Your 2012 Highlights

Eagle4

Eagle4

So I'm interested in knowing your personal highlights and triumphs of 2012 (heck, they can even be bad). Basically the occurrences of 2012 which for you were the most memorable. I don't want any "The Olympics" or "Gangnam Style" or anything like that. I'm talking about your personal highlights, the things that happened to you.

For me, I've had many, so I'll compile a top 4 for you to view if you so choose to (And looking back at it, I haven't had many good highlights).

4: Winning a School Award in English
Yeah, it may seem both shallow and nerdy, but the satisfaction I felt when recieving the award, the acknowledgement that people like my writing, I was just overjoyed with the fact that I'm not crap at writing stories and stuff. I want to be a journalist and writer when I'm older, so this was pretty special too me.

3: Running 12 Miles in a Morph Suit for Charity
Yes, I ran 12 miles in a morph suit last month, battling the cold, wet, English weather. It's a pretty proud feeling when you know you're running it for a good cause.

2: Surviving one week in Wales with a bunch of 10 idiot class mates, an idiot training instructor, and without running water or electricity.
I hated and loved every second of it. This trip definitely gave me the most memories, although not all were good. Climbing Mount Snowdon was excellent (Especially since there was lightning and hail to fight through as well), and emptying our own shit-bucket was actually pretty special to me. I was surprised over the fact that I can face living without electricity and running water easily, and I can live disconnected from the world. The fact that it was Wales was an obvious downside, that place is so wet and full of sheep shit it's unbelievable. I say idiot class mates because they feel it's great fun to chuck sheep shit everywhere. Not to mention the fact that two of them thought it would be hilarious to put snails in my pants (No, really.) I say idiot training instructor, because he was a total dick. I won't go into detail.

1: Joining Smogon
Ugh it's so cheesy but I love Smogon and it's definitely my highlight of the year. Whilst there have been many lows (Getting banned for artistic fraud in cap, and the Meat is Murder thread to name a few), I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Smogon, it's been great.
 
January 10th, 2012

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started the year off on a pretty high note
 
mattj that picture had me smiling so hard :).

gosh i dont even know what to think in comparison to my own life when i see a picture like that. Hope the family is well. give link a hug for me. happy new year!
 
-2nd under 800 in chess in PA suck it bitches I got a trophy for going 4-1
-I forever left the shit hole called high school
-I got my eagle in boy scouts
-made it on the top 100 OU players at one point, peaking around 30 something (for me this is amazing)
-joined the Democratic party
-voted Obama

Huh, this was a better year than I thought.
 
In chronological order!

  • Spent most of January in bed because I accidentally became potassium deficient, which resulted in heart problems. It's all good now.
  • Stopped talking to my father at the end of January after yet another incident of violence, haven't spoken to him since and much happier for it.
  • Started spending time in January and February getting closer to people I kinda drifted away from (for lack of a better term), rather than lose self-respect with people whom I didn't mean anything to.
  • Went on a holiday at the start of February with my mom, my grandmother, and my friend from primary school and got to swim (or... as close as I can manage, haha) with a dolphin, among other spiffy things!
  • Started playing League of Legends in February with Smogon members.
  • Got my twelve-month all-clear from the 4cm-diameter brain tumour I had surgically removed in May!
  • Broke my tailbone falling off my chair (in like June or July or something) in a hilarious but latently painful misadventure, and then was bedridden for most of the year thereafter with chronic pain + tailbone injury.
  • Was diagnosed with epilepsy in August and another brain tumour in October, which was found to have been causing the chronic pain.
  • Went to my first wedding ever (a first cousin's) in September. It was super beautiful and I loved it.
  • Hospitalised and was supposed to have said brain tumour removed in October, but it ended up being indefinitely postponed.
  • Paid for tickets in October to see my favourite band this January, after several past disappointments!
  • My aunt died a few days before Christmas... Her funeral was on Christmas Eve. Rest in peace.

I know that makes it sound like my year was depressing, but I'm absolutely sincere in saying that it was actually really good overall... it's simply that most of the major incidents were quite dramatic in nature, whereas everything else was a composite good, and I was content and satisfied for most of it. You can't tell that from a highlight list, but I'd say it was one of the better years of my life (and, no, I don't mean that in the sense that every year of my life just somehow managed to be worse, haha). I hope 2013 will be even better, though!

It's not a time-specific event, but there's something else. I'm a recluse offline and I have trouble speaking, although I used to have trouble not shutting up, and I used to go very long periods of time close to mute. This year I've been trying really hard to get better at speaking up, on Skype (playing LoL has helped so much because I become dramatically more uninhibited playing video games), offline, on the phone, etc. I still have a long way to go and I find face-to-face/phone conversations very draining, but the progress I've made over the year in speaking again is really remarkable to me.

Happy new year, everyone! Let's make 2013 a lovely year for all of us!
 
My only notable highlight on 2012 was that I've managed to complete my first semester on my scenic arts class. There weren't much good things outside this, other than the friends that I've met. Not only I lost my boyfriend, but my aunt got sick, and I've got chased by jerks on Pokemon Online brazilian server. I hope that 2013 changes all that to me, and that I can compensate all my losses on 2012.
 
