1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Went with my instincts.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes. I said I would lose weight and I did, 23 lbs.
I said I would "step out of my box" and do things I wouldnt think about doing before, and I did.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
None.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Self confidence.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Boston with my Spiffy girls, meeting OAR, PCMEA trip, meeting Ashley, Katelyn John, music camp, Musikgarten week, Tori's Etown visits but mostly finding out that I cannot be a music ed major.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Making it through this semester knowing that I cannot continue being a music ed major.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being able to have the confidence I need to do well in school. I still have a little voice in the back of my head saying that I'm not good enough of a piano player or a student.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not really.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Plane ticket to Hawaii.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My sister, I love her.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Some people. No one new.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Hawaii.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Coming home.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
"How to save a life" by the Fray
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Confused
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Followed my own advice.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Argued with my sister.
20. How did you spend Christmas and the holidays?
With my family. Just the way I like it.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
No.
23. How many one-night stands?
Touchy subject... 1.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Greys Anatomy.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope, all the same people.
26. What was the best book you read?
Its sad but I didnt read a single book this whole year.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Myself.
28. What did you want and get?
A group of close friends in college.
29. What did you want and not get?
A boy.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
In Her Shoes and DIRTY LOVE.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
It was kind of dull, I got surprised by my friends at school which was nice but it wasnt the best weekend ever. Oh well, 21 is next. Then its my turn to truly celebrate.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Consistency.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Same as the year before with a little more color.
34. What kept you sane?
My family and the fact that when I was at school, I could complain to my home friends vice versa.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most
Jenny McCarthy! I LOVE HER!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
37. Who did you miss?
My friends who I wasn’t with at that moment.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
No clue. Everyone is cool.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
"it's just something that happens as you grow up. you realize it's less important to have more friends and it's more important to have real ones..."
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
It's when you cry just a little but you laugh in the middle that you've made it
- Jason Mraz
And if you never stop when you wave goodbye
You just might find if you give it time
You will wave hello again
You just might wave hello again
-John Mayer