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Films I've seen recently:

~ The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! (I liked this? It was OK? Yay Aardman/stop motion films/whatever?)

~ The Avengers (stoutly refusing to call it by its English title because a) I know it's not referring to the TV series from Way Back and b) the English title is 100% stupid. Also I didn't like it, I thought it was boring, and switched it off halfway through).

~ The Golden Compass (NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO).

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So my year in review!

I have, without a doubt, had a shitter of a year.

My mum has been ill for the majority of this year, and she's still not 100% now (OK, the district nurses aren't visiting any more because she's well enough by their standards, but if she were really all right, I wouldn't be worrying about her). I mean yeah. She wasn't life-threateningly ill or anything, but she wasn't right, and looking after her is time-consuming. So my mood has been up the wazoo, and things I've intended to do this year have fallen by the wayside (and not because I forgot I said I'd do them or whatever).

Also Charlie cat died. Yeah, she was just a cat, but we'd had her six and a half years, and she was my bud. I know that sounds stupid, saying that about an animal, but it's true. The circumstances in which she was found were unpleasant (which is putting it lightly), but I am sort of glad that I actually saw her (though it was horrible), rather than she just disappeared one day and never came back (as happened with two previous cats).

Then Jinny cat went missing, and I honestly thought I was going to die from the stress. I'd just about given up on seeing her again (after a teary trawl round the neighbourhood looking for her), when I came home one day, had barely been in five minutes, and there was a feeble meow at the door. I looked, out of habit, and there she was! She'd only been gone a week and a half, but maaaan that felt like forever. The vet said she was OK, if a little on the skinny side. We'll never really know what happened to her, but she's here, and she's all right, and she's not going anywhere :)

So that ended up being a happy thing, obviously, even though I was convinced that it wasn't going to be.

I also, on a happy note, started going to a local craft group that my friend Jackie had organised. That was good for socialising, and also it just plain got me out of the house. It's not running for now, however, for reasons I won't go into (nothing major, promise. Just not my story to tell).

Also also: I have made, in the last twelve months, money from my etsy store! I've also had a pretty good year, sales-wise, and that's been great (I wish it could've been better but the point is that I'm Getting There. No-one becomes a millionaire overnight. Er. Except those people that do).

I also attended my first ever craft fair, which was tiny, but fun, and I made some money, so I am in no way complaining.

So that was 2014, really. I hope 2015 is WAY better. I do not need a similar or worse year AT ALL THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Talking of which: next year's goals

# Play at least one Kirby game
# learn to pixel better than I can now
# learn to compose music
# learn to make onion chutney