A lot of the S*it stuff you've gone thru rings bad bells for me too; I'm not going into detail as it comes across all wrong but here's my hopes for 2008 ..

1. To either get the job that I intended to do when I moved back to England for or beg for my old job back in Scotland and bust out of the rat race/S*it job that I've ended up with.
2. Get rid of the Debt which is worse now than what it was before I moved down.

I've sent you a [hopefully helpful] PM and I agree with Kiwi, you're far too young to be going thru all that stuff.
For me, at my age I should know better.

As I sit here with my mug of steaming coffee sitting out the dying days of 2007 looking back I can safely say from 2005 to 2007 they really stank for me for a number of reasons, so is there any hope of 2008 being better? Well I don't know, what I would say to everyone here is this, "Don't let the bastards grind you down and fight back against them."

I see no hope for this country what so ever, so the best thing to do is make the best of a rotten situation and smile. :)

Back on topic I got one more, cheer up and smile more. :D

Good advice STEED and BTW, have you changed the wallpaper at 10 Downing Street yet or is that another resolution ? :rotfl:

We're going for regency green stripe with gold leaf again. :damn:

I wanted sea blue wallpaper from Homebase but the staff would not have it, may be 2009. :hmm:

Make that two. :yep:

2007 was a good year for me and my family, I can only hope 2008 is what 2007 was.

Hope 2008 will be a better year for you kapitan. At what kind of illness do you suffer?

I have something called endocarditas which is the tissue and muscles in the chest area inflame giving me bad chest pains and puts strain on my heart, when i first went into the hospital suffering from chest pains they told me i was having a heart attack, its nothing new most of my family have had heart issues ive just got to the point where i really do not care anymore.

That may explains why you been turned down from serving in the arm forces, bummer.

@Kap

Just take care of the ticker you only got one of them.

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2007 was the worst year in my life. I have a dissorder called Dysautonomia which got REALLY bad and caused me to end up on dissability since March. I've been hospitalised twice and owe a few grand to them. I lost my job because of this dissorder as well as my health insurance (Which I need for my many meds) and my wife and I are just barely struggleing to make ends meet. Things are slowly beginning to look up financially though as i just started getting my dissability checks (after they evaluated me and stalled for like 6 months:damn: )

My three resolutions for 2008 is:

1. Get myself a job that I can actually do. (Going through The Department of Rehabilitative Services to help me with that one).

2. Considering the lonliness of being home all the time with all my friends having moved away, and the fact that I'm not allowed to drive anymore due to faint risk, keeps me home all the time with no support group around me. I've decided to get myself into some local groups around here for stuff I'm interested in.

3. I'm starting a club for experimental musicians and artists this year. This will allow experimental artists to showcase their stuff to others who are interested in it. We can learn stuff from each other and we can attempt to grow an experimental art scene here in Connecticut (Where unless you're a mainstream art like rock, jazz, blues, portrait painting, dance, or performing in plays or musicals, you are effectively shut out of the art community).
I eventually want to expand it and do public workshops and performances as well. I already have a few local musicians and a small handfull of friends who are interested in going in on this with me and I've been researching funding for use later on if the group grows enough. At least even as a small club with only a few members, it will at least give these participating artists a forum to showcase their stuff and we can learn techniques and interesting things from each other.