Another Year Has Gone By...
It's that time of the year again...End of the Year Survey!!!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Rode on my dad's firetruck! It was A LOT of fun!!!!
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I wanted to read at least 50 books this year and I read around 90 (the list was in my Blackberry which no longer works). I just wanted everyone to be healthy and unfortunately that didn't happen.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A few co-workers: Ana and Lisa
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Way too many: My dad, my families 2 llasa apsos: Jiggs and Maggie, my lovebird Twin, my friend Sharon's dad Vic, Danny (a family friend), my sorta sister-in-law (her sister married my bro-in-law after my sister died) Gloria, Evelyn (a lady from my old church), Andy Hallett (met him once at a con and he was the nicest guy...I was really upset when I heard he died.)
5. What countries did you visit?
nada
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Better finances...my tax bill and student loan is killing my savings!
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Saturday November 7 around 4:45 pm...I had just got back from picking up clothes at my house and a few odds and ends and as I walked in the door I found out my dad had just died.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Completed my clear credential
9. What was your biggest failure?
Wasn't able to lose any weight (I was on strong medication almost all year)
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
In February I had pneumonia, in March I had shingles, and I've spent the entire year fighting with my asthma...I've been on predisone 11 times.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A ticket to get my picture taken with Linda Hamilton!
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Similar to last year: my dad for facing his cancer head on and living his life to the fullest right up until he died. Everyone who was there for us in my dad's last days and through the funeral, especially Sharon and family, Ron and family, Jim and Terri, and Robert. Not sure what we would have done without them.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Tiger Woods
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, books, and clothes. <---same song, different year, this never changes.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Three things: The new Colton teen center being named after my dad!!!!!!!!! Getting to meet Linda Hamilton!!!!!!!!!!!! and seeing Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
"I've Got a Feeling" by Black-Eyed Peas, "Into the West" by Annie Lennox (signed to it at my dad's funeral), ""Dreams We Conceive" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? Very sad...it's been a hard few months
thinner or fatter? Thinner. I lost a few pounds.
richer or poorer? Poor as always
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Wrote down all my dad's stories. I planned on doing it every time I was on break, but it just wasn't in the cards. I was sick during every break.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worry <---same as last year...honestly no matter how much you worry it won't change anything...I've realized that now.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
At my moms...we opened gifts and then had her home-made tacos and my tiramisu.
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
The family is going to eat at Jean's, then I'll prolly be at home with Nick watching World's Dumbest, lol!
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
No. Did that in 2001.
23. How many one-night stands?
Two. One on each side of the bed.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Torchwood, even though they killed of Ianto...still ticked off about that.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate anyone.
26. What was the best book you read?
A biography on Fred (Mr.) Rogers
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Still loving the same music, very excited that Trans-Siberian finally released Night Castle. I'm also really liking Lady Gaga, lol!
28. What did you want and get?
Tickets to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. And TSO gave them to me!
29. What did you want and not get?
a cure for cancer.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Probably Iron Man...I really didn't see any new movies this year.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 35 and I was sick and just found out that my dad's cancer was back...it wasn't the best of birthdays.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Everything happens for a reason no matter how hard it is...
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Gothic and pin-up
34. What kept you sane?
my family
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Linda Hamilton...she's SO NICE in person!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Pleading the 5th...don't want to get into political arguments.
37. Who did you miss?
My dad!
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Robert, Christie, and Terri
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Hold your loved ones close...you don't know how long you will have them.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Is life different, after midnight?
With its new dawn, and its new light
Inconsistent, and indifferent, to the things we were so sure we knew
As you stood there, in the night air
With such beauty, that the stars stare
From their distance, you are different
Like a dream that no one could refuse
But the night fades away
And gives way to the day
For what else is the night to do?
As the dark steps aside with the hopes we confide
And never believes that the dreams we conceived would ever not, ever come true --From "Dreams We Conceive" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Rode on my dad's firetruck! It was A LOT of fun!!!!
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I wanted to read at least 50 books this year and I read around 90 (the list was in my Blackberry which no longer works). I just wanted everyone to be healthy and unfortunately that didn't happen.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A few co-workers: Ana and Lisa
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Way too many: My dad, my families 2 llasa apsos: Jiggs and Maggie, my lovebird Twin, my friend Sharon's dad Vic, Danny (a family friend), my sorta sister-in-law (her sister married my bro-in-law after my sister died) Gloria, Evelyn (a lady from my old church), Andy Hallett (met him once at a con and he was the nicest guy...I was really upset when I heard he died.)
5. What countries did you visit?
nada
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Better finances...my tax bill and student loan is killing my savings!
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Saturday November 7 around 4:45 pm...I had just got back from picking up clothes at my house and a few odds and ends and as I walked in the door I found out my dad had just died.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Completed my clear credential
9. What was your biggest failure?
Wasn't able to lose any weight (I was on strong medication almost all year)
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
In February I had pneumonia, in March I had shingles, and I've spent the entire year fighting with my asthma...I've been on predisone 11 times.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A ticket to get my picture taken with Linda Hamilton!
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Similar to last year: my dad for facing his cancer head on and living his life to the fullest right up until he died. Everyone who was there for us in my dad's last days and through the funeral, especially Sharon and family, Ron and family, Jim and Terri, and Robert. Not sure what we would have done without them.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Tiger Woods
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, books, and clothes. <---same song, different year, this never changes.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Three things: The new Colton teen center being named after my dad!!!!!!!!! Getting to meet Linda Hamilton!!!!!!!!!!!! and seeing Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
"I've Got a Feeling" by Black-Eyed Peas, "Into the West" by Annie Lennox (signed to it at my dad's funeral), ""Dreams We Conceive" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? Very sad...it's been a hard few months
thinner or fatter? Thinner. I lost a few pounds.
richer or poorer? Poor as always
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Wrote down all my dad's stories. I planned on doing it every time I was on break, but it just wasn't in the cards. I was sick during every break.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worry <---same as last year...honestly no matter how much you worry it won't change anything...I've realized that now.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
At my moms...we opened gifts and then had her home-made tacos and my tiramisu.
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
The family is going to eat at Jean's, then I'll prolly be at home with Nick watching World's Dumbest, lol!
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
No. Did that in 2001.
23. How many one-night stands?
Two. One on each side of the bed.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Torchwood, even though they killed of Ianto...still ticked off about that.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate anyone.
26. What was the best book you read?
A biography on Fred (Mr.) Rogers
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Still loving the same music, very excited that Trans-Siberian finally released Night Castle. I'm also really liking Lady Gaga, lol!
28. What did you want and get?
Tickets to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. And TSO gave them to me!
29. What did you want and not get?
a cure for cancer.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Probably Iron Man...I really didn't see any new movies this year.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 35 and I was sick and just found out that my dad's cancer was back...it wasn't the best of birthdays.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Everything happens for a reason no matter how hard it is...
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Gothic and pin-up
34. What kept you sane?
my family
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Linda Hamilton...she's SO NICE in person!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Pleading the 5th...don't want to get into political arguments.
37. Who did you miss?
My dad!
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Robert, Christie, and Terri
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Hold your loved ones close...you don't know how long you will have them.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Is life different, after midnight?
With its new dawn, and its new light
Inconsistent, and indifferent, to the things we were so sure we knew
As you stood there, in the night air
With such beauty, that the stars stare
From their distance, you are different
Like a dream that no one could refuse
But the night fades away
And gives way to the day
For what else is the night to do?
As the dark steps aside with the hopes we confide
And never believes that the dreams we conceived would ever not, ever come true --From "Dreams We Conceive" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra