How was 2013 for you?

It wasn’t crazy or really eventful; pretty banal if anything. I moved once but it was an easy transition.

Brief. I can’t believe it’s over already.

Not very good. I’ve been hoping some moon will rise, or something will come out of retrograde and we Capricorns will have a better 2014. We moved in 2013 and although I am very happy to be back in the warm climate of FL, the move has taken it’s toll and caused a lot of stress in my marriage and in general. Also, as you know, I feel I am in my midlife crisis right now, spending too much timing regret mode. Another negative was my husband crashed his race car. But, it wasn’t all bad. Like I said I love being back in the FL sun, at a cheaper airport, only 4 hours driving from my friends and family on the east coast of FL, and under 2 hours to Disney. More people visit in FL, so I see more friends because they come here! We have been exploring the city, so lots of new things to do and learn.

Pretty good. My support group for my social anxiety is going well, and I’ve made a few friends along the way. I’ve also started to exercise more and eat healthier, I’ve already lost 20 pounds and have toned my abs. I’ve also made amends with my best friend who suffers from alcoholism and drug addiction.

Brief: good things and bad things happened. I’m glad there are more good things than bad things

Well I survived it, does that count?

I can’t wait for 2013 to be over. My partner was in a bad car accident in early May. End of May we got robbed in a hotel in Johannesburg. My father passed away in August and in December the lighting struck the farm gate rendering it useless, the water pump broke and the 4×4 is not functioning correctly. I hope 2014 will be better…

A milestone year for me. I abandoned a full-time career (I refuse to say “retired”) and reached, oh, let’s call it “a certain age.”

I’ve had better. A majority of the time has been spent worrying about my mother’s health.

The year started out with a breast cancer scare. I had a huge lump. My OB sent me to the hospital for ultrasound, biopsy and admittance and I was frankly very scared..but the surgeon he referred me to instead diagnosed a rare, but benign disease instead..and told me to go home and take Advil.

The rest of the year seemed to follow that course.. for me & my family. So the year wasn’t without a few moments of sadness or anxiety (and at least one more cancer scare)...but we seemed to have ended up with more good than bad and nothing tragic.

We managed to pay the bills, the kids did well in school for the most part..and despite some anxiety and uncertainty at times, I’d say the good stuff this year exceeded the bad. And, it’s ending on a high note…everyone is in relatively good health at the moment.

The near-misses we had this year make me all the more grateful for our good fortune in general.

Personally, it was both good and bad. I got to visit with my family of origin. I enjoyed a very good year marriage-wise. We moved from an apartment back into a house (Ahhhhhh!). But my mother died last month, which is very sad, and I miss her.

Workwise, it was the best year since the economic downturn.

Hoping 2014 will be better for me and my family.

So far, so good.

It sucked!
The worst year ever, in the history of my life, trumping even a shitty divorce 11 years ago. Plain and simple I ran out of money after years of peaceful and prosperous living. Had to give up the micro-farm last march, re-home my beloved goose ” Marwyn” I raised from a wee gosling and had for 15 years.

I was forced to move into a shared living arrangement after living alone forever, ( Hell, I didn’t even want a room mate when I was 18 let alone 54. )
I am making about ⅓rd of my old income, between losing a business and the flat lined interest rates that contributed to my economic downturn. Life pretty much sucks but I am just now, after 9 months of relentless stress and exhaustion, trying to pull myself out of this slump and formulate a future plan.

So far I am not making much progress but baby steps, or, a nice pot of Oleander tea. lol
2014 has to be better, I am simply NOT willing to live a compromised quality of life for much longer!

More downs than ups. Work was a big up though. My one year contract was extended for another year. I was unemployed for an entire year so that was huge, just knowing I had garunteed income for another year.

I saw the official end of my 4 year relationship. I officially things ended in 2012 but just really solidifying it, it was a difficult time.

At the same time I was dealing with the one year anniversary of the death of a dear friend so that entire month sucked.

Fell for a guy who despite my best efforts never saw me as more than an acquaintence and now he’s engaged.

Actually most people who I casually know are engaged or marred now and I still live at home. I want some independence so badly but I feel hopelessly stuck.

I found the courage to apply to grad school. That was an up though I won’t know the results until 2014. I gave all of myself to that process so wherever the dice land, I’m going to try to take it in stride.

I did not make any friends, so definitely a down on the friendship front. I keep failing at this.

I still have my health, no real changes in my vision (which is a biggie with my already impaired state), though I did gain weight. All my attempts at weight loss have failed so there’s that.

Overall, more negative than positive but there is some hope that I laid down good foundations work wise/school wise.

I realized about ten days ago that I answer “okay” when people ask me how I am, and I really need to say “pretty good”.

This year has been a year of tremendous growth for me spiritually, emotionally, and health-wise. And while I have a few areas of disappointment that seem to be my focus, I must say overall it has been a pretty good year.

2013 was a good year. It had ups and downs and we got through them all together as a family.

At the beginning of 2013, I took a promotion at work. I learned a lot in the 5 months I had that position, but ended up realizing it wasn’t the right time/place for me to be in that position, and I stepped down.

Throughout the year, I worked 50–60 hours every week. Now, looking at the new year, I’m exhausted and hoping to not work so much. I am realizing that my mind, body, and soul cannot continue at that pace.

My children have grown and watching their personalities develop has been wonderful. Our little ones are a little over a year apart, but they are so very different. It is so much fun watching them become who they are going to be.

