Pointless Announcements

I cried a little before midnight, too, we were watching YouTube and singing soap opera theme songs and someone thought it would be a nice idea to play Me muero de amor, and I bawled a little, then thought I'd smear my make-up before the midnight pics, and stopped.

It was the first year in 10 that I didn't cry at the firework display. Success. The champagne was awesome, someone brought it from France. We ate little, I only drank a glass of Cuba libre and hoped I could stay up at least until 4, but at 2.30 I was in pjs in bed.

Frank, it's good to see you post! Happy New Year, I hope 2013 will be a great year for you.

2012 has been a really good year for me, and I almost can't imagine 2013 being even better, but we'll see! I'm curious.

I saw the best fireworks ever last night, and I might upload some pictures later that Pål Martin took.

I broke my favorite wooden spoon banging on a pot in the front yard with Lily.

Oh and last night I also got more gifts - a pair of fimo earrings and Autumn in Peking by Boris Vian, in French.

Vian's one of my favourite authors.

That's an awesome way to break a wooden spoon. At least it died having fun.

I agree with Sarah

2012 was an okay year; there were money troubles (my boyfriend's not mine), lots of illnesses (and I got a lot of colds) but I got to change roles at work which has been excellent. 2013 will be about motivating myself much more.

Me too Hattie. Just need to get myself out of my funk and work harder across the board.
Frank, it's good to hear from you! Hope you come back eventually. Good one on being mostly sober.

i´ll go to spain for 5 days. with my mum. usually i want to strangle her or myself after being with her for three hours. i think i want temporary insane when agreeing to do it. at least that´s my only explanation.

happy new year everyone !

frank, for me you are never really gone from this place and my love for you is deep and everlasting.

nuff said.

Happy New Year Frank you are very much loved and missed. The Cult is not the same without Smartazboy. Hope all is well and wishing you the best of days in 2013.

PA: I had a great night even though I had to work. I got to eat great food, spend it with great friends and family, and dance the night away until my feet hurt. Earlier I treated my mom to sushi and I bought some artsy stuff from Michael's. I'm hoping to get some paintings done before the start of my next semester and selling more by the end of the year.

Frank, we love you, we miss you, and I'm declaring the collective Cult resolution is to get you to come back somehow. I was thinking about threating physical violence, but I don't know. That's kind of a hot button as of late.

Best wishes to all of you in the New Year and always. I hope it's better than the last and keeps getting better.

Today I put Christmas away.

I always clean up all the decorations on January first, if I didn't have that rule I'd be one of those people with a Christmas tree in April.

I couldn't help but read all 1,127 new posts before I posted. I thought I would just skim over a few and then jump in (sorry Pepper), but I love and respect you all too much not to give everything you say my full attention. I am glad that Frank posted, because I really noticed his absence. He is the reason this thread is so positive after all these years; why it's filled with warmth and solace. You don't find threads like this on the internet, or at least I never have.

I had quoted/copied so much stuff to respond to, but then I realized that most of the stuff I would be commenting on happened days and weeks ago. I don't want to be that guy. SO I will just let it warm my heart and hope to be more vigilant in the future (now that I have a computer again).

Happy New Year, Culties. I know I don't show it, but you all mean so much to me. You are family.

I put the tree away on boxing day. Lucy kept pulling it on herself.

I'll put mine away this weekend.

I still gotta take mine out.

Frank! I miss you!

If you read this, text me, I lost my contacts. I've been thinking about you, but I didn't have your number to tell you so.

Last night was rough. Got as drunk as I ever have and had to do a naked lap.

I'm making hamburgers and homemade onion rigs for dinner because the sunshine all day today made me feel in the mood for summer food.

Tomorrow would have been my dad's fifty second birthday.

Every time I come in here, I think of you Frank, and your new underwater from the Gap. Miss you!

Smartazboy was actually here again.
That is LEGEN
wait for it...

I taught my toddler to baby cuss today. She told another kid bothering her at daycare to "Scoot Off!"

...DARY!

There are snakes in that Houses of the Holy poster.
Tuffy knows what I'm talking about.
o.0

Thankfully it was all she wanted; I want more, now. This isn't fair, but the feeling isn't real either, so now I'll forget I even said it. Oi, boobs.

Should I be concerned?

