2010 The Year In Review
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Ummmm, start the year looking like a giant drunk clit?
Garden. Badly.
Attend a live fashion show.
Deal with the unfun part of being married to a cop
Dragon boat!
Win 2nd place in the newb division
Drink $22 cocktails
Pillow Fight League!
Drag Kay to rural Ontario
Get married in a helicopter
Go camping.
Put the kids on a school bus for the first time
Go to Chuck E. Cheese. Like it.
Contract leprosy
I don't know what this was but it was definitely a first
Hang with the Dalai Lama
Take 2.0 to Dance Cave!!
Have 2.0 choose to stay and party in my living room instead of hitting Church Street for Halloween
Spoil this gorgeous twee face rotten. Relentlessly.
Also, meet my crazy. Take her out for a drink and get to know her. Ultimately decide to try medication to help.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
What I wrote last year:
Lord 2010. 2010, let's cross our fingers that I can pull my head out of my ass and find something resembling balance again? More realistic goals:
I will work out with Junior once a week and make it out swimming at least once a week. Nowhere near gym rat schedule I had going for a while there but better than the nothing I ended the year on. We also just got a Wii for Christmas so WiiFit or JUST DANCE! is in my immediate future at least once a week as well.
Neutral or Dance Cave, at least once a month. No excuses. Hermitting is not good for my soul.
I'm going to start dating my Meatsuit Destiny Angst. Me and MDA, once a week or even once a month if I can manage, will just chill together with no distractions. This way whenever it tries to creep into my everyday life I can be all 'not now dude, I will sit with you on Saturday. Right now I am not available to obsess about death dammit'.
Oh and somehow I'm totally making the grandparents take the kids one night a month. If I have to put 'em in a giant envelope and mail them dammit.
Well. Ha. Not QUITE. We were doing okay, not great but okay. Then all the extra time I put in at work paid off in this fantastically cool promotion but holy shit did it all fall off the rails again from there. Cuz Fratboy's still gone all the time. But now I was insanely busy with work too. And brain dead from all the new shit I had to learn. And. Well. 2.0 started coming over all the time and having dance parties in our living room and I sort of totally forgot I had any intention of leaving the house. Oops.
We made it to Dance Cave like 3 times? Lord, that's pathetic. We shipped the kids off about as often. I did figure out my MDA was maybe more than I could handle on my own and am trying medication to help with that so that's a win. I think?
I honestly don't know what my resolutions for this year are. I think I've come to terms with the fact that as long as I'm married to a cop it's hard for me to commit to anything. I probably could try harder if it mattered enough but honestly between Fratlove, Kay, the kids and 2.0 I have everything I need right here. And Kay's just not in a social frame of mind of late so it's not like I'm going anywhere without her. And Just Dance 2 is even better than the original. And I bought new furniture making home even cozier.
Oh lord. Is this old age, then?
Fuck that noise. 2011 will be The Year of Firsts. We live in one of the coolest cities in the world and if we're totally bored or disengaged or whatever with The Usual then let's get the hell out there and experience some new shit. Imma drag Kay and whoever else wants to be dragged to an Improv class and a hip hop dance class and the Toronto Film Festival for the first damned time. I clearly can't commit to anything regular-like but a series of one night stands in the cultural not dirty sense may be right up our alley? Fancy new dinners, high tea, an art show. We are totally going to renew our woo with life, though not so much in the gag me with a spoon Eat Pray Love kind of way. Because it would be a shame to put all this work into having a better year only to end up having to off my stupid lame ass at the end of it for winding up like a bad chick flick. :p
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No thank goodness. The last couple of years messed with my head plenty with all the grief and loss.
