"HIGHS" and "Lows" of 2001 (your year in review)

[mugwump]

Well 2001 came and went like many other years..

but I can´t honestly recall a year in my life so full

of changes..

some for the worst..

some for the best..

be it in the music scene

or in personal issues..

2001 WAS A YEAR THAT KICKED MY ASS..

and by doing so..

made me grow.

WHAT WHERE THE "HIGHS"

AND "LOWS" FOR YOU IN 2001?

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Here are a few of mine to start it off:

HIGHS:

*BECOMING INDEPENDENT (aka: single again)

and re-discovering FRIENDSHIP with my ex.

* FINDING NEW FRIENDS THROUGH CP

(And strengthening bonds with old lost

friends scattered across the world)

* THE RESURECTION OF THE LOFT PARTY IN NY

( Thank you Pseudo, Dumbo and "LA LECHE"

for bringing back the underground)

*GETTING BACK IN TOUCH WITH MY

LATIN SIDE OF MY FAMILY

(I am in Mexico as I write this)

*FINALY GETTING TO WITNESS ´"LOTRs"

ON THE BIG SCREEN"

(and attending the premier with stars and director)

*GETTING MORE HEALTH CONSCIENCE

(Joining a Gym..loosing weight..drinking less)

*BEING GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY

TO HELP OUT WITH CP and

dive further into the club scene

(Thanks Lainie, Dave, Ray and all

of you that have pulled me into the

curtains BEHIND OZ!)

* Feeling that I DON´T CARE ANYMORE ABOUT MANY THINGS..

(an emotional state that could be catagorized as low..

but that saves me many ULSERS in the end!)

..Somewhere between "Patience" and "indifferance".

*Starting to write my Sci- Fi NOVEL..

(which I´ve had in my head for 15 years)

LOWS:

* The Events of September 11

and everything connected..

(Taliban, Osama, the war..

the deaths of THOUSANDS IN MY BELOVED CITY..

paranoia and insecurity world wide..)

*Going through the toughest

break up of my life..

(And hitting a self distructive low)

* Loosing my animation gig with an old company

and issolating myself in complete drunken

oblivian..

*The closing of TWILO

and the bad publicity of CLUBLAND

through shady media exploitation..

*Being so broke some weeks

that I would go a couple days without eating..

*Oweing the IRS TEN GRAND..

and falling so deep into debt that

I could no longer see a light at the end of the tunnel.

*Falling out of love with the concept

of "LOVE" and vowing to stay the HELL

AWAY FROM ANY SERIOUSE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE..

*adding another drop to my

"self aware neurotic jaded bucket" of

disenchantment with humanity, relationships..

and stupid people that USE others for selfish reasons..

(aka: Dependant leachery disguised as "romance")

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YOUR TURN...

[synderella420]

Worst year for me lost my father, broke up with my man after being together almost six years, which in a way opened my eyes and did benefit in certain ways. Seeing how fake people really are when you need them the most. Just a bad bad year cant wait to ring in the new year.

2001 leave already dammit..........

[gothzane]

HIGHS:

* Smoking for the first time...really fooken high

* Opening up myself to new music - Electronica

* Discovering Cluben =)

* Indulging in my fantasies

* Finding a drinkable beer : Corona *Hic*

* Leaping forward from depression

* Realization that im not certifiably insane

* Partaking in less self-destructive hobbies

* Building my very own PC that would make a Dell

look like a prehistoric turd.

Lows:

* Tragic loss of a family member

* The whole terrorits shabacle

* The realisation that no matter how much i try

everything i touch turns to pure crapola.

Even though I might of had the very best intentions.

* Discovering that im better off single.

* My first mistriss when i was barely 15 is on her deathbed

and no matter how much i love her or want her to be well

being so angry that my hands are tied and theres jack

that i can do to help.

* and finally my mother...her being so mentally ill and me being

so angry at her for it...and ashamed at myself for not having an

ounce of compassion.

oh well...all and all I cant wait for this year to be over.

[mugwump]

Originally posted by synderella420

Worst year for me lost my father, broke up with my man after being together almost six years, which in a way opened my eyes and did benefit in certain ways. Seeing how fake people really are when you need them the most. Just a bad bad year cant wait to ring in the new year.

2001 leave already dammit..........

Come on now babe..

SOoooome "Highs" HAD to come from 2001!

From everything that is "bad" in your life

there is a flip side of "good"

(though hidden by your focus in the NEGATIVE it is there)

Look at my list..

almost every "LOW"

is equal to a "HIGH"

(It´s the YING YANG EFFECT)

Example:

LOW:

*Going through the toughest

break up of my life..

(And hitting a self distructive low)

High:

*BECOMING INDEPENDENT (aka: single again)

and re-discovering FRIENDSHIP with my ex.

