Holy shit, I can finally set 2009 on fire and destroy it the way I've been wanting to.
Shit son, it's the end of the year! And the end of the aughts!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Oh man, in rough order: Saw a president get sworn in that I actually voted for and kind of love and stuff. Lost my job (but was reallocated to a new one, so...it's less dramatic than it sounds). Went to New York ComicCon. Helped run a dance troupe. Turned 28. Dumped my cheating boyfriend. Was the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding. Met Amanda Palmer and had my boobs touched by her. Broke my long-standing rule about not re-dating people I'd found lacking in the past, only to reaffirm that that's actually a good rule to have. Cut off all my hair and dyed it platinum blond. Changed my LJ name for THE LAST TIME I SWEAR. Quit the dance troupe. Started my own performance troupe. Met the Companda. Performed for 1,000+ people. Did a set of Naked Comedy. Rang in New Year's Eve seeing a bunch of performing friends do crazy shit with Amanda Palmer and the Boston Pops with the MG, Leyna and Caleb. (This has not happened yet but I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE OF THIS EVENING. Also: I will probably end up playing Beatles Rock Band late into the night with the Companda afterward, at the party he's going to for NYE. I foresee me having a good time all night! And being happy! IT'S LIKE I'M PSYCHIC.)
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I'm pretty sure my New Year's Resolution last year was, "try to make it through a day without crying" -- yeesh you guys. Yeesh. Reading through my posts this year, MAN! El was such a FUCKTARD! Omg why did you all let me date him?! So anyway, yeah, no, no resolutions last year beyond, uh, be happier? And I've succeeded on that across the board.
I will make resolutions for next year! They are:
1) be a physically fit badass.
2) be a performing badass.
3) be a masters-degree-having badass.
4) be a debt-free badass.
5) be a badass with a different job.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes! helenish had a baby boy and told me various stories about pregnancy and child birth that have me COMPLETELY FRIGHTENED at the prospect of doing those activities myself! (Which is why I'm letting Future, 34-year-old Kirby worry about how she'd like to end up with a baby.)
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, unless we count Michael Jackson, which I kind of do.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada! Montreal, congrats, you've been short-listed as a City I Would Possibly Be Willing to Leave Boston For.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
I'm pretty sure my resolutions cover all of this? Oh! A bike. After having the universe fling five different awesome people into my life who are Into Biking, I've caved and decided I'll man up and learn how to ride a bike in the city this year.
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 21: Obama's first day in office. :)
May 6-7: Toured to Philly, ended up in a homestay so epically bad, we called it the Failstay.
October 2: Party where I met, drunkenly chatted up, and made out in the upstairs hallway with the Companda. (CLASS, ALL THE WAY.)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Possibly a tie between starting the Bitches of Destiny and making it through the back to back accounting classes in my program. Although, the MG would say that it was getting over El as well and as I did.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I'm not happy with the way I've been slacking off, gym-wise and food-in-my-mouth-wise. There have been many muffins, friends. And no epic spin sessions to work the muffins off. Also, my hip and leg are starting to act up again, due to the lack of movement, and I hate that creaky sedentary feeling.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing super epic. My ankle hasn't re-sprained itself in a while (SHOCK!) and I haven't gotten deathly ill yet this fall/winter (BEYOND SHOCK!). I credit the latter to the Neti Pot, which actually...if I could figure out the date of Johhny Blazes' 25th Birthday Celebration, I would know the date I became a Neti Pot convert, and it would go in my memorable dates section above. (I had a head cold so bad I couldn't get the Neti Pot to work at all, and I was crying because I felt so crap, and I had to travel to Montreal the next day...but someone told me to get the water really hot and be patient, and so I went home after performing and I did that, and I finally got the water to run through on each side, and I went to bed and woke up like, almost entirely better. No painful swallowing, no I-can-feel-it-in-my-ears-when-I-swallow, barely a stuffy nose, even. NETI POT: THE HAND OF GOD.)
