Double New-Year Meme
A whole bunch of New Year memes from all over the place, lumped together. I kept all the questions I had a good answer for and ditched the ones I didn't.
What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
I asked for a payrise at work; and a more fun one that I just realised today, I believe that this was the first year of my life I bought my own plane tickets. I bought train tickets a couple of years ago, but most of my travel up till now has been parent-funded or work-funded. (F'rex my flights to England were a 21st birthday present, although I funded everything else about the trip, and my parents used to pay my flights up and down from university. I haven't travelled much at all in the last few years.) That's a pretty good, though pricey, milestone. It's also the first year I paid a dentist bill and the first year I got my savings into four digits and kept them there for a period of months. (Not high four digits, but still.) This was a year of increasing financial independence, which is embarrassing to admit at 25; it's not that I've been taking money from my parents or anything, but rather that this is a year in which I needed to do things like buy shoes and clothes and other useful stuff and was able to get out and do so.
What was your favorite meal of 2012?
I don't have a great memory so just a couple of recent ones: early christmas dinner with Meg and Cara on the Sunday before Christmas (duck and roast veges and green beans), and drinks and tacos with Team Auckland in November.
What countries did you visit?
Australia.
What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
To not feel like a character from Avenue Q.
What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I've never remembered a significant date in my life. The only anniversary I've ever remembered (for a relationship that never made its first anniversary anyway) I only did so because it happened to be 1 January.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Knitting this dress.
What was your biggest failure?
I didn't respond well to difficulties at work. I would have liked to have been able to rise above them and work hard at my own job, and I wasn't really able to do that until late in the year.
What was the best thing you bought?
A bit of a silly one, but - an alarm clock/radio/ipod dock. It's nice to be able to listen to music out of actual speakers and wake up to something that isn't an annoying cellphone beep.
Whose behaviour made you appalled?
I wasn't happy with my own housekeeping or work ethic but I was even less impressed by some of my superiors at work (which I've whined about at length here and also in person with just about everyone I expect to be reading this, so I shan't elaborate).
Where did most of your money go?
Rent! And living expenses. After that, travel, entertainment, and a rather huge sum on junk food and lazily buying my lunch instead of making it. (I did the sums about this and it's just cringeworthy.) Quite a lot on clothes, too.
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
get/together. Also hockey got me pretty hyped up a few times. It wasn't overall a hugely exciting year (not that I don't love g/t unreasonably, because I do.)
Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) happier or sadder? Happier. This is chiefly due to a vastly improved living situation. Around this time last year it had all collapsed around me and I was contemplating moving home. In the end I ended up finding a flat I like a lot in a fabulous location with a really brilliant flatmate who astoundingly doesn't hate me yet (we just decided to renew our lease for this year). This is probably the best thing that happened to me all year.
(b) thinner or fatter? Fatter.
(c) richer or poorer? Ever so slightly richer.
What do you wish you’d done more of?
Dancing, physical jerks of some kind, and music. Trying new things to figure myself out.
What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying about what was happening at work. Feeling lonely and sorry for myself without doing anything about it.
How did you spend Christmas?
With my brother, sister, parents and family friend H in a cabin (actually two cabins in a valley) in the middle of a pine plantation in Wanganui (not at all cold like that sounds; the valley has a bit cut out of the forest and was boiling hot when we were there). No power of any kind, nor cellphone signal. I did have one big bustup with my mother. We don't seem to be able to avoid these, which ended up being the topic of the bustup. God knows what we're going to do about it (about half-way through the conversation my mother, miserably, suggested that we get divorced). I really love and admire my mother but we're remarkably good at making each other unhappy.
Who was your favorite fictional character?
Leslie Knope, probs. Shoutout to every single character on the Good Wife for being a solid second-equal and Nolan Ross.
Did you fall in love in 2012?
Not the reciprocal kind, but I developed a crush or two, which I haven't done for years and years and was actually pretty fun.
What was your favourite TV program?
In the back half of the year it was Elementary. In the front half it was The Good Wife, Parks and Rec or Fringe, probably.
Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Hate is such a strong word and I have a terrible tendency to misuse it. I don't think so.
What was the best book you read?
I was really poor at recording my reading this year so I'm not sure. I really enjoyed Redshirts by John Scalzi, A History of Love by Nicole Krauss, and books by Mike Carey and Seanan McGuire.
What did you do in 2012 that you never expected or planned on doing?
Began following a professional sport.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
NINA SIMONE. After her, the Eastern (not a lot on youtube but here's The Letting Go.) Um, and Robyn.
What was your favourite film of this year?
Oh, well. The Avengers. Sigh. I feel like I watched a lot more movies than I usually do this year, partly because of Cara's good influence, but this comes out tops anyway.
Who did you miss?
I've been missing me for a few years now. I think I'll find me eventually.
Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
It's not very useful for me in retrospect. But it's better to take a while to figure out properly what you want to do, and then do that, than rush into doing something just to do something. You have to try things to find them out of course, but I wish I'd made a lot fewer time- and money-consuming choices that turned out to be pretty pointless later on.
Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
You know you can't keep letting it get you down
And you can't keep dragging that dead weight around
Is it really all that much to lug around
Better run like hell when you hit the ground
- OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"
I've also been enjoying the reflective end of year posts I've been seeing on my flist. I've gotten to the point of feeling pretty stupid about commenting on them further with nothing much to say except "I read this, Happy New Year!" but - I'm reading them and finding you all pretty inspirational. Happy New Year. <3
This entry is crossposted from http://labellementeuse.dreamwidth.org/368685.html, where there are
comments.
