recital hall has a plaque with my name on it, the gift of a former piano student who moved to New York state.
-The gardens around my house, and the plants in my greenhouse have never looked better, all 3,000 or so of them!
- I made some good new friends, on line and otherwise.
-I finally realized the extraordinary beauty of Cloudy and Sophia Jane, among others.
- I read the best Lit.story ever, Obedience in All, nothing else can touch it.
-I talked a friend out of committing suicide.
-I improved my piano technique and gave two very successful public recitals.
-My health is a bit better than in the past.


Here's to 2006!

Sack

 

[maggot420]

I was as cold as I have ever been
I had the most impossible job that I’ve ever heard of and I succeeded
My marriage of 15 years ended
I quit my stupid job
I stood on a hill in the highlands in Scotland and felt like I was home at last
I died
I came back to life
I started living
And then the dream started

And I hope it never ends

 

[Mirror of Narcissus]

I came back to life

Thank God.

 

[cloudy]

- I met some extraordinary women, and realized that they are even more beautiful and amazing in person: Mat, Imp, Min, Vella & Lucky.

- I witnessed one of the most moving wedding ceremonies I'd ever seen, and was priviledged to be a part of it.

- I got the nerve up to submit something of mine to a publisher (thank you, Imp )

- I realized that I have some wonderful friends

 

[Belegon]

I started a novel...

I met some wonderful people...and learned that being the only straight man in a van full of lesbians (and bi's *wink at Imp*) can be hella fun...

I got paid for my writing...and gave out my first autograph not about a uniform...

I helped some friends through some hard times...and they did the same for me...

I learned to like my body again for the first time in almost ten years...

I had my heart broken, repaired, broken, repaired....

I woke up and admitted that it is not always my fault, or to my credit...

 

[English Lady]

what a year....

i remember finding a new house, the pain of delay and finally the joy of moving in and the ensuing sadness of finding out our dream home is to be demolished in 2006.

Katrina stands out to me, but all the hurricanes this year and the worrying about folks and the relief when i found out they were all ok.

The meet! It was such a joy to meet other Ahers!

The flight to and from the meet (my first)

Using my christmas money to buy a Cliff Richard Concert seat (the concert will be a 2006 highlight )

NaNoWriMo and how quickly I wrote 50 000 words this year, it amazes me.

The Christian writers and readers thread, it's blessings to me and the many christians I've met from this site because of it.

receiving my only diamond at ciao, a peer review site -something I never thought would happen.

The popularity of my Christmas custom stories and how the money funded the first worry free Christmas i remember since being a kid.

Being closer to my family, seeing my sister smile more and my mother getting on her feet again after the divorce.

The sadness of my grandfather in law having a breakdown, the pain in my mother in laws eye and the joy of having him with us for one more christmas and especially the way he smiled when hugging my daughter, his great granddaughter.

The horror of noise pollution, of an area going down hill so quickly and being scared to leave the house empty for any amount of time. Living in such fear, such noise and such disregard for others really brought me down.

The great rent debate with tameside council and it's final conclusion. 6 months of wrangling when if we'd been told the reason in the first place, we'd not have needed to.

My Nanna's smile as she sat down to a cooked Christmas dinner in my home and she said "it's just like old times, isn't it?"

Manchester united somehow losing the FA cup when they so should have won it!

My daughters joy from being in a nursery she loves and feels at home at.

My daughter holding hands with a (model) dinosaur and her smile because of it.

My husband growing in confidence as we're in a new place with no bad memories for him. his weight loss and new found health and his generally better mental wellbeing.

The joy of the wedding of the year -Lucky and Vella's of course!

The london bombings -the shock, the sadness and the terror they caused.

Snow! the first real snow I've seen in ages and the first snow my daughter has ever seen. Her first snowman and her pride in making it.

the list may go on..I've just gotten tired of writing it now *L*

 

[Liar]

You just wrote a poem, didn't you? Is it just that easy for you? You're brilliant.

Look who's talking...

I will remember
the war, the fear, the hope, the people
who have come into my life and those
who have left it.
The crushes that came and went.
The betrayals and the gifts of trust.

I will remember that I dreamed
of a child, and I saw her face
and it was beautiful.
I will remember the music
and the late nights
and the too early mornings.

I will remember fires,
lightning strikes, a new job, people
I could love, and that life
really is
sweet.

Peace
and love,

Yui