#21

:arrow_up: eldest has now got a really good teacher at school
:arrow_up: youngest has started school well and is really happy
:arrow_up: my job is going to be make permanent from February
:arrow_up: made some lovely new friends this year
:arrow_up: I’m somehow a stone lighter at the end of the year than I was at the start of the year

:arrow_down: I lost my stepmum to cancer in October (which is the second time my Dad has had to go through losing a partner to cancer, and he’s only 67)
:arrow_down: found out last night that my nan is really unwell and probably only has a short time to live (though she is 92, it’s still sad)
:arrow_down: general shiteness of Brexit and all it represents

#22

+got a good job surrounded by really cool people that I’m probably gonna become good friends with in the years to come
+got a masters degree, which the Belgian people called a distinction even though it was the one below that in UK grade terms :circus_tent:
-no real events of note, been quite stressed at times, struggled to make friends in places, had some really boring periods that I’m through the worst of I think. 2017 should be decent, rise of fascism aside.

#23

High- Wales in the Euros
High- close family are all right, like
High- the fact we actually had some decent weather for once rather than it belting down with rain 90% of the time as happens in the UK most years.
Low- everything else

#24

High - Turning to see the TV walking down the aisle on our wedding day (as our friend sung June Hymn by The Decemberists - really nailed the soundtrack). Just the most incredible feeling :slight_smile:

Low - The ongoing need to parent my parents through their divorce

Other Lows
- Referendum
- Trump

Other Highs (got to finish on a positive note, right?)
+ TV’s job offer meaning we can move ‘north’ next year
+ Knocked my wedding speech out the park
+ EITS playing Greet Death live
+ Promotion at work
+ Climbed my hardest boulder to date
+ New forum!!!
+ Greenland on our honeymoon

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#25

Awwww :slight_smile:

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#26

Thanks ccb. Sounds like you’ve had a mixed bag, but you always seem to be making the best of the highs and the lows.

#27

+getting out of the EU
+Glorious new president Trump elected
-Sore throat
-someone threw up on my beautiful corner sofa

#28
  • Got a job doing something I’ve wanted to do since I’ve been a kid, and a lot happier for it
  • Moved flat with new bunch of friends

= Still with TV, though it has been rocky recently. Wonder how long it’ll last.

  • Let go after probation from my first job out of university. Hated it and wasn’t very good at it, but still hurts to be let go, especially in week of Brexit.
  • Getting a bit sick and tired of London, mostly due to money worries and not being able to make the most of this wonderful city
#29

HIGH: Cycling with Sir Bradley Wiggins (didn’t do drugs and didn’t have a mystery jiffy bag).
LOW: Brief existential crisis after I changed jobs and wondered if I’d made a huge mistake.

#30

high:
low: - best friend dying
- mum going into a psychiatric ward
- sister in law’s MS getting worse all the time
- alcohol addiction
- job stress
- gaining 2 stone
- ex gf appearing at my work causing anxiety attacks for a month or so
- recurring chest pains, stomach aches and shortness of breath.

Hopefully won’t be here this time next year to make another terrible list.

#31

graduated and got a job in Amsterdam. everything else was dire especially health stuff

#32

HIGH:

Trip to New York
Learning how to mix a beat a little better

LOW:

Literally everything else.

#35
  • this thread
  • everything else
#36

Assume it’s obvious, but my ‘like’ expresses me being pleased for the good things and supportive for the bad things. You always seem like a great person on here. Merry Christmas!

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#37

+year peaked in January when I bumped into the person I like and they gave a multi hit combo of nice comments about me, and a few more over the year
+finally seem to be making progress on some music after years of procrastination
-absolutely no hope for the future, feel like my brain is going to burst again soon

#38

jebus, that sounds like an awful year.
sorry man.

#39

massive high - the wedding & everything about it, seeing the tv in her dress, the ceremony/day/venue, the pub on our minimoon
other highs - friends, music, family

lows - compared to others not a lot, other than political things where everything bad seems to have happened

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#40

High points.

  • Released an album that I was really proud of.
  • Went to Primavera with my ATDs and had the most wonderful time.
  • Walking home one morning with one of my best friends who had just moved in with us and he said how happy he was to be doing that and living with us. Fucking broke my heart in a good way.
  • Going to London with my family and having the best fun I’ve ever had with then. I love them so much.

Low points:

  • Finding out two of my friends are arseholes to women and dealing with that shit. Still ongoing.
  • A band dissolving earlier this year and the two guitarists moved away. They were the reason I stayed in this city and I love them and miss them. We’re still friends but I miss them terribly.
#41

Got married which was a high but the rest of the year was pretty depressing.

My nan died on my birthday, i got made redundant last month and just all the general awfulness and hatred in the world.

#42

s’alright I guess

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Finally seeing Meet Me In St Louis
:chart_with_upwards_trend: Went to Paris x2 and Amsterdam x1 hoping to do some more travelling in the new year
:chart_with_upwards_trend: Got promoted in jiujitsu after an intense year of competing.

:chart_with_downwards_trend: Brexit and the subsequent rise of nationalism
:chart_with_downwards_trend: A job merger which has lead to several people losing their job and my role changing to one I’m essentially less suited to.
:chart_with_downwards_trend: Love life is still kind of a tangled mess