Meme - A Year in Reflection

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
... Yes.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I've ever made a New year's Resolution, much less cared about keeping it.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Raven had the cutest little parasite.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Luke, Amanda and Steph.. it was kind of a bad year

5. What countries did you visit?
n/a

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Well for most of 2004 I lacked both a serious relationship and sanity, and I'm kind of hoping those two things will stick around for 2005.

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Opening night of Chorus Line, and August 28th.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not quitting Chorus Line.

9. What was your biggest failure?
School.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Did I not suffer would probably be a better question. I live in a state of perpetual sickness and/or injury.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Probably new books.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My mother.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bush.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Coffee, groceries, rent.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting into Chorus Line, getting into Vagina Monologues, and Rob

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Mmmm.... Avenue Q and Wicked, I guess, as I just discovered them this year.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder?
Happier. Definately happier.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Spending time with my Park friends after I moved out.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Procrastinating.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Christmas Eve and Morning at my parents' house, and Christmas Afternoon/Dinner with Rob's parents.

21. How will you be spending New Years?
Either at Chrissy and Lorne's, or Anne and Janet's, I suspect.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Yes.

23. How many one-night stands?
Turns out, one. But that was not my fault, nor my intention.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
West Wing. Buffy.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
David. But I didn't know him this time last year, so it makes it harder to have hated him then.

26. What was the best book you read?
Impossible to choose. Recently the best book I read was the Bookseller of Kabul, but seriously, it's been a year. Do you know how many books I can read in a year??

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Wicked and Avenue Q.

28. What did you want and get?
To attend Ainlay this year.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Probably Finding Neverland, but who knows really.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was eighteen, and I went out to the Roost a couple days later with my friends, to dance the night away.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less psychotic episodes.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
I wouldn't.

34. What kept you sane?
My little green pills.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I say 'gah!' to you.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Bush's re-election, gay marriage, war in Iraq...

37. Who did you miss?
A lot of people at different times.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Well Rob, for sure, but also his group of friends have been pretty cool to meet.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
The proper pills make life immensely better. Be willing to experiment until you are happy.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"Those who don't try, never look foolish..."