IT CAN´T BE ALL BAD..

(Though I look forward to 2002

like a man thirsty in the dessert

dreams of an oasis)

M

U

G

Z

[synderella420]

Yes you are right the lows do equal highs!!

My fathers death has brought me and my sister to form more of a tighter bond!!

Breaking up with jay as helped me live life and see how it is to be on my own after I was dependant on him for so long!!

Managing to keep an awesome job!!

New friends!

Meeting great CP peeps!!

There are probably more just cant think right now !!

Thanks Mugz!!!!! For showing me the light!!

Love that quote btw:

Though I look forward to 2002

like a man thirsty in the dessert

dreams of an oasis:

[djpglobal]

Good analysis,

like all things there is a flip side that redresses some semblence of balance even if it is hard to see this in the face of tragedy.

We are healing, we will repair and stand together across the globe stronger in the knowledge that we are united and have proven this in the face of abject cruelty.

The year has really been one of change unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. Here's to growing and learning.

My highs and lows:

Thumbs up:

Moving to New York from London - This city is a hellovalottafun, the city really does never sleep (it just naps everyonce in a while)

Finding humanity in the face of inhumanity - cannot describe how much respect I have for the guys of the FDNY and NYPD, I am humbled by their actions and sacrifice which is often so lacking in our `me' culture. May their dignity reflwect in our thoughts and actions for ever more

The blue lights at Cnetro Fly watchin Deep Dish do there thing - Such a moment of deep timelessness and infinity, tappin into a live vibe that is the spine of the universe.

New Yorkers - Friendly chatty, loud, brash, fantastic!

Thumbs Down:

Leavin the London dance scene - what is happening to your clubs NY, someone please send Bloomberg some guest passes and a whistle! What you have is good but you need more choice and variety, hope the Drum and Bass scene picks up here, I miss my rugged beats!

My Job - Can't seem to get motivated/ do anything right, this isn't for me, now I know that I can work with that I guess.

The obvious - we are all feeling it especially at times of national celebration.

I miss my football (soccer I guess), up the Gooners!

Well that's all from me, wishing peace and the strength that wisdom brings in 2002 to all God's children. 2002 Let's march on!

Anyone over to Vinyl tonight??

Oh yeah, thought I'd take my bosses' vacation as a nice excuse

to pose at her desk. just for fun! Cant wait to get away from this company!!

DJP

[nycchic24]

hmm 2001 was an interesting year.

in review

1. I lost my job (company closed) and I felt overwhelmed bc i had only unemployment checks to rely on and mortgage to pay. No jobs for me in boston, so i rolled the dice and took a gamble which led to..

2. moved to NYC. no job, no perm place to stay, and no friends in the big city. and yes i got a job in 3 DAYS! i rented out my condo, sold my car, and left my friends family and had just started dating a 'great" guy, but I did it!

2 1/2. found an apt sharel, roommate turned out to be luney, the former roommate stole my money ($1000) long story - took her to small claims court -- won! moved my ass outta there into a 1BR (which i shoulda done in the first place) MY first NYC DRAMA~!

3. Sept 11 boy that day seems like a dream, ws on the subways when the planes hit, but saw both the buildings fall. Later I had found out that a girl i had grown up with was on flight 175 (hit the south tower) Returned to boston that weekend for the service but totally disenchanted and felt separated from everyone and everything there. i think only ppl in ny could understand

4. Thanksgiving got a call from my friend right before i sat down for dinner thta a mutal friend had past away. he was only 26, he went to sleep the night before and never woke up. the autopsy -- G!

5. Just finished up the year bakc in boston for xmas with the fam and friends. the week was definitely a blur. Good to be back in boston, but how great it feels to be back home!

Although there looks like more minus than pluses, i'd have to say this was a great year for me. I am happy PERIOD[/b

I wish all the CP peeps health, happiness and love in 2002

[senorfern]

Highs

**Dropped out of law school...after a year and 1/2 of feeling out of place and being miserable, I finally realized that the law was not the career path that I wanted to follow.

**Being a drop out, I suddenly found myself with a lot time on my hands, so I crashed at my aunt's condo in Hunter and snowboarded for 2 months straight. It was a great season.

**After the snow melted, I came back to NYC and tempted for a while until I found a great job.

**Met an amazing girl over the summer. It took me a full year to get over my ex of four years and this girl showed me that I can open up my heart again.

Lows

**9/11/01...a day that will always be imprinted in my mind. My dad worked in the south tower and there was a quite a bit of time before I found out he made it out. Although he's currently unemployed, I'm thankful he's still with me. He's pretty emotionally scarred from all his co-workers that were lost.

**That amazing girl I met had to return to South Africa at the end of the summer. How I wish she could've stayed in NYC with me.

To all my fellow CPers, have a safe and happy new year!!!

