How was 2023?

[daft twat]

Was it a good year?

For me, it was among the best.

My oldest son got his drivers’ license and has been doing well in his junior year. My youngest son is halfway through his last year of middle school and his guitar skills are far beyond where I ever thought he’d be.

3 trips: France/Spain in March with a few teachers and over 30 students, NYC, Cape Cod, Maine, and Montreal in August with my family, and Cozumel, Mexico, with my family for the last week of the year. All 3 trips exceeded expectations.

10 concerts: Origami Angel, The Dirty Nil, RHCP, Taylor Swift, Metallica x2, PJ x2, Arctic Monkeys, and Chevelle plus two stand up gigs - Seinfeld and Gervais. They were all super fun.

The new Zelda game accounted for over 300 hours of my life and none of it felt wasted.

None of my sports teams have done shit, but that’s par for the course. Daily life was pretty good all year. Everyone was healthy and no one I love died.

2024 will struggle to be as good.

[96583UP]

shut up

quit asking me all these personal questions

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[96583UP]

lol kidding i didnt even read you post luv u

[96583UP]

now i just read it happy you had a good year

mine was also good

hoping for positive things in 2024

[spike]

now i just read it happy you had a good year

mine was also good

hoping for positive things in 2024

[Bammer]

I can’t complain!

[96583UP]

now i just read it happy you had a good year

mine was also good

hoping for positive things in 2024

lol

[Anders]

Was it a good year?

For me, it was among the best.

My oldest son got his drivers’ license and has been doing well in his junior year. My youngest son is halfway through his last year of middle school and his guitar skills are far beyond where I ever thought he’d be.

3 trips: France/Spain in March with a few teachers and over 30 students, NYC, Cape Cod, Maine, and Montreal in August with my family, and Cozumel, Mexico, with my family for the last week of the year. All 3 trips exceeded expectations.

10 concerts: Origami Angel, The Dirty Nil, RHCP, Taylor Swift, Metallica x2, PJ x2, Arctic Monkeys, and Chevelle plus two stand up gigs - Seinfeld and Gervais. They were all super fun.

The new Zelda game accounted for over 300 hours of my life and none of it felt wasted.

None of my sports teams have done shit, but that’s par for the course. Daily life was pretty good all year. Everyone was healthy and no one I love died.

2024 will struggle to be as good.

That does sound like an amazing year.

[Anders]

The best thing about 2023, was seeing our daughter experience it, and maturing and evolving, the way a 3 year old does. We laugh together every day, and share a lot of moments that I cherish highly.

The first half of the year, she was easily the oldest in her kindergarten group (1-3 years old), and I think she liked being the kid everyone looked up to. Then this autumn she moved to an older group (3-5 years old), which had some challenges for her, but then she adapted to it, and I think it's good for her to be around the older kids.

My wife and I had a good year together, and this summer we went to the Philippines for three weeks, to visit her family, and also to have a nice vacation. It was expensive, and the weather could have been better. But we did have three enjoyable weeks. We also had a couple of minor trips to Germany, one in the spring, and one in the autumn.

She went from two jobs to one this year, for about equal pay to what she had before, because of a larger percentage of employment at her now main job. That made a big difference to us, as we can now spend most weekends together without thinking of work (only one in four previously). We eat sushi every Friday and watch a good movie, and on Saturdays we usually have a family day, where we do something together out of the house. Sundays we usually just relax. All in all, we really enjoy our weekends.

At my work there was quite a bit of turmoil. Too much to get into really, but my job has been stable, and even with a lot of new colleagues, I'll keep working there going forward. Our office location will change in 3-4 months, and more changes will probably happen as the year progresses. I'm not worried about it though. I can work from home a couple of days per week, which I enjoy.

My wife and I work completely different hours, and that has some challenges, but we have a nice system in dealing with things. Most importantly, that our daughter is taken care of in the proper way.

My most time consuming hobby in 2023, was watching movies. But I also follow sports, play video games, and communicate with friends and family, as well as post on RM. The amount of close friends I meet regularly is probably at an all time low, and I often struggle to find time for an evening at the pub watching football, or something like that. Family comes first, but I do hope to improve that situation with meeting friends more in 2024.

