#2013 summary

[abbemai]

I think I just died. FANDOMSPLOSION!

[thebooksanctum]

New video up! Talking about 2013

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New Years Resolution(s) and a serious note

If anything my resolutions are to enhance who I am rather than change myself:

Wear what I want

Ignore comments from my mates that I might look like:

A hipster

A twat

A faggot

a knob

Be as loud as I want. I'm bloody loud anyway, but sometimes I'm easily silenced. Really this should be, be more confident

Be more confident *cough*

Study more. Spending 8 hours a day on games and tumblr doesn't help, especially when I moan about not getting the concept of certain aspects in my lessons.

Learn to play guitar properly

When that is done, write riffs and melodies for my songs

Then release a song (sweats nervously at the thought)

Find someone who I want a meaning full, loving relationship with (I'm in no rush really)

Become more outgoing - Not just going out drinking, hanging out with my mates more, going outside more, play video games and eat crap food with my mates more (just watch the food bit).

Try to be more active - Not just counting walking to college and back 5 days a week exercise. Either start exercising for more than 5 minutes at home or join a gym.

Eat healthier. My diet at the moment is shocking. I should have diabetes and heart problems with all the stuff I eat.

Come out to my dad

It's shit hiding my sexuality from him

I can't get in a real relationship until i tell him (the fear he'll find out without knowing I'm gay)

As much as a prick as he can be, he deserves to know

Stop biting my nails - My fingers look disgusting

Don't wash my hair everyday, it's unhealthy.

Finally go down to Leicester and meet Leah (my long lost soul mate)

Right, this gets extremely serious and personal so if you've clicked on the read more and thought it's just a load more resolutions, no. This is a serious post and I'm stating one of my resolution by being open with my feelings during 2013

So, that last one is a huge deal for me

Being open about your feelings can be hard for a lot of people can be difficult. They can either be too shy or too stubborn to feel the need to express their deepest feelings about how they're feeling in many aspects.

For me, it's the fact that I'm the 'guardian' for all my friends. If any of them have a problem, I want to know so I can help them, I hate seeing people I love being upset, mainly because of how I felt for most of last year, so I know it's shit. However, excluding my own feelings thinking that they don't matter, but everyone elses does is the worst thing I have ever done. Keeping all of my pain, anger, anxiety, sadness and fear locked away was dangerous to say the least.

I mentally thought about hurting every single person I walked pass that gave me a dirty look or people who said maybe one comment to me in a slightly off tone. Not just say punching them or whatever. Brutally hurting them and it terrifies me just to think about these thoughts. I took out all of this anger on myself but self harming to shit all over my body. Even when my mum saw and threatened to send me to a psychiatrist I continued in less visible areas purely because I was so angry and upset at who I was.

2013 was one of the hardest year of my life:

My grandad was diagnoised with terminal lung cancer

My step grandad died

My uncle comitted suicide

I made my sister have a near breakdown once she saw my scars

My arms won't ever look normal again (to me at least)

I nearly fucked up my A levels (to me at least)

I had several sever arguments with my parents and sister.

I literally screamed fuck off in my mums face (I'm really not proud of that)

But I had some amazing points too:

I met Darren and stayed at his (which at the time was just perfect)

I came out to all of my friends and my mum and sister

Plus no one gave a fuck

I got an offer to study Media at Newcastle University

I went to Leeds Festival

I saw M O N E Y, my favourite band live

I started my music blog Velvet Independent

TMoe and James Pyrah (The Plastic Dots and Moats) both spoke to me on facebook about music and stuff.

I reached 400 followers (ahaha)

I coached Leah through the hardest year of her life and she helped me survive mine to. She is honestly my best friend and I've never even met her.

We celebrated Baileys first birthday. He is honestly the joy of my life, when ever I feel sad and I'm at my dad's I just think, I get to see Bailey soon. If you are depressed etc, seriously, get a dog, they will save your life!

It was both the shittest and the best year of my life. The start of 2013 was so unbelievably shit. But to say I made it to a new year where I can shape it to whatever I want is an achievement for myself.

[sechu]

What is your greatest memory of 2013?

