A Happy New Year Indeed.
This post marks the last of NaBloPomo but, more importantly, of 2008!
The year started off really rough, but started to pick up around July. Life has slowly been on the “up & up”, so I’m very glad the year is over and I have high hopes for 2009! Obviously the biggest change is the fact that I’m officially a full-time starving college student. I’m still adjusting, but am so excited to have school start in just a few more weeks. I’m claiming 2009 as the year of ACCOMPLISHMENT. Can I get an Amen?
I saw this post on Amanda’s blog and thought it’d be a fun challenge to see if I was even capable of answering all these questions. Take a stab at it if you’re up for it!
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1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
I started training with a personal trainer at the gym, went to Florida, went on a family cruise, got a brazilian wax, ate escargot, and saw both my brothers drunk.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I was partying so hard in Texas for New Year’s last year that I didn’t even make a resolution, but I have decided that for 2009, I will be more open-minded.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes, my good friend Evalynn had her baby boy this past summer and she’s expecting her second baby next summer!!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, not this year.
5. What countries did you visit?
Mmmm, I’ve only been to the Bahamas.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
I’d like to have more balls in 2009. I can be a coward when it matters.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
01.25.2008 — for personal reasons
06.11.2008 — first annual Auntie Gemma Day
10.04.2008 — Westmoor High School 10-year Reunion
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Deciding to leave the workforce to go back to school full-time.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Trying to handle big things on my own and still dealing with the guilt.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No, just the standard cold and coughs.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Stella.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I can only judge my own actions and decisions. Everyone else’s behavior is not my concern anymore.
13. Where did most of your money go?
Debt.
14. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Our Disney Cruise in November.
15. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Journey’s “Faithfully”.
16. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier!
b) thinner or fatter? Amazingly thinner — I was looking at pictures earlier and it freaked me out how fat I was earlier this year!
c) richer or poorer? Poorer (and unemployed!)
17. What do you wish you’d done more of?
I wish I’d taken more classes this year.
18. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worked.
19. How did you spend Christmas?
On Christmas Eve, I had dinner with my brother’s family at his in-laws, then I hung out with SB. On Christmas Day, we were at my brother’s with my parents and then I went home sick.
20. Did you fall in love in 2008?
YES.
21. How many one-night stands?
ZERO. Woot!
22. What was your favorite TV program?
The L Word and Keeping Up With the Kardashians
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Neh, I don’t bother hating people anymore.
24. What was the best book you read?
Isabel Allende’s “The Infinite Plan”
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Jack Johnson.
26. What did you want and get? What did you want and not get?
I wanted a vacation and I got it. I wanted a new car, but decided going back to school was a higher priority for me.
27. What was your favorite film of this year?
I didn’t watch too many, but Kung Fu Panda definitely was a memorable one.
28. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting approved for all the student loans I applied for. That would have been nice.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I threw a party in Burlingame. Dinner at Steelhead Brewery and then drinking and dancing at the Vinyl Room. I turned 28.
30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
It will ALWAYS be about the person wearing the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves.
31. What kept you sane?
My friends, my family, music, and writing.
32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I’d be lying if I didn’t say Kim Kardashian. Yes, I’m embarrassed by it, but it’s true. I have to admit I got stuck on her show and (gulp) I even read her blog.
33. What political issue stirred you the most?
I think I was focused more on the state of the economy above anything else this year. Was that selfish? Perhaps?
34. Who did you miss?
Everyone back home in Chicago.
35. Who was the best new person you met?
I’d have to say Jocelyn. We met through our mutual friend, Lynn, and it turns out we have quite a bit in common.
36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008?
“Let your haters be your motivators.”
37. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
From Rihanna’s “Rehab”:
And I’ll never give myself to another
The way I gave it to you
Don’t even recognize
The ways you hurt me
Do you?
It’s gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you’re the one to blameAnd now I feel like, oh
You’re the reason
Why I’m thinking
I don’t wanna smoke on
These cigarettes no more
I guess that’s what I get
For wishful thinking
Should’ve never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
Cause now I’m using like I bleed
It’s like I checked into rehab
Baby you’re my disease
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Happy New Year to you too. Hope you celebrated well =)