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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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Muppet Baby – At least the global warming is coming so maybe Canada will be a tropical paradise by next year. I keep trying to figure out what it would take to have 60-70 degree weather in PA in winter, but to no avail so far.

2007 had some very good moments in my life – got married, got a raise at work, got to see the black costume Spidey on a movie theater screen…

However, I think I am looking forward to 2008 – I still have a lot of hope for my goals and am working hard to pay off some of the wonderful debt I got by going to school and just being a plain dumbass. Well, with one day almost down, it’s still not to late to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Chestnuts roasted by jjwspider @ 01/02/2008 12:55 AM

Hey Muppet Baby,

Come on down to America! Nice and toasty, and all ya got to give up is that pesky healthcare! Join the rest of us: happy till sick, then if you’ve got the bucks, you won’t die! Yep, survival of the fittest down here in the US of A.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 01/02/2008 1:29 AM

Muppet Baby I know how you feel!!
Theres waaay too much snow here in St. Johns, And theres another storm coming tomorrow apparntly.

Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 01/02/2008 1:35 AM

Dammit! I forgot about the ‘no free health care’ thing in the USA. I have Crohn’s Disease, 10 prescriptions a month, and WAY too many surgeries to move to the USA…too bad, I love the NY Rangers.

The best part of 2007? For me, it was seeing the White Stripes live, from the 2nd row.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/02/2008 1:41 AM

Muppet Baby,You come on down to Texas and we’ll show you the real meaning of heat!

Here in Waco, we don’t get much snow.. “winter” usually means turning the heat on in the morning and the AC on in the afternoon…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/02/2008 1:42 AM

Cameron T – Texas sounds heavenly. I swear if I have to scrape the ice and snow off my car ONE MORE TIME in the dark cold AM before work…grrrrrr

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/02/2008 3:11 AM

How nice of Adult Swim to air Space Ghost once every 4 years at 5:30 in the morning.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/02/2008 6:52 AM

Wow. I didn’t think they aired Space Ghost at all these days.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 01/02/2008 10:23 AM

My 2007 was one of the scariest and most wonderful times ever.

In this year alone I:

Got my Driver’s License
Got Married
Bought a house
Had my first child.

Not exactly in that order either, but it was intense and fun and frightening at the same time.

I hope 2008 is slightly less eventful.

Chestnuts roasted by Ben S. @ 01/02/2008 10:26 AM

Ben S. -Wow, you make me feel lazy.
Muppet Baby- I feel you, it was -10 when I went out to take my son to school today, before windchill. I think it’s safe to say the car never actually warmed up by the time I got back home. I am one of the lazy people who use wiper fluid instead of scraping and I have to park on a busy street so warming up the car is not an option.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/02/2008 11:09 AM

When I was thinking of all the stuff that happened in 2007, I somehow managed to completely forget that I got a fucking degree in August. Finished up community college and got my Associate in Arts. How that slipped my mind, I’ll never know…

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 01/02/2008 1:02 PM

Well, my New Year gets off on a Par-For-The-Course start. Ma went to the hospital yesterday morning. She was having an odd bout of pain, and since her heart attack years ago she was told to get any similar pains looked at, even if it just turns out to be indigestion. She bought an off-brand salsa Monday that disagreed with both of us, and she thought that’s what it was. I finally got her to go get checked out, and next thing we know, she’s told it was a mild heart attack. One helicopter trip to Lawton later, she’s getting set up for a Quad-Bypass since her stents aren’t getting the job done anymore. By this time next week, she’ll be all retrofitted and spiffy. My Pops got his carburator re-bored some time ago, as some of you remember, and he was out of the hospital two days after surgery. Ma ought to do just fine, seein’ she takes better care of herself. The way her side of the family heals up, she’ll be up to speed in less than a month. We never take milestones like New Years’ in a normal fashion anyway. Interesting times, indeed…

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash has nowhere to go but sideways @ 01/02/2008 1:54 PM

So I had to take the day off work to sit at home and wait for the damned glass company to come out and replace our kitchen window. While we were out at a New Year’s Eve party, some kids busted the window out with a tree branch… and then left! They just thought it would be fun go around breaking windows, I guess, because they got several other houses in our neighborhood and the surrounding area. Nothing stolen, just broken windows. Happy New Year indeed.

What really sucks is that my work is still expecting me to come in after I get done with the glass guys, so if they leave at 4 pm, I have to go to work for forty-five minutes.

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 01/02/2008 3:25 PM

Oh, I doubt they ever will again, Annette.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/02/2008 3:30 PM

Doho, and yet Tuesday morning, every week, on Bravo in the UK…

01:00 [adult swim] – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost presents an animated intergalactic talk show with celebrity guests including musicians, comedians, and sociopathic dictators.

01:15 [adult swim] – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost presents an animated intergalactic talk show with celebrity guests including musicians, comedians, and sociopathic dictators.

01:30 [adult swim] – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost presents an animated intergalactic talk show with celebrity guests including musicians, comedians, and sociopathic dictators.

01:45 [adult swim] – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost presents an animated intergalactic talk show with celebrity guests including musicians, comedians, and sociopathic dictators.

Yay for descriptive schedules.

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 01/02/2008 3:36 PM

your adult swim is on Bravo? What the fuck, do you live in Bizzaro world?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/02/2008 3:59 PM

Kingklash, I hope your mother recovers as quickly as your dad did! It sounds like a stressful situation nonetheless.

About fifteen years ago my father had a mid-life crisis, divorced my mother and became an insane triathlete so now I usually spend christmas explaining why I don’t exercise enough. He’s 6’4″, 185 lb and in the best shape of his life and I think he might outlive me. I’m pretty sure he also thinks I’m a wuss because I consider a 50-km bike ride to be enough for one day!

Chestnuts roasted by Jinsky @ 01/02/2008 4:05 PM

Doho, it kind of works that a lot of the UK channels on satellite/cable share a name and programming with the US versions, but tend to buy up the rights to show channels in competition or swapping between companies owned by the same broadcaster.

Adult Swim used to be hosted on the Toonami channel, where we got DBZ, Teen Titans, Batman, Tenchi, etc for a while as well as Hong Kong movies. Then that became just an extra, normal Cartoon Network channel and Adult Swim disappeared.

Somewhere along the line, Virgin Media Television who operate the UK Bravo, in no way linked to NBCU in the US, picked up the rights to the name, bumpers and shows for Adult Swim and play a two-hour block every too-damn-early morning.

Chestnuts roasted by Guise @ 01/02/2008 4:35 PM

Jeez, king, best of luck to you, the fam, and especially your mamz.

My mom has been having heart issues over the last couple of years. Hours and hours of tests, several medications, thousands of dollars, and mounds of stress later, doctors still aren’t sure exactly what the problem is. Every night she has to connect herself up to a machine that monitors her BPM and whatnot, and reports back to …someone/something? (not sure)… in real time.

My NYE totally sucked. All of my friends went to Bricktown (basically downtown OKC area) to eat, then to a bar afterwards, and were supposed to go back to an agreed house to party on throughout the night. My youngest brother, only being 20, can’t partake in the first of said activities, so I stayed home so he could hang out and then go party afterwards. Neither one of us really cared where we were or what we were doing once it hit midnight, so this part was no big deal.

1:00 AM rolls around and still no phone calls. So I make a couple of calls (txts are extremely delayed at this point in the night) and nobody answers. Finally the next morning I found out my group of friends all got pissed off at eachother for, I’m sure, some stupid reason, and everyone split ways at midnight.

So my brother and I spent NYE watching miis walk around, talk to each other, sleep, and sneeze while tossing back some disgusting keystones that, out of nowhere, appeared in my fridge.

*blows into tooter party horn*

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 01/02/2008 4:43 PM

I attempted to ring in the new year by being the life of the party- like my resolution.
I rang in the new year by puking, and am still suffering from a hangover.

You know- it could have been the quarters game.
Or the Black Toothed Grins.
Or the Zinfandel.
Or teaching the underage kid- he was twenty and truned Of Age in 3 days- how to shotgun a beer.

Can someone teach me how to drink in moderation?
erng.

Chestnuts roasted by kittymao @ 01/02/2008 4:51 PM

We could, kitty, but meh..

Chestnuts roasted by nork @ 01/02/2008 5:07 PM

No worries, mates. Both parents have had some medical training (both as EMTs, Ma also as dental assistant), so all us kids have some understanding and confidence in medicinal science. As long as it isn’t a toad or small dwarf living in her stomach, she’ll do fine. Little Brother and Oldest Sister are on their way from KS right now, so all four of us kids will be at the ‘spital this evening.

This is why I usually don’t actively seek adventure and excitement, I find enough just staying in one place.

Positive attitude ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at either.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/02/2008 5:34 PM

Yeah, Kitty, I agree with Nork.

Just remember what a very wise friend of mine told me during a night of binge drinking:

“We’re not alcoholics. Alcoholics go to meetings”

Chestnuts roasted by Captain Will @ 01/02/2008 5:37 PM

Best wishes to Ma and the rest of the family, kingklash

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/02/2008 6:10 PM

You’re always in our thoughts, Kingklash.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 01/02/2008 6:25 PM

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