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Bye, 2007.

And so marks the last thread of 2007. Use it wisely. Personally, I was not a fan of 2007. I liked 2006 better, and I hope I'll like 2008 better. 2008 is a cool-sounding year. Sounds...futuristic.

Got a resolution? Share it. Got a POV on the year that was? Share it. Rather just comment on how the dead tree outside your house kind of looks like a giant monster paw? I don't mind. It's just a thread. But it's the last one with "2007" next to your comments. Is it hard to say goodbye to a number? Probably not. Maybe next year, though. Like I said, "2008" sounds cool. I will grow to love it.

Posted by Matt on 12/31/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 404 comments

So I guess the average opinion is that ’07 wasn’t all that? Add me to that list I guess…

Just one major good thing happened, and if I can keep my head out of the clouds and get focused on where I am, 2008 could be a great year. I really would like to buy a house and get out of granny’s old house. I too would also like to start to get into shape again, as I’ve gained more weight over 2007 than I have in years; being out of steady work can do that to you sometimes.

dohopoki: I’m considering sneaking my drinks into a sober party; maybe we should switch?

See everyone in the ’08 :)

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 12/31/2007 7:03 PM

dohopoki’s top ten of 2007

10. Energy effiecent light bulbs
9. Italian Dressing
8. Canada
7. 60 FPS
6. HBO
5. Felines
4. Green
3. Ketchup
2. Spider-man 3
1. Moose

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 12/31/2007 7:03 PM

Learn something new.
Make it to next year.
Don’t kill anybody.
Keep an eye out for rabbits.
Don’t play it unless I want to spray it.
Walk hard.
Have the shiny side up and the rubber side down.
Give my Babel Fish an occasional weekend off.
More tacos.
Learn to play Purple Haze and Baba O’Riley on the Jaw Harp.
Learn to play Jaw Harp.
Discover way to permanently wire my brain for X-E.
Giant ape juice.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 12/31/2007 7:24 PM

Wow, 2008. Just think, in 7 more years it will be 2015. We saw how that was on Back to the Future 2. I can’t wait for my flying Delorean!

Chestnuts roasted by Chachi McFly @ 12/31/2007 7:32 PM

2007 was an awesome year for me. Some of my friends eehhhhh but for me it was tops. So awesome that I’m too wiped to even go out on New Years Eve. Resolutions? Eh, let’s see…

- Continue losing lots of weight
- Sign up to get my CPC
- Get CPR certified
- Be more of an active participant in my wiccan group instead of just eating all the cookies and making jokes about the Great Rite
- Take a big vacation, not just a day trip
- Learn a new sport
- Make madcap money

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 12/31/2007 7:32 PM

2007 was wonderful for me, mostly cause it was the first year in my adult life that I fully supported myself. And now I live in a city where none of my family lives and I am not employed by any family members. It feels awesome, but I am also tired. I went back to school, which is good. I am thinking of creating an extensive resolution list tonight, as I work early tomorrow and don’t plan on much of a hoopla. I turn 30 this year so on my list will be working out in efforts to prevent the inevitable whatnots that come with that decade.
I do think 2008 is going to be better than 2007, I have no idea why.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 12/31/2007 7:37 PM

The future is now, greetings from the year 2008. The International Year of the Potato!

Like the Potato, this years fashion is to sit in hot rooms (which we futuraians call “Saunapods”) and wear clothes made of the finest woven aluminum.

So, my friends of Still Last Year, I wish you good fortune that someday soon you can evolve and develop to join us in The Future!

“Honour Thy Spud!”

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 12/31/2007 8:03 PM

I really don’t know how to describe 2007 to me. Probably because I spent most of it in Iraq and only got back to the states in October. I didn’t really get disappointed in anything other than probably being extended from 12 months to 15 months in Iraq. Anyway, I don’t know if goals are the same thing as Resolutions so what I set for myself as goals I guess can be Resolutions. So here are mine even though they are scattered and in no particular order.

1. Get an apartment: This I will be working on when I get back to Texas, depending if I start Leadership School immediately or not.

