December 22, 2003
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2003 Recap in mostly chronological order. Mostly.
January
Finally got K out of my life, or so I thought.
Got depressed.
Started my present job (working with traumatic brain injury patients and people with disabilities).
Ran around naked in the woods during a rainstorm.February
Had a near violent psychotic episode-slash-nervous breakdown thanks to MacOSX, firewire, a bad RAM chip and a webcam.
Coined the internet acronym "GYFAFMB" (Get Your Finger Away From My Butt) with the help of her.March
Met a girl that went from nice to psycho in under a week.
Wrote a bunch of really bizarre entries about weird things.
Met another girl, much cooler than the other one but she lived in another state.
Considered growing a beard and going insane.
Made some bizarre graphics and posted them.
Read House of Leaves and based a Xanga skin on it.
Got depressed.April
Nothing noteworthy happened, really.May
Went to visit the cool-girl-in-another-state.
Started working out again.June
Fucked up relationship with cool-girl-in-another-state.
Missed my Dad. A lot.
Got the burliest sinus infection I've ever had. Weird gold colored mucus and nose bleed hilarity ensues.
Got depressed.July
Saw Frank Black at the Improv.
Got depressed.August
Cheryl and I completed our first round of truth or dare (I had my red flannel trout boxers over my pants in the supermarket and she had 1 oversized boob at work).
Re-read House of Leaves.
Got my kitten.
Got my digital camera.
Met up with a lost friend.September
Received a letter from K.
Went on a date type thing that had the worst chemistry between 2 people ever. EVER.
My car broke down and cost me a lot of money.
Stopped working out.
Oh, and I got depressed.October
Started working out.
Ran out of things to write about.
Started my autobiographical entries.November
Wrote another short story.
Didn't get the new position I applied for.
Started sleep eating again.
Decided that working for other people really sucks, and I want to own my own business.
Posted (protected) what I'd written over a year ago about the night my father died.
Cheryl instigates another round of truth or dare and I complete my dare.December
Challenge Cheryl to her dare (Which she has yet to complete. Slacker).
Ordered a CD burner.
Wrote a whole bunch of things that never got publicly posted.
Car broke down again, costing me even more money this time.
Cancelled CD Burner because 20 days of waiting is more than long enough. Decided that LaCie sucks.
Car still isn't fixed (2 weeks now).
Convinced the Universe has decided that December is not my month for anything.
Got depressed.
Left Xanga.
Bye.
just kidding.
Comments (67)
my car will probably be the death of me. the automotive industry is controlled by the devil. heaven help us all. science should just find a way for us to sprout wings. . .think of how much we'd be helping the environment.
since i have nothing better to do on a monday night i was curious what saturnalia meant and this is what i found:
Saturnalia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Saturnalia (from the god Saturn) was the name the Romans gave to their holiday marking the Winter Solstice. Over the years, it expanded to a whole week, the 17th through 23rd of December. It also degenerated from mostly tomfoolery, marked chiefly by having masters and servants switch places, to sometimes debauchery, so that the (lower case) word "saturnalia" came to mean "orgy."
P.S. Thank god this year is almost over. cheers!
That was so mean.
You had me going for a second, you attention seeking bastard, you. Now put your underpants on wrong again.
Well, the 'left Xanga' part definitely had me going for about 1.5 seconds. Needless to say, I am relieved. Sorry about the bad stuff, happy about the good stuff, looking forward to another year!!
OH MAN!! You SO had me!
It's crazy how fast things go by....and no more jokes like that.
had me confused for awhile. Not hard to do...
haha, you're a fucker. Nearly had me too.
lmao...that was incredibly clever...
*bows down to the master of the cliffhanger*
Bastard.
you're fucking lucky.
that's all i'm going to say.
The V. Secret Diaries of Saturnalia...coming soon to a blog near you...
because you scared the fuck outta me
i like reading you, just found your blog not long ago and it would be my fucking luck that you'd leave:-p
lol! that was pretty cool...wish i could recap the year like that...just i never ran naked in the woods...
you gotta earn those
December: Finally wrote back to the same "her" that helped you coin GYFAFMB.......
It's the least you could do...
Merry Christmas (or gonads and strife)
- Sherri
well, you get one off the bat coz you never got back to me about your postcards that I can't find the link to now... so thats strike one
Nuh uh you didn't... unless it got mixed in with the spam and shit.. and that stuff usually gets tossed.. unless of course there's good porn I haven't seen yet.. then, well you know
lol.. I'm kidding.. I really didn't get anything from you
and why theeeeeeeee hell do I have to sign in everytime I leave you a comment? *growls*
nice site.
You bastard. You're a bastard, you know that, right?
Just as long as you're aware.
It sounds like one hell of a year for you.
My House of Leaves year was last year...but this year was way more fucked up, to be honest.
*strangles saturnalia* thank god I speed read. Is this the way you treat your loyal readers!!!??!!!! actually don't answer that.
at least you can't say your life isn't interesting.
ran naked in the woods ay? *arched eyebrow* and why?
um hello?? got an iwife and got awesome new music and software...um, duh
AWWWWWWWWW You almost got me you jerk! lol. That scared da hell outa me! wait.. you did get me. *rolls her eyes* jerk
that was mean. very mean. i would be sad if you left xanga. but i think you've been sad for more than one person's dosage this year. and remember, december is the government's conspiracy, not all of luck's work.
cheers
~sailor michelle
Shouldn't you have done that on April 1? But it's a good think you were kidding, pookie.
i second that emotion (well, the got depressed part of your 2003 recap, anyway)
oh, and thanks for commenting on my xanga, your wise words are much appreciated.
alright i think people said enough, you get the idea
Rich, no one seemed to pay any attention to the last two lines, so I wonder if I can't take a joke, but dude, whatchamean 'got depressed, left xanga, bye ?'
