Can't sleep, might as well fill out a survey
1.What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
***Ran part of a marathon, going to do the whole thing next year, let me know if you want to come watch and cheer me on.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
***To work out and be in better shape, and I lifted for 6 months and ran the other 6 months; this year I will try to keep up with both at the same time.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
***ZZ and Nicki, Teagan is so cute!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
***My Great Grandfather Jordan, glad to know you are home with Great Grandma now! My parents dog, Pepper, eating dog bones and bravely barking at immensely larger dogs in heaven.
5. What countries did you visit?
***None, though I was in Detroit, which is close to Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
***More faith.
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
***New Years 2004, for the first of annual parties to come and other good things that happened that night.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
***Getting to know friends better and surviving my first year of Grad school on top of work.
9. What was your biggest failure?
***Walking away from friends, because of time constraints and not understanding what I had before it was gone.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
***A hip flexor, from trying to run 6 min miles on shoes with over 200 miles on them. (In other words, there wasn’t enough cushion for the pushin’, and I beat the hell out of my hip; 6 weeks with no running.)
11. What was the best thing you bought?
***A real bed, yes I know, make all the jokes you like about it being a queen size.
12. Where did most of your money go?
***Paying off my car in 11 months on a 24-month loan.
13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
***Vacation time, working 40 hrs a week with grad school isn’t easy, so the trips to D.C. and Charlotte, as well as, having relaxing time with people around Dayton.
14. What song will always remind you of 2004?
***Kenny Chesney - I Go Back.
15. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier with work, it isn’t so bad after all, but not necessarily sadder about anything, just disappointed in a few choices made over the past 12 months.
ii. thinner or fatter? I am heavier but I have more muscles. =)
iii. richer or poorer? Richer, except when I spend to much money to throw parties for my friends, but I guess that just makes me richer in other ways!
16. What do you wish you'd done more of?
*** Spent more time outdoors.
17. What do you wish you'd done less of?
***Complaining.
18. How did you spend Christmas?
***With family in PA, got to love Grandma’s.
19. Did you fall in love in 2004?
***Yes.
20. How many one-night stands?
***None.
21. What was your favorite TV program?
***Gilligan’s Island Reality Show!
22. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
***Nope, life is too short to hate.
23. What was the best book you read?
***The Goal.
24. What was your greatest musical discovery?
*** That I still can play the piano, and hopefully I can finish learning Clair De Lune.
25. What did you want and get?
***Another Good Year.
26. What did you want and not get?
***More Fee Time.
27. What was your favorite film of this year?
***Bourne Supremacy.
28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
***Turned a whole 23 years old, had my co-worker forget it, and went out for a drink.
29. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably satisfying?
***Succeeding where I had failed over the past year.
30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
***Clothes that can easily be worn to work and for fun times.
31. What kept you sane?
***Music and sleep.
32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
*** Keira Knightly.
33. What political issue stirred you the most?
***War in Iraq.
34. Who did you miss?
***Everyone in Ohio.
35. Who was the best new person you met?
***Mike Marcum, from MBA classes.
36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
***What I am really looking for in a wife.
37. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
*** Coldplay - The Scientist
Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are.
I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart.
Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions,
Oh, let's go back to the start.
Runnin' in circles,
Comin' up tails,
Its only science apart.
Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Oh, take me back to the start.
I was just guessing,
At numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science,
Science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart.
Tell me you love me,
Come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start.
Runnin' in circles,
Chasin' tails,
Comin' back as we are.
Nobody said it was easy,
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard.
I'm goin' back to the start