Anyone else just having a bad year?

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Oh goodie. That shot of watered down black label (which im pretty sure is just jack poured in a johnnie walker bottle) cost me 9 bucks. Gonna go to the othwr watering hole. They only charge 7 dollars for shit booze.

Err, what?

If you can't tell the difference between Bourbon and Scotch you definitely have problems.

 

[purbeast0]

good year for me.

went to aruba for a week, outer banks for a week, already booked a trip to costa rica for february 2013, bought a new (to me) car, bought my first house in september, bought a new tv after not buying one since 2004, just got my new receiver, and my projector comes tomorrow. hoping to have the HT set up by new years.

also making over 50% more than i was last october.

so yea, it's been a good year so far.

/knock on wood

 

[Ketchup]

Been both this year. I have epilepsy and it was getting pretty rough around April, May. (I know I was making some pretty stupid thread posts back then too.) My awesome neurologist had finished the testing necessary to get me into surgery, and after meeting with the surgeon got my surgery bumped from August to June. The month and the hospital and the recovery time were pretty darn rough (I am still not at 100%, but getting close) but this year is getting better by the day. No seizures since the surgery. And I didn't miss a paycheck since the place I work offers short term disability. And my wife was with me at the hospital almost every day (our parents were watching the kids.)

So yeah, the year is getting better by the day, and I think even next year will be even better as I get to start dropping down my medication.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I got married, is that good or bad? My desire for strange women seems to mean it's been a bad year. lol

 

[Ketchup]

good year for me.

went to aruba for a week, outer banks for a week, already booked a trip to costa rica for february 2013, bought a new (to me) car, bought my first house in september, bought a new tv after not buying one since 2004, just got my new receiver, and my projector comes tomorrow. hoping to have the HT set up by new years.

also making over 50% more than i was last october.

so yea, it's been a good year so far.

/knock on wood

That's great. Was the increase in pay from a new job/company? It is really great to be able to see someone do well like that in this economy.

 

[Svnla]

None of us in the company have any pay raise for the last couple years while the rent is going up (single digit thank goodness) plus other stuffs such as food items, etc.

Health insurance is going up in the double digit yearly.

Other than that, I still have my health and sanity, I think so about the sanity.

Plus I have a girl that is crazy about me, might end up and hook up with her for life next year <crossing fingers>.

 

[Rudee]

The last few years have been awesome for me. The only problem I had that was a major expense was when my hot water tank broke and I had to get a new one. Other than that. Everything has been fabulous.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Would love to hear your stories. . . help me have some perspective.

Yes. Bullet points

- February 2012 - Hire landscaper to remodel backyard. Landscaper lies to me about permits. As a result my project violates state and federal environmental laws (there are wetlands in my backyard, a fact unbeknownst to me at the time). $7k project turns into $25k+ project, not including $7k+ I had to spend on environmental consultants. And that was to restore most of my backyard to the hellhole it was before the project started. Neighbor has beautiful backyard. Performed same project I wanted 5 years ago, but didn't get "caught." My project was finally "completed" August 2012. Two days ago half the new hemlocks we planted (at $300 a pop) were uprooted by Hurricane Sandy. Woohoo.

- March 13 - Daughter is born. Happy Day! But, March 15 - Find out daughter has life threatening congenital heart defect. Begin 3+ months of unimaginable stress, which "ended" with my daughter having open heart surgery at 3 months old (8lbs). Thankfully she is doing very well. I honestly think I am still recovering though. Haven't been the same mentally since the end of March.

-July 7 - I suffer simultaneous gallbladder attack and pancreatitis. Liver enzymes 40X over normal. Had emergency ERCP and Cholesystectomy (gallbladder removal). Pain is gone! Hooray! But. . . . now I have episodes where my body simply can't digest anything. BOO!

-October 2012 - Wife sees doctor because she is too thin (5' 8" 112lbs - 15 lbs under her normal weight). Been losing weight despite eating like a horse. Finds out she now has hyperthyroidism!

So yeah, its been a tough year. And the bullet points above don't include the crap my wife and I have been dealing with in our careers.

Silver lining - We hit our deductible cap for our medical insurance this year, so just about anything medical that could go wrong for the rest of the year will be covered 100% by the insurance company.

