Be Excellent To Each Other

Wow, a lot has happened since the partying of New Years Eve 2000. Been thinking about what I've done and what I'm looking forward too...

Started my current job early on in this decade (8 years now, longest I've stayed anywhere). I got married and had a fantastic honeymoon in Thailand/Japan. Crashed my wifes car (no one hurt), climbed up some big hills, discovered real ale, learnt how to cook some of my favorite dishes. Switched forums, rediscovered photography, landed a freebie to Dubai and went up the world's tallest building and most importantly I became a very proud Daddy. I'm sure there's much more but these are the major things that spring to mind. Stopping smoking was a big thing too, proud of that.

As for the next decade I'm looking forward to being a Daddy again, sinking loads of time (and money) into photography, painting and illustration. Traveling as much as I can and getting plenty of bezzie meets in (phone permitting, natch).

How did you all find it and what's everyones plans for the next 10 years?

Will we all be in the teens then after 2012?

Um, surely Jan 1st 2010 was the start of the decade.

Maybe, depends if you're me or not.

Hmm... good question!

New Years Eve 1999 was spent with a good bunch of mates from school i'd lost touch with and since got back in touch with after uni.
Since then the main dude in the group has moved to Dubai and i'm in facebook contact with a couple of others, but never see them.
In the past decade:
I've loved, lost, loved, lost, loved again. All to the same girl!
I've lived in Leighton Buzzard, Benson, Abingdon, Leighton Buzzard, South Shields, Leighton Buzzard, Bletchley.
I've worked in UK, Germany, Ireland, USA.
I've bought 4 houses/apartments, i've sold 2.
My career has skyrocketed from a lowly tester doing y2k testing for a product company, to a principal consultant at a London consultancy.
I've owned about 14 different cars, sometimes 3 at a time.
I've become an uncle 3 times over.
My mother died.

A fair amount has happened!

Thanks, just the wrong time frame.

I'll be in the Belm thread if anyone needs me.

Well nevermind I guess in the last eleven years of this decade as recorded by the Zardozian calendar I've done a fair bit.

Fell in love fell out of love fell in love again bought a house done a few different jobs but stayed in this one for the past eight years or so. Been here and there, resumed skateboarding after a few years hiatus, wasted lots of time on the internet, quit smoking, started smoking, quit smoking, started smoking, quit smoking, started smoking, quit smoking, started smoking, quit smoking again. Ran for hundreds of miles, drank, got stoned, danced, crashed cars done some other stuff.

Plans for the next decade are to just keep on truckin and see what happens really.

I suppose it depends which decade you're talking about, 2000-2009 or 2001-2010 - or any other period of 10 years.

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Actually yeah, you're right, technically. He said New Years Eve 2000, although I'm fairly certain that this was also a BELM and he meant 1999.

Every moment of time is the end of a decade, isn't it?

Except for the first ten years, obv

Packed in my factory job and started my own business. Left a band, joined a band, left that band, went back to the first band, left again and joined another band. Discovered the delights of 80s/90s SAAB 900 Turbos. Got a half decent camera and started taking some decent photos. Packed in skateboarding and started playing golf. Haven't stopped smoking.

Yeah, but if someone asked you which decade you were born in what would you say?

The best kind of right.

But anyways, I met my (still current) girlfriend, took a university degree, moved to Spain, started 1st job, stopped smoking, started 2nd job. So I've been busy, yes.

Plans for the future: None, as has always been the case. I am terrible for this. I am thinking of taking a private pilot license, though. I even live near a place where they have the schools and everything. The only thing that concerns me is that I don't know if such a license would have any use outside of Spain and as such could potentially be a waste of a lot of money if I decide to go somewhere else or back to Denmark.

Yeah we're already in the '10s. What a spastic.

So yes, went on a plane, bought a desk, went to a wedding, saw a big block of flats and a silly car, beat a baby at Halo and bought a Bedford van.

I could translate most of that Grim....
The pic of you both playing Xbox is super sweet. During Movember I take it?

Indeed.

Although I've just noticed you were cheating as you've taken the battery pack out of his controller.

Not sure that it's PC to demand that she gets on her knees before you get back the the marital domain, old boy.

"Clean that."
"No."
"WTF? I've been lied to."

Wow. Have I been unbelmed?

ACHEEZO UNLOXED

Since the dawn of 2000 I have...

Graduated
Got a proper job
Lost said proper job several years later in a swathe of redundancies
Spent 9 months dossing about
Met a girl who seemed nice
Started again at the bottom of the job ladder
Moved in with said nice girl
Moved jobs a lot
Got engaged to said nice girl
Racked up some impressively large amounts of unsecured debt
Got married to said nice girl in VEGAS, BABY, YEAH!
Moved house a lot
Impregnated said nice girl.

The next decade promises big changes. EEEEK!

You're turning into a mouse?

That's an ace picture gallery Grim...

Anyway... I have stayed friends with some good people. Lost touch with some bad people. Stopped smoking.. for good! Got sacked then got a better job. Played a lot of drums (but not enough) moved into a house. Got married. Went to Las Vegas and tons of other stuff.

Doing stuff like this makes me realise that I really do just coast through life and always seem to land on my feet.

Bought an xbox.
Got a degree.
Moved to Sweden.

Became a man.

Ahhh New Years 2000. I still remember it well. My family hired a hall and we got plastered. I was given one of the plastic washing up bowls for the ride home which I then proceeded to half fill whilst sipping the pint I had in my hand. When I got home I put the pint glass on the bedroom floor next to the bed and then stepped on it in the morning. I still have the scar. I don't miss having to gaffer tape a pillow to my foot so I could walk around without breaking the stitches.

Last decade for me has been pretty surreal tbh. Got married, went to the USA, got divorced, diagnosed mental, came home ETC ETC.

Still at least it hasn't been boring.

Amsterdam
Cuba
Czech Republic
Singapore
Malaysia
Estonia
Dublin
Serbia
Thailand
California
Vegas
Paris
Egypt

Well, at least the holidays were fun.