2009 - Year in Review
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Had a Facebook Account.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I did, actually. One, that I actually managed to keep. And I will likely make another one for the upcoming year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister gave birth to her daughter, Darcy.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Physically, none. Via the internet and my imagination, many!!
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
A little more free time.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
February 3rd, trying to take Steven back to the airport in a blizzard. We made it just a few miles and then turned around and came home. He wanted to see snow when he came out, I told him it would be here, and I was right! ;) I think he’s had enough snow for a couple years now.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Growing a garden. Getting a fence up around our back yard (I helped!).
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not accomplishing my writing goals for this year. I barely found time to scratch the surface and I need to do better.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Just the standard illnesses. (Thankfully H1N1-free in my house!)
11. What was the best thing you bought?
There were several good purchases this year! Ian’s bunk bed ranks up there. As do the new stove, washing machine and water heater. And the investment into new plumbing in the kitchen and bathroom!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Chris, who got involved in some things he didn’t want to be involved in, in order to help my family, worked his butt off this year, and got accepted to a computer forensics school that isn’t for just anyone.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Jamie, my soon to be former brother-in-law.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, groceries, my kids.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
First Friday night game nights with friends! A couple new games played.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner, barely, but I’ll take what I can get!
iii. richer or poorer? Maybe a little richer, or let’s just say in a little less debt.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing, but I did what I could with what free time I had, I suppose.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worry and stress.
20. How did you spend Christmas/Hanukah?
With family. We had breakfast at our house with my parents and my sister, Annie, after watching the boys open their Christmas presents. Then went to Chris’ grandmother’s for lunch. Then to my parents for supper (lasagna!) and to unwrap gifts.
21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2008?
Nothing really.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Many times.
23. How many one-night stands?
Not a single one.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Torchwood: Children of Earth (Some of the most wonderful and awful television ever, wrapped up into one thing!), Battlestar Gallactica (Sad that this is over!), Stargate Universe (Which I am very much enjoying!), Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, Better Off Ted, Chuck, Lost (Which got INSANELY good again this year.), CSI:NY
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I have a strong dislike for someone this year that I didn’t have at this time last year.
26. What was the best book you read?
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama (OMG a little kids book! But I read it so many times for Seth I could recite the thing now.) and Dragons of the Hourglass Mage (Seemed to wait forever for that book to come out.)
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
No notable discoveries this year, just enjoyed new stuff from some old favorites.
28. What did you want and get?
A fence put around our back yard and a garden.
29. What did you want and not get?
Seth’s room painted, a twin bed put up for him, and a swingset built in our back yard. (Next year!)
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Star Trek
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 35 on my birthday, and honestly I can’t recall what I did on my birthday. (Probably housework and we might have gone out to eat.)
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A little more money and free time to accomplish a few things.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
T-shirts and jeans.
34. What kept you sane?
Chris. My boys (while at the same time occasionally making me insane). Writing/plotting/planning when I could. Gaming.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Eddie Cahill, Zachary Quinto & Jim Parsons (Who is just TOO DARN CUTE.)
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Take home police cars, no take home police cars, take home police cars, etc. GAH.
37. Who did you miss?
My grandma & a handful of friends that I don’t see or talk to nearly enough to satisfy me.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Darcy is pretty sweet.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
The reminder that “This too shall pass.”