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A Mac Mini, which I have hooked up to my TV and which acts faithfully to deliver internet television to me upon my whim.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I'm going to be lazy and say "Everyone on my Greader list" as those fierce ladies get me through my work day every day. Also, without them, I would have missed out on many, many illegal downloads of music and movies I MEAN WHAT?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Can I just say, "universal health care" and everyone can just know what I'm talking about without me having to hash out all the details and depressing myself all over again?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Probably alcohol, costumes and glitter. I will know more accurately when I get a new spreadsheet from jarrow (I...kind of stopped using mine after El left, because it's one thing to spend one's rent on red wine, but it's another to SEE AND TRACK THAT DECISION.)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
OBAMA! LOST! STAR TREK! LOST! BITCHES! SLUTCRACKER! LOST!
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
The "Don't Stop Believin'" of gay culture: Single Ladies.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) happier or sadder? Happier, by far.
(b) thinner or fatter? About the same? But the muscle-y bits are definitely bigger than they were last year.
(c) richer or poorer? Less in debt, so I suppose richer?
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
SLEEP. Work out. Hold my cats. Perform (I pretty much ALWAYS wish I could do more of that).
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Be angry at people when there's no productive way to get them to change or make myself feel better via anger. Possibly drinking. Definitely shopping at Sephora.com.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the MG, making cookies and seeing movies.
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Yes! It's delightful, I recommend it. :)
22. What was your favorite TV program?
LOST.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No, I still hate the same people, actually.
24. What was the best book you read?
Using my own definition of "best", the entire Sookie Stackhouse series. WHAT UP.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Lady Gaga. Florence + the Machine.
26. What did you want and get?
The ability to be creative on my terms.
27. What did you want and not get?
Out of debt.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Oh man, probably a tie between Star Trek and Up.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
What DID I do on my birthday? Oh, I hung out with El, and then a couple days later I went to the "surprise" party he threw for me, which was the one nice decent thing he ever managed to do. (Kind of disgusting in retrospect, still, considering he was planning this party and still cheating on me with his ex-girlfriend, but y'know.) I turned 28, and overall it was a good year, and if you go in for that kind of thing, a pretty typical Saturn Return.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Satisfaction without measure? Dang, I'm not sure anything does that? Unless it's just the usual, "eat more things with bacon in them."
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Well, there's like, personal aka work/etc, which is pretty boring intentionally. I try to buy things in greyscale, so that way they all can be worn in different combinations with each other, and I work at a law firm, so everything's rather conservative.
Beyond that, it's all performance gear, which obviously leans toward the tight, sparkly, and easy to remove.
32. What kept you sane?
My friends, performing, and systematically rearranging and cleaning out everything I own. The usual. :)
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
First name Princess, last name Whitelaw.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Ongoing Unnecessary Douchebaggery of the Democratic Party When Faced with an Ignorable Republican Minority.
35. Who did you miss?
I ALREADY MISS LINDSAY A LOT AND SHE HASN'T EVEN BEEN GONE TWO MONTHS. Also, I missed Lady Gaga's Boston tour dates, which I still feel genuine sadness about. I'm shallow.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
See above re: Missing Lindsay. D: We met at the Massachusetts meeting for ontd_startrek, and then proceeded to hang out a lot and marathon True Blood. She has probably the best friendship timing of anyone I've ever met, in that LITERALLY every time I'd be home on my couch and started to think to myself, "Hey, I'm kind of bored," I'd get a call or text from her saying things like, "I'm at the Shaw's across from your house, I think I'm gonna make hoagies, can I use your kitchen?" Super easy person to be around and get along with, I miss her a lot, it is tragic. She is only allowed to be not-in-Boston now because she's moving to LA, where I will be allowed to sleep on her couch and stalk celebrities with her.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
There are things in life that do not call for compromise, but are actually better served by demanding exactly what you want.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
Got me tighter in my Dereon jeans.
Acting up, drink in my cup
I could care less what you think."
Alternately:
"I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me."
