2015 is upon us and now is the time to review the year. For me the year has been terrible. I still live at home with my parents, I still work a minimum wage job, and my financials are like ghosts in the wind. I was in my first car accident where I received a ticket and made my car insurance double. I have lived without air conditioning for an entire southern summer and I've lived without running water for the longest period of my life over a silly little water well pump. I have attempted dating through various websites and only found responses from weird and creepy guys or guys simply looking for a good shag. My high school and college friends are doing well with getting married, having babies, and losing a spectacular amount of weight. For some people they would get discouraged and fall into a deep depression. I won't lie that I don't have depressing moments where I lie awake at night racking my brain or crying myself to sleep but I have the uncanny ability to distract myself. My willpower to not think about my problems has allowed me to not become so depressed and focus on the good parts of my year.
The good of 2014 included finally getting my motorcycle license, getting a new puppy from the local shelter, and my brother got married. As you can see from the list, the bad outweighs the good but as I am writing this I continue to distract myself by having a slit screen and watching a television show. I think my dependence on television and video games has come from my need to distract myself from becoming depressed. I read books before I go to work so I can calm myself and take my mind off of my home problems. Luckily at work there are other people who have problems who also like to talk about their problems... extensively and in detail. Their problems also help me keep my mind off of my own home issues but sometimes I feel a little judgmental towards their problems like a cheating boyfriend and a suddenly out-of-the-closet lesbian best friend are not real problems compared to being a 26 year old living with parents and working a minimum wage job with $80,000 in student loan debt from an unused bachelor degree.
Every new year I make plans for the coming months. My goals for 2015 include getting a more financially stabilizing job, a motorcycle, and once again to move out of my parents house preferably out of the area that I currently live in. For now I will settle with getting through Christmas and waiting for the birth of my nephew.
Movie of the day:
Rise of the Guardians
Song of the day:
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas by A Great Big World
