The Old Year is Dead - Long Live the New Year!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Good-bye 2010.

I will miss you. And I'm glad you're gone.

My babies grew up, and for that I hate you, but they're healthy and perfect, and adorable children, and so I can't help but be thankful. My husband worked too much, but we were always provided for because of it.

We spent time with family and friends, but we couldn't spend as much time with some as we might have wanted to.

You were once full of promise, 2010, and now you're just full of broken promises - to myself, to others... There were so many things I was going to do that I never got around to, and things I started but never managed to finish. We had good times - great times! - but also times of sorrow and discouragement.

No, 2010, your time is over.

Tomorrow will not just be a new day, it will be a new year. 2011 is a fresh start, a blank page, an empty room.

It might become cluttered and disorganized as time goes on, but for now, let us envision how we will spend our new year. How we will fill that blank page, decorate that empty room... how we will live our lives.

So join me in welcoming in 2011! And have a happy new year!

[Anne Phoenix]

Happy New Year Everyone! Let's hope it remains happy for everyone at least one month in.

This year gave me a new steady job and several new friends, and saw a lot of change. This year also saw family strife develop amongst relatives up north, and didn't see any progress in me losing weight. So I'd call it 50/50 for the impact it had on my life.

[Darth Turbogeek]

2010 can go fuck itself. There, done now to move house

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

2010 was a bit of an iffy year for me. I'm with Holly in that there was some disappointment, but there were also a lot of things to be thankful for.

I spent the last afternoon of this year being adventurous - ate pork intestines for the first time, fried baby fish, and they were both delicious :yum

[Morgan Evanar]

I'm glad 2010 is done. Outside of a few wonderful trips, it was a big old bag of ass.

[Atreyu]

Overall, 2010 was good to me. Nothing overly exciting happened, but then again nothing really bad or anything happened either (a welcome relief compared to some other years ::glares at 2007:: ). I've just been re-reading my resolutions from last year, and whilst some things slipped through the cracks other things worked out well, perhaps even better than originally planned.

Looking forward to 2011. Happy New Year everybody. :)

[Blade Bacquin]

Friend wise I lost allot of this year all splitting on bad terms some where my fault others not so much. Family wise there where allot of falling outs luckily none of them where with me but they did try to drag me into the strife like always.

Not all the family stuff was bad though my older half-sister and my dad started to mend the gapping rift that has formed between them for the last 11 years and I played a good part in starting to fix it. Letting go of the anger that she almost tore my family asunder with and realizing it wasn't her fault and both forgiving her for her crimes against blood and saying was sorry for my own crimes went a long way in making it happen. Even if my little sister still isn't ready to let go like the rest of the family is, it's great to see things starting to work out and put the shattered pieces back together.

At the beginning of the year everything had a shiny glow of hope and strange optimism I normally don't have that everything would end well. Yet it wasn't long and it all turned to shit. No promises where kept, friends hide the truth, and I lost all hope and faith in any form of happiness.

In the category of friends other than one week out of the year it was all bad news. To the point that it caused me to stop believing in any form of higher being. It taught me that love is just word nothing more and has no real meaning.

So over all I wish I could forget this last fucking year I rate it up there as one of the worst I ever had. It's not the worst but pretty dam close. As for this new year well it's starting out with me drinking alone writing this shit in silence I real don't see it getting better just more loneliness and growing hole of bitterness at the world. As sad as it sounds oh well at least it isn't starting out like last year where I was optimistic and then in the end just let down by just about everything.

Happy New Year every one because everyone deserves a bit of happiness but not everyone gets it.

[Dasquian Belargic]

New Years Eve has always been a real anti-climax for me. I don't think it's a night to get too bothered about, if you're spending it alone. After all, it's really just another night on planet Earth :)

2010 wasn't the best year, but it could have been a lot worse for me. I look at people around me - people my own age - who have lost parents, siblings, friends... and I remember how much I have to be thankful for.

I am looking forward to 2011, in particular getting to spend more time with the wonderful friends I have made here. :hug

[Droo]

The new year was welcomed with hugs, handshakes, and song, our Chinese lanterns nearly set the neighbours garden on fire, and amidst the booze and merriment, there was a family squeezed tight into a small room singing Abba and Take That karaoke long into the early hours. Happy New Year, guys, and I wish you all the best all the way to 2012!

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[Crusader]

Happy New Year everyone!