Your 2012 retrospect

[Nickolai77]

Good
Graduated, got a respectable 2:1.
Went on an awesome holiday this summer with some friends
Started a masters course so i've got another year in higher education
Gained new friendship circles having started my masters
Got a good scholarship for my masters, saving me a bomb of money.

Bad
Went through a personal crisis early in 2012 because it didn't know what i wanted to do in life
Still don't really know what i want to do with my life
Masters course is bloody difficult, and a lot of it's not that interesting
Still single
Did a crappy work placement this summer, didn't get much from it.
One of my friendship circles at home broke up
The marriage between my parents is rather strained
Didn't get the 1st i was aiming for
Some health issues have cropped up late this year

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In sum 2012 as been a sightly disappointing year for me, so i'm hoping 2013 turns out to be better, it will have to be pretty crap to beat 2012 that's for sure. Fortunately i think i'm largely out of the woods with regards to the more difficult and boring stuff on my masters course, the next term looks a bit easier. New Years Resolution will be to start jogging once i've finished my January exams, maybe a bit of exercise will do my mood some good. I'm cautiously optimistic about the coming year.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

The good:
- Got through with my military service as a medic, even got a promotion, and found new friends
- The Avengers
- Finally getting into Game of Thrones (literally in the last few days, and boy, was it worth it)
- Finding Studio Ghibli films, my newest passion. I'm going to start playing piano because of Joe Hisaishi's music
- Getting a place to study against all my expectations, and even better, I actually like it
- The news that Muse was coming to my country, and later the news that Muse was coming AGAIN next summer (got mah tickets ready...)
- A couple of training camps during my military service were really great and relaxing. I almost miss them.
- Got back into writing after a long time, just stuff mostly for myself

The bad:
- Had to spend 9 months of my life in military service
- Going to actually see Muse. The show was absolutely fantastic, but I had the shittiest seating in the entire arena which houses 5000+ people
- The fact that I still haven't started my school project which is due in less than 2 weeks
- Still no girlfriend, though I'm not sure if I even care at the moment
- Trying to watch 300 again. Tiredness, a shitty movie and absinthe don't mix. I ended up vomiting on my friend's floor.
- One military camp in early April was one of the shittiest experiences of my life

That's about the most of it.

The good

Graduated from college.
Got a decent job.
Slowly getting into shape. Seriously, I'm expecting a sixpack by the end of summer.

The bad

My GF dumped me after 6 years together.
I'm still forced to live with my parents because all my spare income goes into their mortgage (I don't want them to lose their house) so I can't afford a place of my own.
My dad nearly went blind and had to undergo eye surgery.
My mom got cancer.
Then my dad got cancer, likely terminal.
Most of my friends sided with my GF after the breakup, leaving me with a gutted social circle.
The job I got has nothing to do with my university education, meaning it was a complete waste of time.
A ton of other small things.

Overall

It has been the worst year of my life. I realized that the past 6 years were a total waste, since I spent them with a girl who left me at the first sign of trouble, friends who abandoned me as soon as I became inconvenient and studying completely useless crap. Now both of my parents are seriously ill, one of them is unlikely to survive more than a year. I'm constantly broke and on the verge of losing the roof over my head despite working my ass off.

The only thing that keeps me going is the fact that my job is really nice (junior librarian at a university library) and a few friends that stuck by me. Other than that, life's shit.

Aw man... that sounds terrible. Keep on going, don't give up!

 

[gorfias]

The good

Graduated from college.
Got a decent job.
Slowly getting into shape. Seriously, I'm expecting a sixpack by the end of summer.

Trying to get in shape. About to do the treadmill. I'll never, ever, under any circumstance short of science fiction, have a six pack though. Good luck with that!

The bad

My GF dumped me after 6 years together.

There was a recent broo ha about a woman columnist in her 40s, beautiful, smart, educated, monied, but unmarried and childless. She broke up a perfectly good relationship at 28 because it was getting too serious and she thought she had plenty more time to have fun.

