I do have a really groovy 2016 Cthulhu calendar ready to go.

As an Australian, I can confirm: It's already 2017.

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOOOOOAD.

Clean your shorts god damn it.

I feel pirate ninjas wern't big this year. 2014 was a better year for pirate ninjas I think.

The Bill is Nye!!!!!


Yeah, that was stupid.

I like turtles.

Agreed! (source: I'm Australian)

Agreed, and if next year is anything like this year, I won't bother with 2017.

...it's posts like this that help to make me glad I'm a Christian.

How so zeogold?

I would explain, but it suddenly dawns on me that the large majority of you here are not well-versed in memes, so never mind. Ignore what I said and carry on.

TARNICUS! How have you been my friend? Anything new? Have you finally settled down?

As you wish :)

Ah a derivative of my least favourite question, "how are you?" This video of a guy with Autism/Aspergers and Tourette's Syndrome touches on my difficulties with that question. Unless in a balanced, positive or manic mood, that question sets my head to explode, and I find it very difficult to transform the gamut of thought and feeling that ensues into something intelligible. It often takes me from whatever present state of mind I am in back to memories of hurt that I am unsuccessfully trying to avoid thinking about.

My current focus, when not doing "nuthin" (an infinite loop of thought and feeling avoidance and obfuscation), is on trying to get my teeth issues sorted as they have been adversely affecting my health for years. Twenty extractions complete, 12 to go (hopefully in hospital). My other focus has been on slowly but surely setting up my house. That equates to buying a fridge, a washing machine (9 months by hand in the bath!), a coffee table and some lounge chairs for my cats to sit on. I swapped my computer chair for 2 seater lounge so we can cuddle more comfortably.

2015 - the year I lost hope in life and embraced futility and nihilism again.

So something positive came of it, eh?

Groovy Cthulhu? Share with the rest of the class, please. : )

The stories I tell myself in my head clashed with the reality of existence and reality "won". I preferred the feeling of hope and belief, with motivation to live and goals to work towards to be a far more pleasant existence than my current one.