So I filled this out last night then passed out trying to find a decent song lyric for the last question. whoops.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before? Bought a gun, produced two shows back-to-back in community theatre, had a one night stand, had a panic attack, BOUGHT A HOUSE!
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions and will you make more for next year? No.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
pallagia!, my friend Jeff from Work
4. Did anyone close to you die? Eugene
5. What countries did you visit? Long Island always counts as foreign country to me.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Time to actually work on the house
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 20 :), August 2nd, 23/24th, :)....Oct 4 was when Eugene left. The Jerk.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Bought a house. Tripled my work responsibility, and still partied.
9. What was your biggest failure? Tho my boss knows and reminds me that practically all things were out of my control, the machine I was supposed to bring into my lab finally got operational many months late and many thousands over-budget. I don't like that shit.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Only a minor cold!
11. What was the best thing you bought? haha...a house
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Those who came together to pull off Complete Works resulting in a show that was loved by many.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Oh so many people. I top the list at the executives of Spotlight Players and my sister-in-law.
14. Where did most of your money go? hahaha...my house
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? buying my house, building the workbench, singing standards in Saratoga, finding a better path.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009? "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" by Pitbull, "Waking Up In Vegas" by Katy Perry, "Call Me Irresponsible" by Bobby Darin, "Misery Business" by Paramore, "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley, "The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin, "Only Exception" by Paramore...that's pretty much in the right order too :p
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- i. happier or sadder? Happier.
- ii. thinner or fatter? About the same, unfortunately.
- iii. richer or poorer? Debt is higher, but cash flow is better...sooo...richerish but poorer??
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Projects in the house, making music, seeing the Long Island kids
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? THEATRE!! Zomg.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? Long Island
21. Where will you be spending New Year’s Eve? Janssen Manor
22. Did you fall in love in 2009? Yes <3
23. How many one-night stands? two, before May.
24. What was your favorite TV program? umm...I watched NatGeo pretty much exclusively...paid notsomuch attention otherwise.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Not hate...just extremely disappointed and partially disgusted, with someone way too close for comfort.
26. What was the best book you read? Stranger in a Strange Land
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? I can play guitar better and I'm a pretty solid bass player in a musical pit band.
28. What did you want and get? A house. And DeWalt tools. Quite a bit of personal maturation and growth.
29. What did you want and not get? A raise. Granted, that's because there was a salary freeze. More time to spend quietly watching movies.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Terminator: Salvation, Star Trek
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I don't know yet. but I'm sure it will be fun! I'm 28. I'm a Toys R Us Kid goddammit.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Not much...how about not jumping into projects after all equipment decisions were already made? Probably also saying "no" a lot more to theater friends.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? Sported the sweatervest and Brooks Brothers shirts like a mofo.
34. What kept you sane? SHOOTING, taking vacations, good friends, going to Connecticut, finding and talking somebody with my kind of non-sane.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Michelle Obama is a total MILF.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Votes on gay marriage and health care, I guess.
37. Who did you miss? Lanee and Praneet
38. Who was the best new person you met? Matt, the director of Joseph.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009: Things happen for a reason, and we can usually never know that reason until it happens <3.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right
Wee. I need to purchase an E-IDE to Serial ATA conversion kit to convert an IDE DVDRW to fit into a SATA computer chassis. Hopefully I can get away with doing it tomorrow.
Nites!