Year in Review
Stolen from manicmimic
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Really felt like an artist
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I made one, and if I did I certainly did not keep it.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not terribly close to me, but the wife of one of Clinton's friends did. I met her the day before she did
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Again, not terribly close to me, but the daughter of one of my best friends died last month.
5. What countries did you visit?
None, damn
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Travel, more checks off the TTDBID list, more art, more financial success, more love, more risk taking
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Probably 10-28 (end of a phase in my life) and 12-10 (glaucoma dr. visit)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Growth as a photographer
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being ready for the big apple
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Cysts in both my R ovary and R breast, Glaucoma
11. What was the best thing you bought?
The crazy shoes I bought for Halloween
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Bush's... we're all celebrating his departure right?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
See #12
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and Bills... and excessive amounts of eating out post 10-28
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Showing in various galleries, Opening my own gallery, SPEWest Conference 2008, each of the parties I've been to recently, New Year's Eve
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder? Much, much happier
b. thinner or heavier? I totally don't remember. Probably thinner
c. richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Photography, particularly since October
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Eating out
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the man of my current dreams
21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2008?
probably having certain people see me naked for the first time (as in my photography)
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
twice
23. How many one-night stands?
none... unless i count that fun night with the foxy book keeper
24. What were your favorite TV programs?
good eats, the office, stargate atlantis, battlestar glactica, top chef, extreme engineering, Brink
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
Ghost World
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Trance, spun live in your boyfriend's dining room whilst under the influence
28. What did you want and get?
both the people i fell in love with last year, being known for my art
29. What did you want and not get?
a mansion, yacht, million dollar wardrobe, and a trained pig who can dance
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Mechanics of Love by Willard Maas and Ben Moore
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 22 hung out with two of my favorite guys and my little sister and checked off several tasks on my TTDBID list
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being ready for the big apple
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
one day young professional, the next day college-aged slacker
34. What kept you sane?
my Canon
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I can't name just one I guess... probably because I don't really think I 'fancied' any... but I do admit I had a high school girl attraction to several male actors this year, which isn't something that has really happened since I was in... elementary school?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
gay marriage and abortion laws
37. Who did you miss?
my sister
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Travis (one of Clinton's friends)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
confidence in your image, abilities, and talents is important. It will make you or it will break you.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Really felt like an artist
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I made one, and if I did I certainly did not keep it.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not terribly close to me, but the wife of one of Clinton's friends did. I met her the day before she did
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Again, not terribly close to me, but the daughter of one of my best friends died last month.
5. What countries did you visit?
None, damn
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Travel, more checks off the TTDBID list, more art, more financial success, more love, more risk taking
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Probably 10-28 (end of a phase in my life) and 12-10 (glaucoma dr. visit)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Growth as a photographer
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being ready for the big apple
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Cysts in both my R ovary and R breast, Glaucoma
11. What was the best thing you bought?
The crazy shoes I bought for Halloween
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Bush's... we're all celebrating his departure right?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
See #12
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and Bills... and excessive amounts of eating out post 10-28
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Showing in various galleries, Opening my own gallery, SPEWest Conference 2008, each of the parties I've been to recently, New Year's Eve
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder? Much, much happier
b. thinner or heavier? I totally don't remember. Probably thinner
c. richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Photography, particularly since October
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Eating out
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the man of my current dreams
21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2008?
probably having certain people see me naked for the first time (as in my photography)
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
twice
23. How many one-night stands?
none... unless i count that fun night with the foxy book keeper
24. What were your favorite TV programs?
good eats, the office, stargate atlantis, battlestar glactica, top chef, extreme engineering, Brink
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
Ghost World
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Trance, spun live in your boyfriend's dining room whilst under the influence
28. What did you want and get?
both the people i fell in love with last year, being known for my art
29. What did you want and not get?
a mansion, yacht, million dollar wardrobe, and a trained pig who can dance
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Mechanics of Love by Willard Maas and Ben Moore
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 22 hung out with two of my favorite guys and my little sister and checked off several tasks on my TTDBID list
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being ready for the big apple
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
one day young professional, the next day college-aged slacker
34. What kept you sane?
my Canon
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I can't name just one I guess... probably because I don't really think I 'fancied' any... but I do admit I had a high school girl attraction to several male actors this year, which isn't something that has really happened since I was in... elementary school?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
gay marriage and abortion laws
37. Who did you miss?
my sister
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Travis (one of Clinton's friends)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
confidence in your image, abilities, and talents is important. It will make you or it will break you.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again