December 29, 2010

• Official Shelly100 Year in Review

  I'm thinking this will be short, since I barely blogged all year. Also, 2010 can kiss my fucking ass. It was a HORRIBLE year. I know I sound like Eeyore here, but seriously. I don't feel joyful or happy or even pleased with very damn much of anything in the past year.

  JANUARY - FEBRUARY

  • Was sick, all the time, for the first (almost) 3 months of the year. Chronic, constant sinus and ear infections, blah blah blah. I missed a zillion hours of work and felt miserable. The solution turned out to be simple-ish: Use one of those Neti pot-type things every day, plus allergy medicine, nasal spray and lubricant, allergy eye drops, a humidifier, etc. I basically have to do all this stuff so I *don't* get sick in the future. I seriously never want to go through shit like that again.

  MARCH

  • Had my 9-year Xangaversary
  • Bought my Droid phone!
  • Was still sick, and had to deal with midterms too. Joy.
  • My car broke a bunch.
  • Angst because the classes I needed for school were not offered online or after 5. Like...none of them.
  • Broke because of all the missed work time and co-pays for doctor's visits and medication.

  APRIL

  • Depression, anger, exhaustion, blah
  • Started The Douchionary

  MAY

  • Major depression
  • Ron was dying in the hospital as of early in the month, and I visited him, which was heartbreaking on several levels
  • Car broke again
  • Finished spring semester, all As. Also read a bunch of challenging books, including James Joyce's Ulysses (I'm awesome).
  • Ron died on May 25. His funeral was May 27, and it was a crock.

  JUNE

  • Finally got rid of all my old junkie stuff, like my crack pipe, which I haven't used in years but was still holding on to. (Thanks Nick)
  • Started the process of changing my degree to an individualized one, since the English department sucks and would not accommodate a working student   
  • Had a hard time grieving for Ron, especially since things between us were not good when he passed.
  • Got the complete series of Daria on DVD!

  JULY

  • The 4th was a pretty awesome water fight/BBQ party at Nick's place
  • I got my first tattoo
  • I turned 29, and had a few get-togethers for that, which were pretty great

  AUGUST

  • I went blonde
  • Major family drama after my sister revealed the extent of her meth use, from age 15-today. Bad, bad, bad things, stress, worry, helplessness.
  • After a solid 1-2 years of being good friends with Jennifer, the constant togetherness and her personality started pissing me off, and so things started going downhill with that

  SEPTEMBER

  • Realized that my 2 fall classes were going to be complete bullshit because the professors were never available, never answered questions, and were just generally fuck-ups.
  • Gearing up for election, and did a lot of anti- anti-tax campaigning.
  • Finally, finally wrote about the night I was raped

  OCTOBER

  • It was insanely busy. Don't remember much else, and only posted once.

  NOVEMBER

  • Depression, Food Networking Thanksgiving specials, and craving snow. That's about it.

  DECEMBER

  • Holiday blues
  • Finished fall semester, all As.
  • Joined a professional organization and made plans for 2011 including an intellectual freedom committee and auditioning for a chorus
  • Actually feel hopeful for the year to come (for once!)
  • New Year's Eve board game party (if the weather holds)

   

  Can it please be 2011 now?

   

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