So yup, here's my roundup of the year.
My Xmas Haul:
Bluray Player
Toy Story 3 and Scott Pilgrim on BluRay
A Town Called Panic
A couple of t-shirts
Various Smellies, one of which came with a wallet
A dynamic torch shaped like a Lego Man
Obligatory £10 from Nanny
2010 in a word: Expensive
2010 in slightly more words: Everything up til Autumn was ace. Then came the suck.
Last year's goals:
-Learn to drive - FAIL
-Visit Japan, maybe around Tokyo Game Show time - FAIL. I had exhausted my cash with two trips to America in one year beforehand.
-Get to the end of my uni course with something to take from it - Well I passed it. Now if only I knew how to get a job with it.
-Get something on a (good) TV show - Well there was that thing I did for CITV. I guess that's better than Kevin Bishop?
-Do something with my Wonchop series - LOL FAIL. 2010 was pretty short on general animations as well.
Good Stuff:
-Newgrounds Meets - Flew over to Philadelphia for Pico Day and went to the Baltimore Meetup. I recall being a total pervert over the webcam. And then of course there was the London meet, complete with karaoke, dodgems and an appearance by Mr. The Don.
-UK Webcomix Thing - Sucks that it's apparently the last one they're doing, but it was cooling hanging out with Eddache, Eddsworld and the Cakebomb crew, and well as sleeping over with the former.
-Getting Uni over and done with - Got my graduation coming up in February. Hope I don't get stabbed by one of those hat corners.
-Comic Con 2010 - Hanging out with various NG Peeps, Dat Scott Pilgrim panel and screening, getting stuff signed, sweetness.
-Some appreciation of my work - Managed to get commissioned for a short animation on CITV and Tales of Beardyman got a runner up spot in an animation festival.
-Alcohol repetoire expanded - Cider is now added to my range, meaning more options should pubs be lacking in alcopops.
Lame stuff:
-Medical bullcrap - Couple of doctor related visits. One I'm keeping confidential, the other being having a tooth removed, which required a little visit to A&E when it wouldn't stop bleeding. Ew.
-Jobless again - Yeah, Weebl gave me the sack, which I partly blame on above medical bullcrap. And flash animation jobs (the one's that don't require Actionscript 3.0 knowledge) are in very short supply.
-General lack of ideas - Besides Date for One, Tales of Beardyman and a bunch of mini-toons relying on Youtube humour, not a lot out of me this year.
-That Autumn lethargicness - I'm not in uni anymore. What the heck do I do during the weekdays?
-Being skint - Seriously, right after I stopped working for Weebl, my parents mooch £1000 to pay off the mortgage. I'm pretty screwed until I can get it back. :/
Stuff of the Year:
-Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Toy Story 3
-Games: Bayonetta, Super Meat Boy, Pacman CEDX, Super Mario Galaxy 2
-TV: Harry Hill's TV Burp, Phineas and Ferb, WCG Ultimate Gamer
-Anime: Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Heroman, So Ra No Wo To, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Awesome People:
Eddache, Alison, Eddsworld, Tom Fulp, Luis, TomSka, Happy Harry, Bezman, Akira the Don, The Character Shop, SheenaxZelos, Rubberninja, Princess Aurora, Egoraptor, Summer, mrSimon, TheEXP, various other Newgrounds/Deviantart/Youtube people I forget to mention.
Goals for next year:
-Get some kind of job and stick with it. Preferably an office based one that doesn't prey on my laziness.
-Learn to drive. Seriously this time.
-Get on this project I've been planning with Eddache. Screw the monkey.
-UPDATE THE BLOODY WEBSITE! (Seriously, I'm clueless on how to do this.)
-Be more active in my flash makings.
Quote of the year:
"I'm in lesbians with you."
Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
I'll be seeing some of you peeps at the Manchester Meetup on January 15. Laterz.
Firestormrules
Harry Hill's funny, isn't he