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With less than 12 hours left in 2011, I think it time to look back on a great....oh, forget that... 
In all honesty, 2011 turned out to be one of the worst years of my life. What happened to all the promise I felt last Dec. 31st? This time last year I was feeling like things were finally starting to turn around.
I had a job that paid me at least a living wage.
I was living on my own and paying (most of) my own bills.
My social life, though slow, was picking up.
It looked like my love life might possibly be picking back up.
Now here we are a year later, and all of those positives are gone--I've even been forced to move back in with my parents (who between you and me still think it's just as easy to pick up a job as it was ten...no, two years ago).
Safe to say I HATE my life right now.
For an example, here's how I feel right now:
me -->
<-- life
Yep....that pretty much sums it up.
To make it worst, I'm suffering through two of the largest cases of writer's block and artist's block I've ever been through. For whatever reason, I just can't seem to get motivated. Some have even sent me PM's to check that I'm okay (which I appreciate, btw...always nice to know someone outside of your family cares if you're alive or not), and all I can tell them is that I'm just stuck at the moment. And worse, a couple of these people have tried to help me, and what did I do?....I took out my frustrations on them and bit their heads off for trying to help me. (To those I did that to, I do apologize.
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Yep, pretty messed-up year all around.
For those of you concerned, don't worry: I'm not about to do anything drastic or crazy (though the thoughts have crossed my mind this year); I'm just tired of being kicked while I'm down.
Here's hoping for a better 2012 than the complete mess that 2011 was....
Though I'm not holding my breath at this point...
In all honesty, 2011 turned out to be one of the worst years of my life. What happened to all the promise I felt last Dec. 31st? This time last year I was feeling like things were finally starting to turn around.
I had a job that paid me at least a living wage. I was living on my own and paying (most of) my own bills. My social life, though slow, was picking up. It looked like my love life might possibly be picking back up.Now here we are a year later, and all of those positives are gone--I've even been forced to move back in with my parents (who between you and me still think it's just as easy to pick up a job as it was ten...no, two years ago).
Safe to say I HATE my life right now.
For an example, here's how I feel right now:
me -->
<-- lifeYep....that pretty much sums it up.
To make it worst, I'm suffering through two of the largest cases of writer's block and artist's block I've ever been through. For whatever reason, I just can't seem to get motivated. Some have even sent me PM's to check that I'm okay (which I appreciate, btw...always nice to know someone outside of your family cares if you're alive or not), and all I can tell them is that I'm just stuck at the moment. And worse, a couple of these people have tried to help me, and what did I do?....I took out my frustrations on them and bit their heads off for trying to help me. (To those I did that to, I do apologize.
)Yep, pretty messed-up year all around.
For those of you concerned, don't worry: I'm not about to do anything drastic or crazy (though the thoughts have crossed my mind this year); I'm just tired of being kicked while I'm down.
Here's hoping for a better 2012 than the complete mess that 2011 was....
Though I'm not holding my breath at this point...
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Those Words Are My Age!!
So this is interesting. Apparently if you go to https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ and put in your birth year, you can find out what words were printed for their first time during that year. I know I’m dating myself here, but it was fun to see. :) Also, I suspect some of these may have been first used for a new meaning that year. Anyways, enjoy! 1984 active-matrix age-related macular degeneration AIDS-related complex Asian citrus psyllid asynchronous transfer mode Benedict bi-curious blush wine buppie caps lock cardio cardioprotective CD4 ceftriaxone Chilean sea bass chipset clot-buster crate train cremini cria date-rape d-bag death metal delta virus desktop publishing detectorist dialog box digital subscriber line DNA fingerprinting drop-down earbud EGOT FedEx fluoroquinolone free solo French pedicure gamete intrafallopian transfer geeked genetic fingerprinting glass ceiling glute go-to Hadean hantavirus heterocyclic
COVID = Increased Availibility
For those interested, there’s a TL;DR at the bottom of this gigantic thing. So, COVID, amiright? Anyways, as I’m sure is the case with most of the world, Florida has been put under a “self-isolation quarantine”, and we’re having to practice the now infamous social distancing when we go out. Before that took place, my and my wife’s employer (a very famous Mouse) told us they were closing for the foreseeable future until the sitch with COVID-19 improves (unfortunately, neither of our jobs can be done remotely, but we still have them, thankfully—we’re actually still being paid through the 18th of this month, and will be furloughed after that until the Mouse deems it safe to reopen). As a result, the wife and I have been staying home almost constantly lately. If it weren’t for FaceTime and Zoom, we’d probably be going out of our minds with the lack of social interaction. BUUUUT......On the bright side, that means I have a lot more free time to work on the creative projects that I’ve had
Still Around...And where to find me.
So, as the title states, I'm still around. My personal computer is still pretty much a useless paperweight, and I'm still having to do all of my online stuff on either my phone or on my wife's laptop. We're still having financial trouble, unfortunately, but hopefully that'll clear up when our living arrangements change in early August. But we'll have to wait and see.
Now, about the second half of the title. I've been busy setting up a few things lately, though they don't have much on them at the moment. In no particular order, you can find me on the following sites, though I warn you some of these have adult/NSFW content on them or are
Just an Update
So, I’m still around. Things have been, shall we say, frustrating over at the Gecko’s Rock. The move went well (for those that don’t know, I’m now living in Florida, and have been for a few months now), and things seemed to be settling down. But then I had to go and do something stupid (like falling asleep at work according to the report, which I disputed but lost), and lost my job. Since then, we’ve been working on getting things back on track. My fiance has her job finally in place (things were touch-and-go for a month or two, but that’s finally settled ^_^ ), and my new job is…not satisfying,
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Been there, done that. 2003 was my year of righteous dumpings...lost my fiance and two grandparents within three months...I was in a depression for the entire second half of the year, getting up at 4pm and going to bed at 9pm.
Life gets better, drastic and crazy things are long-term solutions for short-term problems, keep your chin up and try to stay positive. Being negative only compounds the funk.
Life gets better, drastic and crazy things are long-term solutions for short-term problems, keep your chin up and try to stay positive. Being negative only compounds the funk.