We had a wonderful time together at Christmas, with my mother and my 54 year old brother (who also lives in Oslo). My mother at 75, is still going strong, and my brothers (50 and 54) and their famiies, are all doing fairly well. I hope this keeps being the case in the years to come. My mothers brother and sister, have both gotten cancer this year, so it was a tough year for her. My brother's (54) wife and daughter are from Ukraine. And of course that is a topic of its own. They are affected by the war in so many ways, but they did seem to enjoy their Christmas despite this.

Now we are all ready for the new year.

[Jorge]

It was a very good year for me. A lot of good times, some meaningful milestones, and very little in the way of tragedy or hardship in my immediate circles. Things really feel like they're gathering forward momentum in several ways. Couldn't ask for much more. Hoping 2024 is just as good or better

[daft twat]

The best thing about 2023, was seeing our daughter experience it, and maturing and evolving, the way a 3 year old does. We laugh together every day, and share a lot of moments that I cherish highly.

The first half of the year, she was easily the oldest in her kindergarten group (1-3 years old), and I think she liked being the kid everyone looked up to. Then this autumn she moved to an older group (3-5 years old), which had some challenges for her, but then she adapted to it, and I think it's good for her to be around the older kids.

My wife and I had a good year together, and this summer we went to the Philippines for three weeks, to visit her family, and also to have a nice vacation. It was expensive, and the weather could have been better. But we did have three enjoyable weeks. We also had a couple of minor trips to Germany, one in the spring, and one in the autumn.

She went from two jobs to one this year, for about equal pay to what she had before, because of a larger percentage of employment at her now main job. That made a big difference to us, as we can now spend most weekends together without thinking of work (only one in four previously). We eat sushi every Friday and watch a good movie, and on Saturdays we usually have a family day, where we do something together out of the house. Sundays we usually just relax. All in all, we really enjoy our weekends.

At my work there was quite a bit of turmoil. Too much to get into really, but my job has been stable, and even with a lot of new colleagues, I'll keep working there going forward. Our office location will change in 3-4 months, and more changes will probably happen as the year progresses. I'm not worried about it though. I can work from home a couple of days per week, which I enjoy.

My wife and I work completely different hours, and that has some challenges, but we have a nice system in dealing with things. Most importantly, that our daughter is taken care of in the proper way.

My most time consuming hobby in 2023, was watching movies. But I also follow sports, play video games, and communicate with friends and family, as well as post on RM. The amount of close friends I meet regularly is probably at an all time low, and I often struggle to find time for an evening at the pub watching football, or something like that. Family comes first, but I do hope to improve that situation with meeting friends more in 2024.

We had a wonderful time together at Christmas, with my mother and my 54 year old brother (who also lives in Oslo). My mother at 75, is still going strong, and my brothers (50 and 54) and their famiies, are all doing fairly well. I hope this keeps being the case in the years to come. My mothers brother and sister, have both gotten cancer this year, so it was a tough year for her. My brother's (54) wife and daughter are from Ukraine. And of course that is a topic of its own. They are affected by the war in so many ways, but they did seem to enjoy their Christmas despite this.

Now we are all ready for the new year.

Not just from this post, but from all of your posts, you seem like the happiest RMer. If not happiest, most grateful anyway. How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking? I seem to remember reading this is your second marriage. You have a 3 year old later in life, yes? I’m nearing 47 myself and can’t imagine having a young kid again, but I also believe I’d be better at parenting in many ways if I had another kid. We just got back from our trip to Mexico yesterday and I don’t think I’ve ever been on a vacation where I’ve stared at my kids more. I feel this stage of my life nearing an end and it saddens me. I’m sure vacations with just my wife will be great, but I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy them as much as the ones with my kids.

[Bammer]

Of all the RMers’ various abilities …

- strat on guitar
- doug smoking meats
- argo with the dewey decimal system
- ruddo posting that pic of the two girls cooking in the woods
- etc.

I gotta say I am most impressed at how skilled Ondish is at sitting on his ass for hours innumerable just staring at the movie screen.

[Anders]

The best thing about 2023, was seeing our daughter experience it, and maturing and evolving, the way a 3 year old does. We laugh together every day, and share a lot of moments that I cherish highly.