Honestly and truly, I cannot believe this year even happened, let alone that I survived it and came out the other side. I kept wishing for things to be better, and they got better. And then they got even better after that. <3 Happy New Year, imaginary friendslist people, we get a whole fresh year to destroy now!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Oh man, in rough order: Saw a president get sworn in that I actually voted for and kind of love and stuff. Lost my job (but was reallocated to a new one, so...it's less dramatic than it sounds). Went to New York ComicCon. Helped run a dance troupe. Turned 28. Dumped my cheating boyfriend. Was the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding. Met Amanda Palmer and had my boobs touched by her. Broke my long-standing rule about not re-dating people I'd found lacking in the past, only to reaffirm that that's actually a good rule to have. Cut off all my hair and dyed it platinum blond. Changed my LJ name for THE LAST TIME I SWEAR. Quit the dance troupe. Started my own performance troupe. Met the Companda. Performed for 1,000+ people. Did a set of Naked Comedy. Rang in New Year's Eve seeing a bunch of performing friends do crazy shit with Amanda Palmer and the Boston Pops with the MG, Leyna and Caleb. (This has not happened yet but I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE OF THIS EVENING. Also: I will probably end up playing Beatles Rock Band late into the night with the Companda afterward, at the party he's going to for NYE. I foresee me having a good time all night! And being happy! IT'S LIKE I'M PSYCHIC.)
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I'm pretty sure my New Year's Resolution last year was, "try to make it through a day without crying" -- yeesh you guys. Yeesh. Reading through my posts this year, MAN! El was such a FUCKTARD! Omg why did you all let me date him?! So anyway, yeah, no, no resolutions last year beyond, uh, be happier? And I've succeeded on that across the board.
I will make resolutions for next year! They are:
1) be a physically fit badass.
2) be a performing badass.
3) be a masters-degree-having badass.
4) be a debt-free badass.
5) be a badass with a different job.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes! helenish had a baby boy and told me various stories about pregnancy and child birth that have me COMPLETELY FRIGHTENED at the prospect of doing those activities myself! (Which is why I'm letting Future, 34-year-old Kirby worry about how she'd like to end up with a baby.)
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, unless we count Michael Jackson, which I kind of do.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada! Montreal, congrats, you've been short-listed as a City I Would Possibly Be Willing to Leave Boston For.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
I'm pretty sure my resolutions cover all of this? Oh! A bike. After having the universe fling five different awesome people into my life who are Into Biking, I've caved and decided I'll man up and learn how to ride a bike in the city this year.
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 21: Obama's first day in office. :)
May 6-7: Toured to Philly, ended up in a homestay so epically bad, we called it the Failstay.
October 2: Party where I met, drunkenly chatted up, and made out in the upstairs hallway with the Companda. (CLASS, ALL THE WAY.)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Possibly a tie between starting the Bitches of Destiny and making it through the back to back accounting classes in my program. Although, the MG would say that it was getting over El as well and as I did.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I'm not happy with the way I've been slacking off, gym-wise and food-in-my-mouth-wise. There have been many muffins, friends. And no epic spin sessions to work the muffins off. Also, my hip and leg are starting to act up again, due to the lack of movement, and I hate that creaky sedentary feeling.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing super epic. My ankle hasn't re-sprained itself in a while (SHOCK!) and I haven't gotten deathly ill yet this fall/winter (BEYOND SHOCK!). I credit the latter to the Neti Pot, which actually...if I could figure out the date of Johhny Blazes' 25th Birthday Celebration, I would know the date I became a Neti Pot convert, and it would go in my memorable dates section above. (I had a head cold so bad I couldn't get the Neti Pot to work at all, and I was crying because I felt so crap, and I had to travel to Montreal the next day...but someone told me to get the water really hot and be patient, and so I went home after performing and I did that, and I finally got the water to run through on each side, and I went to bed and woke up like, almost entirely better. No painful swallowing, no I-can-feel-it-in-my-ears-when-I-swallow, barely a stuffy nose, even. NETI POT: THE HAND OF GOD.)
