Glad that’s over. Let’s celebrate the end of a terrible, terrible year and welcome in the new one, which we can only hope will be a little bit better.
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It’s been a Yearâ„¢, indeed. Good riddance!
Unrelated: how does one edit their avatar ’round here? Genuine question.
Here in the USA, I’m very much looking forward to January 20, 2021, the day of the presidential inauguration. My boyfriend and I both predict that President Trump will not show up for the inauguration because of hurt feelings and such. Boo-hoo. Of course, Joe Biden will also be a problematic president — but I am completely thrilled at his appointment of Representative Deb Haaland, a Native American, to lead the Department of the Interior! Joe, it’s a good start.
That was a HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD year. Ugh.
So I burned it in effigy. https://twitter.com/coyotedancer/status/1344765956304875520
2021 needs to know that we’re keeping an eye on it, and if it tries anything funny, we will suplex it to heck and back and I WILL also burn it 31st of December, 2021, if it is as sh*ttastic as this year.
My cats are righteously skeptical. https://twitter.com/DidiCarisma/status/1344943419265871872
What a crappy year. Waking up this morning with a slightly foggy head makes me feel grateful that at least I live in the south of Scotland. Waking up with my partner and beauty of the landscape are the things I love this morning.
@Skiriki
Never have I seen such adorable-looking skeptics.
@Gwynfydd
Aww. That’s a beautiful start of the New Year.
@Patty Thinkerer
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@Everyone
Happy 2021!
Happy new year to all of you, from France. Despite the curfew, police had to intervene in places where a lot of people were gathered (because who care of the health of others ?). Hope yours was safe !
Best wishes for 2021, for those you are caring for and yourself ! A l’an qué ven !
Yesterday: Hopefully, a new year for everyone.
Today: Hope a full new year for everyone.
@Patty Thinkerer
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@Kat
I agree that Trump will not show up. Last I heard he was planning an event in Florida that day to distract from the inauguration.
We have opened the latest calendar of Cuddly Kittens – a Parasol tradition for calendars. Mr. Parasol has booped the nose of the January kitten.
Boiled the ham last night – I cure my own and this one is cider/mace/grappa cured – and it’ll be going in the oven to bake in about an hour. Maple syrup glaze, cause why not? 😀
I’ve only just woken up, about an hour ago. I’ve undecorated, except for the paperchains I can’t reach. I really hope 2021 is better than 2020. I’m a bit down about Brexit and the new strain of SARS-CoV-2. Worried about my sister’s kids and my gran. Feeling low, but I’m late taking my meds and I haven’t eaten yet today.
2020 can go fuck itself. But I’m so glad I have the mouse to enjoy the new year with!!!
I hope 2021 is so much better for all of us (although I wouldn’t mind making it a very disappointing and sad year for Trump supporters)
@ North Sea Sparkly Dragon
I love the irony that it’s called the “UK Variant”. I guess this is sovereignty and ‘taking back control’.
2020 was the longest and crappiest decade ever! Hopefully 2021 will be better.
Three and a half weeks and counting until I leave for surgery, I’m getting more and more nervous, and that’s not counting the nervousness with having to go into a hotspot to get it.
@Jesalin
Best of luck with your surgery.
I lost like half my friends this year, and the ones left either barely talk at all or require constant emotional support. Meanwhile the US has gone full psychopath; Trump thinks it’s totally cool to murder hundreds of thousands of people, Biden thinks it’s totally cool to let him get away with it and demand “healing” and “unity”, half the population doesn’t give a damn or even wants this, and none of the general public is capable of doing jack shit about any of it.
I am beyond exhausted, and rapidly losing all hope.
Happy fucking New Year. If this one is as bad as last, I doubt I’ll survive. Not for lack of trying, but holy fuck everything is just incredibly dire right now and IDK that I see it improving ever.
Sends hug energy
@Naglfar
Thanks!
Thanks @Jesalin, it’s extremely appreciated.
Pro: Gabapentin seems to help with my restless legs.
Con: It seems to come with a side effect of thumping headaches.
Sigh. Maybe it was just a coincidence; I do often get headaches. I’ll give it a few more tries before I go back to the drawing board. (And no it’s not a hangover, we had one bottle of Prosecco between 4 people and that was at 5:00.) (Also please do not make suggestions I am sure you think are helpful, like have I tried cutting back on caffeine. I’ve had RLS since before it had an official name and I’ve tried all the non-pharmaceutical, lifestyle changes.)
Anyway, happy new year and all. 2020 was the most exhausting year of the nearly 5 decades I’ve been on this rock, and Covid (in the US) is going to get worse before it gets better. If we stay at the rate we’ve been vaccinating people, we’ll reach herd immunity in 7 years. That’s not taking into account the vast numbers of people who will refuse to take it.
Ugh. I’m going back to bed and listen to old records and pull the covers over my head.
Sympathies with the headaches – I get ones from sudden air pressure changes which last anywhere from an hour to a week at a stretch. They are somewhat annoying.
@Naglfar Thanks! Happy New Year, everybody!
A warning about the idea that Biden’s inauguration will be peaceful for everyone: allegedly the Proud Boys are planning to infiltrate the crowd that day and be violent.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-sun.com/news/1988522/proud-boys-planning-disguise-themselves-biden-fans-violence/amp/
I don’t know if this site is the most credible one out there, but this kind of plot isn’t beyond what I know of that group either.
@Redsilkphoenix
What crowds? Hardly anyone is actually scheduled to be there in person, crowds are firmly discouraged
The fear that arises from the hope that 2021 can’t possibly be as bad is that I feel we’ve said that about every year since 2015.
Seriously, remember back when 2015 was the worst year ever? Good times, good times.
ETA: As for the crowds at Biden’s inauguration. I’m assuming Trump is already salivating at how he’s going to get to crow that he got a bigger crowd for his inauguration, and not even be lying this time. And then he’ll argue that that proves the election was stolen.
@Redsilkphoenix
I imagine there will be extra security measures in place due to the pandemic and the danger of Trump supporters. The Sun is a British tabloid, so I wouldn’t give them much credence. That said, I think the day that is likely to have violence in DC is January 6th, as that’s when the electoral vote is counted and various far right groups are planning to visit.