So Long 2009! meme
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
- bought a ticket to San Francisco and told my family and friends that I was moving- then didn't.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Nope. Don't make 'em. If you don't make 'em, you can't BREAK 'em!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No?
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My aunt, but we weren't close.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. Sadly...
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
A life.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
March 9th. Worst day of the year- bar NONE! Bad day at work, then rejected from CalArts.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Artistically, I went further than I ever dreamed.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Failing to live up to my own goals. Even the little ones.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Got sick. I HATE being sick! And nearly sliced off the tip of my left thumb.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A jacket ON SALE from Old Navy for like $9. Best purchase EVER! If I could have, I've have bought two more just like it!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My friends- for putting up with all that animation/college/art yammering I did.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My boss and my parents. For not believing in me.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Art supplies, figure drawing sessions, gas money to GO to drawing.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
the possibility of going off to college.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Answer by Sarah MacLachlan
"If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You'll still be burning so bright"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier, I suppose.
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter- thanks for reminding me!
iii. richer or poorer? No clue. Money is so fleeting.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Laughed.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Cry.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
spent it at home.
(Where'd 21 go?)
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
No. *sniffle*
23. How many one-night stands?
Why do I even leave this in every year? The answer's going to stay the same! (I second this, Melinda!)
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Castle, Big Bang Theory! <3
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. Hating is pointless.
26. What was the best book you read?
Didn't read much.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Amy Winehouse? Emilie Autumn?
28. What did you want and get?
a new portfolio case
29. What did you want and not get?
Admission to CalArts
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Up.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
not much. Nearly sliced the tip of my thumb off the day before. 28.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Going off to college.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
you mean 2009? Blossoming, I think. Yeah- that sounds good.
34. What kept you sane?
More drawing? And chocolate.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
N/A
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Prop 8?
37. Who did you miss?
All my friends. Drawing all the time is kind of a solitary thing...
38. Who was the best new person you met?
NO CLUE!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Sometimes life doesn't go the way you planned or even wished. But things happen for a reason. If you can figure that out, you can try again. It'll hurt. You'll cry. But "You can judge how big someone is by what it takes to discourage them". And somehow you will come out of your situation better off.