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A Mac Mini, which I have hooked up to my TV and which acts faithfully to deliver internet television to me upon my whim.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I'm going to be lazy and say "Everyone on my Greader list" as those fierce ladies get me through my work day every day. Also, without them, I would have missed out on many, many illegal downloads of music and movies I MEAN WHAT?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Can I just say, "universal health care" and everyone can just know what I'm talking about without me having to hash out all the details and depressing myself all over again?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Probably alcohol, costumes and glitter. I will know more accurately when I get a new spreadsheet from jarrow (I...kind of stopped using mine after El left, because it's one thing to spend one's rent on red wine, but it's another to SEE AND TRACK THAT DECISION.)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
OBAMA! LOST! STAR TREK! LOST! BITCHES! SLUTCRACKER! LOST!
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
The "Don't Stop Believin'" of gay culture: Single Ladies.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) happier or sadder? Happier, by far.
(b) thinner or fatter? About the same? But the muscle-y bits are definitely bigger than they were last year.
(c) richer or poorer? Less in debt, so I suppose richer?
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
SLEEP. Work out. Hold my cats. Perform (I pretty much ALWAYS wish I could do more of that).
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Be angry at people when there's no productive way to get them to change or make myself feel better via anger. Possibly drinking. Definitely shopping at Sephora.com.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the MG, making cookies and seeing movies.
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Yes! It's delightful, I recommend it. :)
22. What was your favorite TV program?
LOST.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No, I still hate the same people, actually.
24. What was the best book you read?
Using my own definition of "best", the entire Sookie Stackhouse series. WHAT UP.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Lady Gaga. Florence + the Machine.
26. What did you want and get?
The ability to be creative on my terms.
27. What did you want and not get?
Out of debt.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Oh man, probably a tie between Star Trek and Up.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
What DID I do on my birthday? Oh, I hung out with El, and then a couple days later I went to the "surprise" party he threw for me, which was the one nice decent thing he ever managed to do. (Kind of disgusting in retrospect, still, considering he was planning this party and still cheating on me with his ex-girlfriend, but y'know.) I turned 28, and overall it was a good year, and if you go in for that kind of thing, a pretty typical Saturn Return.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Satisfaction without measure? Dang, I'm not sure anything does that? Unless it's just the usual, "eat more things with bacon in them."
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Well, there's like, personal aka work/etc, which is pretty boring intentionally. I try to buy things in greyscale, so that way they all can be worn in different combinations with each other, and I work at a law firm, so everything's rather conservative.
Beyond that, it's all performance gear, which obviously leans toward the tight, sparkly, and easy to remove.
32. What kept you sane?
My friends, performing, and systematically rearranging and cleaning out everything I own. The usual. :)
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
First name Princess, last name Whitelaw.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Ongoing Unnecessary Douchebaggery of the Democratic Party When Faced with an Ignorable Republican Minority.
35. Who did you miss?
I ALREADY MISS LINDSAY A LOT AND SHE HASN'T EVEN BEEN GONE TWO MONTHS. Also, I missed Lady Gaga's Boston tour dates, which I still feel genuine sadness about. I'm shallow.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
See above re: Missing Lindsay. D: We met at the Massachusetts meeting for ontd_startrek, and then proceeded to hang out a lot and marathon True Blood. She has probably the best friendship timing of anyone I've ever met, in that LITERALLY every time I'd be home on my couch and started to think to myself, "Hey, I'm kind of bored," I'd get a call or text from her saying things like, "I'm at the Shaw's across from your house, I think I'm gonna make hoagies, can I use your kitchen?" Super easy person to be around and get along with, I miss her a lot, it is tragic. She is only allowed to be not-in-Boston now because she's moving to LA, where I will be allowed to sleep on her couch and stalk celebrities with her.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
There are things in life that do not call for compromise, but are actually better served by demanding exactly what you want.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
Got me tighter in my Dereon jeans.
Acting up, drink in my cup
I could care less what you think."
Alternately:
"I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me."
Honestly and truly, I cannot believe this year even happened, let alone that I survived it and came out the other side. I kept wishing for things to be better, and they got better. And then they got even better after that. <3 Happy New Year, imaginary friendslist people, we get a whole fresh year to destroy now!