 

[OverVolt]

In the past my dad used his business as a front to cheat on my mom, tanking the business and their $900k inheritance down, which led to their divorce. The employees were stealing the cash flow and blackmailing him I think. He actually ended up -$200k in debt so his net worth had swung -$1.1m in 2 years. At the time I was applying for college and then suddenly couldn't afford it. Can only take out loans under your own name after age 22 (for those in the I totally went to college and paid my own way camp, lulz)

I spent 1 semester there knowing I couldn't afford it and so tanked all my classes and dropped. I ended up with bills in my name at 18 anyway, like -$2,500 with $0.0 in my bank. My parents were like GL with that even though I'm sure it was them who clicked something in my account/didn't pay something they told me they were paying considering the circumstances. Like due to dropping after only 1 semester the state grant was due back and they never paid it back, from the FAFSA they filled out. Stuff like that. Trashed my credit.

Halfway through 2004 I convinced my mom not to buy a ferrari 575M for $121,500 because the maintenance would be too much and by Jan 2005 I was lucky to have a roof over my head, albeit no one could afford the $2,700 mortgage considering my parents W-2's at the time were about $8,000 from the aforementioned inheritance/lazyness. Their bank accounts were draining FAST.

My sister got a free ride (7 years older) through both undergrad and pharmacy school during the money days. She makes like $90k/yr and moved away. Basically "thanks fuck you guys"

Oh and a free car, and car insurance paid up to age 24. Even to this day she will recount the tales of epic hardship she overcame while going to college at family events, like working once a week for spending money on stupid junk, I have to try not to vomit. I'm about twice as smart as her, but there is the saying "better to be lucky than smart." Smarts matters nothing. I still smoke all her old SAT/PCAT etc. scores but without $$$ it means nothing.

 

[Jeeebus]

Well, my 2 year old had a stroke four days into the year, but I guess it's been an uphill year from there.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Just a bad year? Mother fucker please! It's brutal!

I've been in the biggest dry spell in relation to seeing cute girls since the fucking dust bowl. I live in a shit hole city full of fucking idiots and passive-aggressive assholes. I haven't found a new girl to get even remotely invested in in over a year and the last one I was interested in wasn't even living in this fucking city!

I'm constantly trying to find a way out of this shit hole because I hate it. But I can't because I have a free ride to a shit hole university for a fucking worthless degree. My GPA keeps falling because I am so fucking miserable from being around such FUCKING MORONS. Honestly, if the fucking government just took that shit somehow then I would GTFO immediately. Instead I'm here going, "Do I pay out of state tuition for 2 more years in a program that I could like or just graduate with this worthless degree, be debt free, and hopelessly in pain for another 20 months? NOT SURE BRO. NOT SURE."

No cute girls. No one worth being around. Every dimension of my academic and professional life is full of bullshit. I live in a fucking city that is WET, COLD, AND GLOOMY FAR TOO OFTEN. (At least 6 out of 7 days of the year for 9 months, mother fucker. And then guess what? SUMMER EXISTS FOR MAYBE 2-3 WEEKS AND THEN IT'S GONE. BACK TO COLD AND WET AND FUCKING EVERYTHING UP)

God damn I HATE IT. I LOATHE IT. I WANT NONE OF IT. I TRY SO HARD, BUT I CAN'T RESIST THAT LITTLE HELL-HOLE'S ... you get the picture.

I'm finally applying to out of state universities, but since my GPA has fallen my accumulative is a shitty 3.61 now. It's fucking pathetic and I won't get into any decent universities, but whatever. I might be moving out of this fucking hell hole in January if my trip down to SoCal goes over well.

If all you have to worry about is the university you go to and whether or not you see a cute girl or two, you are not having a bad year. You might not like your situation, but sometimes you just have to change your perspective.

Also, everything you mentioned can be changed. By you.

 

[Ketchup]

Silver lining - We hit our deductible cap for our medical insurance this year, so just about anything medical that could go wrong for the rest of the year will be covered 100% by the insurance company.

I identify with you there. That helps a good bit. Now we have room to pay for the stuff that got us there!

 

[BD231]

This will be the third year I made more than the last its lookin up .... miss fuckin people over with neg-am home loans and the small fortunes seem a little less available but theres a ton of sure money out there right now. People are hittin their addictions hard lately, lifes good.

 

[sixone]

My cousin's year ended today. Does it get any worse than that?

 

[OverVolt]

If all you have to worry about is the university you go to and whether or not you see a cute girl or two, you are not having a bad year. You might not like your situation, but sometimes you just have to change your perspective.

Also, everything you mentioned can be changed. By you.

