2013 Meme snagged from abraxas via pos_sess_ed
1. What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before?
=> met a woman raised in Nazi Germany who'd have become a perpetrator had she not left the country with her family; edited my first erotica anthology
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions and will you make more for next year?
=> I don't make resolutions, though I remained determined to get in better physical shape
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
=> What an odd question. Husband's nephew's wife.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
=> No.
5. What countries did you visit?
=> None in 2013 other than my own.
6. What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013?
=> Stamina for exercise; a smaller belly
7. What date from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
=> None, really.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
=> edited my first erotic anthology
9. What was your biggest failure?
=> getting back into yoga; not losing the weight I wanted to
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
=> ongoing post-cancer shit
11. What was the best thing you bought?
=> My 2010 Prius
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
=> all of us who are alive and (reasonably) well
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
=> RWNJs
14. Where did most of your money go?
=> my 2010 Prius; paying off our house at last!
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
=> my 2010 Prius; the book I edited; more stories in print
16. What song will always remind you of 2013?
=> any song to which Miley twerked
17. Compared to this time last year, are you: Happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
=> mostly the same
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
=> exercised
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
=> worried
20. How did you spend Christmas?
=> I don't do Christmas; was home and happy
21. Did you fall in love in 2013?
=> no falling, just remaining in love with my husband and my loverboi Talon
23. How many one-night stands?
=> none, dammit
24. What was your favourite TV program?
=> early 2013: Green Wing; late 2013: Fringe
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
=> only political nutjobs
26. What was the best book you read?
=> Dara Horn, The World to Come
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
=> Trellis
28. What did you want and get?
=> a newish car (my 2010 Prius)
29. What did you want and not get?
=> a new fridge; better physical health
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
=> Pacific Rim, I guess
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
=> ate sushi; old
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
=> having my hormones less fucked up by post-cancer meds
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2013?
=> jeans
34. What kept you sane?
=> spouse and loverboi
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
=> Anna Torv
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
=> the assholishness of congress
37. Who did you miss?
=> my dad
38. Who was the best new person you met?
=> new colleagues with boundless energy
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2013:
=> focus on what you do best not what you lack
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
=> "I think that you'll agree / That we've become predictable / But I really don't mind being this comfortable" - Fleming & John "Comfortable"