[nycchic24]

high Saturday October 27th, 11:30pm -- I amn going to the Rose Bowl. Gators crush Floriday State friend in la can get me tickets for me and best friend!

low Saturday November 3rd... I am not not going to the Rose Bowl and my team isnt even going to ATL for the conference championship I put a death threat on Tennessee and i swear off football for the rest of the season . my bf is psyched!

[mugwump]

very introspective of all of you..

MAY YOU ALL FIND MORE "HIGHS"

THAN

"LOWS" IN 2002

ANYONE ELSE WAN´A SHARE

some New Years revelations?

:blank:

[sexybitchjenny]

Arooooo..

you want revelations mugslut?!

ok..

HIGHS:

Being able to move from your

crappy den of computer addiction

in astoria to Brooklyn!

Finaly getting that German Shepard

to give me some action in the dog run..

Stepping all over your pillows

after pissing on my feet outside

(and watching you get Pink Eye)

ROFLAROOOOARFARF!

Licking your toes every morning

and watching you squirm in your sleep

ummm..

the LOTRs interview was kinda cool too I guess.

LOWS:

Having to wait for your

lazy ass to take me out

each and every freaking

day!

GGGRRRRRRR...

ummm..

that´s it for this doggie I guess...

HOPE YOU ARE HAVING FUN IN MEXICO AND MANAGE TO GET OFF THE DAMN

COMPUTER YOU CYBER DORK!

[deeprock]

Lows

-Losing my office, personal property, coworkers, and friends in the 9/11 attacks

-Extreme depression resulting from the above

-Finding out that a girl I used to and still do care about was run down by a drunk driver

-Discovering that a friend who I thought I was close with was stealing from me to feed her drug habit

-Being robbed at knifepoint and thinking I would not make it home alive

Highs

+Discovering that the vast majority of the people I work with made it out of Towers on 9/11

+Getting a great job and becoming financially independent at the ripe age of 23

+Finishing another brutal year of law school

+Meeting someone who I now consider one of my best friends

+Rekindling a friendship with my best friend from college

+Having my alma mater, Miami, make it to the Rose Bowl

[exit2heaven]

HIgh - TWILO

Low- CLosing of TWILo .....and almost having to kick Mugwumps ASS!!!

[sexybitchjenny]

Originally posted by exit2heaven

Low- almost having to kick Mugwumps ASS!!!

:laugh:

THAT WOULD HAVE DEFINATELY

BEEN A "HIGH" POINT OF THE YEAR FOR ME!!!

roflarooooarfarfrofl!

LORD KNOWS THAT MUGSLUT

NEEDS TO HAVE HIS ASS KICKED!

(and head deflated!)

"Iiiisssuuueees!

He Has IIISSUUUES!"

(snort-growl snarl)

[mugwump]

Issues!?

Is that the Pot calling

the Kettle Black Jenny?

Anyone else...?

[thehacker]

LIFE-ALTERINGLY AWESOME:

ps1.

bittersweet:

- going just a millimeter too far in showing a special someone how i felt about her, causing her lack of self esteem to come to the fore and muck the whole thing up... well, better soon then later i suppose, and i respect her for not wanting me to get mixed up in her own issues about herself and her lack of identity/direction (about which she was quite open an honest in admitting, prior to the weirdness - so word to that i suppose - it's rare to find that kind of honesty).

[mugwump]

PS1 Def a high point of my year..

Best party all year round in my opinion..

Thanks for the honesty Kriss..

ANYONEELSEWITH2001NOSTALGIA?

(cough cough bump)

[joeg]

2001 was a great year for me all the way around.... bout time I had a good one....

[verv]

2001...oh jeez...

you know when you feel like you've complete wasted a moment in your life...yeah that's the way i feel about all of 2001...ugghh...sure, it started off fine and dandy...i met someone i was crazy about...infact someone i fell in love with... only to realize that i was sooo wrong for trusting someone again...**Guys are not to be trusted, no matter how honest they may OUTWARDLY appear, in the end it's all just bullshit...so i fell into a depression...during which i didn't go out (what was the point..i didn't want to meet people, talk to people, i just wanted to sleep) so basically i didn't eat, didn't go out,, didn't socialize or speak to a lot of my close friends...just slept...then somehow i got suckered into thinking that maybe it was all a misunderstanding...i got suckered THREE times....that's what love does to you i guess...becoming more and more miserable with each time...but now i've decided i've had enough. I'm wasting my life away worrying about petty things, and being miserable over someone who just isn't worth it...so finally at the end of the year...i've decided to bring myself back to normalcy... go out and have a good time, and learn to be happy once in a while..so now..i'm trying to be happy with myself, being single and having fun...and i've joined CP! so a horrible year had a pretty decent ending huh?

