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

[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.