July 17
Do: You have any idea when you’ll come for a visit? It’s been too long (and it’s only been a week)!
Re: Ya! Maybe next month. All my weekends are full this month, I can’t even sit down after work.
September 3
Me: Oh my gosh, where did August go? Wasn’t my birthday like a couple weeks ago?
Fa: Oops! I still feel bad I missed that party.. Did you get my postcard?? We’ll have to get together soon
November 9
So: I went camping this weekend! Did you meet the British when you were here? They’re friends from Re.
La: Aww. I wish I could go camping! Too busy, no time. So, are you coming to see me or what?! =)
January 28
Ti: Hey! I’m coming, I just bought my tickets!
Do: But.. I moved!
Here’s a challenge: find a piece of paper. On it, write down the names of the months, up and down. Now next to each month write something that happened to you in that month, 2009. Continue this trend for all the 12 months of the year.
How was your 2009?
Major events in my year, in no order but by month:
- Jan: New Years in Amsterdam
- Feb: Carnival with roommates
- Mar: I meet a girl
- April: Music and film festivals in Rotterdam
- May: My birthday
- June: Mom visits, I get a new camera
- July: Trip to China, Dad and nephew visit, Camping on the beach
- Aug: Girlfriend returns from traveling, I have a fight with a roommate
- Sept: I have work in Brussels, I make friends with some lawyers
- Oct: I work less, Girlfriend and I breakup
- Nov: New friends and roommates are great, Thanksgiving
- Dec: Christmas in Texas, New Years in Amsterdam
i work with a lady i can’t stand. she is an angry old woman who spits smoke and vile. strange noises eminate from her direction, growls and beastial noise. if there was a damsel in distress in the situation i might stick around, but this woman is depriving me of an amiable work environment.
but i have, on the other hand, some friends around me that i must honestly say i really love. they make days great, and i mean that in a very mushy sense. they may not agree with everything i say, but i keep them around. (and vice versa)
i can be something of a solitary person, and i have been known to really dislike people (who all deserved it, by the way), but we all need people to accept us; it’s part of being the social animals that we are. what is a lion without its pack, a buffalo without its herd? i bet if frogs had group names they’d be lost without it too. as well with people: without others that like us, we’re just lonely, disgusting monkeys. (or maybe that’s why we’re lonely!) it helps to be socially acceptable sometimes.
I think I’ve posted this picture before (on the previous version of this site), but it’s worth posting again. I wanted to find a good Halloween picture, but for reasons unknown to me I don’t have any, despite vigorous diligence on my part to partake of the hallowed celebrations every year. Halloween transcends nations and religions to fill a need for an October holiday. PLUS there’s free candy and dress-up involved. It really is one of the best holidays ever.
About the picture: For almost no reason we were invited to a ‘mustache party’ in the middle of last March. It holds sentimental value for me because some of those people have moved on. One of my favorite quotes from the TV show Sopranos is that “.. ‘remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation,” but this picture is more like a bookmark from the past – it’s where we were at that time, and it’s more than just a picture, it’s the whole evening and the whole week and the whole month and the whole season that we had good times together.
What I love about Halloween is the association with those memories from the past: being a ninja turtle as kid, toga parties in college, bag and bags of candy as a youngin’ and an adult. I think it’s important for everyone to celebrate Halloween, because it’s important to remember that the things that matter most to kids still hold their meaning as we grow. It’s important to feel like a kid!
So dress up, go out, and happy Halloween.
