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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!

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Hopefully Matt will finally switch to UBB.

Chestnuts roasted by seven @ 01/01/2008 11:04 AM

I do certainly hope that I can affect some major change in my life this year (The Year of the Flood, as I have declared it). I will find a job and move to Portland. I will start a new life worth living. My present life is only called a “life” due to a lack of a better term. I have nothing here in Utah, so that should make it easier to reset everything

I am curious, who else spent New Year’s Eve at home, alone, getting drunk while playing video games? Is that an unhealthy way to spend a supposedly socially celebrataculorious[/James Lipton] night? My poisons of choice were Metaxa ouzo, Stoli, St. Brendan’s, and Spaten Optimator Dopplebock (one of my new favorite beers, which at 7.2% ABV does the job well).

Chestnuts roasted by Tom @ 01/01/2008 11:47 AM

Well, happy 2008.

Last night I was watching Space Ghost Coast to Coast and realized that I was doing the exact same thing exactly ten years ago. Creeped me out.

I didn’t drink a drop of alcohol last night. My man came home from work at 11:30, we ate dinner, kissed at the stroke of midnight, then went to bed at 1:00.

The neighbors popped firecrackers (we live in an apartment) and scared the living shit out of both of us. Seriously, I thought somebody was getting shot or something at first.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 01/01/2008 12:41 PM

My New Year’s Eve was quiet and awesome. I finished knitting a hoodie! Easy resolutions this time.

Learn to spin yarn
Concentrate more on blogging
Knit twelve pairs of socks

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 01/01/2008 12:41 PM

Happy 2008!

I just tuned in to the Rose Parade. Wow, the transforming Honda float is SO cool!

Doho, do you really not know the Tournament of Roses Parade? I fell asleep early last night too, I watched the ball drop in Times Square at 9, then I started watching Pick of Destiny and fell asleep during the second act. Didn’t wake back up until really late. And I wasn’t even drinking either!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/01/2008 12:46 PM

Is it some kind of sword fight?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/01/2008 12:48 PM

I had a pretty quiet New Years. Only one person showed up at the party my mom was throwing. Part of it may be with it being New Years, people had other plans but I think a bigger reason is that with the weather (it was snowing last night and still is right now) and the fact that no snowplow came through our neighborhood until this morning may be a big factor anyway. I was watching Melody Time that I found in my videtape bin and was watching it only to pause when the New Year hit. If it wasn’t for my watch vibrating and the TV on in the kitchen to the celebration in downtown Chicago, I would have kept on watching. There’s now so much food in my house thanks to the no-shows at the party that my mom wants me to take some back with me to Texas. Well, I don’t know if I will be going to school or not when I get back so I don’t want to take anything that spoils. I started Journaling yesterday two hours before midnight. I hope to continue and keep it up, as I hope I start my blogging soon.

Anyway, I leave for Texas tonight. The weather is still snow flurrying and it’s supposed to be cold, but it should get better as I make my way south. I wish I had gotten on here more when I was home, as I wished I would have done more than I actually did. I hope to be on soon when I get back to Texas. One of my goals is to get my own apartment and get the Internet and satellite TV set up. Well, take care everyone and have an enjoyable New Years Day 2008!

Chestnuts roasted by BJ @ 01/01/2008 1:15 PM

Spent New Year’s wandering around in the Chicago snow. Driving from here to Texas sounds incredibly long.
Tom Good luck in Portland. Cool town.

Chestnuts roasted by clumsyonice @ 01/01/2008 2:06 PM

2008 does indeed sound futuristic. It also makes me feel really old, partly because 2008 sounds so far removed from 1985, and partly because I can now say that ten years ago, I was a teenager. Creepy.

Looking back on 2007 a little more, I stick with my original statement that it wasn’t a great year. However I do think it was an important year. 2007 was the year of trying things I didn’t think I could do. I came out of the closet, I took a canoeing class even though I can barely swim, I did some traveling that didn’t involve theme parks or a school trip. I moved out for awhile and did a job I never expected I’d be able to handle.

Most importantly, I made a lot of new friends this year. Some of them are people I never would have pictured myself being friends with, yet we get along fine. So even though it was a shitty year (no matter how much good stuff happens, a year with 2 deaths is instantly a shitty year), I feel like I learned and grew a lot. So it wasn’t wasted, at least. This was the year I started to firm up my ideas of what I want to do with the rest of my life, and that’s very significant.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 01/01/2008 2:40 PM

Tournament of Roses Parade: Wiki
Good luck BJ!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/01/2008 2:53 PM

My new year’s was pretty mellow. I spent the night with two friends. We went shopping, went out for Thai, then watched Empire Strikes Back and Blade Runner. We had Pop Tarts for breakfast, and watched the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia marathon on Showcase.
My resolution is typical: get back into shape.

