The Return To Innocence

Some of the questions had no answer.

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Went out of the country (London, UK). Ate pure dried goji berries. Talked to a disability lawyer about filing for SSDI.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember. I don't think I made any resolutions.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More self confidence and initiative.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Realizing that accepting help doesn't make me weak.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
*falls over laughing* *wipes away tears* Oh, my. Yes. Continuation, actually, and it got worse.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
For the house: Various electronics. For myself: Various anti-inflammatory antioxidant lotions, and a liquid dragon's blood resin.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My husband's and my best friend's.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, stuff for the house, stuff for my health.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
All the times my husband was able to work locally and be home every night.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Doctor Who, Caprica (all my favorite US shows seem to get canceled).

26. What was the best book you read?
"Habitation Of The Blessed" by Catherynne M. Valente. "Feed" by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire). "An Artificial Night" by Seanan McGuire.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bruno Mars, I think. I listened to his songs a lot.

28. What did you want and get?
Lobster for lunch, mangosteen juice, dried goji berries, sangre de drago ointments.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 31. I don't actually remember what I did. Stayed home, probably.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Health.

34. What kept you sane?
My friends, cats, and husband.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The issue of politicians being whiny childish brats about political issues.

37. Who did you miss?
My short term memory.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Two people: Adam M., the former Marine. Mandi, who I knew via LiveJournal but finally met in October. We need to see each other again soon.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
I am immensely strong even when I am at my weakest, and I should never be ashamed to ask for help.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I tumble into space, try to stop the fall/My body ripped and tore, I could have floated in space"

Some of the questions had no answer.

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Went out of the country (London, UK). Ate pure dried goji berries. Talked to a disability lawyer about filing for SSDI.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember. I don't think I made any resolutions.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More self confidence and initiative.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Realizing that accepting help doesn't make me weak.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
*falls over laughing* *wipes away tears* Oh, my. Yes. Continuation, actually, and it got worse.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
For the house: Various electronics. For myself: Various anti-inflammatory antioxidant lotions, and a liquid dragon's blood resin.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My husband's and my best friend's.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, stuff for the house, stuff for my health.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
All the times my husband was able to work locally and be home every night.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Doctor Who, Caprica (all my favorite US shows seem to get canceled).

26. What was the best book you read?
"Habitation Of The Blessed" by Catherynne M. Valente. "Feed" by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire). "An Artificial Night" by Seanan McGuire.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bruno Mars, I think. I listened to his songs a lot.

28. What did you want and get?
Lobster for lunch, mangosteen juice, dried goji berries, sangre de drago ointments.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 31. I don't actually remember what I did. Stayed home, probably.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Health.

34. What kept you sane?
My friends, cats, and husband.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The issue of politicians being whiny childish brats about political issues.

37. Who did you miss?
My short term memory.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Two people: Adam M., the former Marine. Mandi, who I knew via LiveJournal but finally met in October. We need to see each other again soon.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
I am immensely strong even when I am at my weakest, and I should never be ashamed to ask for help.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I tumble into space, try to stop the fall/My body ripped and tore, I could have floated in space"

Today is the last day of the last year of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Tomorrow, we enter the pre-teen years.
It will probably be a very emotional two years, rife with "I hate you all, you can't control me, die in a fire" moments.
If we survive to 2013, we should break out the aluminum bats and wait by the front door, just in case.

Today is the last day of the last year of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Tomorrow, we enter the pre-teen years.
It will probably be a very emotional two years, rife with "I hate you all, you can't control me, die in a fire" moments.
If we survive to 2013, we should break out the aluminum bats and wait by the front door, just in case.

It's snowing again.
IT'S SNOWING AGAIN.
*grinds teeth*

Now is most definitely the winter of our discontent.

It's snowing again.
IT'S SNOWING AGAIN.
*grinds teeth*

Now is most definitely the winter of our discontent.

Um.

I think the snow just stopped falling.

*cracks knuckles* Well, time to prepare to shovel the walkway again. Good thing I took those analgesic muscle relaxers. *mutter, swear, mutter*

After I finish dancing and whooping.

Oh, look, an unkindness of ravens is perched in our oak tree. Hi, ravens!

2010: The Year We Made Contact.

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF SNOW.

Adam and I woke up late, had sex, played with the cats, ate oatmeal and split an omelet with Dubliner cheese and garlic butter creamed spinach, and drank Sumatra coffee. Then, we bundled up, grabbed shovels, and went to work.

Three hours later, our walkway is walkable. The car is sort of dug out. We think one of Adam's coworkers may be able to come get him with a giant truck tomorrow morning.

In a few hours, we will go back out and dig again. The snow won't stop. It's three feet and counting. I officially have not seen this much snowfall since I was six years old.

I hate it. I can't even see the fun in it. All I know is that there is snow up to my neck in some places. I am flaring so severely that this dose of Soma is working overtime.

We have electricity. Ours is underground, barely affected. We had a few thirty-second blackouts this morning, but so far we're fine.

This has to stop. Snowpocalypse 2010 has gone from Oh My Gods to Oh Hell No.

2010: The Year We Made Contact.

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF SNOW.

Adam and I woke up late, had sex, played with the cats, ate oatmeal and split an omelet with Dubliner cheese and garlic butter creamed spinach, and drank Sumatra coffee. Then, we bundled up, grabbed shovels, and went to work.

Three hours later, our walkway is walkable. The car is sort of dug out. We think one of Adam's coworkers may be able to come get him with a giant truck tomorrow morning.

In a few hours, we will go back out and dig again. The snow won't stop. It's three feet and counting. I officially have not seen this much snowfall since I was six years old.

I hate it. I can't even see the fun in it. All I know is that there is snow up to my neck in some places. I am flaring so severely that this dose of Soma is working overtime.

We have electricity. Ours is underground, barely affected. We had a few thirty-second blackouts this morning, but so far we're fine.

This has to stop. Snowpocalypse 2010 has gone from Oh My Gods to Oh Hell No.

Husband has made it home. Cats are being snuggly. I have finished my Rich Chocolate Ovaltine Maple Honey Mocha. The snow is sticking. Shoveling is imminent. I can only hope that my little neighborhood's streets get plowed decently tomorrow, unlike last time.

Anxieties have flared up for no real reason. They really need to stop.

Oh, snow. Snow everywhere.
This is still not as bad as the snow storms my childhood in New York (Brooklyn/Manhattan and The Hamptons). Maryland newscasters are calling this one of the top storms of all time. I am flashing back to the Long Island NY snowstorms of 1985, 1989, 1996, and 2001. Augh.
I remember when I was six during the 1985 storm, playing in the backyard of the apartment complex in Brooklyn, sunk so deep into snow that my father had to lift and carry me several times. Our Siberian husky, Nico, left the most beautiful paw prints as she bounded across all that snow.
I don't miss that snow. I don't want the snow now. I don't like snow. But it is here, and I will go and shovel it.