Forty years of rhythm, going strong

[lizblackdog]

Everyone has done little reviews of the passing year and expressed hopes for the new one, and the same sentiment's cropping up everywhere - wow, that was crap, I really hope the next one's going to be a little bit better.


It makes me feel obscurely guilty about admitting that 2005 has been a stonking good year at Black Dog HQ, and I feel - no, I know - that 2006 will be even better. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be smug. If I have a New Year's Resolution (and I never do, on principle) it will be to try and spread it about a bit more. I love you people, I do.

In the meantime, I may be offline for the evening, because I'm seeing in the New Year the way I always do, huddled in the bathroom with a hysterical collie wedged in my armpit while everyone else in the world competes to see who's got the loudest pyrotechnics. But he has his Rescue Remedy, and I have yesterday's endorphin hangover and plenty of Bailey's... it's all good.

Happy New Year to all of you out there in LJ-land!

Comments

[grave-medicine.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad. 2004 was a rocking year for me until December 15th, when Ripley died. Until then, I was having an amazing year. Ripley's death just started a chain of events in 2005 that haven't quite petered out yet, but I'm hoping for the best and expecting the worst of 2006.

[hellfire82.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

don't worry, i'll be doing much the same thing.

except in the computer room, not the bathroom.

with no rescue remedy.

and no drugs. (unless you count my adipex, which i am madly in love with.)

and with two of them.

tell me again, how wrong would it be to find the idiots with the fireworks and beat the crap out of them?

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good new year's to me. I'm heading off to bed soon. xxx

[dalaire.livejournal.com]

And a very Happy New Year to you, too, BlackDog! And hey, it's never a bad thing to say something's good. I'm always glad to see someone's had it good and appreciated it. :^D

As for the doggies and the pyros, I so feel for you and collie, there. My shepherd was like that, needed big-time drugs to settle her both on the 4th of July and New Year's. I lived in Chicagoland, then. One of the things I like about being stuck in the middle of nowhere now is that we don't get any of that here. It's dead quiet outside. (Instead, we've got hunting season, thankfully almost over.)

Anyway, here's to another excellent year on Earth. Cheers!

[johi36.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I don't mean to be smug.

No need to be sorry - I'm glad that you had a good year! :D

I wish you an even happier new year :)

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Oh stop being silly darling! It is just great that things are going your way and you so deserve it. I mean, you've had one hell of a ride before 2005 so it was about time I'd say.

If my friends are happy, life is better for me as well.

*mega-giant-hug*

Love you, ok? ;)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Knowing you is one of the reasonsd my life is great :-D

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Awww... I hate this because I never know what to say...

I am genuinly happy about that but I don't really know how to express it... But I have to say that I appreciate you as a friend greatly too. :D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

...also, you're right about one thing. The biggest reason for my being able to be consistently happy and optimistic now is the fact that some of the past has been so bad that I know, whatever happens, that I've already passed through the worst things life can throw at me. And I'm still here. That is a massive source of strength and joy.

[ulva.livejournal.com]

Yup. It gives things a perspective.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It doesn't make me immune to pain or loss; it's just that no pain or loss could be greater than the ones that have already happened.

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

I think you're allowed to be happy. ;) Have a good New Year.

Hope Spike wasn't too upset with all the fireworks.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I found the Rescue Remedy - that made a lot of difference. He was still pretty freaked out, but he was a lot better than he was in November. Yayyy herbal remedies!

[johi36.livejournal.com]

I took Rescue Remedy drops too before I went out yesterday - I get freaked out very easily by firecrackers exploding next to my feet ;)

[angriestangel.livejournal.com]

*pulls tail*

Happy New Year Liz :) Hope it'll be as much a blast as you wish it to be :)

And don't you dare to feel guilty! People live of that smug smile.

Hope the night was quiet ;)

[myrystyr.livejournal.com]

From ThinkExist:

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. - Horace. Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC

Remember your humanity and forget the rest - Albert Einstein. German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955

[christinuviel.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!!! =) Am really glad you had a fab year and that you're feeling good about the new one - you shouldn't feel guilty at all, you should carry on feeling GREAT! XD!

*huggles* xxx!

[missfoxie.livejournal.com]

Och, don't feel guilty darlin. It's fantastic that you had a very good year and it made a change for me to read just that very sentiment.

[mcmac74656.livejournal.com]

Again - don't feel guilty - you deserve to have a good year.

Here's hoping for another good one in 2006!

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Hey, we found ONE good thing about all the fireworks...you can have 5 or 6 guys (and a couple of ladies) standing around outside snapping bullwhips & no one notices :-D

[santaman.livejournal.com]

Happy new year Liz! :)