New Things You Tried in 2005!

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From last years New Things You Tried in 2004 (which I can't find)

Me?

Drambuie Liqueur - quite strong but enjoyable

Cashews - how could I have lived so long without tasting them?? They're great!

HTML - just the basics, I'd always been too scared of fucking it up but it's rather simple so far

Leather gloves - a bit kinky looking, but warm :~)

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

climbing mt cargill - and i made it to the top! i could really get into this hiking stuff!
wellington. pretty city with nice people.
soy yoghurt. the mango and peach one is the best.
i tried some new recipes this year, the most successful were vegan enchiladas, gazpacho and stuffed baby aubergines.

― Awesome is as Awesome does (lucylurex), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh - I went halfway up Ben Nevis then came back down for ice-cream (and 'cause I was totally unprepared for the walk)

Later that day a girl died further up the mountain and we watched the helicopter airlift her body down. A bloody shame, and a good enough reason for wussy old me putting off the ascent for another year.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

(here's the 2004 version of this, btw)

Me?

Tried to lose weight for the first time ever. Didn't work, probably because I just skipped eating every now and then and called that my diet. Maybe a more thoughtful try next year, dunno yet.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ah ha! Thanks.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Roast chestnuts
Cooking a full Christmas dinner
A new job
Costa Almeria
Glasgow FAP
London FAP

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

visiting the arctic (great)
seal meat (not so great)
riding in a helicopter (great, but being rescued by one is sort of embarrassing)
a Blackberry (hated it)
quitting a job (loving it)

― pauls00, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'd love a ride in a helicopter.

Blackberry as in the berry or the poncey email device?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

probably the poncey email device as he uses a capital B. what didn't you like about it, paul?

me? i tried pregnancy. other than that i haven't tried much new. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Verdelho
Trifle
New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
Making Vietnamese-style ribs
Rolling my eyes at Chelsea more than at Man U

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

goose barnacles

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

living away from home for the summer
attempting to learn to cook
climbing a whaleship's rigging! awesome.
rum
running increasing distances
asking a guy out non-awkwardly (that worked out, what followed didn't so much)
getting an hiv test for a visa requirement
climbing onto a roof by shooting an arrow with a rope to the other side of the building and tying it to a bench (okay. it didn't work. but we tried.)

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I took my first STD tests this year, I actually hadn't done that before. The results were negative, as I suspected, but I must admit my hand was kinda shaking when I called the doctor for them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the doctor was really rude and patronizing to me and the person I took them with. As if no one in the world has ever had unprotected sex at least once.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

What did he say exactly, Tuomas?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Maria, it almost sounds as if you joined the crew of a pirate ship.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Well, she chided us for having had unprotected sex in the past and said it isn't quite wise. I guess it's her duty to say that, but it's not like we were some teenagers who didn't already know that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm not totally irresponsible, I had only done it with someone I knew and trusted.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, she probably just doesn't want you to repeat the mistake so she probably wants to scare you. Good to know it was negative! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

heroin

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

big xpost. yes, the poncey email device. I didn't like the fact that I was given one by the company I was working for...I don't need to be THAT connected, thanks. Anyway, I'll be giving it back, soon!

The berries, themselves, those are great. Though not as good as Saskatoon berries!

― pauls00, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and an mp3 player I got for christmas. Now I can spend many happy hours putting vinyl LPs onto CDs, to put into mp3 format, to listen to on the subway. yay!

― pauls00, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

- cooking in cast iron (good stuff)
- working a standard schedule with no work brought home
- making paneer, sauerkraut, air-dried ham
- meeting people from ILX
- going back to school after 15 years (successful enough, but not to be repeated, unless it's in some completely different field)
- making porkpies
- walking to work
- getting to know some of the people I work with on more of a "friends" basis (mixed results, generally not recommended)
- chicken-sitting for friends (delightful!)

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh man I don't know. Having a kid and buying a house. And last week I tried Gjetost.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

- having a long term relationship (working!)
- making an interactive artwork (worked!)
- talking honestly to my mother about family problems (sort of up in the air!)
- driving in a city other than my own (didn't crash!)
- soy milk (could be worse!)
- sex in bathtub! (funny noises!)