Pretty good for hubs and I. We paid off some bills, he had no new health issues for a change, and we got a new puppy. On the negatives, we lost a few friends that we loved, and family relations were slightly strained. 2014 will be better.

It was a very nice year for me. My brother got engaged a few days back, made some good friends, joined Fluther. It’s treated me pretty well this year. The few depressing things were, my hearing loss is getting worse and I had to do an MRI brain scan a couple of days back, but the result was normal. Other than that all was fine. I hope that the upcoming year 2014 also brings many joys and prosperities in not only my life, but in everyone’s life.

Probably the smoothest year of my 10+ year relationship. One years ago, we were alternating between not speaking and beating on the walls.

Pretty uneventful. Since I’m over 50 and have no kids, I’m good with that. “Events” tend to be negative after a certain age, unless grandkids are involved. :-)

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2013 was a decent year for me. Mentally I am healthier than I have been for about 10 years, I still have a long way to go but I feel like I can manage my anxieties far better than I could in previous years which is making life so much more bearable.

Work wise I made the jump from safe, secure but boring job to my dream job that could fall through at any moment. I’m not regretting it yet and, if it does fall through, the experience I have gained in these past few months are far more valuable to me than all of the seven years on my previous job.

Financially I am worse off (due to leaving my safe job for my unsafe dream) but living within my means for the most part (sometimes with a little help from my boyfriend).

This year has made me more secure in my boyfriend’s love for me. He asks me to marry him all the time, I don’t believe in marriage so don’t feel the need to become his wife by law but just knowing that he would marry me is enough for me.

I’ve had a few dreams come true, seeing Barbra Streisand in concert, working with dogs on a full time basis and standing on the Grand Ole Opry stage to name some.

If 2014 is as good as this year, I will be content.

I had a good year for myself and my family, but am saddened because some odd twist of fate, many of my friends had untimely and unexpected deaths in their family. I feel a bit guilty and can’t say the year was amazingly good for that reason.

I’m still waiting for something exciting to happen!! As years go, it was just another year.

Not a bad thing, @TheRealOldHippie!

Transitional. I got a lot of answers to questions that I never thought would be answered, and solutions to problems that I thought had no solutions. It was a tough year, but moving in the right direction. It makes me hopeful for 2014.

I will leave 2013 in a happier more hopeful frame of mind than I came into it. Things have improved financially and I met someone online who I will meet face to face in early in 2014. Fingers crossed all goes well.

The last half of the year was particularly good for me; I finally got the surgery I’d been waiting for, my daughter and her partner got their own place and moved out, and both of them have joined the ranks of the employed, which makes me very happy. Even the first half of the year wasn’t too bad. We’ve ended the year better-off financially than we started it.

I wouldn’t want to re-do it.

Spent six months of it working for a company I was morally opposed to, and the other half unemployed.

Hubs just started a new job, though, and he feels it has potential to be a good career for him. Room for advancement and won’t take away from his creative pursuits (we’re both very unhappy if our muses cannot be fed).

So, here’s to a better 2014.

Good question, I never actually stopped to think about 2013.
Well here goes, at work I never got promoted. We got this year only 1.5% salary increase and no bonuses. My annual leave were canceled four times this year.
Fired my buyer and since October I got three death threats from her, the restraining order to her was delivered yesterday. And we may be closing doors end of February, so my work related prospects for 2014 does not look so bright.
On my personal front, I dated a Chinese lady for two months and that was very interesting to see how my friends and my family reacted. As for the Chinese lady she went back to China and will not be coming back. She met an old flame in China, so that’s what she wrote in her Dear John letter. I met some one again last month and I fell madly in love, but for some unknown reason this woman is a scared to give me a chance I took an epic fishing trip with my father in September for a week. On financial side I simply just can’t win the Lotto. I wrote a short story and I was suppose to publish it for free at Amazon eBooks or I think it’s Kindle books or something like that, but decided against it. I bought a beautiful boat and I’ve been spending long hours restoring it. And I managed to pay up all my dept.
I WISH A GOOD AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FELLOW JELLIES

Thought it was ending on a good note, even though I had to say good-bye to someone I love…but then today happened. Apparently my current job is trying (again) to screw things over for me, and I once again am faced with possibly being out of a job. I so can’t stand it there…

I had an amazing year. June and July from this year were the best months of my life, and most of the rest of it was mighty good too. Here’s to another good one.

I hope 2014 treats you kinder, those of you who had a bad 2013.

My oldest daughter got married.
My son bought a town house.
My wife got her second cochlear implant.
I retired.

Years don’t get much better than that.

Busy…I broke a hand, got committed, fell in love with a patient, unfriended my ex-girlfriend on Facebook, got evicted, and got my own apartment for December and January had several medication changes. I’m taking this week to relax, and focus on food clothing and shelter, and comfort.

In 2013 I . . . nearly had a nervous breakdown as a graduate student (on more than one occasion), passed my comprehensive exams, graduated with an MA in English, decided to bite the bullet and apply for a PhD, started planning to move out with my SO, became a Fluther moderator, accepted a part-time adjunct position in fall, presented at a conference, got engaged, and submitted my first PhD application.

The downs sucked, but the ups were amazing. Things aren’t the best right now (I may be out of a job due to underenrollment at my college), but I can’t wait for 2014 to zip by so I can start my second life.

@muppetish Congratulation for becoming a Fluther moderator!

2013 is full of achievements, memorable moments and happy time for me. A lot of good things happened to me and more likely to feel optimistic about 2013.

@oliviawilde would you please read your answer and expound?

We are missing the “achievements, memorable moments and happy time”, but time-warping into 2014?