5. What countries did you visit?
One of these years I will be able to say something other than just Buffalo I swear :p
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Better time management or motivation or something. More play to go with the more work? Imma have 2 kids in school this year instead of 1 so good luck with that but it really feels like this year just disappeared in a blur of work and hockey and basketball and dance classes and collapsing on my couch to recover from the non stop schedule of it all. Apparently life is not going to come knock on my door and drag my ass out so this year I need to find the motivation to get myself back out there some more.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I can't think of any one big date that changed my life that much. That's not necessarily a bad thing as recent years have taught that sometimes those etched dates are as much due to death and loss and Really Bad Things. Mebbe we were entitled to a year to coast but here's hoping for for a few exciting dates to remember in 2011.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Taking over the social media strategy for my Ministry has renewed my woo with work bigtime. I love that I love my job again. I love that I'm finding my feet outside of 'mommy' again and feel so re-engaged with my professional self. She's kind of been on the back burner these past few baby-making years. It feels good to be back.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Total failure on the re-engaging my social self but one mountain at a time, eh?
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Norwalk, regular flus, an icky skin infection, a nasty bout of pneumonia for Twisty G but nothing unmanageable or life altering. Thank you Universe.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Imma go with my 7th wedding :)
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
It's so lovely that Kay, Fratboy and my mom just go without saying because they remain so steadfastly fantastic year after year. Add to that the fact that the kids are really growing into cool little people that we can actually do stuff with instead of just take care of. And 2.0 brought so much joy into our living room and lives this year. Especially with twee Xian in tow to just make everything better just by being here.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
No one. Life is too short to dwell on appalling idiots and depression :p
14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage, babies, bills, the usual. Also. Maybe just a tiny bit of vodka.
15. What did you get really excited about?
Dragon boating. Getting married again. My new job. Kay's gorgeous granddaughter. There were alot of fun highlights this year.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Oh lord Twisty G's love of Justin Bieber was epic this year. And hilarious. Twisty G sang "when I get older, I will be stronger, they'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag" like he wrote that shit. Taio Cruz had Fitzy take to dance so strongly we had to sign the boys up for dance clasees.
Dirty bit.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- i. happier or sadder? Definitely happier. And more hopeful for 2011.
- ii. thinner or fatter? A smidge larger but still fitting into my skinny clothes so I'll take it. And fix it. Someday soon. Swear.
- iii. richer or poorer? Richer. Yay pay increases and tenant in the basement.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Get out there more.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Huh. Tough question. I rather enjoyed working myself stupid and running the boys all over town and drunk Wii dancing with Kay and 2.0. Can I just have a couple of extra hours a day or days a week to fit in even more good stuff in?
Thanks to etcet ETA: CLEAN UP VOMIT! I can't believe after doing nothing but clean up vomit every damned night for 2 weeks now I forgot how much I'd like to stop cleaning vomit off the beds and linens and peejays and children and walls and carpets and myself and EWWWW. ENOUGH WITH THE DAMNED VOMIT THIS YEAR.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Our turn to host again. Which would have been a smidge easier if we weren't in the middle of Pukefest 2010
21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
OMG yes with the most beautiful baby girl to ever be adored. :) I know technically she was born in 2009 but she was just a twee fleshloaf then, now that The Personality has come out to match the wicked beauty we're all kind of helpless minions before her. :)
2.0 didn't stink either I guess. :p
22. Did you fall out of love in 2010?
Nope.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Again not so much with the teevee. I need a pvr because I just can't benember to watch anything religiously. Except maybe Glee. And Teen Mom.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Ewww, no. What a total waste of my time and energy to actually hate anyone.
25. What was the best book you read?
In no particular order...
Half The Sky - Nichola Kristof
By Nightfall - Michael Cunnningham
One Day - Dave Nicholls
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Husband and Wife - Leah Stewart
Breather's: A Zombie's Lament - S.G. Browne
Got Fight? - Forrest Griffin
Sloppy Firsts (and the rest of the series) - Megan McCafferty
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Last Night at Chateau Marmont - Lauren Weisburger
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
My love for Gaga grew exponentially, does that count?
27. What did you want and got?
A renewed love of my professional life
28. What did you want and not get?
A social renewal. To make peace with death and meatsuit destiny and all my inner angst. 30 hundred million dollars.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?/
I loved Hot Tub Time Machine. Due Date. Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Kick Ass. Easy A. Hugs not drugs my friend!
