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I was really really happy for the first three months of last year. And then for some reason, following my 28th birthday party on the 1st of March, I wasn't so happy. In fact I was unhappy. It's been a pretty stressful year since then. Not all bad, but not the greatest year on the balance of things.

As much as a man made line in the sand New Years is, it's a line none the less. Some people treat is as irrelevant, some people give it way to much significance. But a line it is nonetheless. A bit like a chapter in a book. The story continues, whether the chapter demarcates it or not, but you need a place to break the story. New Years are just new chapters. Nothing really changes in the grand scheme of things but you can give it a different title and that changes things in itself.

Last year I used my laptop to send out a New Years text message to all my friends. This year I decided against it. Not withstanding it ends up costing a tenner to send 80 or so pretty irrelevant messages, it seems somewhat pointless that you have to do it 5 hours before or 5 hours after the stroke of midnight as the cell points all jam up. I just replied to those people who texted me and obviously aren't as cynically as I am.

Most of the messages were of the hallmark variety, "All the best, May your dreams come true, yadda yadda yadda". However two where far more original and defiantly scored highly on the sevitzdotcom scale for making me smile.

Hey brother. Before you don't remember who I am or who you are ... Happy New Year. Love your amazing brother. see you in Feb.

Sent by Brother Sevitz 21:24, arrived 14 hours later

After serious and concise consideration your contract of friendship has been renewed for another year. try not to fuck up in 2004.

Sent by Craig Sherman 02:42, arrived 9 hours later

That said, Happy New Thingie to you all. If it's not a Hallmark year, at least there isn't the risk of paper cuts. Or something like that.