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The year 2021 in review...
4 years ago
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With 2021 coming to a close tonight, I almost forgot about posting a look back at how the year went for me. Overall, it was a noticeable improvement over the difficult year of 2020, just as I figured it would be. Things gradually improved over time regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, even with different variants appearing, but the vaccines seem to help a lot. Now for the recap...
JANUARY
Me and some friends celebrate the return of Saturday morning cartoons, on MeTV!
FEBRUARY
Not much, but I do participate in Anthro New England's virtual fursuit parade!
MARCH
I start driving a company car the electronics recycling/reselling company I work for let me use after my old Jeep Liberty's transmission began failing: a BMW 528i from the early 2000s!
The Brockton public schools reopen for in-person learning, and so my brother is able to go back to work!
APRIL
I buy my first new Macintosh computer in the box: a MacBook Air utilizing Apple's then-new M1 silicon chip that proves to be a lot faster and more powerful than its' Intel equivalents! The Air quickly becomes my main computer to use.
April 6th: Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig make it to Happy World Land!
I get my first dosage of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
MAY
I enjoy the newest batch of "Looney Tunes Cartoons," including a very fun title involving Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog playing with disguises!
I get the second dosage of the Pfizer vaccine, and this is when the side effects hit me, otherwise I am pretty well.
Everyone else in the family is fully vaccinated by this time.
I come out with a new fursona: Sam Valentino, private toon detective fox.
JUNE
I go to Boston for National Record Store Day 2021, the first time I've been to the big city in 16 months!
I begin a hobby of collecting older functional Macintosh computers, usually ones I get from work that were to be recycled, but I refurbish back into full working order.
JULY
"Space Jam: A New Legacy" comes out and I enjoy it, though it's not really the best thing the Looney Tunes have done in recent years.
AUGUST
Me and my brother make our first Speakonia "Barney Bunch"-themed gag dub of the new "Rugrats" reboot series that came otu this year!
SEPTEMBER
I attend Fan Expo Boston 2021 as Zak Wolf, the first convention I've gone to since Anthro New England 2020, and I have a great deal of fun!
I celebrate 50 years of the Monster Cereals, with their delicious Monster Mash cereal that even mentions Fruit Brute!
OCTOBER
I come up with my cosplay of the title character from the Warner Bros. cartoon "The Turn-Tale Wolf!"
Brockton gets hit by a nor'easter that leaves me and my family without electricity for 81 hours!
Halloween gets back in full swing, with me as Zak Wolf once again!
NOVEMBER
I celebrate the one-year anniversary of when I started working at the electronics recycling/reselling company.
My 33rd birthday.
I get a COVID-19 booster shot, the one from Moderna.
I go to the first model railroad show I've attended since before the pandemic broke out, driving all the way to Wilmington MA!
Thanksgiving fills us up, where I helped my mom make the dinner, including preparing mashed potatoes and squash and baking a pumpkin pie! Then the day after, since we don't have as much leftovers, my mom teaches me how to combine them into a "Pilgrim Pie" (like a shepherd's pie but made of Thanksgiving dinner leftovers.)
DECEMBER
Yet another non-traditional Christmas here.
And that brings us up to right now. The year started off kind of slowly (again, due to the pandemic), but by the end here we're a lot closer to the "new normal" now than we ever were!
Here's my most-viewed YouTube video I made in 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xthAvHnIweo
A spoof I made in response to PBS Kids removing Caillou from their lineup earlier this year. But now it airs on Cartoon Network's current preschool block, Cartoonito.
2022 should be interesting. I just hope at least things get even better regarding the pandemic. Anthro New England is scheduled to happen in February, and I'm all registered and ready to go. (They require proof of vaccination when you register, and so I was glad to oblige.) I'm even going to be hosting a panel there; since the con's theme is of the 1990s, a decade I grew up in and know about very well, my panel will be about 1990s kids' computer games, since that's when they really boomed as home computing became more common and affordable, and many of the titles starred anthropomorphic characters (such as Reader Rabbit, some of the Living Books titles, TuneLand, Spy Fox, the Mercer Mayer-related games, etc.) This will be the very first panel I've hosted at a convention, and I sure am excited, along with other aspects of the con and its' 1990s theme!
The Brockton Rox should also be going back to normal for their home games in 2022; the staff there said they will probably have me working as K-O the Kangaroo again come spring. Right now they're dormant, especially since the stadium is undergoing a much-needed renovation (it'll be 20 years old next spring!) I also recommended they can use this time to get the costume sent in for some repairs; hope that also goes through!
And speaking of costumes, 2022 will also be when I build my partial fursuit of Sam Valentino; being a partial it will be easy, since it'll be his head, arm sleeves, footpaws and tail (as Sam Valentino typically wears a detective's trenchcoat.) I'll work on making it during the spring. Maybe later on in the year I'll work on my first full-body suit, like maybe make a black furry body to go with my Disney Big Bad Wolf cosplay, so I don't have to keep using that Disney Store Halloween costume! (Though I can salvage the overalls and tail from it, of course.)
Also, with 2022 my brother and I are hoping we'll be making enough money by then so we can move out and get our own apartment together. I definitely want us to move in together, since I do help him out with things a lot, and we can both split the rent pay!
And that wraps up another year on this journal. Happy New Year, everybody!