All you can do is get back on the horse, so to speak.

I'm still forced to live with my parents because all my spare income goes into their mortgage (I don't want them to lose their house) so I can't afford a place of my own.

Sounds like they live with you. You might want to speak to a lawyer about financial arrangements and the future. Depending on where you live and the law, it may be in their interest to transfer title to the home to you, and you start building an adult life there. There's nothing unusual about the young housing their parents like this. (My inlaws came to live with me. They had a happy and comfortable last 10 years of their lives. Died about 2 years apart. RIP).

Downside: getting a GF serious while you have such a serious thing going on. Upside: you would be landed, look responsible, potentially a good catch for such a girl, and best of all, you could be called Esquire!)

That you have a job that seems steady and you like is huge too.

As for me:

The Bad:

I bought too many games I'll never finish.
I had a stroke that will impair me for the rest of my life.
I feel stuck at my current job
My boy is making graduating school this year a real suspense story!
My wife is working too many long hours
Obama won re election. We're screwed.

The good:

Some games were fantastic. I am totally hooked on Skyrim with cheats and mods. I'm at about 140 hours!
The stroke does leave me feeling a little drunk most of the time.
My current job aint bad. At least I have it.
My boy is on path to graduate high school this year!!!
My daughter is near perfect. Damn her
Wife loves her job.
Breaking Bad has just been fantastic.
I got new home office furniture that makes it more like a home theater.

Gotta go do treadmill. Happy New Year all!

 

[Starik20X6]

The Good

- Advanced my education
- Made some new friends
- Got a pool
- Wii U!
- Plenty of good movies this year (Hobbit, 007, Batman, Avengers...)

The Bad

- Girlfriend left me at the start of the year, as of this writing still single

Overall

2012 was a pretty solid year. In 2013 I would like to see improvements in my romantic life, as well as in my physical health.

 

[Korolev]

2012 was an interesting year:

The Good Parts of it:

1) Successfully finished the First Year of Medicine, and I did better than I thought.
2) Saw some great films
3) Became more confident of my appearance, allowing myself to actually consider something other than a life-time of crushing loneliness and work.
4) Learned a lot and actually made some friends, to some extent.
5) Played a lot of great games this year
6) Got a lot of interesting books
7) Got to walk around a hospital interviewing patients and performing really basic clinical exams, but it was a great experience and I actually managed to help some people (in a very, very limited way).

The Bad Parts of it were... pretty bad:

1) The Stress in studying for medicine is immense
2) My parents marriage almost dissolved a bunch of times and it got extremely, painfully ugly.
3) Trouble with relatives
4) I became infatuated with someone who did not feel the same way about me, and I had to just learn to let her go. She's happier with another person, and I had to admit that.

So the year was successful for me on a work/study basis, but personally it was very stressful.

 

[MrCollins]

The Good:
- Got my first girlfriend, fell in love and "became a man"
- Had a great year at School
- Passed my Exams, got onto a great course in a decent University
- Had a great group of friends and felt really socially comfortable.
- Turned 18

The Bad:
- Had to change country to go to Uni
- Friends are now spread all over the place and I rarely see them
- Broke up with girlfriend because I moved, now I never speak to her but can't stop thinking about her.
- Finding it hard to make friends at Uni, don't really feel like I fit in.

Overall: Still the best year of my short existence.

 

[mechashiva77]

The Bad:
Had to get glasses.

Now who says that's a bad thing?

 

[shrekfan246]

The Bad:
Had to get glasses.

Now who says that's a bad thing?

You know, I was actually thinking of amending that with "Though I think I look better with glasses, so I'm not sure that's really bad" while I was typing up that post. Had it typed out and everything, but I decided I shouldn't be vain, since I'm no prize catch either way.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

well I dunno it's been pretty shit but here goes:

The good
-Finally got around to getting components for my new rig with the motherboard being the most annoying since it hasn't arrived yet.

