My year could have been better, it started off okay, my parents and younger siblings moved into a new house in the spring, leaving me and the oldest of my younger sibs to live in my home. My GSD husky mix fathered a litter of 7 puppies, the mom ended up in my care after her owners’ children tried to convince a judge they were incompetent to live alone, in a bid to get control of their money (the kids ended up facing charges after it came to light they had huge gamboling debts and they posted on FB that they had found a way to pay off those debts) the puppies were born in my room (in my favorite reading chair of all places) and my dog was in love with them right away, he helped to take care of them the whole time, then when the puppies were 4 weeks old momma dog suffered an episode of what is called Post-Partum Aggression (similar to what makes human mothers ill their babies) she attacked her puppies, breaking the upper palate of one of them, but they all recovered and suffered very little mental scarring. My mom adopted the youngest of the litter, named Seven, who looks just like his dad, and her friend who does Animal Rescue adopted the oldest, name Hoshi (Japanese for Star) the other pups all found homes too. Then when Seven was 14 seeks old he was diagnosed with an intussusception or a telescoping bowel, we thought he would for a while, but we found a vet who was willing to do the surgery on a payment plan. In the summer my uncle’s home was condemned after someone drove into it, and he and one of my other uncles had to move in with me and my brother, neither has a job, nor seems to want one, and are still mooching off me, at Thanksgiving I lost my license after my Ex girlfriend claimed I was living with her and that I had been drinking when I crashed her car (it was really her current boyfriend but he was on strike three so they blamed it on me) I proved to the court I could not have been driving, as I was at an appointment with my shrink at the time of the accident, but they still have not reinstated my license, and to top it off the garbage truck smashed into my truck snapping the rear axle in half. Because the man driving the garbage truck was not an employee, but a friend of the usual driver, their insurance is saying they don’t have to pay, so even if I got my license back I wouldn’t have a car to drive anyway.
And for Christmas I got a text from GFs roommate telling me to come over right away, I got there in time to catch my GF with her Ex in bed. To spite her, I have started dating her roommate, who I originally wanted to be with anyway but who was in a relationship at that time (I am a bad man, I know) To top it all off, back in Oct. my best friend from high school committed suicide after seeing FB pictures of her husband sleeping with her drugged sister, she was 7 months pregnant, they did save the baby, but the father doesn’t want her, or her older sister, and my other friend from high school (the girl I dated for most of my time in school who left me because I was too depressing to be around) is taking care of both of them.
So yeah my year was pretty bad, but not outright horrible, in fact as I type this I am cuddled with the foster puppies I agreed to take on this winter, and its hard to be depressed when you are snuggling with puppies.