I'm back in the New Year
I just finished this survey, and 2009 wasn't super exciting and 2010 isn't looking to be much better.
Five things that 2009 taught me.
1. Love is the most important thing.
2. I am in no place to judge anyone.
3. I can't always rely on anyone but myself.
4. How to ask hard questions.
5. How to think.
Five personally significant events of 2009.
1. Started graduate school
2. Got my first dog as an adult.
3. Wrote a novel in one month.
4. Submitted a research paper to a conference.
5.Celebrated my first year of marriage.
Five things I want to do in 2010.
1. Graduate with my Master's
2. Go see a taping of the Tonight Show
3. Visit my parents and Ash in California.
4. Get another dog.
5.
Five things I don’t want to do in 2010.
1. Get seriously sick.
2. Lose financial security.
3. Fail a class/classes.
4. Forget to go out on a date once in a while.
5. Get fired.
Five things I love beyond all reason currently.
1. My husband.
2. My dog.
3. My immediate family and in-laws.
4. My book.
5. Bleach (weird, but John got me hooked)
Five things I don’t like with good reason currently.
1. Hateful people
2. Being sick.
3. School.
4.
5.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Started graduate school.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year. No.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, triplets.
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. Travel? To Branson and San Antonio.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Earn a Master's degree.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? May 24...First anniversary.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? A finished a novel in a month.
9. What was your biggest failure? My first failed research paper.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Riding boots
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? John
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? John Piper for his weird tweets
14. Where did most of your money go? gas and food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Being done with a year's worth of school and finishing my book.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2009? "You Found Me" by the Fray
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? same
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter
iii. richer or poorer? richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? see friends
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? watch TV
20. How will you be spending New Years? Spent it at a friend's party
21. Did you fall in love in 2009? over and over again
22. What was the best book you read? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Churched
23. What was your greatest musical discovery? She & Him
24. What did you want and get? a puppy
25. What did you want and not get? stand up mixer
26. What was your favorite film of this year? Don't even know. i didn't see very many at all.
27. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Was driving home from vacation in Branson, 23.
28. What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Finishing a novel in a month.
29. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? more grown-up
30. What kept you sane? John and Roskoe
31. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Zooey Deschanel or Meghan McCain
32. What political issue stirred you the most? anything having to do with inequality...i got upset about a lot this year, stuff that isn't necessarily pertinent this year but has been in the past.
33. Who did you miss? my parents
34. Who was the best new person you met? Jenny and Michelle
35. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "Laughing with God"
Five things that 2009 taught me.
1. Love is the most important thing.
2. I am in no place to judge anyone.
3. I can't always rely on anyone but myself.
4. How to ask hard questions.
5. How to think.
Five personally significant events of 2009.
1. Started graduate school
2. Got my first dog as an adult.
3. Wrote a novel in one month.
4. Submitted a research paper to a conference.
5.Celebrated my first year of marriage.
Five things I want to do in 2010.
1. Graduate with my Master's
2. Go see a taping of the Tonight Show
3. Visit my parents and Ash in California.
4. Get another dog.
5.
Five things I don’t want to do in 2010.
1. Get seriously sick.
2. Lose financial security.
3. Fail a class/classes.
4. Forget to go out on a date once in a while.
5. Get fired.
Five things I love beyond all reason currently.
1. My husband.
2. My dog.
3. My immediate family and in-laws.
4. My book.
5. Bleach (weird, but John got me hooked)
Five things I don’t like with good reason currently.
1. Hateful people
2. Being sick.
3. School.
4.
5.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Started graduate school.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year. No.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, triplets.
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. Travel? To Branson and San Antonio.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Earn a Master's degree.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? May 24...First anniversary.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? A finished a novel in a month.
9. What was your biggest failure? My first failed research paper.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Riding boots
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? John
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? John Piper for his weird tweets
14. Where did most of your money go? gas and food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Being done with a year's worth of school and finishing my book.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2009? "You Found Me" by the Fray
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? same
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter
iii. richer or poorer? richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of? see friends
19. What do you wish you’d done less of? watch TV
20. How will you be spending New Years? Spent it at a friend's party
21. Did you fall in love in 2009? over and over again
22. What was the best book you read? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Churched
23. What was your greatest musical discovery? She & Him
24. What did you want and get? a puppy
25. What did you want and not get? stand up mixer
26. What was your favorite film of this year? Don't even know. i didn't see very many at all.
27. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Was driving home from vacation in Branson, 23.
28. What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Finishing a novel in a month.
29. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009? more grown-up
30. What kept you sane? John and Roskoe
31. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Zooey Deschanel or Meghan McCain
32. What political issue stirred you the most? anything having to do with inequality...i got upset about a lot this year, stuff that isn't necessarily pertinent this year but has been in the past.
33. Who did you miss? my parents
34. Who was the best new person you met? Jenny and Michelle
35. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "Laughing with God"