[saigray]

HIGH: PRESIDENT"S DAY AT TWILO....being first in that room, with Carl Cox already spinning, grining uncontrollably at the boy I was with, going starry-eyed, falling hard for him, and Carl Cox, and Twilo, all at once....the sunlit taxi-ride home knowing my life was shifted by that night completely.

LOW: I don't believe in lows, so take that!!!

[mugwump]

Originally posted by verv

2001...oh jeez...

that's what love does to you i guess...becoming more and more miserable with each time...but now i've decided i've had enough. I'm wasting my life away worrying about petty things, and being miserable over someone who just isn't worth it

Yup

Yup

Yup

I know this story all too well

my dear..

But I´ve learned from my wounds..

and discovered that in the end

I had no one but myself to blame for

my pain..

I DEPENDED TOO MUCH

ON SOMEONE AND BECAME BLIND

ON THAT DEPENDANCE..

OBLIVIOUSE TO OUR DIFFERENCES

THAT WHERE MAKING US GROW

FURTHER AND FURTHER

APART

Here´s a HIGH:

I LEARNED TO LOVE MYSELF FIRST!

and I learned NOT to search for

attention..

or approval..

or false ROMANCE

based on an insecure desire to

feel needed!

Whatever may come

next year from

that is yet to be seen..

Once the frost thaws from

my heart I just might

find another MUGWUMPET

to join me on my adventures

as a partner in crime once again..

But lord knows I aint gonna

go looking for it!

OK I´M TURNING INTO STEWART SMILEY NOW..

Luck to you all..

(((MAY YOU ALL FIND PEACE, HAPPINESS

AND MANY MANY GREAT MOMENTS WITH GREAT PEOPLE

AROUND YOU IN ENDLESS NIGHTS IN A MULTITUDE OF DANCE FLOORS in 02!)))

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HAVE A GREAT NEW YEARS YA'LL

Maudy*

(MugZ)

[bigpoppanils]

Originally posted by djpglobal

Leavin the London dance scene - what is happening to your clubs NY, someone please send Bloomberg some guest passes and a whistle! What you have is good but you need more choice and variety, hope the Drum and Bass scene picks up here, I miss my rugged beats!

i feel ya on that. going to london was a definite high for me, and coming back was a real low. i miss the UK alot. i wanna go back eventually.

highs:

my first cp meetup!

losing 60 pounds

leaving shitty job for good paying summer internship

studying abroad in london

clubbing in london (Tall Paul, Sister Bliss, Carl Cox, N-Trance, Green Velvet, Oliver Klien, Craig Richards, DJ Heather, Lottie, Carl Clarke, i can keep going with this one)

clubbing alone for the first time

sister getting engaged

going to Dublin and touring the Guinness Brewery

the BigPoppa welcome home meetup

seeing 1000 year old castles and churches in wales and dublin

Faithless-Outrospective

being able to go 6 months without wanting to kill myself/hurting myself (both internal and external scars have faded away)

lows:

sept 11

grandmother getting alzhiemers

losing my great aunt (was over 100, the last pure sicilian in the family), but not hearing about it until the day of the funeral, so of course i couldnt go to pay my respects

having falling out among friends during the spring

spending a year alone

faithless (+ dido and kosheen) concert being cancelled, no US dates planned on tour

failed photo-op with Sister Bliss

not getting along with roomies in london

school in london sucking ass

Paris

losing 2 scholarships (not my fault)

not getting to Gatecrasher

car vandalized over and over again

never getting to twilo

being tortured by a psychowhore at work (old job-long story)

getting osteo-arthritis (my doc is talking knee-replacement possibility)

what a fucking year!!!!!

[mugwump]

Originally posted by bigpoppanils

[b

highs:

my first cp meetup!

losing 60 pounds

YOU LOST 60 POUNDS!

Holy shit!

(And here I thought I was cool cuz I lost

20 this year!)

:eek:

Glad to see you are feeling better BPP!

[xtotaleclipsex]

Originally posted by bigpoppanils

losing 60 pounds

Seriously that is awesome....congrats! And I hope ur next year n the States will be a good one!

[xtotaleclipsex]

Lows

Losing family members in the past year!

*Finding out they found a lump in my aunt's lungs and she has to go for surgery..and not knowing if she is going to be ok

*You know what....I'm not going to even list anymore of the bad things because they don't matter... I need to look more at the postive things in my lie rather than focus on the bad

So anyways...Highs

*Going away to school and having a great first semester....meeting a lot of great people...and a friend that I know I will stay close with for a long time...and still managing a B+ avg

*Making even more amazing memories with old friends...especially one that I am so damn thankful for

*Realizing how much my family cares about me although they do piss me off...I am just happy to have them there!

*I am not going to bitch bout not being single because that is my resolution...to be happy with what I have and where I am in life and to work hard at making my life count for something!