EOY Meme 2023

[dmjewelle]

1. What did you do in 2023 that you'd never done before?

Enter Eorzea Cafe!

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

No, but this year I'm doing something different and making 2: Finish my Nanowrimo project and practice drawing again.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

I wasn't that close to my aunt but...close enough.

5. What countries did you visit?

Japan and a lot of Singapore.

6. What would you like to have in 2024 that you lacked in 2023?

Drive.

7. What date from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

July 1 2023, the day our lord and saviour Naoki Yoshida and his prophet Koji-Fox signed my PS5.



8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

See above.

9. What was your biggest failure?

My entire working year.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Let's see now...flea bites, a 12-hour migraine, several headaches, COVID...it was helluva year. Always take Chinese zodiac predictions seriously.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

The PS5.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

Everyone who tried to make the world a better place.

13. Whose behaviour appalled you?

Very particular behaviour of world leaders regarding the flattening of Palestine.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Singapore. The exchange rate is killer.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Not to that extent, but it was exciting to meet Yoshida. And maybe participating in a WoL sticker exchange.

16. What song will always remind you of 2023?

Click to view

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder? Sadder

ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter

iii. richer or poorer? Probably the same

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?

Play FF16.

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

Play FF14 (HA)

20. How did you spend Christmas?

Chilling. No more relatives to eat and sing carols with, and NOW I miss it.

21. Where did you ring in 2024?

Uncle Don's with Gan and Deru.

22. Did you fall in love in 2023?

No.

23. How many one-night stands?

One, if you count ERP.

24. What was your favourite TV program?

...Producer's Live Letter. Youtube is a TV channel, right?

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

No

26. What was the best book you read?

I only read one book and I don't even recall it.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

28. What did you want and get?

Uh. Nothing.

29. What did you want and not get?

A bonus and increment, no thanks to management holding a mistake I made twice due to overwork and understaffing on THEIR part.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?

Barbie. Yeah.

31. What did you do on your birthday?0

I think I went out for cake and a haircut.

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

Bonus and increment!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2021?

I'm 40 and I stopped caring.

34. What kept you sane?

Crofte just logically walking me through everything. Bless him.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

...Timothee Chalamet? But that's because he's pretty.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Every issue this year was dumb as balls.

37. Who did you miss?

Scruffy.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

An RP partner named Crescens.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2023.

Chinese zodiac predictions are serious business.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

今日と明日の境なら未だ無く
眠れずに見る悪夢は終わらない
それでも僕は希望を忘れない
それでも明けぬ夜ならここにない
- TOMBI, Kvi Baba