2011 was “The Year of the House<\/a><\/b>.”<\/p>\n 2012 was “The Year of the Denver Road Trip…and Andy Grammer<\/a><\/b>.”<\/p>\n 2013 was The Year of…apparently if it ain’t one thing, it’s another, fucking Christ.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n 1.) Where did you ring in 2013?<\/b> 2.) What did you do in 2013 that you\u2019d never done before?<\/b> 3.) Did you keep your new year\u2019s resolutions and will you make more for next year?<\/b> 4.) Did anyone close to you become engaged or married?<\/b> 5.) Did anyone close to you become pregnant or give birth?<\/b> 6.) Did anyone close to you die?<\/b> 7.) How did you earn your keep?<\/b> 8.) What 9.) What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013?<\/b> 10.) What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory and why?<\/b> 11.) What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/b> 12.) What was your biggest failure?<\/b> 13.) Did you suffer illness or injury?<\/b> 14.) Did you ever encounter the police?<\/b> 15.) What was the best thing you bought?<\/b> 16.) Where did most of your money go?<\/b> 17.) What did you get really excited about?<\/b> 18.) Compared to this time last year, are you…<\/b> 19.) What do you wish you\u2019d done more of?<\/b> 20.) What do you wish you\u2019d done less of?<\/b> 21.) How did you spend Christmas?<\/b> 22.) What are your short and long term goals for 2014?<\/b> 23.) What was your favorite TV program?<\/b> 24.) What were your favorite books of the year?<\/b> 25.) What was your favorite music from this year?<\/b> 26.) What song will always remind you of 2013?<\/b> 27.) What were your favorite films of the year?<\/b> 28.) What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?<\/b> 29.) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?<\/b> 30.) How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013?<\/b> 31.) What kept you sane?<\/b> 32.) Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?<\/b> 33.) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013.<\/b> —<\/p>\n
\nAt home. Bob was probably playing a game and I was probably writing (or staring at the internet).<\/p>\n
\nBought a king-sized bed. It ain’t much but it was an unadventurous year.<\/p>\n
\nWe’ve been over this.<\/p>\n
\nLisa and Rob got married after…six?…seven?…more? years of being together.<\/p>\n
\nJenn announced baby number two due next spring. Alicia had baby number three. (I’ve known these girls for over twenty years. Egad.)<\/p>\n
\nBoth of Marci’s parents died a week apart. Bob and I weren’t close to them, but they were good people.<\/p>\n
\nPlaying housewife.<\/p>\ncountries<\/s> places did you visit?<\/b>
\nWe didn’t do much outside of home this year. This is not a problem for us.<\/p>\n
\nSome semblance of the pseudo mental stability I had a couple years ago.<\/p>\n
\nMemorial weekend, I suppose. We went bed shopping and finally got a new bed.<\/p>\n
\nI got a pretty significant amount of writing done.<\/p>\n
\nDidn’t make any progress on cleaning and organizing the house.<\/p>\n
\nI had my first chest cold in about five years that lasted a solid month. In all that time without, I completely forgot how to cope with a damn cold.<\/p>\n
\nNope.<\/p>\n
\nA new bed. It’s like a real grown-up bed.<\/p>\n
\nStuff for the house. And the cars. God dammit, Joel.<\/s><\/p>\n
\nA new bed and a whole lot of new music.<\/p>\n
\n…happier or sadder?<\/i><\/b> Not necessarily sadder<\/i>, but definitely more in the hole stability-wise.
\n…thinner or fatter?<\/i><\/b> About the same.
\n…richer or poorer?<\/i><\/b> Richer, I suppose.<\/p>\n
\nCleaning and organizing my house.<\/p>\n
\nBattling my own brain.<\/p>\n
\nChristmas Eve with my family. Christmas Day dinner with Bob’s.<\/p>\n
\nShort Term:<\/i><\/b> Build a new treatment plan with a new psychiatrist.
\nLong Term:<\/i><\/b> Clean and organize the house and get some damn walls painted.<\/p>\n
\nWe watched Breaking Bad and Being Human.<\/p>\n
\nI read some books but nothing particularly exciting.<\/p>\n
\nOh Boy. Andy Grammer, Ryan Star, Matt Nathanson, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nine Days…there was a fuckton of new music this year with more to come soon.<\/p>\n
\nI’ll say Mission Bells<\/i> by Matt Nathanson just because that one probably got the most airplay of all the new tunes. Or the Glee<\/s> Darren Criss version of Teenage Dream<\/i> because that’s how my brain works.<\/p>\n
\nWe saw the new Superman movie in the theater. Henry Cavill is pretty.<\/p>\n
\nI turned 34. I am officially in my mid-thirties. Bob was off work, we went shopping for a Christmas tree, and had pizza for dinner while watching super hero movies.<\/p>\n
\nMaking a psychiatrist appointment sooner, but I consider it a victory I got an appointment made at all.<\/p>\n
\nPajamas all the time.<\/p>\n
\nBob and music.<\/p>\n
\nLots of music makers.<\/p>\n
\nLife happens and sometimes the only viable response is, “Well Fuck<\/i>.”<\/p>\n
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