JANUARY
Me and some friends celebrate the return of Saturday morning cartoons, on MeTV!
FEBRUARY
Not much, but I do participate in Anthro New England's virtual fursuit parade!
MARCH
I start driving a company car the electronics recycling/reselling company I work for let me use after my old Jeep Liberty's transmission began failing: a BMW 528i from the early 2000s!
The Brockton public schools reopen for in-person learning, and so my brother is able to go back to work!
APRIL
I buy my first new Macintosh computer in the box: a MacBook Air utilizing Apple's then-new M1 silicon chip that proves to be a lot faster and more powerful than its' Intel equivalents! The Air quickly becomes my main computer to use.
April 6th: Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig make it to Happy World Land!
I get my first dosage of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
MAY
I enjoy the newest batch of "Looney Tunes Cartoons," including a very fun title involving Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog playing with disguises!
I get the second dosage of the Pfizer vaccine, and this is when the side effects hit me, otherwise I am pretty well.
Everyone else in the family is fully vaccinated by this time.
I come out with a new fursona: Sam Valentino, private toon detective fox.
JUNE
I go to Boston for National Record Store Day 2021, the first time I've been to the big city in 16 months!
I begin a hobby of collecting older functional Macintosh computers, usually ones I get from work that were to be recycled, but I refurbish back into full working order.
JULY
"Space Jam: A New Legacy" comes out and I enjoy it, though it's not really the best thing the Looney Tunes have done in recent years.
AUGUST
Me and my brother make our first Speakonia "Barney Bunch"-themed gag dub of the new "Rugrats" reboot series that came otu this year!
SEPTEMBER
I attend Fan Expo Boston 2021 as Zak Wolf, the first convention I've gone to since Anthro New England 2020, and I have a great deal of fun!
I celebrate 50 years of the Monster Cereals, with their delicious Monster Mash cereal that even mentions Fruit Brute!
OCTOBER
I come up with my cosplay of the title character from the Warner Bros. cartoon "The Turn-Tale Wolf!"
Brockton gets hit by a nor'easter that leaves me and my family without electricity for 81 hours!
Halloween gets back in full swing, with me as Zak Wolf once again!
NOVEMBER
I celebrate the one-year anniversary of when I started working at the electronics recycling/reselling company.
My 33rd birthday.
I get a COVID-19 booster shot, the one from Moderna.
I go to the first model railroad show I've attended since before the pandemic broke out, driving all the way to Wilmington MA!
Thanksgiving fills us up, where I helped my mom make the dinner, including preparing mashed potatoes and squash and baking a pumpkin pie! Then the day after, since we don't have as much leftovers, my mom teaches me how to combine them into a "Pilgrim Pie" (like a shepherd's pie but made of Thanksgiving dinner leftovers.)
DECEMBER
Yet another non-traditional Christmas here.
And that brings us up to right now. The year started off kind of slowly (again, due to the pandemic), but by the end here we're a lot closer to the "new normal" now than we ever were!
Here's my most-viewed YouTube video I made in 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xthAvHnIweo
A spoof I made in response to PBS Kids removing Caillou from their lineup earlier this year. But now it airs on Cartoon Network's current preschool block, Cartoonito.
2022 should be interesting. I just hope at least things get even better regarding the pandemic. Anthro New England is scheduled to happen in February, and I'm all registered and ready to go. (They require proof of vaccination when you register, and so I was glad to oblige.) I'm even going to be hosting a panel there; since the con's theme is of the 1990s, a decade I grew up in and know about very well, my panel will be about 1990s kids' computer games, since that's when they really boomed as home computing became more common and affordable, and many of the titles starred anthropomorphic characters (such as Reader Rabbit, some of the Living Books titles, TuneLand, Spy Fox, the Mercer Mayer-related games, etc.) This will be the very first panel I've hosted at a convention, and I sure am excited, along with other aspects of the con and its' 1990s theme!
The Brockton Rox should also be going back to normal for their home games in 2022; the staff there said they will probably have me working as K-O the Kangaroo again come spring. Right now they're dormant, especially since the stadium is undergoing a much-needed renovation (it'll be 20 years old next spring!) I also recommended they can use this time to get the costume sent in for some repairs; hope that also goes through!
And speaking of costumes, 2022 will also be when I build my partial fursuit of Sam Valentino; being a partial it will be easy, since it'll be his head, arm sleeves, footpaws and tail (as Sam Valentino typically wears a detective's trenchcoat.) I'll work on making it during the spring. Maybe later on in the year I'll work on my first full-body suit, like maybe make a black furry body to go with my Disney Big Bad Wolf cosplay, so I don't have to keep using that Disney Store Halloween costume! (Though I can salvage the overalls and tail from it, of course.)
Also, with 2022 my brother and I are hoping we'll be making enough money by then so we can move out and get our own apartment together. I definitely want us to move in together, since I do help him out with things a lot, and we can both split the rent pay!
And that wraps up another year on this journal. Happy New Year, everybody!
Cody X Battle
~codybattlethemusclelion
You have a blessed New Year, as well. Myself, I am looking forward to going to the De-Un-Da-Ga Powwow as well as going to a French and Indian War encampment.
BlueEyedWolf
~blueeyedwolf
Wow, impressive !