Oh, and learn Tecktonik dancing.

Chestnuts roasted by Nina @ 01/01/2008 3:15 PM

I still haven’t watched Pick of Destiny, Squee.

I suppose that’s a New Year’s Resolution

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 01/01/2008 3:23 PM

Merry New Year, mofos!!
Capitol One Bowl time.

Chestnuts roasted by Cigar @ 01/01/2008 4:17 PM

Yeah Kneg you should get on that, it’s fun. At first I thought it was kind of repetitive of the HBO series but after a couple of viewings I revised my opinion. I especially love the opening number, with Meatloaf and the always lovely Cynthia Ettinger as JB’s parents.
Starting the new year with an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia marathon sounds awesome! FX should have done that.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/01/2008 4:25 PM

Happy New year everyone!

I only ever have one resolution every year and so far its done me good.

I resolve to just wing it and see what happens.

Chestnuts roasted by Wenthral @ 01/01/2008 4:43 PM

I didn’t get to see the Rose Parade…but I did just see Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade in person, the first time I’ve ever seen a big-city parade anywhere but on TV. The Mummers Parade is basically string groups dressed up in ruffled, multi-colored costumes that are supposed to vaguely resemble something, like Mexican dancers or babies. They wear make-up, throw beads and shake hands with the crowd, strut like peacocks, and have a whale of a time.

So did I. I didn’t stay for the whole parade, but what I saw was awesome. There was even a fairly realistic “Star Wars” unit, complete Vader, Jedi, a red-robed Emperor’s Guard, and enough Stormtroopers to staff a Star Cruiser for a couple millennium. Other really cool movie themed units included “Shrek” and “Hairspray”; there was a western calvary-and-Indians group that was cute (even if they weren’t exactly PC).

The crowd, most of them tourists, local families, or drunk University of the Arts students, had a whale of a time, too. There was a real Mardi Gras atmosphere going on, what with all the sloshed people and the vendors selling toys, balloons, fuzzy hats, New Year’s hats, foam Miss Liberty crowns, noisemakers, and Philly pretzels big enough to feed ten starving Third World nations. I really regret forgetting my camera in my hurry to get to the parade.

(For once, the weather even worked in my favor. I woke up late…but it turns out the rain in the morning delayed the parade until noon.)

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/01/2008 5:50 PM

Not to sound crabby, but I am kinda looking forward to whatever year they stop making those glittery glasses with the year in them, I suppose it will be 2011 since there will no longer be 2 zeros in the number.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/01/2008 8:20 PM

kb, and then we will all hail the glittery monocle!

At least until 2020 (and that is very futuristic sounding!).

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 01/01/2008 8:59 PM

kb, I’m intrigued to see what they’ll do for 2011, but it’s indeed very possible to make a second loop for 2012, 13, 14 and so on.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/01/2008 10:29 PM

Couldn’t they just curve the one around?

Anyway, I’m waiting for the next Odyssey year…2010. And hope that I will live to see 2063….

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/01/2008 10:33 PM

Cameron, don’t you mean 2061? That’s when we’re supposed to land on Haley’s Comet, if I’m not mistaken. And what about 3001? That’s the year I want to see. ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by Tom @ 01/02/2008 12:13 AM

Tom
Yeah, it’s been a while…2061 it is! But I don’t think I’ll make it to 3001, nor do I want to…I’ll leave that to Philip J. Fry…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/02/2008 12:18 AM

Travel safe BJ!

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 01/02/2008 12:37 AM

Interesting point about those New Year’s Eve glasses, but they have been making them since before the new millennium.

Chestnuts roasted by Tresjolie9 @ 01/02/2008 12:46 AM

I hate winter with every fiber of my being. I just BARELY made it home tonight, driving by myself, without my cell. WE got hit with ANOTHER huge winter storm. My nerves are shattered. I thought of you, BJ….drive safe.

Why did people ever SETTLE in Canada in the first place? I love certain aspects of my country but I cannot take another Canadian winter!

I resolve to get the hell out of this place as soon as I can…somewhere warm….

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/02/2008 12:48 AM

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