and then there's Blake (In stereo where available)

I made an end of year post last year and felt it was only right to give it a successor.

This year hasn't been all I thought it would be cracked up to be, I'm not complaining though. The last thing I want to do is complain about the not so shiny moments. I met lots of lovely new people, learnt cool new things, I started growing hair in a few weird places, I started to embrace my leg-ankle-foot fetish to a certain degree, and I have recently begun creatively brainstorming again.

Journalling took a bit of a turn this year, I've been very lacklustre. On the same hand I've become more of an organised journal writing person. I think my writing style slowly changed.

I spent more this year. Buying turned into a hobby.

I found my inner café zen only to have it stripped from me with a change of café location.

The year had its moments. I knocked the car around a few times, I went out a lot more, I found new things to do, made new routines, had a few crushes, started wearing more colours, and even started to read more.

I wonder what I will do next year? I'm very curious.

Unfortunately I still don't fully understand the concept of '99% fat free food'.

I will see you on the morrow.

How did it get to the end of the year so quickly? What a stupid question. I was going to make this a large post but I've cropped it. Now it's like a thank you post or something.

It sure was a bumpy year all things considered. With a few hazardous turns not so gracefully maneuvered I still seem to be here. Most things seemed to drop into place and I had some good times to help shadow bad ones. The last few months have been a blast because of some great people. I thank them all for being the magical bipeds that they are.

All those people who commented on the whiney friends only posts from this year - I'm sorry you read all those (I'm surprised you didn't just skip them). Most were just me venting and some became really long posts. The advise provided was greatly appreciated. I never knew what was going to be said and that's what I loved about it. I didn't want to single people out but... chrissywoo, you're fantastic and always seemed to say the right things at the right times to make me smile. You're a lovely person to know. aphrodite, you give such sage advise and reassurance. You'd always write something to make me think about my actions or realise something I hadn't yet thought of. Actually you are the number 1 commenter who is still on my friends list (seriously, I have the statistics) :P. I'll leave it there with those two local girls though because this isn't a speech for the oscars. The rest of you know how cool you are anyway.

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I did well enough in uni but I have the motivation to kick more arse next year. I have a general line of sight for everything I have to get done education wise and I'll follow that line to the end.

Now it's the end of the 30th of December and tomorrow is the eve of a new year. That doesn't usually mean anything to me but this time I'm treating it differently. This time it's actually going to be a new year.