my glasses are a redish purple.
so it's true, i haven't updated this here livejournal in twenty-nine
years. (i'm so easily distracted that i already need to make a
parenthetical remark about the notion of how funny it would be if
twenty-nine years was not an arbitrary figure, but rather i had actually
opened my livejournal in 2034, logged in as risatina, and started
typing away. it would be even funnier if you were still checking
your friends page in 2034.)
one would think that after such a lengthy absense, i would feel compelled to provide you with an overview of what's been happening in my life since i last typed in here. and yet one would also think that they would have come up with a more creative name for oranges. sometimes what one would think just doesn't go along with what is.
so, it's 2006. the weird part about it being 2006 is that i'm usually more sentimental about the whole thing. i am planning on doing the survey that i do every year on new years -- but that's not really a sentimental thing but rather i've done it the past two years, i might as well keep trucking.
no, but seriously -- usually sometime before new year's eve occurs, i at least acknowledge in my mind that the year will be changing. for some reason i completely and utterly forgot to even mention to myself that we were getting a new year. seriously. i was in the car - the passenger's seat of the car - garret was driving - i was looking out the window thinking about nothing - and all of the sudden it hit me! we were driving to a celebration of no more 2005! i guess up until that point my thoughts were just telling themselves that we were going to celebrate the fact that midnight marked the start of sunday or something.
speaking of which, what was up with the holidays falling on a sunday? i like it much better when christmas is on a tuesday, because it just really seems to mix things up. but christmas on a sunday? that seems too natural. same with new years day. if new years day had been on a tuesday, it would have been semi-out of the ordinary to be going out to brunch and such ... but a sunday... i mean....... new years day always feels like a sunday. it was confusing to me when i realized it actually was sunday. i guess that's what i'm getting at.
last night i played trivial pursuit with garret and his parents. i lost. big time.
i should probably do that end of the year survey before the cold that is whirling around my sinuses forces me into bed.
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Found home in something other than a place.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you keep them for next year?
Unless my New Year's resolution was "forget last year's resolution", i doubt it.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no...but my cousin is pregnant.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nono...and Aunt Ann
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada twice...and America the other 363 days of the year.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
a useful internship.. more experience in my field... my field? really? yeah, soccer field. ("ugh, whatever." says me, perplexed by me.)
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 9, 2005 ... garret. (the day that i stomped all over randie's birthday....hahaha)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
having a piece of my work in tibet (the play, not the country)
9. What was your biggest failure?
letting other people affect me too much
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
probably. there's been a few cold-type things, but you know how that goes.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
gas, i guess.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
patrick for his achievements in guitar...
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
eh... i wouldn't go that far. i've had my share of frustrations, but nobody really appalled or depressed me. though i should mention that for some reason when i read "appalled" i thought of sally field's face when she realizes that mrs. doubtfire is daniel. i don't even know why. i mean, i don't know that "appalled" would describe her in that moment at all.
14. Where did most of your money go?
gas
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
john gulager.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
"songs of love" by ben folds
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
focusing. and expending energy.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying about what would make other people happy over what would make me happy.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
i mean, christmas already happened, but...the family came over.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
yes.
23. How many one-night stands?
well, none.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
seventh heaven... but that's probably because of helayna and randie being the best people ever to watch it with.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
tom cruise?
26. What was the best book you read?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower in its entirety... and the book that garret gave me for christmas on the train -- but not cover to cover.....yet.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
i mean, i by no means discovered ben folds, but i listened to him more this year than before... same with frou frou... but they were not my discovery.... i will not christopher columbus all over them. oh yeah, and tails by lisa loeb -- really old, really good album.
28. What did you want and get?
happiness.
29. What did you want and not get?
per last year's survey: and oscar nomination?
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
i might have enjoyed watching three of hearts the most...because it was just more interesting than some of the other stuff i saw (cough cough brother's grimm cough cough)
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i was twenty, and garret and i got lost trying to drive to bear mountain -- simply so i could look at it, semi-think about it, and drive us home. then we sat up in my common room talking until dawn.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
if misconceptions didn't exist.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Me.
34. What kept you sane?
breakfasts with Randie... and long talks with garret..... and also, having a car to drive around in sometimes.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
"i mean, i'm not gay, but when she walked in the room, i gasped" - oprah.
oprah is to charleze theron as i am to oprah.
36. What political issue stirred you?
blah
37. Who did you miss?
nono
38. Who was the best new person you met?
tracy bersley and dan regelski -- who i believe i just put together in one phrasing.... which would make dan happy.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
in order to be truly happy, you have to chase what is really important to you. the people who truly love you will embrace it, support you, and be happy about it for you.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
And I've learned how to dance from a Vincent Van Gogh...
