this year was good for the most part.
bring on 07!

this year has been awesome
got a new guitar,amp and distotion pedal.
got drunk alot
saw trivium/cannibal corpse/metallica/mendeed/god forbid........
slept alot
scored when i was drunk a few weeks back

wasnt a pretty good year...
hoping for 2007 to be a better year..

Fuck it, might as well...
2006 was a loss for me, for the most part. The biggest news of the year is that I lost two good friends. The first, I had managed to break off a close friendship of six years with someone who meant a lot more to me than I realized until it was far too late. They've been the one consistent thing I could count on in my life for so long, and now, we've completely broken off all ties. We'll probably never speak to each other again, and it's fucking killing me, because I really want to know how they're doing, what's new and exciting in their life, and all that happy shit.
The second was the ambulance driver for my EMS crew when I worked as an inner city paramedic. She was a couple years younger than me, had a kid she raised on her own, and was generally having a rough time with life. Apparently, things got to her, so she parked her car in an alleyway, ran a length of garden hose from the exhaust into the passenger side window, and left the motor running. Real fucking classic, you know? I'm still pretty fucked up over that. Her parents couldn't collect her things right away, so they put it all in storage. I helped them move it out over the Christmas break, which was not easy for me to do at all, and dredged up a lot of memories and questions.
Still stuck in a job which is.... well, I work for a road construction outfit, driving a lowboy tractor. In the peak season (mid-Spring to mid-Autumn), I'm putting in anywhere from 60 to almost 100 hours a week. The money's good, but the hours really take their toll on you.
The things I intended to do this year were not realized, at all. The only thing I did accomplish was somewhat by accident, and that was recertifying as a paramedic, when I started volunteering my days off to work EMS for a volunteer fire department.
My parents and other relatives are getting even worse for nagging me with the fucking "so when are you getting married?" question. I really can't try explaining myself to them, because they're simply not hearing it. I like being single, because it allows me to remain as wreckless and self-destructive as I want to be. And I want to be very wreckless and self destructive. Perhaps it's selfish of me, but a relationship now would only interfere with my desires to do such.
Good news of 06.... umm....
Well, I expanded my music collection considerably. That should definitely be noted.
Shows.. I only attended four. The first was in April, and that was Reflections, which featured Shroud of Bereavement, Keen of the Crow, Loss, and the local band Soulpreacher (2004 demo + 1 track from their 2000 album is available for download on their site). The second, I didn't go to for the show, but just to get out for the night. Some shit band called MorrisonPoe was playing, and they basically counted on their female singer acting like a bull dyke to keep the audience in attendance. If she was actually hot, perhaps. But she isn't.. And the music is shit, as well. The third was a benefit concert for a member of Twisted Tower Dire (if you like music in a similar vein to early Iron Maiden and Dio, check them out) whose house had burned down. Also playing were NC bands Blatant Disarray, Dreamscapes of the Perverse, Viper, and Widow. And the last was New Years, where I went to Studio 11 to see Soulpreacher play, along with other local Rock and Metal acts. Unfortunately, all of the other bands I wanted to see (Dreamscapes of the Perverse, Blatent Disarray, and Daylight Dies) had cancelled their plans to play that set, but I was able to hang out in the practice room with the members of Soulpreacher (they rent a room behind the stage as their practice space; Daylight Dies also rents a room there), and had a hell of a time. Between the beer, mead, and Corbel, there's no way in hell I was driving, so my poor roommates had to come get me.
And I got rid of my shitbox 91 Ford Explorer, which I had bought as a joke in 2001, and just kept, because I don't like to throw anything away. I got rid of that, and bought a 2005 Chevrolet Impala, which I'm much happier with.
Not sure if there's anything else really worth putting in here.