1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Hottt lovin'
Donating blood
fit my entire body through a frisbee hole
drove a car
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Im not sure that i actually made any last year, if i did, im guessing i didn't follow through with them. i dont think ill make any for this year either. i don't do that shit.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
not that i can think of
4. Did anyone close to you die?
yes, i had a couple of rough months
5. What countries did you visit?
the YounIted States of Amareecah, Isreal, Poland, and stopped in rome for three hours
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
motivation
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 14th - is when i went to poland to see some of the concentration camps, the memorys are hard to forget
May 29 - when i went to the hospital to celebrate fabians last round of chemotherapy
July - fringe fest, due to the lovely ms. simms i got to be apart of a fringe play (fairy)
August 28 - max moved away to minniapolis
October - when Habibi first started going to the school
December 24 - my first christmas celebration with fabians family.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
sneaking into the david bowie concert with ryan
9. What was your biggest failure?
giving up on things i found difficult, i guess i should have tried to work through them and stick them out, but i gave up to easily.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got strep throat this year, it sucked ass. and i have a cold right now, which also sucks.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
mango juice from halal
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
probably a few people, but i cant think of any on the spot
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
a friend of mine, i dont want to discuss it. but it was a real shock and confused me a great deal.
14. Where did most of your money go?
probably all towards mango juice. soo amazing
15. What did you get really, really excited about?
swimming in the dead sea and climbing mount Massade at sunrise.
Fabian
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Outkast - Hey Ya
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
i would say happier, but i dont recall being depressed or unhappy last year.
b) thinner or fatter?
im thinking about the same. maybe a bit fatter, but probably not by much
c) richer or poorer?
at the moment, im thinking richer! cuz i just got paid for making that zine
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
spent time with friends
crafts
photography
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
spending stupid amounts of time on the computer (argh)
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
i spent it with fabians family, eating lots of food and singing along to funny spanish music, and sleeping in his bed.
21. Did you fall in love in 2004?
probably
22. How many one-night stands?
so many i cant even count them
23. What was your favourite TV program?
six feet under
family guy
gilmore girls
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
i dont think so, and its possible that my hatred towards brandon lessened
25. What was the best book you read?
i read all the harry potter books this year, and they changed my life
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
i think it was this year that i got into dropdead, maybe that was last year, either way, they changed my life.
27. What did you want and get?
fabian, hahahah
28. What did you want and not get?
SARS
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
pirates of the Carribean
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 17 when i was in Isreal and i the Micheana threw me a sort of party and i spent the day swimming in beautiful water and basking in warm sun, and then went to a dance party and bazzar in the evening
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
no homework
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
tight with plenty of badly sewn up holes
33. What kept you sane?
i didnt
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Gael Garcia Bernel
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
there were several. probably when Heriberto got deported, the whole Immigration and the fact that people could be illegal really got to me.
36. Who did you miss?
Jessica CM (my best-next-door-neighbour-friend), Max
37. Who was the best new person you met?
Habibi.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
we arent as immortal as it sometimes feels. its important to appreciate as much as possible. (i know its cheesy, but discovering my own mortality was a huge lesson i learned)