The first half of the year, she was easily the oldest in her kindergarten group (1-3 years old), and I think she liked being the kid everyone looked up to. Then this autumn she moved to an older group (3-5 years old), which had some challenges for her, but then she adapted to it, and I think it's good for her to be around the older kids.

My wife and I had a good year together, and this summer we went to the Philippines for three weeks, to visit her family, and also to have a nice vacation. It was expensive, and the weather could have been better. But we did have three enjoyable weeks. We also had a couple of minor trips to Germany, one in the spring, and one in the autumn.

She went from two jobs to one this year, for about equal pay to what she had before, because of a larger percentage of employment at her now main job. That made a big difference to us, as we can now spend most weekends together without thinking of work (only one in four previously). We eat sushi every Friday and watch a good movie, and on Saturdays we usually have a family day, where we do something together out of the house. Sundays we usually just relax. All in all, we really enjoy our weekends.

At my work there was quite a bit of turmoil. Too much to get into really, but my job has been stable, and even with a lot of new colleagues, I'll keep working there going forward. Our office location will change in 3-4 months, and more changes will probably happen as the year progresses. I'm not worried about it though. I can work from home a couple of days per week, which I enjoy.

My wife and I work completely different hours, and that has some challenges, but we have a nice system in dealing with things. Most importantly, that our daughter is taken care of in the proper way.

My most time consuming hobby in 2023, was watching movies. But I also follow sports, play video games, and communicate with friends and family, as well as post on RM. The amount of close friends I meet regularly is probably at an all time low, and I often struggle to find time for an evening at the pub watching football, or something like that. Family comes first, but I do hope to improve that situation with meeting friends more in 2024.

We had a wonderful time together at Christmas, with my mother and my 54 year old brother (who also lives in Oslo). My mother at 75, is still going strong, and my brothers (50 and 54) and their famiies, are all doing fairly well. I hope this keeps being the case in the years to come. My mothers brother and sister, have both gotten cancer this year, so it was a tough year for her. My brother's (54) wife and daughter are from Ukraine. And of course that is a topic of its own. They are affected by the war in so many ways, but they did seem to enjoy their Christmas despite this.

Now we are all ready for the new year.

Not just from this post, but from all of your posts, you seem like the happiest RMer. If not happiest, most grateful anyway. How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking? I seem to remember reading this is your second marriage. You have a 3 year old later in life, yes? I’m nearing 47 myself and can’t imagine having a young kid again, but I also believe I’d be better at parenting in many ways if I had another kid. We just got back from our trip to Mexico yesterday and I don’t think I’ve ever been on a vacation where I’ve stared at my kids more. I feel this stage of my life nearing an end and it saddens me. I’m sure vacations with just my wife will be great, but I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy them as much as the ones with my kids.

Thank you. I was born late in the year in 1978, and I'm now 45 years old. My first serious relationship was from 2000 to 2007, and we got married in 2002. We did plan to get kids, but we were young and decided to wait, and then it suddenly ended. Met my current wife in 2018. She's a nurse of Filipino heritage, that had lived in Oslo since 2011. We got our daughter in 2020, and also got married that year. I am a bit worried about age if we get another child. But I guess we'll deal with that if it ever happens. My wife is seven years younger than me, so it's not impossible. So far with our daughter, I think it has worked out really well.

[spike]

Do storks drop them off or something?

[doug rr]

2023 was good..more ups than downs...got my anxiety and panic stuff down to almost nothing..got a few trips under the belt again finally after covid..more to come in 2024 i hope..want to sell the place in California when the time is right this year hopefully..either stay in this place or find something else before moving to canada officially happens..we drove down to Seattle last week to look at some apartments so who knows...go broncos

[Chris_H_2]

Do storks drop them off or something?

or he buys them on the dark web

[spike]

Do storks drop them off or something?

or he buys them on the dark web

can’t it be both

[Chris_H_2]

Do storks drop them off or something?

or he buys them on the dark web

can’t it be both

probably is

[Ms Harmless]

December had an emotional hiccup but all in all I had a great year, started dating one of my best friends

[VinylGuy]

I had a good year yeah.
Got another niece, my mom and dad are great, my family is good. Got to travel to europe with my mom and sis, perhaps a highlight of the year and a travel we will remember for sure. Went to cannes for the 5th year, and it was one of the best ones.
We did some interesting projects too, although we also lost some cool ones too.