2006 Wrap Up

Are you enjoying the pretty and bright new look of "Feeling Kinda Blog Today"? I thought it was nicer for 2007 than the "black as my soul" look of 2006. Links will be up on the sidebar soon and stay tuned for more posts, guest posts and lots of fun things the blog has planned for 2007. (The blog has them planned, not me...I don't even know what they are. The blog is very secretive.)

Welcome to the "Feeling Kinda Blog Today" 2006 Wrap Up.

If I had to sum up this past year with two words they would be the following, "IT SUCKED."

This year didn't just suck, it blew. And while to some people sucking and blowing isn't necessarily a bad thing I'm searching for a word to really adequately describe it for you. I know, 2006 totally FARTED. There, that sums it up perfectly.

2006 was a total fart. Stinky, annoying, embarassing and I suppose, necessary for health.

Last year I advocated that everyone go along with some myth I'd heard somewhere (always a trusted source "somewhere") and I demanded everyone wear red underwear on New Years Eve in order to have a year filled with happiness and lots of action.

DO NOT WEAR RED UNDERWEAR ON NEW YEARS EVE. I REPEAT, DO NOT WEAR RED UNDERWEAR ON NEW YEARS EVE. You will have minimal happiness and (very) minimal action. Or it will be the kind of happiness and action that causes a headache and regret the next morning.

As most of you know, I quit my job shortly before Christmas last year which was a great way to start 2006 off with a big broke unemployed bang. My goal was to take a month off and readjust myself and then start a new job. That was a hilarious plan. I forgot that you can't just go to aisle 6 of the grocery store and pick up a box of "New Job" and so suddenly I was panicked...and broke...for ALL of 2006.

Panic leads to depression which leads to heavy drinking and picking fights with your friends over nothing. It's basically like a constant state of really bad PMS. "I guess I just don't understand why you insist on wearing your coat collar up when I keep telling you it looks way better down, BRANNEN! I mean, it's like what I say has no weight with you! God!"

Having your parents support you at age 26 is really rad as well.

"Food, Booze or Facewash" was a fun game I played at Walgreens one night as I stood contemplating which item deserved my last five dollars.

Around October it got to the point where I was exhausted even just trying to pretend I was having a good time anymore. Brannen did a good job playing Christopher Robin to my Eeyore. I would sip drinks in bars and not really talk to anyone. the question "What have you been up to lately?" Would make my eyes well up and I would answer, "I guess...nothing. At all. Will you excuse me?"

Now that I've started a new job and things have really changed for the better, I have a little perspective and my advice is this...

1) Don't quit your job. Unless you have another one lined up. Just stay there. Even if it is eating your soul. Just stay, ok? Even if you think the people are heinous and you are being mistreated and you have gotten to the point where you don't even care enough to check the voicemail or show up half the time...just tough it out ok?

2) Eat all the food on your plate even if you arn't hungry, you never know when you'll get to eat again.

However, I don't want this 2006 wrap up to be a recap of all the bad things that happened in my life this year...instead I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to some key people/things that acted as a well needed Beano to my fart-like year. Here they are, these are just some of the people/ things who made an integral impact in a positive way on my 2006 year. I did 26 for 2006, cause I'm a whiz.

-Brannen.

-Lucy. Lucy Lu dee Pinky-roo...thanks for liking me so much and still cuddling with me even on those days I couldn't afford to feed you.

- Pictures of hilarious kittens on the internet.

- New Job. Thanks for being full of nice people and rewarding work.

- Mombo and Jimmy...just....thanks.

- Meeeeergatroid for drinking ice wine with me at Thanksgiving

- Tracy and the Tater for letting me play wedding with them

- Eddie and JP for all the IM's

- Erik and Jacob and Scooters for all the wine and chicken

- Handbag for being funny and making me laugh

- Pippy Dawkins for dancing in the street when I tell him too. Dance Monkey Dance!

- Brigitte, Clarissa, Trista and Trish for advancing us from being Hell in a HandHags to being "The Ladies of Handbag"

- Fifi for employing me AT HER HOUSE this summer and for deciding to Produce my play in the fall and for being such a good friend. Oh, and for introducing me to Iguana Cafe.

- Daren and Alex for employing me at Healthworks for a while and for making me laugh. And especially Daren for making a serious business call from within the Bazoogi Kids Tent all because I begged him too.

- Pinto Beans, Dark Chocolate, Duck, Mussels, Fish and all the other food I thought I hated but in 2006 discovered I actually like.

- Stephen Rader. I don't see you that often, but everytime I do you make me laugh.

- My computer.

- Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, Amazing Race, Big brother, So You Think You can Dance, (The So You Think You Can Dance Live Show in Rosemont), Project Runway, Top Chef and all the other piece of shit reality shows that I adore.

- Kristen Doss for sending me on sabotage dates, helping me with enormous problems, fast forwarding her tivo so it sounds like "Pop Goes the Weasel", and finding out the real words to songs we like to sing loudly in her car. (How 'bout no more dangling transparent carrots?) Also for always having amazing flo.

- KaidiaSlabia...thanks for just being you. And as if you wern't enough, thanks for having that baby so there is even more you.

- Kris Vire (is outta control) thanks for the drinks, the laughs, the understanding of snarkiness, and for being so generally smart, funny and nice all the damn time. Even when you're dumb, cranky and mean. Just kidding. There is no one in the world I would rather stand around at an awkward party where we are dressed totally wrong than you my darling.

- Tasha the Turtle

- People who read my blog. Thanks! And thanks to those who comment cause that part is fun too. More of you should really, you don't get spammed. But seriously, thanks for being interested in the narcissitic babble that floats out my fingertips and onto your computer screens. It means a lot.

- The Superficial, Go Fug Yourself, Project RunGay and TheSneeze, thanks for all being blogs written by strangers that make me giggle a lot. Especially you, www.thesneeze.com

- Bedroom. Thanks for being so cuute. I really like you.

- David Cerda. Thanks for listening and supporting me and being there when I was at my wackiest. You are sweet and nice despite what any bitches say.

Ok Kids! That does it for 2006. Thank Goodness! I will be reporting to you next after the NYE '07 Party I'm going to at Cafe BaBaReeBa! la la la!! Be safe and have a wonderful and awesome New Year's Eve!

XOXO
Brooke