*is totally alive, whut*

[candyland]

It's kind of silly. I would go to work, and while at work I would think about fun things I could or should post about on LJ when I got home! Then I would get home, and get to my computer and be like, "Blah. Too much work." B-but I'm making a post now, yesh!

So anyway, 2009 is almost upon us. The last year of the...zeros? Aughts? Pre-tens? WHAT THE HECK ARE WE CALLING THIS DECADE? Tomorrow night, we're going out to dinner with my aunt and uncle, and my cousin and her husband. Yay fun~

I don't work tomorrow, so I get to have super-fun busy day doing totally frivolous things, yay! I have found that posting my lists here help me accomplish things because then I feel stupid if I don't cross anything off. So here, have a list!



~ Take the ornaments off the Christmas tree (...okay, this is for Dad, so it's important XD)
~ Post rest of NaNo fics on candyfics (note to self: BACKDATE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD)
~ Get Year in Review thingie updated with said new fics
~ Catch up on comments (S-sorry... *fails at this)
~ Outliiiiiines (springwrite starts on Thursday, and I have plunnies!)
~ Get various other things in order, etc.
~ ????
~ PROFIT



And finally, back around Christmas I was thinking about this awesome Boxjam Doodles comic that I always found amusing. And I thought I would share the sentiment with you (although I can't find the link and am being lazy). I shared it with bishonen_girl, and nearly wound up with a faceful of sprayed soup for my troubles :D

Basically, the idea is that it's all a rip-off. Think about it: he was born at Christmastime. He gathered a small group of followers. He was persecuted by those in power. And he left, with a vague promise that he would come back "someday."

...FROSTY THE SNOWMAN IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, N/N?

Comments

[theorygirl.livejournal.com]

The last year of the...zeros? Aughts? Pre-tens? WHAT THE HECK ARE WE CALLING THIS DECADE?
I think most people call it 'the first decade of the new millennium.' I never really thought about it, though.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

That just takes so long to say... XD I only think about it once in a while, I guess. Now is one of those moments.

[bishonen-girl.livejournal.com]

I have nothing so far plan for the new years. I bet I will be asleep at midnight. ^_^

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I was awake to watch the ball drop, and then I dozed. I was awakened at twelve-oh-one by a friend calling to wish me a Happy New Year :3

[chakrus.livejournal.com]

i just call it 2000 still.
srsly.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

...but...it's 2009... @_@

[ytak.livejournal.com]

No idea what to call this decade. And I've pondered it,too. I've heard the 'aughts' suggested. But what the heck is an 'aught?'

Good luck on your stuff. Especially the 'profit.' ^_^

Am enjoying Phoenix Wright 2. I was this close to losing the first trial. I'm through the investigation of the second and will be starting the actual trial tomorrow.

[soc_puppet]

An 'aught' is a zero, probably derived from 'naught'. In conversation that would be: "These are the last few days of twenty-aught-eight," or "I graduated in twenty-aught-five," or "I wasn't alive in nineteen-aught-two." I've personally heard this decade called the Naughty Aughts.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Hmm...profit...I wish >_>;;

YAY! The Ace Attorney games are just plain ol' goofy fun :D

[pleonasm]

I make lists FOR THE SAME REASON. XD And look forward to more fic.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I feel more accomplished (and less like slacking) if they're posted somewhere public so I can cross them off and other people can point and laugh at me if I fail ;~; It's a good reason!

Thanks! I'm already writing away!

[pyro-o.livejournal.com]

we shall call this decade, or rather, these eight years...

(and I quote, from the fantastic stand-up of Robin Williams)

"the reign of error". goodbye, president sitting duck.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

That. Is. AWESOME. This is why I enjoy Robin Williams' stand-up :D

[alena_s_anigor.livejournal.com]

..You're right, I've never thought about it but the 2009 really will be the last year of the year with the zeros... Kind of makes me feel skittish. XD

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it just a couple of weeks ago that everyone was freaking out about Y2K or something? Yikes where did the time go.

[alena_s_anigor.livejournal.com]

Indeed... I still feel like I'm stuck at being 19...and when I remember how I used to write sci-fi stories about these years when I was younger...Time really flies. O.O

[ariga-ten.livejournal.com]

ah 2009~ what surprises will you have in store for us this year |D

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN IS PRETTY HARDCORE ADMIT IT XDD

Also
Why are you not on my f-list?

BAD ARI. >:|
*friends xD ilu candy~*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Who knows? :3

HE IS. THUMPITY THUMP THUMP IF YOU KNOW WHAT I ME-- *KILL'D*

...I thought I had you friended!! *SMITES SELF AND FRIENDS YOU BACK AS OF YESTERDAY* ILU2, Ari ~♥

[kirinomiaka.livejournal.com]

Best "title" I've heard for this decade is "the naughties" which seems to fit pretty well...

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me! z(^o^)b

[asai-arcion.livejournal.com]

Late, but I just thought of a title for this decade, the glasses decade (the ones with the 2 and the 0-9 hanging off the sides and looking through the double '0' in the center.) This is technically the last year they get away with them. Never wore one of those myself, but I saw one the other night and remembered it as I thought of this entry.

Next year you technically can, by putting the '1' between the eyes and just having the '2' stick off the side, but it's not quite the same.