2. Read through the Bible: I’ve tried to do this before a couple times. I actually have a “One Year Bible” that I’ve tried to read through a couple times. One time I got until the middle of June and last year, I was stuck in early April. This year, since I know where I left off from last year, instead of starting at the beginning again, I’m going to start where I left off. No, I’m not giving myself a three-month headstart. I’m just getting tired of reading over Genesis when I know how it all started.

3. Be more social and try to go on a few dates: I’ve been told that I’m antisocial and that I lack confidence in asking a girl out. This is true, but a lot has to do with how I feel about myself. I struggle a lot with depression and I have trouble fighting my past and seeing my failures. I get into that frame-of-mind where I feel that the older I get, the less of a desire I have for a relationship. I may not be as desperate as I used to be, but I still have that deep desire to be in a relationship. I’m not looking at marriage, not for a LONG time! I say that IF I ever got married, I would want to first be out of the Army, which is what I’m aiming for when my contract is up in December 2009, or whenever we get back from our next deployment (set for 2009, but only to Kuwait, not Iraq). Yeah, I’ll be well into my 30s (I turn 30 next December 19th) before I walk down the aisle (or my 40s if I haven’t keeled over dead from a massive heart attack first).

4. Concentrate on my writing more: I want to write in my blog more, and journal at regular times. I also have had this unfinished screenplay that I’ve tried writing over and over before. I actually wrote a first act some years ago, but that was on a different machine and that was before I joined the Army. I still want to write it, but I’m a different person now and scenes and settings need to change even though the basic plot is still the same.

Improve my MySpace page and MAYBE start my own website: That last part may be a while, but I definetly need to be more creative with my MySpace page, especially when the Simpsons background I have just doesn’t give the attraction anymore. The same goes with wanting to post videos on YouTube. Actually, I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to computers and downloading stuff so I want to get into that more.

Well, that’s about it. At least the major stuff I can think about. Others are minor such as exercise more and lose weight, and pray every day. I won’t go into my baseball trip next summer in which I want to attend 10 ballparks that I have never been to including both Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium in New York (mainly because both the Yankees and Mets are getting new stadiums in 2009) as well as Fenway in Boston and Camden Yards in Baltimore.

My mom was going to host a New Years party tonight but so far, no one’s showed up and we don’t know if anyone is going to show up. I may be here to ring in the new year if we are not busy. I’m going to have to try to sneak away and watch “Happy New Year Charlie Brown” before midnight on a VHS tape I found in one of my bins today. Tomorrow night I head back to Texas from Chicago as I usually do, and as usual, am driving again. I’m almost certain it’ll be a smooth trip as it always is, but I also know I will have a lot of thoughts and prayers go out for a safe trip which are ALWAYS appreciated.

Well, if I don’t get on here until 2008, I hope everyone has a happy, safe, and enjoyable New Years! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Chestnuts roasted by BJ @ 12/31/2007 8:17 PM

Add me to the 2007 sucked club.
Resolutions for ’08?
Write more, get out more..(I’ve turned into a shut in since being fired from my job earlier this year), get a new job, and spend more time with friends that I haven’t seen in months.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 12/31/2007 8:29 PM

Sorry for the double post….I forgot to wish everyone here at X-E a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

Chestnuts roasted by Dan H @ 12/31/2007 8:31 PM

yeah i didnt have a great 2007, either. it seems like most people didn’t? but i think 2008 will be lovely.

Chestnuts roasted by .... @ 12/31/2007 8:38 PM

I haven’t posted in forever, but I felt compelled to wish everyone Happy New Year! With that being said, I’m going back to my party of one, watching Simpsons and listening to tunes. Have fun and be safe guys and gals!

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 12/31/2007 8:40 PM

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Be safe.

Chestnuts roasted by iAMYou @ 12/31/2007 8:59 PM

Happy New Year everybody!

Chestnuts roasted by Captain Will @ 12/31/2007 9:01 PM

2007 was pretty decent for me. Overall it was not too eventful, but a lot of good things happened, now that I’m thinking about it. (Especially my personal best week ever.) I’m surprised to hear that 2007 was not so good for so many of you- I definitely hope 2008 is better for everyone!

