My year in review.

It’s hard to believe how much has changed for me in the past 12 months.  Some of it I’ve talked about briefly, and I don’t think I’ve much gone into depth about any of it.  But, I’m going to post a recap for myself so that in the future I don’t forget how much can change in such a short time.

January:  Got used for sex by someone I considered a "friend."  Another "friend" got my car impounded, I had a mental breakdown because of being the only responsible person in a house of six.  When I get back I loose my job of over three years, the home I was living in was condemned and I was left without a home, car, or job.  

February:  Spent the month shaking and unable to walk up and down stairs.  Also bouncing from place to place staying with whoever would take me for a few days at a time.  Then spent several weeks with my friends trying to find a place of our own to live in.  Soon found and moved into one.  Also started "dating" someone from Scranton ending a two year-ish spell of not dating/being single (it soon became obvious that it was only a short term thing and led to a lot of stress in figuring out how to deal with that). 

March:  Started to feel better in terms of nerves but started to get discouraged about finding employment.  Stopped dating the aforementioned person for a while, got the car out of impound, but soon got into an accident exploding all four of my tires and totaling the vehicle.  Out of the six people at the house one of the few who was working refused to pay any bills, buy food, or pay rent.

April:  First week of April I got a job and spent most of the month working, paying back money that was owed.  I was again the only person working.  Towards the middle of the month another person got a job and another housemates drug addiction was becoming very apparent and destroying his life.  Started dating the person I had been dating in February for some reason.  My parents were arrested and put into jail for growing pot.

May:  Mamma Nick died on mother’s day.  The roommate that refused to pay bills was officially removed from the household and gas (therefore heat and hot-water) were shut off.  I decided once and for all that the person I was dating was only a limited time thing and that was going to soon end.  That’s about it for May. 

June:  The Ghostbusters game came out.  The day it came out I had a date.  Turns out that this date would be the start of the upturn of my life.  My brother turned 24.  During this time, though, I was happy with my life.  During the months of May and June I saw a resurgence of philosophical rants and debates and so forth.  By the end of the month I was exasperated by the events within the household and began to feel trapped by those events as my hours were cut in half at work and the only other person with a job was laid off.  Talks began of me moving into the home of my girlfriend of just a few weeks, something I was very reticent about, by the end of the year.

July:  Started the month with being robbed and loosing the PS2, XBox360, DS, Zune, dozens of DVDs and games.  Began spending more and more time with the girlfriend and the house fell into disaster.  By the end of the month they had a flea infestation brought not by one of the animals but by someone in the house!  My girlfriend came over and we super cleaned the house for what would be the last time I would touch it as I decided as this was the straw that broke the camels back and I was moving out.  Another person in the house also decided that day to move out as well.

August:  The friends in the house were in danger of being evicted so I decided to go back to attempt to get them back on track and spent the month donating blood, keeping the house clean and whipping the guys into shape getting three of the people jobs (the one who’d moved away moved back and then moved away again when  he heard how I was going to be a Nazi to get them into shape).  After a week I had accomplished all that I had set out to accomplish there and went back "home."  Still continuing to give them money until the middle of September.

September:  I watched the worst movie ever, Transmorphers, ascended for the first time in KoL, and a Childhood friend of mine died of a drug overdose.  I was unable to attend his funeral.  I also watched 9, which I enjoyed.

October:  My girlfriend turned 29, still continued to donate blood for money.  Did a Ghostbusters marathon (including the cartoon) on Samhain.  The "friends" from the house called me to state that their electricity was being shut off and they needed over $1,000 to keep it from being shut off.  They, of course, contacted me for help and I refused to help them.  I began to realize that the only time the majority of my "friends" contacted me it was because they needed something and began to distance myself from them.  Also saw Where the Wild Things Are.  Found out that my brother was getting married (mostly in response to Pat’s death) and wanted me to be the "preacher."

November:  Mostly uninteresting.  Had a sales rep job with Blue Buffalo (a dog food company).  Had a very awkward Thanksgiving with my family considering I was ignored or ridiculed the entire night.  Went to a bar for the first time in six months, had two beers and a sandwich.  Also watched Paranormal Activity.   I don’t think that much else of interest happened. 

December:  Got laid off from aforementioned job.  I turned 26.  Got another PS2.  Watched Avatar.  Life with the girlfriend continued to be great (though not without the downfalls and upsets).  My grandfather died and I was a pall-bearer in the funeral.  Got to see my family for the first time in four years and my girlfriend met them for the first time ever.  Other than that it was a fairly "boring" month which is good.

Judging by the first six months of this past year turned out no matter how bad things get at least they shouldn’t ever get that bad again.  Anyway, that’s about the size of it.

–RK