Bye to 2012

[Zokar]

I'll never be old! I could be 100 and I'll still act like this :P

[Leopold Stotch]

Laarz has a specific saying. Like, you can grow old but you can never grow up? Is that it?

[Zokar]

I like it! Where you at Laarz! I might steal that

[Zokar]

No, it wasn't the best year ever.

*HUGS*


This thread has been turned into a Leo/Zokar spamfest lol oops!

[Leopold Stotch]

Speaking of spam, gonna direct you to the Bar. I may have started an epic starring Corax and Kegs. ^^

*hugs to everyone!*



EDIT: so, apparently, we may not say goodbye to 2012 because the world "is ending". So what will I be doing? Cooking up what may be my last meal. What to cook? Suggestions are welcome. I will be dining with my special gentleman Friend.

I will say, however, it was a pleasant experience with y'all. I don't regret all the hours I spent on here and getting to know many of you personally.

[jmervyn]

I'm with Vivi - the year simply sucked, despite steady improvement in generic trends.

I'm wondering how the wise will differentiate it from this:

EDIT: so, apparently, we may not say goodbye to 2012 because the world "is ending". So what will I be doing? Cooking up what may be my last meal. What to cook? Suggestions are welcome. I will be dining with my special gentleman Friend.

Something nice; I don't know your capability. I personally loved Steak Diane since childhood, and my wife adapted it to Chicken Diane.

I don't regret all the hours I spent on here and getting to know many of you personally.

HOW personally?

[Vivi]

Merv, I didn't say it sucked...but no, it's not been great.
From my point of view I'd rather be in your shoes where you have the energy to fuss or rage about subjects.
However, when you can get violently sick unexpectedly, when you feel drained, when your health doesn't allow you to just simply do the job you love, when hope fails - all you want is to be healthy, and other subjects, be it politics or ethics do not dissappear but fade. Things are the way they are, and getting angry over it and writing longventing posts, even if it helps getting it off your chest, won't change it.

I am not having a go at you, that's not the sort of person I am and I hope you don't see it as such.
But for now I'm glad to see happy Leo-posts, seems she and Zokar have something special, and when you feel down and low it's always good to see heartwarming things.

Maybe that's why I so passionately despice Christmas: its sentimental side feels made up and is not genuinly heartwarming. Small kind gestures, from a close friend taking me to emergency doctors and comforting me, to a tramp who saw the light on my bike was broke and fixed it while I was shopping and then refused to take money for it, small gestures are what matter. Things on a worldwide scale are out of my hands. I can only try and be kind to the world I can reach.

[BobCox2]

[jmervyn]

Merv, I didn't say it sucked...but no, it's not been great.

Sorry, didn't mean to seem to put words in your mouth - I get enough of that claim already...

From my point of view I'd rather be in your shoes where you have the energy to fuss or rage about subjects.

I suspect that when I stop raging I'll... stop. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but again my personality type is "Crusader".

Maybe that's why I so passionately despice Christmas: its sentimental side feels made up and is not genuinly heartwarming.

Perception, IMO. I haven't enjoyed several recent Christmas-times, and I tend to despise the commercialism, but at the same time I've had a couple of enjoyable ones (mostly associated w/ my child). It sounds puerile when you hear it, but "Christmas is in our hearts" is quite true - to the point that I often don't feel like we should just consider it a once-a-year time to stop being nasty fecks to each other.

Bob's cartoon is perfect. Hugs, Vivi, 'cause they can't hurt.

[jmervyn]

Also, maybe this helps: