2006 - end of the year meme
1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?:
Lived in an apartment, was part of a functioning romantic relationship, got a normal job (cashier), liked kids, did well on a (singular) college exam, taught, drove a car, got a tattoo, took SSRIs
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?:
I think my new year's resolution was to make it through second semester of college, and that I did accomplish. Not very well, but I did get through. Yay!
I think my new year's resolutions are to be more friendly, not to get discouraged so easily, dance more, swim more, read more.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?:
Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?:
Nope
5. What countries did you visit?:
Canada, if that counts
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?:
Energy
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?:
November 7th - the day we took back congress!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?:
I felt like a grown-up
9. What was your biggest failure?:
Getting carried away with myself
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?:
Ehh depression and anxiety, but I'm getting over it
11. What was the best thing you bought?:
Candy for Yiyi
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?:
Well, most everybody I've been around I've been impressed by at some point or another. I guess, especially Justin, Natalie, and my mom.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?:
I am angsty, bitter, and cranky. Feel my wrath!
14. Where did most of your money go?:
Shit, good question. School, and food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?:
City Year, visiting home, colleges
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?:
Lots of Leonard Cohen songs, esp. "The Traitor"; Eddie Moffett songs, esp. "End of Everything" and "Days Go By"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder?: Happier
ii. Thinner or fatter?: Fatter
iii. richer or poorer?: Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?:
Reading, spending time with awesome people, putting myself out there
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?:
Freaking out
20. How did you spend Christmas?:
Ummmmm I think I watched Children of Men with Justin
21. How will you be spending New Years Eve?:
With The Posse, which is as it should be.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?:
Yes.
23. How many one-night stands?:
Ew none
24. What was your favorite TV program?:
Seinfeld, news, Star Trek.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?:
Nah. I very rarely hate people, and when I do, it's for a really long time
26. What was the best book you read?:
Hmm. HMM. Dunno. :p
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?:
Radiohead
28. What did you want and get?:
Friendship, love, romantic love, accepted into City Year, a tattoo, a dick of cards, happy pills, taken care of
29. What did you want and not get?:
a personality
30. What was your favorite film of this year?:
Little Miss Sunshine
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?:
Tried to make samosas, failed. It was with Justin, Wren, and Max, and they didnt hate each other, and that made me happy. I turned 19.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?:
Slutty, wear-shit-that's-been-in-your-closet-for-years, City Year Uniform (black sock variety)
34. What kept you sane?:
Justin, therapy, friends, family, City Year. (Though I didn't always keep in with sanity)
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?:
Leonard Cohen. Duh.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?:
Gay rights, environmental issues, separation of church and state
37. Who did you miss?:
BHS and everything associated
38. Who was the best new person you met?:
Mani (and the crew), the awesomefriendly person (people) at McGill, Karen from City Year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
You get lots and lots of second chances.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"Come over to the window, my little darling,
I'd like to try to read your palm.
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
before I let you take me home.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Well you know that I love to live with you,
but you make me forget so very much.
I forget to pray for the angels
and then the angels forget to pray for us.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...
We met when we were almost young
deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
as we went kneeling through the dark.
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
is fastening my ankle to a stone.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...
For now I need your hidden love.
I'm cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...
Oh, you are really such a pretty one.
I see you've gone and changed your name again.
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
to wash my eyelids in the rain!
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ..."