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

What's Gjetost?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

The newness of new motherhood totally trumps all possible new stuff, imo. It is the new that is fresh for years and years and years to come. 22 years later, I still get new (as in totally freaking out and getting completely depressed on xmas because kid who is 4k miles away not only does not call or email, or respond to email, but his phone says "he's not taking msgs at this time" so I can't even leave one! WTF?! then deciding he's dead, or at least too weak to move lying on his cold filthy apt floor among empty bourbon bottles, dying alone on xmas. then finding out days later he forgot to pay his damn phone and internet bills was all.) stuff out of motherhood.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Being married

Snowskiing - (more fun than waterskiing, I tells ya.)

Owning a Great Dane - (Lazy dog who requires no more than five minutes of REALLY. FAST. EXERCISE. a day.

Slight new duties at work - (live halftime scoreboard show.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jaq, ffs! Don't tell me these things! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

gjetost is a sweet brown cheese. The sweetness is kind of odd but I can see how it could be good. I don't think it'll ever beat a good stinky cheese though.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

-Going to University (at the age of 24)
-Living totally on my own (but only for a bit, got housemates... but am facing the prospect of having to do this for quite some time in the new year)
-Drinking gin & cheese (still have to try gin & cheese from a guitar - perhaps my only NY resolution)
-Drinking wine from a Yorkshire pudding (it's good, but the Yorkshire tastes crap afterwards)

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

*fatherhood (AWESOME)
*PlayStation (seriously, I'd never used one before)
*Pilates
*hosting a huge dinner party (went quite well)
*a couple of illegal things I'm very glad I did

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

*moving to New York
*leaving a relationship that wasn't working
*leaving a job that wasn't working
*raw horse
*raw chicken
*raw beef

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

red wine + ginger ale (in my case, rosemount shiraz and diet schweppes; this is a good way to use up day-old wine)

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ummm...

* bicycling in NYC!
* gardening
* sledgehammering things apart!
* drinking with my siblings in a companionable manner
* not giving a shit about things

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

haha I had some Drambuie courtesy of a "rusty nail" - yeeuuch
port - tasted like fruity nyquil, I'll give it another try
(basketball)a pivot/spin move to the left keeping my dribble that I've seen Kobe do a few times - mostly successful if used sparingly
apps/sites: wavepad(indispensable), itunes(boo), avg antivirus(cop it!), lastfm(I don't get it), pandora(better)
running, followed by actual running shoes to run in! sweet asics.
stopping smoking!!! it will be a year Jan. 4

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

I tried being crazy for 11 days in early November, but kept it hidden from everybody. I had a minor (barely contained) paranoid episode and some majorly weird derealization / depersonalization shit, including a day where I wasn't sure I'd woken up, and some lost time a week later. Turns out I was reacting psychically to an electrical deficiency in the fluorescent work-light over my desk: pulling a bunch of power-drawing crap from the surge-strip feeding the lamp made me feel -- almost -- instantly better.

Also, certain psychoactive agents.

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

(actually, temporary derealization is totally whacked-out and a little fun)

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

There's one other New Thing I (accidentally) Tried in 2005:

death.

With explanatory notes:

Earlier this year (1), when I woke up from my submandibular sialoadenectomy (2), the anesthesist told me that I'd had a bit of a strange reflex. My heart had stopped right after the anesthesia had kicked in and they had had to bring me back with adrenalin. "It was a bit strange to see someone of your age (I'm 33) flatlining for so long, but don't worry, it was probably just a really extreme vagal reaction (3)."

(1) June 21st
(2) removal of the left salivary gland between chin and neck because of sialadenitis (*)
(*) a salivary gland stone that had been there for eight years but wasn't really bothering me much so I'd left it there. Then, in March, it had started to inflame and throb and hurt after I'd had flu, so an operation had become unavoidable.
(3) I had no idea what she meant when she said this - "vagal" sounded a bit like it had been caused by vagina, which I don't have - and she was gone before I realized she had been talking to me, I was just waking up from the anesthesia and still wondering where I was/who I was/what had happened/why I was there etc. Turns out this is a - usually mild - reflex of the Nervus Vagus ("the 10th cranial nerve") that slows down your heart when you're in danger (also causes fainting. And a slower heart rate while you take a dump, apparently). They probably stretched or touched that nerve when they were turning my head for the incision or something, because further examinations have revealed nothing wrong with my heart or nerves or anything, so it has been classified as "one of those things that happen".

So, nothing bad and not the really dead kind of death, but still: a New Thing I hadn't tried before.
I still don't like the memory of that "Hold on, what did she just say?" moment though.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

bit difficult to top stan's experience, i guess ;)

for me: er ...

accepting and reacting, as opposed to rejecting and struggling. that was the biggie. would recommend it heartily
gin and orange (ditto)
and, er, ILE

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I tried...

