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The Worst of 2007

Sekhmet

16:22 / 14.12.07

This year hated fantasy authors.

Following up the recent deaths of both Madeleine L'Engle and Robert Jordan, it has now been announced that Terry Pratchett has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's.

Due to financial pressures, we had to sell the 11 acres of land on which we had planned to build an eco-B&B and live happily and independently ever after in our rammed-earth solar-powered rainwater-collecting off-grid home. Looks like we'll have to put it off for a while. I'm sad about this. I wanted to bring my kids up out there.

What do you regret about the past year?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

16:49 / 14.12.07

One of my best friends being put through an absolute rigamarole by an employer who failed to put in his Canadian immigration work papers early enough to be processed quickly, who has now been outright denied because of a technicality and has to come up with some solution before he's forced to go back to Germany and potentially have his relationship damaged further.

The Accomplice's struggles with his invalid mother, who is now being forced to go into a facility following her revoking all of his legal powers in regards to her welfare due to MS-related paranoia and asking him to move out.

Work being caught in a long, endless array of rotating job actions.

Several friends who have gone through terrible break-ups or long depressions.

Both my parents suffering from old age and illness.

Sucky year. I think I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Olulabelle

17:24 / 14.12.07

My dog was run over yesterday by someone who didn't even bother to stop. And he's only alive now because a lovely lady carried him to the vet.

He's got a smashed pelvis and collapsed lung and broken ribs and a blood clot under his spine. He's gone to a special orthopaedic dog hospital now. Hopefully they'll be able to fix him and he'll still be able to run about as much as he loves to but they can't do anything until his lung re-inflates.

Picture of my lovely doggy.

That's my bad thing about this year. Before that I was loving it.

grant

18:00 / 14.12.07

I seemed to have hospitality problems this year. It's a little weird, but every time my family either became house guests elsewhere or had guests in our home, some kind of strange and awkward thing would happen. There has to be some kind of root cause, but I'm not sure what it is.

I've also spent the whole year in the red. I think that's just being middle aged in this place and time.

Spaniel

19:49 / 14.12.07

That's horrible, Lula.

Your poor dog.

Olulabelle

20:01 / 14.12.07

I know, it's bad. But I probably shouldn't have put it in this thread because I don't want to hijack it. I might go and sulk about it in the miserable thread instead.

imaginary mice

20:08 / 14.12.07

Wow, what a beautiful dog! I hope you will have her back soon, fully recovered, but it’s reassuring that she’s in a special hospital. I didn’t know there were orthopaedic hospitals for dogs!

imaginary mice

20:16 / 14.12.07

My biggest disappointments of the year:

This year I had one final stab at overcoming my chronic shyness. I tried both antidepressants and counselling, which I had always regarded as the last resort. Neither helped. I took Prozac for four months, which turned me into an emotional wreck (yes, even worse than usual). I lost a friend as a result. I then tried counselling for three months, which was just a huge waste of money.

I didn’t have the guts to go to any Barbemeets and I missed both Animeets.

Morrissey pissed me off massively.

And then, to top it all off, I threadrotted the “Be nice” thread.

imaginary mice

20:21 / 14.12.07

Oh and I finally got over my ex-boyfriend. Which you would think should go in the "Best of 2007" thread but I miss missing him. I miss having feelings for someone.

imaginary mice

20:25 / 14.12.07

After all these years of whinging that I can’t get over him. Bloody hell.

Isadore

02:28 / 15.12.07

Even considering all the good it's brought me in its own (sick) way, diabetes is really, really annoying.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

02:36 / 15.12.07

Lulabelle, is there anything, anything at all, I can do for your doggie? Contribute even a little bit of money or something your doggie would like?

I say this because I live in an urban area where I too often see doggies roaming about without collars or leashes or any sort of distinguishing characteristic that marks them as having a home or an owner, and I just do the whole "please let the doggies have gotten out of their yard or broken loose" prayer. I have seen too many of them cut down by careless motorists and I cry every time.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:25 / 15.12.07

This year was relatively unsucky, I guess. That fucking house fire in May was a bastard, and the break-in a few months later also sucked. But on the other hand no-one close to me got hurt or anything, so I reckon me and 2007 can part on fairly good terms. (Now watch as my UK flight slips through a wormhole in the spacetime continuum and ends up on the Planet of the Underwriters.)

*Alice

12:45 / 15.12.07

- my mother's health is declining
- broke up with a guy...and still trying to get over him.

Shrug

15:55 / 15.12.07

Speaking of emotional wreckage.....
Oh dear.
2007.
No Thanks.

Shrug

16:58 / 15.12.07

I regret the suicide attempt and being completely irreparably out of control for most of this year. On a brighter note I am not blind in one eye (which I could very well have been as my ex tried to blind me). I do regret not punching him really hard in the face, though.
And, at least, I have replenished my reserve of anger. It has been sorely missed.
Also I regret:
Being a poor friend.
Not eating enough.
Fucking up college.
Possibly last night (should I ever recall it in full).
Posting on Barbelith (both too much and too little).
Smoking.
Trying to sleep with authority figures.
Being mean.
Paranoia.
Not seeing my family enough.
Regrets.

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