Stolen from DoctorAicha!
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Fell in love.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I try not to set myself up for failure.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes! (And Solveig is almost one already! Happy Birthday, tiny girl!)
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not this year.
5. What countries did you visit?
I didn't put a toe out of the US, alas.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Um...motivation?
7. What date(s) from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 16 and December 7
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Achievement? Hmm. Maybe writing two plays? I don't know that I "achieved" any of the nice things that happened this year.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not achieving much?
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
A couple colds, and my usual array of unexplainable bruises.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Uhhh...hey, maybe the DVD that will play anything we burn from the Internet. No! My Hell Hath No Fury shirt! It's the best thing ever!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I celebrate all y'all. You, and you and you. Why not?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Too many to name, and all of them in positions of power.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and groceries, I suppose.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Seeing my friends who came to visit, meeting Ben. The Hell Hath No Fury shirt.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Any Johnny Cash song.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? about the same
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Work
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
slacking off
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With my family at my sister Mary's house
21. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes
22. How many one-night stands?
No. I mean, come on. I'm super olde tyme.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
My Name is Earl, Craft Corner Deathmatch, Medium
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No-one comes to mind?
25. What was the best book you read?
HPB, for the vindication of it all.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I invented a new stringed instrument you pluck with your toes. WTF? I don't know.
27. What did you want to get?
A new kitchen.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Walk the Line
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I had about three birthday parties. I was 29.
30. What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Ben!
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
clothes that fit?
32. What kept you sane?
Wait- sane? I think this was perhaps my greatest failure of the year.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Well, this is difficult. The most? I fancy many, and I would not wish to offend the others by singling one out.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Pretty much every action of the Bush administration. I would not wish to offend the others by singling one out.
35. Who did you miss?
My brother, my family, my friends all over the country.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Ben!
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Do not attempt to predict your own behavior. I think I knew this before, but I really know it now.