- Getting shot.
- Arabic.
- Portuguese.
- Cooking every night.
- Getting rid of things I should have got rid of years ago. (Diaries, ticket stubs, letters, emails.)
- Learning the difference between a) someone wanting to be your friend and b) someone wanting to talk at you about themselves and not hear a word you say.
- Finally not letting type b people patronise me and take up all my time, but also not wasting time holding grudges against them for time already wasted.
- Quitting a job that I was unable to do properly, even though it was the safer option.
- Letting my parents know there is a 100% chance that I WON'T be walking down the aisle with a nice Christian boy.
- Being an auntie again.
- Knowing own mind, acting upon.
- Weeding gardens.
- Singing at a wedding.
- Budgeting.
- Hardly drinking booze at all.
- Classical music.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah, I tried being a "mother of the bride" (my mother-in-law got remarried, my husband gave her away in place of her father, therefore we sat at the top table in the positions usually occupied by the parents of the bride and the mister had to give a speech).

I tried being personal-shopped for (though using Madchen as my own personal Trinny'n'Susannah rather than a paid-person). TWICE! The results were rather pleasing.

I started frequenting cocktail bars rather than pubs when in Glasgow, to have a pleasant drink rather than to get pissed, going to free events in Glasgow (e.g. Merchant City Festival, Jazz Festival) rather than reading about them in the paper and going "oh, we should go to that", and generally being a bit more grown-up in my leisure pursuits. It's been good.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wow... I never noticed the Grimly & Zoe getting shot at thread here...

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've got a bit of a thing for throwing in the line "when I got shot..." into conversation like that. Even though I hardly bled at all and don't even have a war wound to show for it. Pathetic, really.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Stan, wow, hope you never repeat that experience again!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

hey, i forgot about MY BUSS HEL. cool.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know where to drink in Glasgow these days.

I like relative cheapness, warm, cosy atmospheres and low music. I dress very much for camping though so places with smartly dressed folks are a no-no for me.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, I don't intend to (but then I didn't intend this one either) :-)

(xxpost)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

fotolog

― olenska (olenska), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kimchi!

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I visited Seattle for the first time, met some ILXors. (Hi Jaq, Donut, Matos, Gravel!) In '06 I'd like to visit the last big U.S. city I've never been to, Chicago.

Also, since the year's not quite over yet, I can add "going to the gym."

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

-filing taxes for two different states(ick)
-volunteering->helping to run a film festival
-running sound/roadying for a rock hero on a big stage in front of a big audience
-helping to stage-manage at a sizable music fest

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

- starting a radio station
- breastfeeding
- Strivectin
- videotaping
- not eating bread
- having my tubes tied
- brown eyeliner

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and although giving birth wasn't new, the experience of handling 2 children is new.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

How is it compared to only one? I heard from several people it's actually more tiring!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

1) Having my writing regularly published
2) A close long-distance phone friendship with someone I've never met
3) One-night stands
4) Recording an album in a real studio
5) Band-related road trips (including first visits to Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and Austin)
6) Moving into my own apartment
7) Fighting women on the street for sport

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

It is more tiring, Nathalie. The baby is still up several times during the night and then Rufus cruelly gets up and is raring to go at 5:30 a.m., leaving no time to recover from the night with Cyrus. They say "sleep when the baby sleeps" but you can't when you have a 3-year-old who still requires almost constant supervision. Now that I've weaned Cyrus, Scott and I take turns getting up with Rufus versus staying up with Cyrus. We're both bone-tired always. It will get easier. I'm really glad we've kept sending Rufus to daycare 3 days a week, although we can't really afford it. It gives us a chance to give Cyrus individual attention and nap a little.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ye gods, you people with your babies and shootings.

I got divorced, which wasn't nice, even if we had been separated for years and I got remarried almost immediately after the divorce, but the actual feeling of 'well done, you couldn't have seen this coming before the wedding, could you?' was a bit awful.
I also tried driving in other countries, and that was good.
I got remarried, and that was good too. I get to say things like 'my first husband...' which make me sound older and more glamorous than I used to sound.
I got my very own dogs which are my very own and not family dogs. They worship me and even when there is an empty comfy sofa to sit on in one room, they will sit at my feet if I am in the other room. It is the best thing in the world.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I tried:

-- Going to the gym, which was quite succesful, as I lost more than 40 lbs.
-- Hiking, as in actual mountain/trail hiking, which has been a mixed bag
-- Investing in my own scuba gear, which was expensive but rewarding
-- Taking a new position at my company, which saved me from crushing job ennui.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see...