Yea thats weird a free ride would solve all my problems. I could have studied really hard in HS if I was expected to get one.

He just doesn't know the flipside. He should get his crap degree and just use it to get an unrelated job. People do it all the time. Stop stressin. No debt, big bonus. I know lawyers with $200k debt and make $50k. After taxes, the interest is close to half their income. No debt is a big bonus. Tridents parents probably told him to do it instead of him making the decision himself. So thats the problem. He regrets following someone elses advice and the idea wasn't his own and it was a long 4yr commitment.

I wanted to go to pharmacy school too after seeing my sister go but... after all the hell I've had to go through to make it through college thus far, my GPA is ruined. That first semester at college, then how I hated community college, then how community college didn't prepare me at all for university, etc. Grad school is totally out of the question not that it is a good idea because I can't afford it. The whole time my parents lie and put ideas in my head like I can go to pharmacy school on my own dime and how great of an idea that is for me to rack up retarded amounts of debt. Recently figured out what was going on in that regard. I really just want a regular job now. Sad to think my parents had enough money for me to go somewhere like Dartmouth at one point. The business used to have positive cashflow of $10k/week and they had a $900k lump sum, all squandered.

My parents would whisper in my ear how they wanted the best for me, would at any expense pay for college so I have a better life, etc. All Bullshit. Gave me depression for awhile until I realized how full of crap they were. So its not like I have some sort of entitlement mentality all on my own. Just a typical 17-18yr old doing what their parents said to do. Cause 18yr/olds pretty stupid. There was a huge mismatch in my expectations versus my sudden reality (like only poor people work while in college, that also tanked my GPA I wasn't prepared for that either.) etc.

For 2-3 years I still thought they had money LOL. Last born and totally left out of the loop on this shit. People in college going there on their parents dime and complain complain complain are just flat out retards and irk me every damn day.

 

[DannyBoy]

It's been a positive year, recovering from a mighty fucking large depression.

 

[shortylickens]

Crap, shaping up to be a particularly bad year. For the first time in a quarter-century, I just "refunded" on Halloween. Gotta remember to never have bar whiskey ever again, especially not after a slice of pizza.
Thats getting scary. I've "refunded" about 10 times this year, due mostly to food. I never had that issue before.
Maybe I got an uppity tapeworm.

 

[lxskllr]

My cousin's year ended today. Does it get any worse than that?

What happened to your cousin? Dying's not so bad. You just do it, and you're done. Really, it's one of the easiest things you'll ever do. Sucks for the people who like you though...

 

[Bee4945]

Been a great year for me so far ~ happy life ~ lot's of hang out etc ~

 

[sixone]

What happened to your cousin? Dying's not so bad. You just do it, and you're done. Really, it's one of the easiest things you'll ever do. Sucks for the people who like you though...

I don't know, exactly. But he'd only been married for four months, so it wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't know, exactly. But he'd only been married for four months, so it wasn't easy by any stretch of the imagination.

Usually takes longer than that. His wife must be exceptional :^D

Seriously though, my condolences to you and your family :'^(

 

[sze5003]

Its been ok, but could be worse. Parents got a divorce and I have a mother that's never been by herself or needed to do anything on her own so I have to help out. Younger sister is going to graduate layer and wants to go to college but neither parents have the money to help her so I'll be provably cosigning her loans while still paying all mine off at the same time.

I pay nearly 800 a month in just student loans since I had a 3.9 GPA in highschool and 3.8 throughout college but didn't get any scholarships.

Too much family drama / relationship drama but each is a new day. Too many bills that I'm slowly paying off. I have a lot of everything I want and need so I'm happy. Like I said it could be worse. Have my own place with less rent which I'm happy about.

Company work for gives annual raises based on performance so that helps plus its very stable. Raises may be little by little but they help. When considering other peoples lives I can't really say man it's a bad year.

Can't really define one because everyone can have something that counts as bad. Just deal with what you got and be happy because others are not as fortunate.

 

[StinkyPinky]

The year isn't over yet.

Ask me in two months.

 

[Zorander]

I have seen better years but this one has not been too bad for me.

A few close friends moved out of town and my parents' 10yo dog passed away. I lost my job a few months ago but was (very) lucky to land another one in 2 weeks. Things are a little boring/non-exciting now but that's not really a bad thing.

 

[BD231]

I hate it when people who have no impact or involvment in another persons life are spoken about as if they did when they pass, shameful.