2006 Meme!
1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Legally drank in the States
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes I kept mine, and yes I'll make one for next year
3. Did someone close to you give birth?
Yes, Anne-Marie! And Sharlene had another baby... so did Andrea... and Brent... yikes. Lots of babies!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes
5. What countries did you visit?
I didn't really travel a lot this year -- Just USA
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?.
More time to go out with my YUSAA peeps
7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 20th - Best effing birthday ever!
June 24th - Jay and Anne-Marie's wedding
September 13th - SNOW PATROL!!!!!
October 4th - Savanna was born <3
November 11th - Seeing Wicked. The most magical night of my life.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Landing a Rock hottie :P haha j/k Umm... Doing awesome in YUSAA and getting recognition for it
9. What was your biggest failure?
Going to the gym less at the end of the year.... I definitely got way too lazy
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious. My wisdom teeth extraction was disasterous though.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
With my own money? Probably Life as We Know it and Undeclared on DVD... Brought back good memories
12. Whose behaviour should be celebrated?
Jay's :) He grew up and became so mature!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Probably Vince
14. Where did most of your money go?
Gas, school books, bus passes
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Graduating university
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Wicked - Popular, Wicked - Defying Gravity, Wicked - The Wizard and I, Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats, Peter Gabriel - Salisbury Hill, Teddy Geiger - For You I Will, Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars, The Perishers - Sway, Foy Vance - Gabriel and the Vagabond, Brett Dennen - The One Who Loves You The Most, Paris Hilton - Stars are Blind
17. Compared to this time last year,
i. Are you happier or hardened?
Happier
ii. Thinner or fatter?
About the same
iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Relaxed
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Giving the wrong guys a chance
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With the family
21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Nope
22. Any one-night stands?
Nope
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Veronica Mars and Grey's Anatomy
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope
25. What was the best book you read?
Ugh... I read terrible books this year. I guess I'd have to choose Sunburst
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Brett Dennen
27. What did you want and get?
An even closer relationship with my family, to get over Kyle
28. What did you want and not get?
A serious man
29. Favorite film of this year?
The Holiday, Devil Wears Prada
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
21 - The girls and I went down to Niagara Falls and had redonkulous amounts of fun, and then we went to BP to meet up with friends that night
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting better marks in ENGL 4371
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Casual, AE :P
33. What kept you sane?
My girls, my family, VM
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Shoshana Bean, Kristen Bell
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Harper winning...
36. Who do you miss?
Amanda, Jay
37. Who was the best new person you met?
Probably the karaoke boys
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Life goes on
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Something has changed within me.
Something is not the same.
I'm through with playing by the rules
of someone else's game.
Too late for second-guessing -
Too late to go back to sleep.
It's time to trust my instincts,
close my eyes, and leap