{"id":2347867,"date":"2025-12-30T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/?p=2347867"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:19:08","slug":"that-was-that-thank-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.undomiel.nu\/?p=2347867","title":{"rendered":"That was that, thank god."},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you enjoy this year?<\/strong>
\nNo. 2016 is looking practically paradisiacal in comparison to this year on\u00a0every<\/em> level, personal and greater.<\/p>\n

What did you do in 2025 that you\u2019d never done before?<\/strong>
\n…nothing of any consequence. Got my ears vacuumed? Or whatever the medical term for that is.<\/p>\n

Did you keep your new year\u2019s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?<\/strong>
\nDidn’t make any, and won’t. They’re just a recipe for disappointment if you live in chains.<\/p>\n

Did anyone close to you give birth?<\/strong>
\nDon’t think so.<\/p>\n

Did anyone close to you die?<\/strong>
\nI don’t…I hope not.<\/p>\n

What countries did you visit?
\n<\/strong>Ha.<\/p>\n

What would you like to have in 2026 that you lacked in 2025?<\/strong>
\nA real home, away from here, and my body, mind, health, self-esteem, finances, independence, and purpose back.<\/p>\n

What date from 2025 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?<\/strong>
\nJanuary 16th. No stars. The Magician returns to the sea of consciousness. Our hearts are broken.<\/p>\n

What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/strong>
\nNo idea. I intended to re-enroll in university and become a nurse, but then there was the diagnosis and the end of all hope. Does the translation of practically the entire\u00a0Tokyo Babylon<\/em> music collection count?<\/p>\n

What was your biggest failure?<\/strong>
\nNot telling people to fuck off when they deserved it; just sitting still and taking it in order to be a good girl. Also completely failing to kill myself for the twelfth time. Maybe I’m immortal or something.<\/p>\n

Did you suffer illness or injury?<\/strong>
\nHad a cancer scare. And that lead to the diagnosis of ME. Explains everything. I hate it.<\/p>\n

Did you have to go to the hospital?<\/strong>
\nA couple of times. Cancer scare.<\/p>\n

Are you registered to vote?
\n<\/strong>Yes, thank god. I helped vote Peter Dutton out of Dickson, and out of Australian politics completely. >:)<\/p>\n

What was the best thing you bought?<\/strong>
\nI know I got some lovely dolls this year…but I think the best thing was Peanut the Cuddle Club puppy. He’s so heavy and soft and lovely.<\/p>\n

Whose behaviour merited celebration?<\/strong>
\nEveryone who voted Labor, woohoo! My real friends, for putting up with me. Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, for being a fucking trooper. Ukrainians, for their beautiful and heartrending resilience.<\/p>\n

Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?<\/strong>
\nTrump, Putin, Netanyahu. My family for how they treat me. The fucking anti-AI hystericalists, oh my god. I don’t even like AI but can you all just take a fucking Xanax and touch some grass?<\/p>\n

Where did most of your money go?<\/strong>
\nEssentially stolen.<\/p>\n

What did you get really, really, really excited about?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

What song will always remind you of 2025?<\/strong>
\n“Critical Thinking”, my Manics.<\/p>\n

Compared to this time last year, are you:<\/strong>
\ni. Happier or sadder?<\/em> sadder, unbelievably.
\nii. richer or poorer?\u00a0<\/em>I think I might be going into the new year with more money than I did last year? Pretty sure I was flat broke last year; I have $100 in savings this year. I know, right?
\niii. fatter or thinner?<\/em> thinner, thank god. Still a long way to go, and it’s only being unable to move to get up and make food that helps it.<\/p>\n

What do you wish you\u2019d done more of?<\/strong>
\nI have no idea. It feels like nothing I do has any point or makes me happy anymore. Probably writing, I think?<\/p>\n

What do you wish you\u2019d done less of?<\/strong>
\nCrying and wishing I was dead. Not joking, not fishing for sympathy. Just the facts. Letting myself be used.<\/p>\n

How will you be spending Christmas?<\/strong>
\nSpent. Here. It was hell. I had all my decorations down before Boxing Day ended, that’s how much I hated it this year.<\/p>\n

Where did you ring in 2025?<\/strong>
\nHere. Where the fuck else would I have been? At least I wasn’t out of my mind miserable at the time.<\/p>\n

Did you fall in love in 2025?<\/strong>
\nNo.<\/p>\n

What was your favourite TV programme?<\/strong>
\n…good question; I don’t think I watched anything in particular, and if I did…I’ve forgotten. So, still\u00a0Rings of Power\u00a0<\/em>season 2, then!<\/p>\n

Do you hate anyone now that you didn\u2019t hate this time last year?<\/strong>
\nYep.<\/p>\n

What was the best book you read?<\/strong>
\nOh wow,\u00a0Orpheus Nine\u00a0<\/em>by Chris Flynn. Hands down. What an awful, lovely novel. The Lifecycle of Software Objects <\/em>by Ted Chiang also got me right in the heart.\u00a0Special mentions to Winnie-the-Pooh<\/em> and\u00a0The House at Pooh Corner <\/em>by A.A. Milne; saving my anxious and traumatised ass from nightmares on the regular. \u2665<\/p>\n

What was your greatest musical discovery?<\/strong>
\nDiscovery, discovery…I don’t really know. I didn’t branch out much this year, due to all my favourites (Manics, Bump, Suede) all coughing up new albums!<\/p>\n

What did you want and get?<\/strong>
\nHa.<\/p>\n

What did you want and not get?<\/strong>
\nTo get out of here. To belong somewhere. To be treated like a human being.
\nAnd Oahu markers. I wanted them badly. I spent the money I saved up for them on Christmas presents for people who literally hold me in the same esteem as they hold JD Vance. I’m as dumb as a bag of rocks.<\/p>\n

Were you in school (any time this year)?<\/strong>
\nI have ME. You do the math.<\/p>\n

How did you earn your keep?<\/strong>
\nDisability pension, some webdesign gigs. I hate my life.<\/p>\n

What was your favourite film of this year?<\/strong>
\nThe only one I saw was “KPop Demon Hunters”, so I guess that wins by default. (It was…okay? I didn’t really get the hype and I hated the ugly memefaces, but it wasn’t the worst way to waste an hour or two.)<\/p>\n

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?<\/strong>
\nI was too old, and I mostly just…was sad. (And\u00a0hot<\/em>. Good god that day was humid.)<\/p>\n

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?<\/strong>
\nWinning the fucking lotto and getting the fuck right outta Dodge forever.<\/p>\n

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2025?<\/strong>
\n\u201cOooh, black. I like black.”<\/p>\n

What kept you sane?<\/strong>
\nKept me\u00a0what?<\/em><\/p>\n

What political issue stirred you the most?<\/strong>
\nJesus Christ, what\u00a0didn’t<\/em> this year?!<\/p>\n

Who did you miss?<\/strong>
\nPete. But I think she’s…I think she’s someone I’ll miss forever now. If you know…what I mean.<\/p>\n

Who was the best new person you met?<\/strong>
\nProbably Nancy? I think I met her this year, anyway; she’s awesome and cute. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025:<\/strong>
\nThere’s no such thing as a just universe.<\/p>\n

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
\n<\/strong>Even our screams are\u00a0intravenous<\/span>, I’m so ashamed of my self-c\u0435nsoring<\/em>
\nWhy do I feel old and vulnerable? We all know who’s r\u0435sponsible…<\/em>
\n\u2014 \u201cOneManMilitia\u201d, Manic Street Preachers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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