What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
I asked for a payrise at work; and a more fun one that I just realised today, I believe that this was the first year of my life I bought my own plane tickets. I bought train tickets a couple of years ago, but most of my travel up till now has been parent-funded or work-funded. (F'rex my flights to England were a 21st birthday present, although I funded everything else about the trip, and my parents used to pay my flights up and down from university. I haven't travelled much at all in the last few years.) That's a pretty good, though pricey, milestone. It's also the first year I paid a dentist bill and the first year I got my savings into four digits and kept them there for a period of months. (Not high four digits, but still.) This was a year of increasing financial independence, which is embarrassing to admit at 25; it's not that I've been taking money from my parents or anything, but rather that this is a year in which I needed to do things like buy shoes and clothes and other useful stuff and was able to get out and do so.
What was your favorite meal of 2012?
I don't have a great memory so just a couple of recent ones: early christmas dinner with Meg and Cara on the Sunday before Christmas (duck and roast veges and green beans), and drinks and tacos with Team Auckland in November.
What countries did you visit?
Australia.
What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
To not feel like a character from Avenue Q.
What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I've never remembered a significant date in my life. The only anniversary I've ever remembered (for a relationship that never made its first anniversary anyway) I only did so because it happened to be 1 January.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Knitting this dress.
What was your biggest failure?
I didn't respond well to difficulties at work. I would have liked to have been able to rise above them and work hard at my own job, and I wasn't really able to do that until late in the year.
What was the best thing you bought?
A bit of a silly one, but - an alarm clock/radio/ipod dock. It's nice to be able to listen to music out of actual speakers and wake up to something that isn't an annoying cellphone beep.
Whose behaviour made you appalled?
I wasn't happy with my own housekeeping or work ethic but I was even less impressed by some of my superiors at work (which I've whined about at length here and also in person with just about everyone I expect to be reading this, so I shan't elaborate).
Where did most of your money go?
Rent! And living expenses. After that, travel, entertainment, and a rather huge sum on junk food and lazily buying my lunch instead of making it. (I did the sums about this and it's just cringeworthy.) Quite a lot on clothes, too.
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
get/together. Also hockey got me pretty hyped up a few times. It wasn't overall a hugely exciting year (not that I don't love g/t unreasonably, because I do.)
Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) happier or sadder? Happier. This is chiefly due to a vastly improved living situation. Around this time last year it had all collapsed around me and I was contemplating moving home. In the end I ended up finding a flat I like a lot in a fabulous location with a really brilliant flatmate who astoundingly doesn't hate me yet (we just decided to renew our lease for this year). This is probably the best thing that happened to me all year.
(b) thinner or fatter? Fatter.
(c) richer or poorer? Ever so slightly richer.
What do you wish you’d done more of?
Dancing, physical jerks of some kind, and music. Trying new things to figure myself out.
What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying about what was happening at work. Feeling lonely and sorry for myself without doing anything about it.
How did you spend Christmas?
With my brother, sister, parents and family friend H in a cabin (actually two cabins in a valley) in the middle of a pine plantation in Wanganui (not at all cold like that sounds; the valley has a bit cut out of the forest and was boiling hot when we were there). No power of any kind, nor cellphone signal. I did have one big bustup with my mother. We don't seem to be able to avoid these, which ended up being the topic of the bustup. God knows what we're going to do about it (about half-way through the conversation my mother, miserably, suggested that we get divorced). I really love and admire my mother but we're remarkably good at making each other unhappy.
Who was your favorite fictional character?
Leslie Knope, probs. Shoutout to every single character on the Good Wife for being a solid second-equal and Nolan Ross.
Did you fall in love in 2012?
Not the reciprocal kind, but I developed a crush or two, which I haven't done for years and years and was actually pretty fun.
What was your favourite TV program?
In the back half of the year it was Elementary. In the front half it was The Good Wife, Parks and Rec or Fringe, probably.
Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Hate is such a strong word and I have a terrible tendency to misuse it. I don't think so.
What was the best book you read?
I was really poor at recording my reading this year so I'm not sure. I really enjoyed Redshirts by John Scalzi, A History of Love by Nicole Krauss, and books by Mike Carey and Seanan McGuire.
What did you do in 2012 that you never expected or planned on doing?
Began following a professional sport.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
NINA SIMONE. After her, the Eastern (not a lot on youtube but here's The Letting Go.) Um, and Robyn.
What was your favourite film of this year?
Oh, well. The Avengers. Sigh. I feel like I watched a lot more movies than I usually do this year, partly because of Cara's good influence, but this comes out tops anyway.
Who did you miss?
I've been missing me for a few years now. I think I'll find me eventually.
Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
It's not very useful for me in retrospect. But it's better to take a while to figure out properly what you want to do, and then do that, than rush into doing something just to do something. You have to try things to find them out of course, but I wish I'd made a lot fewer time- and money-consuming choices that turned out to be pretty pointless later on.
Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
You know you can't keep letting it get you down
And you can't keep dragging that dead weight around
Is it really all that much to lug around
Better run like hell when you hit the ground
- OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"
I've also been enjoying the reflective end of year posts I've been seeing on my flist. I've gotten to the point of feeling pretty stupid about commenting on them further with nothing much to say except "I read this, Happy New Year!" but - I'm reading them and finding you all pretty inspirational. Happy New Year. <3
This entry is crossposted from http://labellementeuse.dreamwidth.org/368685.html, where there are
comments.