2005 in Review
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Spent 11 separate days in the Emergency Room. Only slept with one person the entire year (my girlfriend of one year…)
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Last year I choose moderation and I kept by it mostly. This year I’m choosing to stop smoking and drinking all together. So far so good.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I think both my sisters gave birth again, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My mother’s husband Joe died this year. My girlfriend’s uncle also died. One of my pet rats also died.
5. What countries did you visit?
I was pretty close to Canada last January when Lisa D and I went up to Seattle.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Financial freedom.
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
On September 1st I received a call from Sutter hospital - Melissa had been in an accident and was in a lot of pain in the emergency room. I showed up to hear her cries and see blood everywhere. While on the bus going to work a woman ran a red light and crashed into the bus. Melissa fractured her hip, received an 8-inch laceration on her right arm (I’m amazed that she didn’t loose it), and was cut up pretty badly. She was in the hospital for a few weeks and is still in pain.
8. What were your biggest achievements of the year?
I remained employed the whole year.
8. What was your biggest failure?
I didn’t run as much as I would have liked.
9. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Since the Spring I was suffering a knee injury that affected my greatly. I would often wake up in the middle of the night and would not be able to get back to bed until the medication started working again. I stopped running because of it and gained some weight in the process.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Countless books.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Melissa remained strong even after all of the horror she endured over the past year with her gallstones and the accident. I wish I had her strength.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
No one.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Books, Books, and more Books.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I got pretty excited after I completed a few applications for graduate school.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
I didn’t really listen to music much this year.
17. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Happier or sadder?
Happier.
b) Thinner or fatter?
I put on a little weight.
c) Richer or poorer?
Richer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Running.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
∑ Drinking.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Christmas eve I took Melissa to my brother’s house, she wasn’t too excited. She got me a new pair of Grinders; I got her a coat, which turned into some more clothes. On Christmas we stayed in bed all day.
21.How did you spend New Year's Eve?
Melissa had to work so I stayed home and drank. Later on that night Melissa and I stayed home in bed and enjoyed ourselves until around 2 am when we heard a knock at the door - on of Melissa’s friends came over crying - apparently her she caught her boyfriend cheating on her at a party - ouch.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes I did.
23. How many one-night stands?
Not a single one. Melissa and I started to share a room since day 1. Now, a year later, we are still in the same bed and very happy.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Family Guy, still.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope.
26. What was the best book you read?
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
God, I’m getting old….
28. What did you want and get?
A girlfriend.
29. What did you want and not get?
A high paying research position.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Too many movies, nothing worth mentioning.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
∑ I turned 28, but I have no idea what I did.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not having lost my car.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Dark blue jeans and black hooded sweater
34. What kept you sane?
My Girlfriend.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
∑ Not a one.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Conservatives in the all three branches of the government.
37. Who did you miss?
Naomi, It’s been over a year.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
I’ve isolated myself quite a bit this year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
When you stop looking for something you usually find it.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tender croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages):
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couth in sundry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Cauntebury they wende,
The holy blissful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
(Chaucer/Canterbury Tales)
Spent 11 separate days in the Emergency Room. Only slept with one person the entire year (my girlfriend of one year…)
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Last year I choose moderation and I kept by it mostly. This year I’m choosing to stop smoking and drinking all together. So far so good.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I think both my sisters gave birth again, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My mother’s husband Joe died this year. My girlfriend’s uncle also died. One of my pet rats also died.
5. What countries did you visit?
I was pretty close to Canada last January when Lisa D and I went up to Seattle.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Financial freedom.
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
On September 1st I received a call from Sutter hospital - Melissa had been in an accident and was in a lot of pain in the emergency room. I showed up to hear her cries and see blood everywhere. While on the bus going to work a woman ran a red light and crashed into the bus. Melissa fractured her hip, received an 8-inch laceration on her right arm (I’m amazed that she didn’t loose it), and was cut up pretty badly. She was in the hospital for a few weeks and is still in pain.
8. What were your biggest achievements of the year?
I remained employed the whole year.
8. What was your biggest failure?
I didn’t run as much as I would have liked.
9. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Since the Spring I was suffering a knee injury that affected my greatly. I would often wake up in the middle of the night and would not be able to get back to bed until the medication started working again. I stopped running because of it and gained some weight in the process.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Countless books.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Melissa remained strong even after all of the horror she endured over the past year with her gallstones and the accident. I wish I had her strength.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
No one.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Books, Books, and more Books.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I got pretty excited after I completed a few applications for graduate school.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
I didn’t really listen to music much this year.
17. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Happier or sadder?
Happier.
b) Thinner or fatter?
I put on a little weight.
c) Richer or poorer?
Richer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Running.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
∑ Drinking.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Christmas eve I took Melissa to my brother’s house, she wasn’t too excited. She got me a new pair of Grinders; I got her a coat, which turned into some more clothes. On Christmas we stayed in bed all day.
21.How did you spend New Year's Eve?
Melissa had to work so I stayed home and drank. Later on that night Melissa and I stayed home in bed and enjoyed ourselves until around 2 am when we heard a knock at the door - on of Melissa’s friends came over crying - apparently her she caught her boyfriend cheating on her at a party - ouch.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes I did.
23. How many one-night stands?
Not a single one. Melissa and I started to share a room since day 1. Now, a year later, we are still in the same bed and very happy.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Family Guy, still.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope.
26. What was the best book you read?
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
God, I’m getting old….
28. What did you want and get?
A girlfriend.
29. What did you want and not get?
A high paying research position.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Too many movies, nothing worth mentioning.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
∑ I turned 28, but I have no idea what I did.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not having lost my car.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Dark blue jeans and black hooded sweater
34. What kept you sane?
My Girlfriend.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
∑ Not a one.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Conservatives in the all three branches of the government.
37. Who did you miss?
Naomi, It’s been over a year.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
I’ve isolated myself quite a bit this year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
When you stop looking for something you usually find it.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tender croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages):
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couth in sundry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Cauntebury they wende,
The holy blissful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
(Chaucer/Canterbury Tales)