...Now the peace you will find, in your own you have found
The lights of the city are the stars on the ground
"I may not be a quaalude living in a speed zone,"
But I could be restful, I could be someone's home
(when all the stars were falling . lisa loeb)
one would think that after such a lengthy absense, i would feel compelled to provide you with an overview of what's been happening in my life since i last typed in here. and yet one would also think that they would have come up with a more creative name for oranges. sometimes what one would think just doesn't go along with what is.
so, it's 2006. the weird part about it being 2006 is that i'm usually more sentimental about the whole thing. i am planning on doing the survey that i do every year on new years -- but that's not really a sentimental thing but rather i've done it the past two years, i might as well keep trucking.
no, but seriously -- usually sometime before new year's eve occurs, i at least acknowledge in my mind that the year will be changing. for some reason i completely and utterly forgot to even mention to myself that we were getting a new year. seriously. i was in the car - the passenger's seat of the car - garret was driving - i was looking out the window thinking about nothing - and all of the sudden it hit me! we were driving to a celebration of no more 2005! i guess up until that point my thoughts were just telling themselves that we were going to celebrate the fact that midnight marked the start of sunday or something.
speaking of which, what was up with the holidays falling on a sunday? i like it much better when christmas is on a tuesday, because it just really seems to mix things up. but christmas on a sunday? that seems too natural. same with new years day. if new years day had been on a tuesday, it would have been semi-out of the ordinary to be going out to brunch and such ... but a sunday... i mean....... new years day always feels like a sunday. it was confusing to me when i realized it actually was sunday. i guess that's what i'm getting at.
last night i played trivial pursuit with garret and his parents. i lost. big time.
i should probably do that end of the year survey before the cold that is whirling around my sinuses forces me into bed.
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Found home in something other than a place.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you keep them for next year?
Unless my New Year's resolution was "forget last year's resolution", i doubt it.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no...but my cousin is pregnant.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nono...and Aunt Ann
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada twice...and America the other 363 days of the year.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
a useful internship.. more experience in my field... my field? really? yeah, soccer field. ("ugh, whatever." says me, perplexed by me.)
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 9, 2005 ... garret. (the day that i stomped all over randie's birthday....hahaha)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
having a piece of my work in tibet (the play, not the country)
9. What was your biggest failure?
letting other people affect me too much
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
probably. there's been a few cold-type things, but you know how that goes.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
gas, i guess.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
patrick for his achievements in guitar...
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
eh... i wouldn't go that far. i've had my share of frustrations, but nobody really appalled or depressed me. though i should mention that for some reason when i read "appalled" i thought of sally field's face when she realizes that mrs. doubtfire is daniel. i don't even know why. i mean, i don't know that "appalled" would describe her in that moment at all.
14. Where did most of your money go?
gas
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
john gulager.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
"songs of love" by ben folds
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
focusing. and expending energy.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
worrying about what would make other people happy over what would make me happy.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
i mean, christmas already happened, but...the family came over.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
yes.
23. How many one-night stands?
well, none.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
seventh heaven... but that's probably because of helayna and randie being the best people ever to watch it with.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
tom cruise?
26. What was the best book you read?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower in its entirety... and the book that garret gave me for christmas on the train -- but not cover to cover.....yet.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
i mean, i by no means discovered ben folds, but i listened to him more this year than before... same with frou frou... but they were not my discovery.... i will not christopher columbus all over them. oh yeah, and tails by lisa loeb -- really old, really good album.
28. What did you want and get?
happiness.
29. What did you want and not get?
per last year's survey: and oscar nomination?
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
i might have enjoyed watching three of hearts the most...because it was just more interesting than some of the other stuff i saw (cough cough brother's grimm cough cough)
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i was twenty, and garret and i got lost trying to drive to bear mountain -- simply so i could look at it, semi-think about it, and drive us home. then we sat up in my common room talking until dawn.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
if misconceptions didn't exist.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Me.
34. What kept you sane?
breakfasts with Randie... and long talks with garret..... and also, having a car to drive around in sometimes.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
"i mean, i'm not gay, but when she walked in the room, i gasped" - oprah.
oprah is to charleze theron as i am to oprah.
36. What political issue stirred you?
blah
37. Who did you miss?
nono
38. Who was the best new person you met?
tracy bersley and dan regelski -- who i believe i just put together in one phrasing.... which would make dan happy.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
in order to be truly happy, you have to chase what is really important to you. the people who truly love you will embrace it, support you, and be happy about it for you.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
And I've learned how to dance from a Vincent Van Gogh...
...Now the peace you will find, in your own you have found
The lights of the city are the stars on the ground
"I may not be a quaalude living in a speed zone,"
But I could be restful, I could be someone's home
(when all the stars were falling . lisa loeb)