Here's to You, 2005!!!

Here's to You, 2005!!!!

2005, you sly dog you! You came into the world full of such hope and promise. You started off as one of the best years of my life, you sneaky little devil! Little did I suspect how you would destroy the very core of my belief system. Thanks for opening my eyes to reality and squelching all of the simplistic naive traits that I possessed! You truly believe in the 'tough love' approach and totally out-did yourself on the 'tough' part! 2005 really taught me alot of swell lessons!

In 2005........

I learned that it's awfully hard to teach a first grade class when you are depressed and angry at the world and that it is heartbreaking to look into the eyes of a child and know that there is no magic, no guiding force in the world and that their life, from this point on, will simply be a series of lies and dissappointments.

I learned that there are more shady, manipulative, lying people in this world than I ever realized and that they can fool even the smartest people.

I learned that wearing your heart on your sleeve only gets it dirty, nicked, and bruised.

I learned that believing that someone could truly be in love with me, and stay in love with me was an awful miscalculation on my part; I surely knew better.

I learned that the phrase, "blood is thicker than water" only applies if you have heterosexual blood coursing though your viens.

I learned that love conquers nothing, that giving only benefits those who take, and that only an idiot 'thinks with their heart'.

2005 sure was an enlightening year! Hip hip hor-fucking-ray!!