Today really fucking sucks. I miss my dad.

You should relax, try to remember the good times and do what makes you happy today and fuck everyone else.

That is good advice. Thank you. I'm going to pottery class tonight (very fun, if you ever get the chance you should do it) and hopefully that will help.

Oh dear, I love ceramics. I have posted pictures of a few tings I have made over the years. Just lost a big batch of stuff when I moved though. Plus I no longer have a kiln. Can you use t a wheel at all?

I'd love to see them. I'm sorry to hear that you lost things.

Yes. I'm on a wheel every week. I've only been doing it for about two months but it's awesome. A lot harder than I thought it would be. I didn't realize there was such a process. It's nice. My teacher is a huge sweetheart and very patient too so it's a good switch up to go there.

Made this a bit ago. Its still not painted and nees to be fixed after the move but I make goony shit Like this.

Dude, seriously, why don't you work for a company that can put your talents to work. Like, you've got amazing skills, you should be working for an animator or some sort of costume company or something

How the hell do you even get into that? I need to find a kiln and I am going to go buy clay this weekend and set up an area in my room.
I really want to go take drawing and art classes too.

Holy SHIT man that is cool. I agree with Fano you definitely need to get into something like that.

I sold my electric potter's wheel for £500 on eBay this summer. It sold in about an hour. tI was sad to see it go, but not having a kiln (or one nearby) meant that it was just gathering dust. Bills needed paying, yo!

Noah - you should definitely take some free courses and build up a portfolio of your work.

Ok, so I have this girl on my Facebook friends list. She added me a couple years ago, Andrei fell in love with her to spite her best friend, whom he had dated briefly to spite me back in 2009. Both these chicks are friends with Alex.

And this girl, who I haven't ever met, who I don't even wanna know, likes my songs and my pictures and everything on a pretty regular basis. Of course, I can tell what she likes because she has similar music taste to mine and Alex's, but it still baffles me. The only reason I still keep her in my friends list is that Andrei sees all these signs of lame Facebook appreciation and is probably just as baffled as I am. She's the one he bought a white gold heart-shaped locket with a tiny diamond, and then had it engraved with their initials, and he showed me the gift, like when I still loved him and he knew that, when he was still in Bucharest. She ended up refusing the gift, obviously, because it was super expensive, but I don't know. The whole thing is so fucked up and I don't even understand why she ever added me in the first place.

I thought my facebook drama was bad.

She's been living in Norway for a few years now. The last thing Andrei told me before I stopped talking to him in September was that after he graduates he's moving there. The context was Norway's gorgeous landscapes, but I'm really not that stupid. You don't leave my fucking town for good a couple of weeks after asking me to start dating, without letting me know, after I didn't apply for college in England just to 'be there just in case', and then say you're moving to her country. Nu-uh. That's why I'm feeling so bad for wishing him a happy new year - still counts as some sort of communication.

Apparently he *does* and *did* do those things, though.

You wished him happy new year, oh well. You don't have to continue to beat yourself up about it. Just let the feelings be what they are and carry on.

You can't control emotions, they just happen. The only thing you can control is your own reaction to them, and your own reactions are the only things you need to control.

Noah, that's friggin' awesome! I'd buy that.
*edit, I'm broke right now.

God, I don't check PA for 3 days and Frank comes back if only briefly. You're awesome dude. We love and miss you.

I never had in introductory thread! I couldn't keep that lie inside any longer. (Sobs)

It's never too late.

I have been lurking for so long I feel like it would be odd. And I have already been heckled and asked all the importand questions.

Also my birthday is in 13 days and I am not ready for it at all. Fuck.

I only made my own introductory thread after hanging around for three years.

There was a mixed welcome.

I was interviewed and it was stickied. Another shameful episode in The Tuffy Chronicles.

Fuck everyone who didnt like you. Or doenst like you. I will wear there bones as armor to slay the next douche who wants to sling insults.

And Tuffy, Interview?

You're not supposed to be ready for it. If you're not confused as fuck, it's not a good birthday.

... I don't really believe that but it's what my aunt said when she was half an hour late in picking up my mom from work to take her to her birthday dinner.

Why I've never let myself be interviewed.

All this ridiculousness I post must sink away in the bowels of the forum.

I'm so searching for that interview.