I don’t really do resolutions, but I’d really like to write more in my journal this year. I’ve missed writing about so many important things as well as so many amusing little anecdotes and inside jokes over the years, just because I’ve been lazy. That’s about it, I guess.

Don’t know if I’ll be posting again before 2008 hits here, but have a Happy New Year, everybody! Be safe!
I’m off to go watch some “New Year’s Pete,” as it is my New Year’s tradition.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 12/31/2007 9:04 PM

I liked 2007. It was the year I got my girlfriend, the night after making one of the most embarrassing nights ever for her.

I’m currently at my frat bro’s house just like last New Years, so don’t be surprised if I leave another drunk comment or 2 here in a few hors :)

My Resolution for 2007 was to not have one, and it worked out pretty well for me. So I guess that’s my main resolution next year too.

But I do have some goals that I want to take care of:

-Get to writing. Yes, I love writing, blogging, etc. So I want to do more with it.

-Not do another “Fish Sandwich Quest” that I did earlier this year during Lent where I went around to all the fast food chains on LI to try their fish sandwich(es). In Short: Checker’s was the best, BK was the worst.

-Figure out just what the hell I want to do in life, jobwise. I want to be a writer…but I want money. Also to figure out what I want to do academically. No Grad School for me, I just want to finish College.

-Finish watching my DVD collection. All the ones I got for Christmas still haven’t been watched yet, save for Bender’s Big Score & Robot Chicken Season 2.

And I DO remember “New Year’s Pete,” the one I truly remember is the Daylight Savings Time episode where Little Pete attempts to “Time Travel” (and does) That was great.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 12/31/2007 9:40 PM

I’m praying that 2008 will be awesome. 2007 was alright. A lot of good things happened – I moved to SF, got my first “real” apartment, met a lot of really cool people. On the other hand, a lot of crappy crap happened, so here’s hoping that this time next year, I have a more solid opinion about the awesomeness of the previous year.

Chestnuts roasted by Ariel @ 12/31/2007 9:42 PM

Oh yeah, resolutions – get a haircut, and start getting tattooed.

Chestnuts roasted by Ariel @ 12/31/2007 9:43 PM

07 probably bottom 3 years for my personally, had to put my dog to sleep the day after his 17th birthday, the Mets collapse, and the stupid Patriots go 16-0 (although they did cheat :) ). Also, I think my iPod almost crapped out before as I was charging it.

2008 can’t come soon enough.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 12/31/2007 9:44 PM

I don’t do a lot of comments but, I want to say goodbye to 2007 just one more time. Goodbye, 07!

Chestnuts roasted by Stephen @ 12/31/2007 9:47 PM

Good riddance 2007! It sucked!! 2008 will be awesome!!

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 12/31/2007 10:00 PM

Yeah 2007 sucked i damn near died in August of a pulmanairy embolism , i hope i can stay healthy in ’08

Chestnuts roasted by Starscream77 @ 12/31/2007 10:25 PM

Happy New Year everybody!

2007 sucked for me but I did grow as a person. I started drawing again, I to a commitment to change myself emotionally and physically and I decided on some major choices. I still have a lot more to do, but starting it was the tough part (and I am still working on that) It mostly sucked because of family drama but I am trying to exit myself from that because it was destroying me mentally.

X-E was one of the best parts of my life like always! A nice distraction, a moment of “OMG I remember that from when I was a kid!”, or just a moment of support, X-E is a great place to be. Be safe, I want you all in one piece after tonight. See you guys!

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 12/31/2007 10:29 PM

I feel bad saying 07 sucked because I know some people who tried to help me have a good year but combined with the last couple months of 06, 07 has been awful. Terrible first half, a ‘maybe things are looking up’ September-mid December, and then a terrible end. All I want out of 08 is a job so I can buy a car and begin life as a transient. I’m dreaming of Wyoming and my 1 year lease is getting in the way.

Hope everyone’s 2008 is healthy and happy.

Chestnuts roasted by clumsyonice @ 12/31/2007 10:29 PM

“Time Tunnel!” The whole thing was immortalized in a slidey pen. That was a great one, Norb.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 12/31/2007 10:41 PM

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