long time, shouldn’t have left you

Adios, 2004. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye…

2004 was both the most mindblowingly good and bad year of my life. Highlights include:

Being not single
Being single
Being not single again
Being single again
Getting used to no longer having a dog
Living without pets
Having my first cat
Having my second cat
Losing second cat, and acquiring third cat
Living with Pwe and SRaeRob
Living with Eween and Rosco
Living with Crave
Living alone for the first time… with aforementioned cats
Having first fish ever
Having second fish ever
Having NO fish, again
Thinking briefly that I had found the person I was going to marry
Thinking briefly that I would, in fact, never find that person
Being confused
Being guilty
Watching the first love of my life get married
Watching my best friend get married
Getting car towed
Being “scofflaw”
Selling car
Indescribable amount of bureaucratic selling/buying bullshit
Buying motorcycle
Re-Learning to ride the bus
Cycling through several haircolors and styles
Briefly having contacts
Getting sick of them and getting glasses
Gaining a lot of weight
Losing a lot of weight
Quitting smoking
Quitting Quitting smoking
Re-prioritizing EVERYTHING in my life
Becoming less of a hermit
Becoming more of a hermit
Learning to CARPE FUCKING DIEM, for Christ’s sake
Not knowing when to STOP carpe-ing the diem
Learning the most I could from a life of extremes
Searching desperately for a middleground
Working my way gradually into the 21st century
The first time in my life not having a computer OR tv
Developing an obsession with Haruki Murakami
Enjoying the HELL out of my job
Getting cast in a LOT of really great stuff
Getting my best girlfriend a job at my job
Feeling like I have a strong, cohesive group of FRIENDS here
Knowing for sure that this is where I belong
The gradual inundation of the area by my high school friends
Introducing friends from different groups and having them get along
Finally starting to feel like I’ve carved out my own little niche in this world

Life is good, y’all. Life is hella good.