-Having met my boyfriend and hoping to meet him throughout 2013 and discussing plans for him to move to my island.
-receiving my own treadmill to privately use and with an exercise bike and powerspin I don't need to shell out £30 a month for using the gym.

-Having finally come out and telling my mother I'm Bisexual and to my surprise she's totally supportive of my choice but I've yet to tell my stepdad but a lot of my friends know already.

The Bad

-Still no luck with getting a job here on my island and it's only getting worse for others with my experience going to complete waste and my knowledge not needed it's no wonder I feel hopeless in finding an actual job that will give me a proper clear purpose in life that isn't a desk job.

-Still being stuck at home with my folks is starting to become a bit of a joke now as I don't have a job and they do it's somehow given them the notion that I have to do all the shit they don't normally want to do and are too lazy to do themselves which means when I do get a home of my own I'll be doing the same shit they've hated and int he end I'll feel they got a free slave out of it which I don't like feeling.

-My motherboard for my new rig was ordered during the end of Sept by my room mate (Who I trusted to make sure it was ordered with my money since it was a favour)but for some strange reason it's estimated delivery time was 1-2 months and by Dec still no mobo and my roomie tells me I'm acting assholish for getting this mad (to which my other friends and I believe my roomie is in fact screwing me over and never made the order) and yet he doesn't have an Amazon invoice email but he does for all the stuff he'd ordered previously and only now I'm being told by him they have finally dispatched it but I'm giving both my roomie and the company till the 15th of Jan otherwise shit will literally hit the fan and if my roomie is caught out lying and having stole my money then of course he'll have to pay back and then get thrown out.

-My room mate is actually a friend from my college years who got kicked out by his mother over her choosing his bastard of a nasty stepdad (seriously the first time I met him he said "what are you doing in my chair gtfo") and he's been living with me since but he is quite lazy, has horrible hygiene,improper manners like farting and burping nearly all the time, sucking his thumb when he's awake and asleep as well as me pointing out his poor junk food eating habits and him arguing to a point where he neutralises the entire debate to the point where he gets to carry on doing the same shit that just plain pisses me off =/.

Also I think if he doesn't change any of himself near April I'm going to have to ask him to leave because he can be quite the asshole when he doesn't respect what we ask him to do and not do in this house.

All in all it's been a pretty shitty year apart from my boyfriend and gaming which has been great all around.

 

[SadisticFire]

The Good:
I picked up a bunch of games off steam.
Became leader of a club after a week in being in it.
Finally got a room to sleep in.
Got more hats.

The Bad:
Mouse died ten minutes ago
Person I was after wasn't gay(can't say I had much faith in a relationship with her anyways)
Had to sit through controversies
Finally decided to pay attention to US politics.(It's really bad)
Forced to get a hair cut.

Oh started dreaming again. Even if the dreams are odd, guess that's good.

 

[Astoria]

The Good
-Achieved a higher TER score and will most probably get into my uni course now.
-Got to see my dad after 15 months.
-Have saved enough money for my trip to Vegas next year.

The Bad
-No longer am friends with one of my best mates
-Broke up with my boyfriend
-Lost an awesome job
-Got another job where I work crap hours for crap pay
-Had my first car accident

So overall 2012 was a pretty crap year for me. 2013 is looking to be better though thankfully.

 

[uzo]

Good:
Savings have recovered from moving internationally and then paying extortionate rent in Sydney in 2011
Overqualified for my job but it keeps me active, I like it, and hell - I *have* a job
Son has been accepted to the school we wanted and they'll even pick him up from home to take him there (special needs kiddie)

Bad:
Too many Queenslanders in QLD (State of Origin is a terrible time to be in Qld ... when you're not a local)
Busy with work and family (again, special needs kiddie) so don't really have a life outside those two things

Overall:
Been a pretty good year financially. Good to get out of Sydney ... paid $450 a week for a 2 bedroom unit about 30 minutes from downtown - I paid barely $300 for a 2 bedroom apartment in Osaka about 5 minutes from downtown ffs. Now in QLD and I pay $100 less rent a week, and get an extra bedroom and a yard, and get exactly the same salary as I did in Sydney

 

[WaysideMaze]

Well 2 months off work sick wasn't fun. Didn't help that I was basically bullied by the management for it when I got back, although that's all over now.

On the plus side, I was able to learn to drive and get my first car this year, and I've been able to afford to move out of my mums house. To cap the year off I've also met the most amazing girl, and at pretty much just as everything else in my life was slotting together nicely.

Overall I consider 2012 to be a win.

 

[Crazy]

Ah, I remember the year 2012. As if it was yesterday, in fact!

 

[sabercrusader]

The Good:
Got my very first job (pretty easy too)
Got my license
Got my first car
Lots of extra money because of the job
Completed my junior year of Highschool and started my senior year
The Walking Dead (Video Game), because I liked it that much

The Bad:
Went through a revelation that becoming a Video Game Tester was unlikely and not worth it made me seriously panic about figuring out what I was going to do with my life. Finally decided to be a Computer Support guy though.
Got seriously depressed early in the year because I couldn't find a job at the time
Felt like I wasted one of my last summer breaks of my grade school career because of my job
Mass Effect 3 ending wasn't....the best ending they could have come up with

Overall, it started off pretty bad, but it evened out and actually became a pretty nice enough year by the end of it.

 

[LetalisK]

The Good:
Married the perfect woman.
Wife stopped smoking.
Graduated university with two bachelors degrees.
Got my commission.
Didn't get the assignment I wanted. This is good because in hindsight I wanted it for the wrong reasons and would have been utterly miserable.
Doing training now that, while hard as shit, will make everything else in the next few years seem easy by comparison and make me very marketable.
Spec Ops: The Line

The Bad:
Had a really bad injury that side-lined me for a bit over half a year. Healed, but still dealing with it.
Being in a different state than my wife now and for a few more months.
My wife talks a big game about wanting kids, but sometimes I question if she's willing to get herself prepared for them and I'm starting to get resentful.

Overall: Shitty bracketed by total awesome. If it hadn't been for the injury, this would have been my best year ever.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The good:

-I finally did the 10000 x *too much* tests necessary to return to my degree.
-I got the best internship ever.
-Lost 20 pounds
-Overall better confidence in myself.
-Finally got up to speed with the 7th generation of gaming by buying a PS3 and having fun with it.
-Broaden my friend gap.

The bad:


-My cousin died.
-I have the 2nd worst roommate ever this year.
-Didn't manage to have a summer job...

The less bad, but still bad:

-The gaming community. You guys sure make controversies out the small things.
-Didn't manage to get *that* get girl. However, I'm pretty sure there's going to be another *that* girl at some point.


Overall:

Did a lot of stuff to improve myself, but still to work on other factors in my life.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

The Good:
-Meet some really people in the Brovengers.
-Landed a pretty sweet sound design gig and am working on some stuff that I'm really excited about.
-Helping out with the Communicast and Failcast.

The Bad:
-Still am poor and not really going anywhere financially.
-Insomnia got slightly worse...
-... As well as my depression.
-Still single.

Overall, I really can't complain too much since the good off set the bad and I do plan on making some changes. If they don't work, then there's next year and I will make 2013 one hell of a better year than the last one.

 

[dalek sec]

There wasn't too much to say about this year for me honestly.

The Good

Went on a trip to Hawaii
Had my birthday
Got a bunch of stuff for Christmas
Saw some good movies this year
RedvsBlue season ten

The Bad

Still don't have a job
My depression/self loathing has gotten worse
Even more of a shut in these days
Still don't have any friends
Still single
Have given up on dating completely
Accepted the fact I'm gonna die alone
My self-confidence has dropped to the point that I can't even look in the mirrior sometimes
I barely talk these days to the point my voice cracks or get's weak very quickly

Overal

There wasn't much to talk about this year and I'm sure 2013 will be the same.