Doing the bills and filing the end-of-year paperwork a bit early this year, and this year it's 2000 in the bin.
I was working full-time at Kinesoft Development, which was great when I got to work with
hdan and then was a bit lonely later on when he moved to different team. I started therapy going every few weeks all that year, and had finished up graduate school the previous year, so things emotionally were hard but improving.
Kim and I were still continuing with whatever remained of our estranged and broken relationship. Long weeks would go by without much contact, then many days of shared meals and evenings. We were definitely "not together", and I spent many long and lonely nights in my apartment very sad. She stopped seeing the guy she had dumped me for back on New Year's Eve of 1997 early in the year, which really only gave me false hope of reconciliation. Things lingered on, and I wonder if the most damage wasn't done in that year of being allowed close then far then close again. We were both 'single', but that didn't seem to matter much. She was distant even at the best of times, and really only seemed to take any interest when she was feeling needy or when I mentioned interest in some other girl.
It was my 30th birthday, so I threw a small party. I recall
tavalon giving me a DVD of Debbie Does Dallas just to embarrass me.
I went to CMA Beltane, which was the last time all the 'players' were there. I recall it being both emotionally difficult and a good time with amusing companionship.
onyxlynxx and I had lost touch for a few years, and 2000 was the year we started to talk again, helped by the fact that she worked in the same building as Kinesoft.
It was the year Koshka got a bad abscess from a fight, and I had to take her to the Vet ER.
I had meet Andrea at Pagan Night Out over the summer of 2000 and exchanged e-mail a few times, but we really didn't start dating until 2001.
Mom and Dad asked Todd and I to join them in Hawaii, which was an amusing family vacation. Todd and I found Danny Couch terrifying. I discovered a love of fresh pineapple.
I totaled my car in November when I got hit by someone pulling out in front of me on an unprotected left, just after I had thrown my vote away on someone other than George Bush Jr. I had just paid it off a few months before, and had done the expensive belt-replacement maintenance. The airbag impact left a nasty deep bruise that lasted for months.
hdan and Christy's first, Jake, was born that year.
That year I finalized my divorce with
appleang.
In many ways it was a transition year, the year that set the stage for the move to Seattle and finally walking away from the lingering hope I had for Kim the next year.
I was working full-time at Kinesoft Development, which was great when I got to work with
Kim and I were still continuing with whatever remained of our estranged and broken relationship. Long weeks would go by without much contact, then many days of shared meals and evenings. We were definitely "not together", and I spent many long and lonely nights in my apartment very sad. She stopped seeing the guy she had dumped me for back on New Year's Eve of 1997 early in the year, which really only gave me false hope of reconciliation. Things lingered on, and I wonder if the most damage wasn't done in that year of being allowed close then far then close again. We were both 'single', but that didn't seem to matter much. She was distant even at the best of times, and really only seemed to take any interest when she was feeling needy or when I mentioned interest in some other girl.
It was my 30th birthday, so I threw a small party. I recall
I went to CMA Beltane, which was the last time all the 'players' were there. I recall it being both emotionally difficult and a good time with amusing companionship.
It was the year Koshka got a bad abscess from a fight, and I had to take her to the Vet ER.
I had meet Andrea at Pagan Night Out over the summer of 2000 and exchanged e-mail a few times, but we really didn't start dating until 2001.
Mom and Dad asked Todd and I to join them in Hawaii, which was an amusing family vacation. Todd and I found Danny Couch terrifying. I discovered a love of fresh pineapple.
I totaled my car in November when I got hit by someone pulling out in front of me on an unprotected left, just after I had thrown my vote away on someone other than George Bush Jr. I had just paid it off a few months before, and had done the expensive belt-replacement maintenance. The airbag impact left a nasty deep bruise that lasted for months.
That year I finalized my divorce with
In many ways it was a transition year, the year that set the stage for the move to Seattle and finally walking away from the lingering hope I had for Kim the next year.