30 Day Meme, fast track version

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The 30 Day Meme

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 28 → This year, in great detail

I remember New Year's quite distinctly. It was freakishly warm, for one thing. Light jacket temperatures and zero snow. grav_ity was on her last day of her holiday visiting. We went to my Aunt's and a bunch of us had a really amazing time doing a scavenger hunt. When we got home finally, Kate and I were worried about sleeping through the alarm, so we watched about half of Season 1 of Community to stay awake until I drove her to the airport. It was raining. I was sad. Dropped her off, drove home again, crashed. Woke up for the annual Belgian Waffle party at our house.

The following will be a combination of what major events I remember as the most significant plus random stuff I'm remembering by going through LJ entries.

• The Cape ended up being a huge disappointment
  
• Experienced my first "true" year-end close as an accountant. It was extremely stressful, but I learned a whole lot.
  
• Tangled lost Best Original Song in both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, first to Diane Warren and then to Randy Newman. I was a very angry fangirl.
  
• Made two new fanvids back-to-back: Setting up the Pins and Not Done Yet
  
• Got Lucy and Toby at the Humane Society and finally became an old cat lady!!!
  
• Had a lot of family drama
  
• Threw a party to celebrate the DvD release of Tangled and it was SO FUN!!!
  
• Had a chance to got to China for work that didn't pan out :-(
  
• Started a book blog and a costuming blog
  
• Took a writing sabbatical
  
• Auditioned for The Sound of Music and won the role of Elsa (Darth) Schraeder.
  
• Planned on going to Indiana over Easter and it didn't work out
  
• Signed up for my first big bang fic challenge
  
• Got a promotion into a new dept at Goodyear
  
• Finally made that Twilight mocking fanvid I've been talking about for years to His Cheeseburger from Veggie Tales.
  
• Laura and family moved to Tennessee
  
• Bought an iPad 2 and named it Hardison. Really need to use it more to get my money's worth...
  
• Spent a lot of time making a Rapunzel costume
  
• Went to Paris. It rained. Had a lot of fun and a not lot of fun.
  
• Kate came to see me for my birthday and made me a T.A.R.D.I.S. cake!!!
  
• Turned 30...
  
• Went to Dragon*Con. Had a lot of fun and a lot of not fun.
  
• Got a new plot bunny that is now in my "things to get published" writing queue
  
• Borders went out of business. With it, part of my writing soul died.
  
• Decided to treat writing as part of God's plan for my life
  
• Finished writing my first big bang fanfic challenge :-)
  
• Celebrated the re-release of my first novel, which hopefully means the SECOND novel is coming out soon...

And that pretty much catches us up to the present. Wow, a lot of fun stuff has happened so far this year! This was fun. :-)