30. What did you do on your birthday?
Ugh. I got Norwalk on my birthday this year. I don't recommend it. :p
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Ooooohh, with the new job came a need for a whole new purdy wardrobe. That was fun!
32. What kept you sane?
Kay, always. When that left me still kind of crazy I sought medical attention. That part I do highly recommend.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
OMG Peter Steele died! I wept.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Watching the politics in the US play out was so so exhausting. And depressing. Makes me want to take up ignoring politics again.
35. Who did you miss?
LJ. After 10 years here the slow death of LJ may be the thing I grieve the hardest. I dearly love those of you still here but there's no question that it's getting quieter and quieter around these parts.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
tamago23, foxesdaughter, qsuzie did we meet this year? Damn you vodka.
37. What was a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010?
You know, I've seriously spent most of my life thinking I was sane. Quirky, sure but you know, relatively together. This year I kind of confronted the idea that maybe when I joke about being crazy, it's not really so off? Funny thing happened when I met my crazy and took her out for a drink to get to know her...life started to make a whole lot more sense. Maybe you don't come out of a childhood like mine without a few scars? Maybe it's not the craziest thing in the world to think there's real help to be had somewhere? Maybe it's not the end of the world to try some medication and see if life can be more than a constant freak out about the point of it all? It's all very new, but I'm feeling kind of hopeful. Stay tuned.
38. New Years plans?
In laws taking the kids for the night, Fratboy and I are off to stuff ourselves at http://www.georgeonqueen.com/
39. Quote or song lyric that sums up your year?
For most of the year it was:
"You should've made some plans with me,
You knew that I was free.
And now you won't stop calling me;
I'm kinda busy.
Stop callin', stop callin',
I don't wanna think anymore!
I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.
Stop callin', stop callin',
I don't wanna talk anymore!
I left my head and my heart on the dance floor."
Then Shakira came out with what might be my theme song for life:
"And I’m crazy, but you like it (loca, loca, loca)
You like that it ain’t easy (loca, loca, loca)
I’m crazy but you like it (loca, loca, loca)
Crazy but you like it"
Ummmm, start the year looking like a giant drunk clit?
Garden. Badly.
Attend a live fashion show.
Deal with the unfun part of being married to a cop
Dragon boat!
Win 2nd place in the newb division
Drink $22 cocktails
Pillow Fight League!
Drag Kay to rural Ontario
Get married in a helicopter
Go camping.
Put the kids on a school bus for the first time
Go to Chuck E. Cheese. Like it.
Contract leprosy
I don't know what this was but it was definitely a first
Hang with the Dalai Lama
Take 2.0 to Dance Cave!!
Have 2.0 choose to stay and party in my living room instead of hitting Church Street for Halloween
Spoil this gorgeous twee face rotten. Relentlessly.
Also, meet my crazy. Take her out for a drink and get to know her. Ultimately decide to try medication to help.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
What I wrote last year:
Lord 2010. 2010, let's cross our fingers that I can pull my head out of my ass and find something resembling balance again? More realistic goals:
I will work out with Junior once a week and make it out swimming at least once a week. Nowhere near gym rat schedule I had going for a while there but better than the nothing I ended the year on. We also just got a Wii for Christmas so WiiFit or JUST DANCE! is in my immediate future at least once a week as well.
Neutral or Dance Cave, at least once a month. No excuses. Hermitting is not good for my soul.
I'm going to start dating my Meatsuit Destiny Angst. Me and MDA, once a week or even once a month if I can manage, will just chill together with no distractions. This way whenever it tries to creep into my everyday life I can be all 'not now dude, I will sit with you on Saturday. Right now I am not available to obsess about death dammit'.
Oh and somehow I'm totally making the grandparents take the kids one night a month. If I have to put 'em in a giant envelope and mail them dammit.
Well. Ha. Not QUITE. We were doing okay, not great but okay. Then all the extra time I put in at work paid off in this fantastically cool promotion but holy shit did it all fall off the rails again from there. Cuz Fratboy's still gone all the time. But now I was insanely busy with work too. And brain dead from all the new shit I had to learn. And. Well. 2.0 started coming over all the time and having dance parties in our living room and I sort of totally forgot I had any intention of leaving the house. Oops.