2012 was kind of a ... not crappy, but generally unexciting year for me.

first the good. in 2012 i

  • got really good grades on all my finals in the 2011-2012 school year, and got a good first quarter 2012-2013 grades as well
  • finally felt i had a real friend group at school
  • started a humor magazine
  • won editorship of my school literary magazine
  • learned a lot about poetry and started writing actually good shit
  • felt a little better about myself socially
  • got much better at playing music and actually performed at a school show (i sucked, but w/e, it's a first)
  • thought about things in a slightly more interesting way and got rid of some of my old prejudices
now the bad. i also


  • had kind of a boring shitty summer where i basically did nothing
  • wasted huge amounts of time on the internet not enjoying myself (i like smogon though. just reddit is a waste.)
  • was unfairly rude to my father
  • didn't have any amazing moments of anything that i can remember
  • felt worried and scared about my grades constantly
  • just screwed up about 4 tests in one week before the break
  • probably got kicked out of a volunteer organization for not doing work
  • still felt pretty lonely
  • still didn't have any semblance of a life outside of school
  • still didn''t feel like anything i work towards comes to any fruition
  • and to top it all off, currently procrastinating on about 11 different huge writing pieces i have to do for college, none of which i'll realistically finish by the time my break's over. woo!
honestly, as with any major holiday this year, i've just felt like "great...so what? i still have a bunch of problems. i don't have anyone to share this with. why do i care?" if you had asked me last year what i hoped for in the new year, i would have said "great grades and to win those elections". uh, i did both, but i still feel really harangued and unfulfilled. so much love and understanding and empathy for anyone still grinding through (well, mine's really fucking hard, so yours might be different) high school. happy 2013 for happy people though.

edit: also, jumpluff, i am consistently astounded at the remarkable disparity between your objective quality of life and your amazing attitude. you really are an incredible person to see the silver lining in all you've went through...my shit is nothing compared to yours, and your attitude is 1000% better. hopefully things get medically better for you in 2013, but i honestly can't imagine you have any more growing up to do.
 
My car's head gasket blew today. I also had to work today. The highlights of my New Years eve...
 
someone hacked my twitter account and blocked 5 of my verified followers. my mom hates me. im too young to get shitfaced on new years

2012 sucks
 
  • getting an article i wrote mentioned in a major national newspaper
  • going to lapland, seeing the northern lights
  • graduating with a 2:1, at the royal motherfucking albert hall
 
-Got a driver's license

-5 on AP World History exam

-Extended my record of consecutive years lived to 16

a perfect trifecta
 
-well joining smogon this year was quite awesome. Getting my pre-contributor badge on my birthday was absoluetly amazing and so was getting my tr later on in the year :)

there is nothing else i have to say that is to specific but I did hang out with friends a lot and did some very funny stuff which was definetly the greatest thing about the year :). I also made a lot of new friends on smogon and irl.

2012 was the best year of my life and i honestly can't see why 2013 can't be better! I hope all you guys all have the same feeling as me for 2013 :)

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In no particular order:

  • Ran a hot lap around Wall Township Speedway with Ray Evernham
  • Went to Knoebels in Pennsylvania with my dad
  • Rode 150 roller coasters (a milestone to be trumped next year hopefully :D)
  • Went to my first Major League Baseball game since 2004 (GO NATS)
  • Got my drivers license
  • Got a 1973 Ford Maverick :D
  • Got accepted to the university I wanted to go to
  • GOT THE FUCK OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL
  • Got into close contact with the CEO and some head engineers at a roller coaster designing firm that I want to work for when I get out of Uni
  • Managed not to flunk out first semester of Uni
  • Read the Pokemon Adventures Manga up to Chapter 448 in under 65 hours (anyone who's been on #mons in the last 3 days should know about this well)
 
cookie said:
  • getting an article i wrote mentioned in a major national newspaper
  • going to lapland, seeing the northern lights
  • graduating with a 2:1, at the royal motherfucking albert hall
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realllllly jealous. You need to post some photos!
 
Pernicious said:
edit: also, jumpluff, i am consistently astounded at the remarkable disparity between your objective quality of life and your amazing attitude. you really are an incredible person to see the silver lining in all you've went through...my shit is nothing compared to yours, and your attitude is 1000% better. hopefully things get medically better for you in 2013, but i honestly can't imagine you have any more growing up to do.
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This; I can't count the number of people who've experienced far less depressing things and yet are total drama queens. Kudos, Jumpluff! (And wishing you all the best!)

cookie said:
  • graduating with a 2:1, at the royal motherfucking albert hall
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Imperial Physics, right? My flatmate's in the 3rd year of his MSci and is finding it hell. Poor guys stayed overnight in the library way too many times. Congrats, man.

I did nothing remarkable myself besides experiencing a lot of (unnecessary!) mental pain I'd rather forget. Here's to a better year for all of us..
 
-Got great grades, came third in the year level
-Went to a debating competition in Turkey which was AMAZING
-Currently on 10-week exchange in Germany :)
-Got onto GP team, artist badge and contributor badge
-Won awards in Maths competitions, including a high distinction in a competition I've never got an award in before n_n
-Invited to the "Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee School of Excellence" which is a cool week of maths that serves as a final stage before selection of the Australian Maths Olympiad Team. I couldn't go because of my exchange in Germany but I was not expecting to get in at Year 10 so I was ridiculously happy at just being invited and I'm still able to be selected next year, so here's hoping

Yeah just 2012 was really fun and an amazing year

Also echoing everything said about pluff the cutiepie x100, her attitude on life is just incredible <3 :)
 
coming out to most people about being transgender made this year extremely scary and difficult for me, but it was a very necessary step that I don't regret not having delayed any longer; it was for the better and it can only get better now
 
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