Goodbye 2010
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?:
Had a serious relationship. Had sex. Yeah, that's right, I wasn't getting any until 2010.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yeah, I kept 'em. In 2011 I want to bake more, focus on beauty, and read more books. Resolutions that are things I would try to do anyways like do well in school or be healthier don't count in my books.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My one and only sister.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope.
5. What countries did you visit?
None.
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Um... high self-esteem!
7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
March 31st (got letter that said I got into graduate school), June 30th (my first date with Ed), December 9th (my break-up with Ed).
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Completing my first semester of grad school and getting straight A grades (okay, only two classes, but still). Getting a part-time job that pays for my car and I actually kind of like.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Getting my heart broken like a fool.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Just the aforementioned broken heart.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My iPad, but I still need to learn how to use it to its fullest potential.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Everyone who contributed to repealing DADT.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Repugnicans and the ignorant schmucks who voted for them.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Car payments. Car insurance. Car maintenance.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Being in love and having it returned for the first time ever.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2010?
"Bedroom Intruder Song" by Antoine Dodson
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) happier or sadder? about the same
ii) thinner or fatter? a bit thinner
iii) richer or poorer? richer, but still dirt poor
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Making connections and friendships.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying.
20. How will you be spending the holiday?
I had high hopes of this being the first New Year I would actually kiss someone, but now that that's off I will probably just drink and chill with my family.
21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
For realsies.
22. How many one night stands?
Zero.
23. What were your favorite TV programs?
Top Chef, Man v. Food, final season of LOST
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, I already hated the damn repugnicans.
25. What was the best book you read?
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (sequel coming out next fall!), and The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Glee and its autotuned guilty-pleasure-joy.
27. What did you want and get?
A job. A boyfriend. Into grad school. Good grades.
28. What did you want and not get?
To not get dumped. Also, health insurance.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
Inception. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
It was my 26th, had takeout and White Russians.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I felt more optimistic about the future.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
I still can't afford new clothes and a lot of my old stuff is now too big.
33. What kept you sane?
Love, for a while. My family, as always.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Plushenko. Ken Watanabe in Inception.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
The demanding of unnecessary tax cuts for the wealthiest 2%. DADT.
36. Who did you miss?
The LOSTies after they were all dead and in sideways world.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
...
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
Sometimes you fall in love with love itself and withdrawal will brutalize you.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives."
The Dangling Conversation, by Simon & Garfunkel