Of course I understand each of these statemenst literally, but can I argue that retreating when depressed will only make it worse ? This embracing community of wackos inc. here lives to support its injured residents, Rich. Some of us do, anyway. dude, you need to write. Let your writing be your prozac, dude.
GRRRRR....you got me, too. I read the pseudo-ending before scrolling and said, "WHAT? Not again!! Just when I found him again!!" This was followed by some expletives once I finished scrolling. Are you TRYING to kill me?
no idea who you are, but nice xanga
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE 32 PEOPLE AFTER YOU FOR THAT! I was about to bend over and start crying. In fact, I had already started to bend over. Until my forehead accidently hit the down button and the screen scrolled down until I found this: JUST KIDDING.
Oh yeah, and I read the House of Leaves because you were reading it, and it's an extraordinarily...interesting? enjoyable? hmm...book. I rally liked it, one of my favorites now. I think you should do a book review on your Xanga, because you're good at picking out books. I would definitely read a book if you gave it a thumbs up.
Woah, and I just left a comment but I didn't have to sign on again. That was cool!
eek...did not appreciate that 3rd to last line! it made me jump...
Surprise ending, eh? Well I hope your year has a surprise ending with lots of great things.
Merry Christmas and don't forget to stay away from those crazy atheists!
-Kristen-
i am glad you're kidding, but hey the laugh you got out of me was worth it.
If you EVER joke about leaving Xanga again, I will hunt you down and do horrible things to you which may involve candle wax, wet noodles, and/or broomsticks.
sounds like my year except for the fact that i didn't meet up w/any cool girls from another state...oh, but i did leave xanga...that was last year though
That would have sucked! - I just found you. Maybe I have abandonment issues. Or maybe you write interesting things. Or maybe it's both. Or maybe it's neither, and I just need another reason to not do anything at work.
PS - depression sucks ass. I went through a few months of it at the beginning of this year. The dark winters, the break up, the sick dog . . . there was lots of drinking and lots of getting sick from it. I am what you can call a proactive depressed person. Not content with just laying in bed being sad, I want to actively move toward my emotional demise. Hope you aren't doing that.
now that's one hell of a year...if I were to attempt to re-create every month I think my head would explode...but I just might have to try.
Damn you! I nearly choked on my McDonalds!
interesting year.
m{eye}k
Oh, you silly little Richard. Why do you play with my emotions this way?
*sigh* I did think the Year in Review part was fun, though. Fun times. I'm going to go do one of my own now. Because I steal from you shamelessly.
bastard.
Girls in other states are a good thing. Well, only if they're in Utah.
Sweet post!!! I'm now officially active duty!!
) I'm kinda excited to tell you the truth... I"m sure I'll be fine... I'm sorry I haven't been able to comment or post lately!! We dont exactly have computer access... hehe... But I'm trying to get online as much as possible!!! Keep visiting!! 
) Comment soon, I miss ya! -=grin=-
saturnalia what a holiday
I read your post again just for fun
) I love em... I will try my damnest to come back alive, I really really will, but I mean you can't stop fate... I'm a really good shot though, so I should be good.. 
) Just keep thinking of me!! Comment soon, I've missed yer sweet comments! 
)
props for the awesome layout n post.
okay, you would've gotten me if you had posted the "just kidding" in a separate entry...
I knew something was fishy with the spaceage before the timestamp... bwahahaha.
hmm, so you spent 6 out of the twelve months depressed and I'd quote more random statistics to you about you, but I'm getting tired and I still have more bills to sort. gah.
you do know you rock though, right?
Wow, that kinda scared me. That've been the 2nd one I subscribed to and they left within a week.
P.S I know how the psycho chick thing goes.. but aren't they all, deep down?
Herm... I wasn't fooled.
Ok, yes I was.
You know what usually un-depresses me? Dancing. But then again, that's just me, with a site based around dancing, but hey, it's a suggestion.
lovely year... hope things are better for the rest of the year.. :-/ or maybe, for 2004. you got me too. but, eh, you were just kidding, so i'm alright now.
Man, you're almost as bad with the being depressed thing as me. lol. Hope that improves sometime in the near future
-Kimmi
hahahah. JERK OFF!! You fooled me you (*#&$& er. Haha, i would have missed you!
luv julia
hey i rlly like yur xangah! prop me back
ever read king lear? he did the running around naked in the woods during a storm thing....yea.....
Oh you sneaky bastard....you had me going for a couple of seconds...
Anyway, have a safe and happy holiday, Richard..
AHG! Oh wait...
*reads small print*
Ah. Damn you. ^_^ happy holidays
HeY!!!
) How are you doing... Check out the freaking baby picture I just found of myself... I put it on my xanga... I used to be so cute... -=sigh=- What happened hahaa 
)
u get depressed alot...
..and i still have yet to cure my propensity of stating the obvious.
bah!
2004 will be your year i swear
You had me there for a second and I died a little bit inside.
grrrrrr! can you say e.v.i.l.?!
p.s. you're a bit on the depressed & morbid side huh?.... i like that....
i leave you two smack shaped props because you scared me. not very nice.
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