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Spoiled ourselves with some BW3 today. Delicious wings and ribs. And tasty, tasty berry lemonade.

Blew money on some discount shit at Walmart, too. Picked up critter noms, as well. Gotta buy some foodstuffs. We have meats, for the most part. But I need to buy sides and stuff.

Here's some photos because we got a new camera from my mom for Christmas.

Taken today. I had such a headache all day. It's receeded now, thank god.

My mom bought me a gay scarf.

I look so cranky.

One of my mom's cats, Mickey.

MY AWESOME GREEN SHOES.

My mom's tree.

Our dinky tree. There's an ornament on it. I swear. And there's a Megatron underneath it that was too heavy for the branches.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Moved back to the east coast from the west coast (the opposite of my 'thing I've never done before' from last year!). Got a ferret. Kept a job for a full year.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make resolutions. :V

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope.

5. What countries did you visit?
I haven't been out of the country in almost two years now.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Stability. In all aspects of life.

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Me, TJ and Krispy's trips to Seattle. Spending a week in South Dakota with Squeeji and Elliot. ANTHROCON. TIKICON. Meeting and hanging out with Todd DeZago and Chris Jones and other awesome artists.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Of the year? I don't know. This year has been kind 'eh'.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Probably moving back to Ohio. Although, not a failure that was totally my fault, but I still miss Seattle so bad it might as well be. But overall? Just not being a good enough girlfriend.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got pretty sick a few weeks after TikiCon.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Random Iron Man bullshit.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
TJ's, for putting up with me even when I'm a retard. Squeeji's, for being awesome. Krispy's, for being there to rant to when I was still in Silverdale.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I'm sure someone's did. Can't think of any offhand, however.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Fff. Food, GAS, trinkets.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I was pretty happy when Obama won, even though I avoided most election stuff (we didn't have a TV that got signal at Bob's and I didn't keep up on the papers or news online really well). Anthrocon was awesome because of the people we hung out with, of course.

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008?
Most of the new indie bullshit I've acquired in the last couple months.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? sadder.
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? poorer. by far.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Working on my art.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Wangsting. Stressing.

20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?
Over my mom's briefly, then back at home.

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I've been in love.

23. How many one-night stands?
Zero.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Heroes for a little while. King of the Hill. Two and a Half Men has actually grown on me. The Office. 30 Rock. SNL. Wife Swap, for the lulz.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't think so.

26. What was the best book you read?
Probably Casual Rex or Anonymous Rex.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Ludo, Monkey Swallows the Universe.

28. What did you want and get?
A new camera.

29. What did you want and not get?
A lack of stress.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Iron Man.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I think me, TJ and Krispy hung around the house and Krispy bought me tiramisu. I was 25.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less stress. Not moving back to Ohio.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
The usual, really. Jeans, t-shirts. I started layering tank tops under my shirts this year, but that's nothing special, really.

34. What kept you sane?
Music.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Robert Downey, Jr.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I feel like I should say 'gay rights' because I'm a huge fag. But I didn't really keep up on it enough to get riled.

37. Who did you miss?
Krispy. Squeeji.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Louve, Dan, Mitsene.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
It could always be worse. But I've known this for a long time.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Stars - Calendar Girl
If I am lost for a day; try to find me
But if I don't come back, then I won't look behind me
All of the things that I thought were so easy
Just got harder and harder each day
December is darkest and June is the light
But this empty bedroom won't make anything right
While out on the landing a friend I forgot to send home
Who waits up for me all through the night
Calendar girl who's in love with the world
Stay alive

Jenny Owen Youngs - Fuck Was I
Love plows through me like a dozer,
I've got more give than a bale of hay,
and there's always a big mess left over.
What did you do?
What did you say?

Skillet on the stove is such a temptation,
maybe I'll be the special one that doesnt get burned.
What the fuck was I thinking?

Lovers - An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
If they send the wolves,
I'll join the wolves and
I'll return some day with
My teeth sharper
Snd my blood hotter.
I'll be the dog by your grave
With a hanging tongue
And a ribcage and a chewed-up tail,
Howling with my last exhale.
An army of lovers cannot fail

Mono - Slimcea Girl
Then the words of a song
Remind her of those days
Sees herself in the
face of a stranger
Sat in the station road cafe
She remembers the day
When things were going her way
Only memories remain
Of the way she used to be
The way she used to be
She stay home every night
And exagerates her past

Voxtrot - Sway
And you know I have to sway my leaves and branches
Slowly out in the sun like the silent shout of youth
And we ask why do we take these leaps and chances
Because we have no choice but to whither into truth

And I dreamed you were there
All the vital signs of standing
And I dreamed you were with me
With the summer at my back
And I dreamed you were there
So complete and undemanding
We know the love that gives
Is what the living always lack

Monkey Swallows the Universe - Martin
It all began in Spring when he was sat in that chair looking so old and distant and half dead
And he began to think of all the books he hadn’t read and all the memories lost and that’s when he said
“Oh baby don’t you look at me no more
I’m lazy untalented and poor
I can’t give you everything that you ask for
Why don’t you go go go?”

She said “How’m I gonna go when you’re sitting on my coat?
Looks like I will have to stay til you’re on your feet again
Baby you’re just the same as me, I feel that way from time to time,
But you will be fine”

OH. Since I'm LATE AS FUCK about sending holiday cards out. Here's the doodles of the ones I got done.