Sex (at age 20!)
Cocaine
Dj-ing
Going to University

It's been a good year, I think!

― Nutmeg Akasaka (Nutmeg), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

oh daria, i did kimchi for the first time this year too. now i can't keep away from Korea House.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 30 December 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah breastfeeding, it's great!!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 December 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

pants yell! how i wish lucy was back or i was more sociable, once.

― youn, Friday, 30 December 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

hi youn!!! we should hang out next time i come to LA!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 30 December 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sex (also at 20!!)
Drinking Legally
Shoplifting (not recommended :), although the charges were dropped when the Walgreen's security guard failed to show up in court)
Staying Close to an Ex (highly recommended if you can pull it off!)
Listening to Jazz (love it!)
Taking Poetry (and My Own Writing of It) Seriously
Taking Conservatory Classes at Second City in Chicago (bo! I'm a star)
Not Being a Christian

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 December 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sex (at age 20!)
Cocaine

Sex (also at 20!!)
Drinking Legally

My guess is same night?

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 30 December 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, actually in my case, no. My first time was "just as it should be" (don't know why I put that in quotes exactly, as I am still, kind of, in earnest): as part of a great relationship with a sexy girl who broke my heart. Actually the ex I was talking about, so it doesn't all end badly.

Alcohol did have to do with the time I got arrested while shoplifting (did it for about a month before that), although it would still be a week before I did it legally.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 December 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Far from the same night in my case as well. The coke I did a few times earlier in the year. It was fun but too expensive and ultimately pointless. Sex happened really unexpectedly when I met a friend from high school and we got drunk and I was just going to sleep over in his apartment. It was actually pretty great, but afterwards came the longest awkward 2 months. But now we're really good friends, and we've had sex quite a few times more too and right now I'm wondering where the whole thing is going. Life is interesting.

― Nutmeg Akasaka (Nutmeg), Friday, 30 December 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, us 21 year olds!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 30 December 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

Tivo
Wilmington & Durham
New Vrindaban, West VA
Car ownership
Library School
iPod
Papusas

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 1 January 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

not being married
not being drunk
death (obviously didn't work)
rabid Manics fandom (for which, frankly, I am too old)
horseback riding (good stuff)
the IPod (confusing!)
Sweden/Denmark (black count:37)
calling indie-rock racists on their bullshit as it happens
Poetry Slam (sheesh! also, that may have been 2004. It's a blur)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 1 January 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Straight speer'ts
Incontinental flite
Ver Neighboors
Thin KLizzy Smoiles
Running Off
Buvk Vunyinh#
Beets On Reepeet

― Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 1 January 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Boyfriend
Making out
Hipster house parties
Actually being outgoing... hm.
Smoking cigarettes/kreteks (and then chain smoking)
Drunkeness
Drinking spirits ~ a bit/lot of vodka
Soy Milk and a whole lot of soy products
Great vegan food for a decent price
Traveling completely on my own
Staying in Brooklyn and Queens
First time getting an actual paycheck!

all except the traveling @ 19.

― sonore (sonore), Sunday, 1 January 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

- iPod & by extension iTunes
- taking a friend on holiday to South Africa (with mixed success, but the friendship survived!)
- revising a novel until I got to the stage where I was happy to let other people read it, instead of giving up 50 pages in
- getting accepted to a writing program
- tonsillitis
- spending night in hospital with boyfriend while he passed a kidney stone
- going to first ever theatre festival (in SA)
- having money stolen out of my bank account
- being a passenger on a dog sled!

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just before the end of the year, chocolate wasabi truffles (these were amazing)

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I tried chocolate with sesame. Not very bad!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

downhill skiing
limoncello/akvavit/grappa
holding a baby
proposing marriage

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

figs - very yummy!

― youn, Monday, 2 January 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

I tried ilx. I haven't figured out if it was a step down or lateral or what.

― Rebekkah (burntbrat), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing I can think of is a strange one: being strong and mature enough to fight the urges when I developed a damaging crush on a friend, and being honest enough to tell my bf, talk about it, and sort it out before it did us any damage. The old me would've given in to a foolish impulse and fucked up a perfectly good, special relationship.

Hey its taken 34 years to work that one out but I did it.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 January 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

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