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1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Visited San Francisco. Directed handbells. Lost my job. Moved my baby brother in to college.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any. Not a fan.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Theresa did. (She's my "big" cousin, and was my personal attendant at my wedding.)
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No. *Knock on wood*
5. What countries did you visit?
Just mine.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Still hoping for those platelets.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
None that I can recall.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Nothing in particular. I wasn't the big achiever this year. Left that to Matt and Tommy.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I make it a point not to have those. :-)
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I did have to go to the ER after passing out one time. But I think that was ultimately related to my little autoimmune issue.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Technically, I bought my car from my dad. For the grand price of $28.50 (the cost of changing a title from parent to child in MN).
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My baby brother graduated from high school and started at my college. :-)
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
For lack of anything better - the Hollywood Screen Writers. Particularly, whoever wrote the last NBC episode of Scrubs.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Being a grown-up. Remodeling our bathroom.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Rinkside seats to the Wild game.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2008?
Maybe the "Wicked" soundtrack. I've been listening to it nonstop for over a month.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder? It's hard to beat post-wedding euphoria. But I'm doing alright.
II. thinner or fatter? Hard to say. Ask me again right before I go to Maui.
III. richer or poorer? Richer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Working.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sweating the small stuff.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Christmas Eve - Matt & I alone, and with my mom's family
Christmas Day - waking up at my parents' house, spending time at Matt's parents' house, then back to my grandparents' house
Dec. 26-28 - with Matt's family @ the cabin
For the record, I didn't change this answer one bit from last year.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Every day.
23. How many one-night stands?
I laugh at this question every year.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
House, NCIS, Bones, Boston Legal, AI, Maui Chopper.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Eh. Not worth the time.
26. What was the best book you read?
I probably read way too much to properly answer this question. I have been enjoying the Potluck Club books.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Wicked
28. What did you want and get?
A job. But I think I'd like more of one.
30. What were your favorite films of the year?
The Dark Knight.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 23 and went to a bar for a drink or two with some close friends.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
That's a lot of pressure. I think my parents and my in-laws were hit especially hard by the stock market crash. We could have done without that, with 3 siblings in college and one about to start private high school.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Ever-changing. Trying to dress my age.
34. What kept you sane?
Matt.
37. Did you change something significant emotionally about yourself?
Not really. I feel myself longing to start a family more and more every day, though.
38. Who did you miss?
Jeanne, Maggie, and John. As always.
39. Who was the best new person you met?
My students.
40. How did you spend all the major holidays?
Pretty much with my family - the new and the old.
41. Top 5 cd's you bought.
I don't actually buy CDs. Maybe I should stop using a 5-year-old meme. Top albums? Wicked Soundtrack, David Cook, Kenny Loggins' "Return to Pooh Corner"...
42. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Hm... Last year, I wrote "Things have a funny way of coming together." This year, I would add only that I'm starting to see God in those "funny ways."
43. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Hmm... I'm kind of at a loss. I'll keep thinking.