We made it to Dance Cave like 3 times? Lord, that's pathetic. We shipped the kids off about as often. I did figure out my MDA was maybe more than I could handle on my own and am trying medication to help with that so that's a win. I think?
I honestly don't know what my resolutions for this year are. I think I've come to terms with the fact that as long as I'm married to a cop it's hard for me to commit to anything. I probably could try harder if it mattered enough but honestly between Fratlove, Kay, the kids and 2.0 I have everything I need right here. And Kay's just not in a social frame of mind of late so it's not like I'm going anywhere without her. And Just Dance 2 is even better than the original. And I bought new furniture making home even cozier.
Oh lord. Is this old age, then?
Fuck that noise. 2011 will be The Year of Firsts. We live in one of the coolest cities in the world and if we're totally bored or disengaged or whatever with The Usual then let's get the hell out there and experience some new shit. Imma drag Kay and whoever else wants to be dragged to an Improv class and a hip hop dance class and the Toronto Film Festival for the first damned time. I clearly can't commit to anything regular-like but a series of one night stands in the cultural not dirty sense may be right up our alley? Fancy new dinners, high tea, an art show. We are totally going to renew our woo with life, though not so much in the gag me with a spoon Eat Pray Love kind of way. Because it would be a shame to put all this work into having a better year only to end up having to off my stupid lame ass at the end of it for winding up like a bad chick flick. :p
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No thank goodness. The last couple of years messed with my head plenty with all the grief and loss.
5. What countries did you visit?
One of these years I will be able to say something other than just Buffalo I swear :p
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Better time management or motivation or something. More play to go with the more work? Imma have 2 kids in school this year instead of 1 so good luck with that but it really feels like this year just disappeared in a blur of work and hockey and basketball and dance classes and collapsing on my couch to recover from the non stop schedule of it all. Apparently life is not going to come knock on my door and drag my ass out so this year I need to find the motivation to get myself back out there some more.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I can't think of any one big date that changed my life that much. That's not necessarily a bad thing as recent years have taught that sometimes those etched dates are as much due to death and loss and Really Bad Things. Mebbe we were entitled to a year to coast but here's hoping for for a few exciting dates to remember in 2011.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Taking over the social media strategy for my Ministry has renewed my woo with work bigtime. I love that I love my job again. I love that I'm finding my feet outside of 'mommy' again and feel so re-engaged with my professional self. She's kind of been on the back burner these past few baby-making years. It feels good to be back.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Total failure on the re-engaging my social self but one mountain at a time, eh?
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Norwalk, regular flus, an icky skin infection, a nasty bout of pneumonia for Twisty G but nothing unmanageable or life altering. Thank you Universe.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Imma go with my 7th wedding :)
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
It's so lovely that Kay, Fratboy and my mom just go without saying because they remain so steadfastly fantastic year after year. Add to that the fact that the kids are really growing into cool little people that we can actually do stuff with instead of just take care of. And 2.0 brought so much joy into our living room and lives this year. Especially with twee Xian in tow to just make everything better just by being here.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
No one. Life is too short to dwell on appalling idiots and depression :p
14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage, babies, bills, the usual. Also. Maybe just a tiny bit of vodka.
15. What did you get really excited about?
Dragon boating. Getting married again. My new job. Kay's gorgeous granddaughter. There were alot of fun highlights this year.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Oh lord Twisty G's love of Justin Bieber was epic this year. And hilarious. Twisty G sang "when I get older, I will be stronger, they'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag" like he wrote that shit. Taio Cruz had Fitzy take to dance so strongly we had to sign the boys up for dance clasees.
Dirty bit.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- i. happier or sadder? Definitely happier. And more hopeful for 2011.
- ii. thinner or fatter? A smidge larger but still fitting into my skinny clothes so I'll take it. And fix it. Someday soon. Swear.
