My subject lines have gotten to the point that they're just nonsense. Though some could submit that they've never been anything else.

December 29th.
I should have mentioned this a few days ago, but we've entered that magical time of year. The final fleeting days of another year gone by.
It's not magical for its nostalgia of days recently passed.
For all the memories of joy and pain we will take with us into the future.
No. This time is most magical because the joke "See you next year!" can once again be dragged out from the attic and dusted off for the week's worth of use.

Funny? I don't know. Comedy is circular. And if you use it enough, it becomes funny again.
But I don't know that joke as lame as that can be made funny if its only used for a week every 365 days.
It's only funny in the lame joke category.

A year has gone by, and you think, "This year sucked. Next year's the one." Even though we said the same thing last year.
But I have to say this much; 2006 wasn't all that bad to me personally. I mean, it sucked on a grander scale for people around me, but not all that much for me.
I finally got a new job which, while I complain about it, is 100 times better than Avis in pretty much every aspect.
I got a new computer and a new TV. And even a portable DVD player for Christmas!
But its not always about what you have.
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Well, I mean, it is this time, but that isn't ALWAYS the case.

I finished my book and then scraped together a semi-cohesive 2nd draft. What I do with it from here is still a giant question mark. I'm going to enter the contest, but I don't necessarily have in me the expectation that it will get picked up. I have a lot of problems still in it, but whatever.

Yes, for all my complaining and negativity, I am forced to admit that 2006 was definitely a mark in the W column.
I'm another year older and no closer to achieving any specific career goals, but I have a beautiful wife, caring friends and loving family....

Awwww, the sappy wrap-up.
No screw all that.
Didn't you see the sign at the LJ door?
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| NO SAPPY WRAP-UPS! |
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I'll probably have more to say before the year's end anyway, but for now I'm going to leave the close to another thing I got this year.