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1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Went to New York City and trekked around Europe.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I made any...so I'm gonna say..yes..<.< As for this next year, to live in the moment =)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No but someone got pregnant!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Norway
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A better handle on my identity
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
No specific dates really
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Somehow managing to afford to travel all the places I did, and not falling overboard while crabbing with dad and my brothers
9. What was your biggest failure?
Being silly when it comes to relationships
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing memorable
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Plane tickets and train passes =D
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Gabe, because he just always rocks
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Anyone who kicked puppies
14. Where did most of your money go?
Plane tickets and train passes haha
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Traveling and delicious smoothies
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
A random assortment of things I listened to in Europe
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
a) Happier
b) Probably a tiny bit thinner
c) Richer, but I'm sure I'll find something else to spend it all on!
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Listening to myself instead of letting other people's words or opinions get inside my head
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Working at MDT
20. How will you spend Christmas?
At home with my family I believe
21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Yes, with a vampire =]
22. What was your favorite TV program?
House
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope..can't really say that I hate anyone at all
24. What was the best book you read?
Breaking Dawn
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
New things by artists I already liked (mostly from Evanescence and Kate Havnevik). Gabe also introduced me to some Austrian death metal =D
26. What did you want and get?
To be able to travel! And daddy finally took me out on the ocean
27. What did you want and not get?
I don't know...and there's still time, Christmas hasn't happened yet ;)
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Twilight
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
22, I was in SC and I got taken out to lunch and dinner and got a book about smoothies =]
30. What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Going to Europe, and hanging out with some people a lot more
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
At times, just jeans and a work shirt; over the summer, rotating through the same few outfits that could fit in my backpack (but they were cute and summery!); went through a black nail polish phase....; oh, cute boots.
32. What kept you sane?
The ocean and Muse
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Robert Pattinson. =]
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The fact that everyone else was so stirred up and wanted me on their side o.o I felt like I was in the middle of a tug-of-war game.
35. Who did you miss?
Whoever I wasn't around at the time (I spent time in SC, Oregon, and Europe so the list could be long).
36. Who was the best new person you met?
All the nice people who helped us out on our travels
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Be yourself, and make sure you know who that is ;) And if you have enough determination, you can make great things happen.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I'm one of the few survivors in a drawer labeled lost and found"