- iii. richer or poorer? Richer. Yay pay increases and tenant in the basement.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Get out there more.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Huh. Tough question. I rather enjoyed working myself stupid and running the boys all over town and drunk Wii dancing with Kay and 2.0. Can I just have a couple of extra hours a day or days a week to fit in even more good stuff in?
Thanks to etcet ETA: CLEAN UP VOMIT! I can't believe after doing nothing but clean up vomit every damned night for 2 weeks now I forgot how much I'd like to stop cleaning vomit off the beds and linens and peejays and children and walls and carpets and myself and EWWWW. ENOUGH WITH THE DAMNED VOMIT THIS YEAR.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Our turn to host again. Which would have been a smidge easier if we weren't in the middle of Pukefest 2010
21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
OMG yes with the most beautiful baby girl to ever be adored. :) I know technically she was born in 2009 but she was just a twee fleshloaf then, now that The Personality has come out to match the wicked beauty we're all kind of helpless minions before her. :)
2.0 didn't stink either I guess. :p
22. Did you fall out of love in 2010?
Nope.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Again not so much with the teevee. I need a pvr because I just can't benember to watch anything religiously. Except maybe Glee. And Teen Mom.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Ewww, no. What a total waste of my time and energy to actually hate anyone.
25. What was the best book you read?
In no particular order...
Half The Sky - Nichola Kristof
By Nightfall - Michael Cunnningham
One Day - Dave Nicholls
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Husband and Wife - Leah Stewart
Breather's: A Zombie's Lament - S.G. Browne
Got Fight? - Forrest Griffin
Sloppy Firsts (and the rest of the series) - Megan McCafferty
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Last Night at Chateau Marmont - Lauren Weisburger
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
My love for Gaga grew exponentially, does that count?
27. What did you want and got?
A renewed love of my professional life
28. What did you want and not get?
A social renewal. To make peace with death and meatsuit destiny and all my inner angst. 30 hundred million dollars.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?/
I loved Hot Tub Time Machine. Due Date. Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Kick Ass. Easy A. Hugs not drugs my friend!
30. What did you do on your birthday?
Ugh. I got Norwalk on my birthday this year. I don't recommend it. :p
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Ooooohh, with the new job came a need for a whole new purdy wardrobe. That was fun!
32. What kept you sane?
Kay, always. When that left me still kind of crazy I sought medical attention. That part I do highly recommend.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
OMG Peter Steele died! I wept.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Watching the politics in the US play out was so so exhausting. And depressing. Makes me want to take up ignoring politics again.
35. Who did you miss?
LJ. After 10 years here the slow death of LJ may be the thing I grieve the hardest. I dearly love those of you still here but there's no question that it's getting quieter and quieter around these parts.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
tamago23, foxesdaughter, qsuzie did we meet this year? Damn you vodka.
37. What was a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010?
You know, I've seriously spent most of my life thinking I was sane. Quirky, sure but you know, relatively together. This year I kind of confronted the idea that maybe when I joke about being crazy, it's not really so off? Funny thing happened when I met my crazy and took her out for a drink to get to know her...life started to make a whole lot more sense. Maybe you don't come out of a childhood like mine without a few scars? Maybe it's not the craziest thing in the world to think there's real help to be had somewhere? Maybe it's not the end of the world to try some medication and see if life can be more than a constant freak out about the point of it all? It's all very new, but I'm feeling kind of hopeful. Stay tuned.
38. New Years plans?
In laws taking the kids for the night, Fratboy and I are off to stuff ourselves at http://www.georgeonqueen.com/
39. Quote or song lyric that sums up your year?
For most of the year it was:
"You should've made some plans with me,
You knew that I was free.
And now you won't stop calling me;
I'm kinda busy.
Stop callin', stop callin',
I don't wanna think anymore!
I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.
Stop callin', stop callin',
I don't wanna talk anymore!
I left my head and my heart on the dance floor."
Then Shakira came out with what might be my theme song for life:
"And I’m crazy, but you like it (loca, loca, loca)
You like that it ain’t easy (loca, loca, loca)
I’m crazy but you like it (loca, loca, loca)
Crazy but you like it"