The first thing that comes to mind is when I went to my first anime con ever this summer.But I don’t know if that’s my greatest memory. 2013 went by so fast, and even though I’ve been through a lot of shit this year, there are some things that made me so happy I know I’ll never forget them. In fact I want to take a moment and just remember all the good things that happened to me last year, because that’s what’s new year’s is all about and I haven’t gotten a chance to do so yet. I’ve fallen in love, I’ve made three new friends okay two of those are online friends who live on the other side of the planet irl, I’m such a loser omg I got a new baby brother who just turned six months old, I’ve been drunk for the first time, I’ve gotten better at singing (or at least I think so), as I said I went to my first anime con, which was also the first time I went on a long journey without my mum and without supervision from teachers or other adults. I got laid I’ve gotten back into collecting pokemon cards, I CAUGHT MY FIRST SHINY POKEMON FROM A WILD ENCOUNTER, I’ve gotten back into drawing and painting, I redid my entire room so now it looks amazing and pink and I love it. I watched three horror movies where as all scared me shitless and gave me nightmares for weeks, but it was still something that needed to be done and I am proud of myself. I discovered Tyler Okaley, I stopped reading bad fanfictions, I STARTED WATCHING SHERLOCK AND I’VE SEEN IT THREE TIMES, AND I WATCHED ATTACK ON TITAN. I re-read the whole Harry Potter series and I had a marathon of the Harry Potter Movies with one of my new friends. Also I had a marathon where I watched all the Star Wars movies, and also a LOTR extender versions marathon.

That’s all I can think of at the moment.wow this post became much longer than I thought. wow I’m such a looser look at all those lame things am proud of did.

anyways, thank you for asking me this. I never get questions like this tbh^^

[particlesofmatter]

This was my vision board for 2013. I wanted to focus on music, travel, and writing. Some of the things on the board were already plans in place (traveling to Disneyland and Hawaii with my family), but some of them were qualities I wanted (the devil-may-care attitude of cats and pinup girls... maybe someday) or dreams.

Some of the things that were just wishes or ideas came to fruition. I did get published this year (three times!), Kevin and I are planning a Europe trip that will include France (for him) and Italy (for me), I got to see David Sedaris again, I "took flight" from my parents' place, and my family got a little kitten like the one at bottom left.

Looking at the board again, I'm also reminded of things I neglected this year. I wouldn't say that I took a lot of time for myself, and I definitely slacked on learning any more guitar. I haven't played bass in a long time. Things to consider for next year. Really all I want to do is enjoy my day to day life and write every day.

Cool stuff that happened in the past year:

Wrote my first song

Recorded drums for Kevin's album

Graduated!

Began my MFA program

Was published for the first time

Won my first writing awards

Took a family + sweeties vacation

Moved in with my sweetheart

Started working for The Rumpus

Published in a tangible book for the first time

Met Tegan and Sara again

Celebrated three years with Kevin

I hope everyone had a good year, and will have another :)

[metalimagerykinetics]

2013 Art Summary

Good year. yis.

[nokaarts-blog]

Decided to do one of these too, might as well. I can see the difference from January and everything else. I was obsessed with the binary pen this year..

[sanwichsays]

Summary of 2013 (Non-eczema stuff)

Not really in chronological order.

Applied for an office job in Vancouver AND GOT IT!

Quit my Hamilton job.

MOVED ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

Rented an apartment in B.C.

Moved in with SC.

Started new downtown Vancouver job.

Rented a table at a "Spring Sale" (garage sale) and sold some things here and there.

Sold a bunch of my anime/manga things at Anime North's nominoichi (flea market).

Removed 2 of my wisdom teeth.

2 hair cuts.

Donated a lot of my clothes.

Connected with Custom Cakes Plus and had a rubics cube cake made for my brother's birthday and some cake pops for my mother's birthday.

Attended a free seminar at Liuna station to see Angela Davis.

Buttermilk Falls, Sherman Falls, Dundas Valley, Bruce Trail.

Symphony on the Bay.

Walking up the escarpment stairs (Sherman and Clairmont access)

Went on a boat "cruise" around Toronto on Victoria Day.

Visited the saltcave spa in Oakville multiple times.

Visited my family doctor to have my swollen lymph node checked out, he gave me antibiotics.

One visit to the Emergency Room.

Attended my childhood friend's wedding in September.

Saw The Lunch Box and Like Father, Like Son at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).

Science World, Stanley Park, Van Dusen Garden, UBC Botanical Garden, Planetarium, False Creek, English Bay, Burnaby Heights, and Fringe Festival at Granville Island.

Karaoke with SC's coworkers.

Got a new phone.

Flew to Hamilton, Ontario to visit family for the Christmas holidays.

Over 150 followers on Tumblr!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!