How was your year?

There's definitely a very large difference between drug use and drug abuse.

Adding drug use to your life is rarely harmful (it can be if you are stupid and don't know what you are doing before you do it) but basing your life around drugs is dangerous.

Basing your life around drugs is also usually not a "choice".

This year has been pretty good to me. Not outstanding, but not bad either. My band released our second CD (which most of you assholes still need to purchase! Go to my band's website, www.wintermask.com and pick it up now through PayPal!), we went on a pretty good mini-tour in July, I got to see a bunch of friends that I hadn't seen in years, I got to see GWAR live for the first time, and so on and so on. I suppose the only really terrible things I had to deal with this year were my car passing into the afterlife, getting my wisdom teeth pulled and still not having a steady girlfriend.

I'd give it an 8/10. Nothing catastrophically bad happened to me, but almost nothing outstandingly good happened either.