am I made of glass 'cause you see right through me
Whuhahaha here is a New Year's meme that i stole from 'Nee.
1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
visited Peoria, Ill, (the furthest west I've ever driven), made (and ate) a vodka watermelon, stumbled home drunkenly, singing the whole way, started a livejournal, moved away from home, saw the rock 'n roll hall of fame, ate poutine, saw the New Jersey Devils live, earned a college degree, got my hair cut by someone that was not my mother, flew on an airplane by myself, and i'm sure there was more but those stand out.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I dont remember making any, and the ones i might make this year are to get in shape and meet some people.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My older sister Quincy (aka Slim), my half-sister (also older) Jessi, and my friend Lisa
4. Did anyone close to you die? close might be a relative term, but someone I cared about, yes.
5. What countries did you visit? Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
motivation to get myself in shape and inspiration about my future
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? March 14, the last day I saw Trevor, June 14 as the day I graduated from college, and July 27 as the day I learned that Trevor Ettinger committed suicide
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? managing to get through school without failing any classes, while working 4 jobs.
9. What was your biggest failure? my timidness concerning the opposite sex
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Richard Naumann's game-worn Bombers jersey. it was surely the most expensive thing i bought, and I think it's pretty cool, and for that matter, so does he. :)
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Morgan, just for being herself and keeping me sane.
Everyone, including people I had never met, helping me get through Trevor's death
my fam, for keeping me motivated and believing in me
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Tony and at times Erin, though she and I are past it. Tony's still an ass.
14. Where did most of your money go? my car, in the form of payments and gas, hockey games, hockey jerseys, food and alcohol.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Andrew Ianiero, Richard Nauman, going to fla to visit Nee (and meeting Emmy!), the Stanley Cup finals and the Devils' game 7 win!, seeing the Devils and Martin Brodeur a few weeks ago, seeing the Red Wings play, going back home to visit after I left, the night I got to announce a BOMBERS game
16. What song will always remind you of 2003? "bubblegum bandit" by Buckra- hockey road trips, and anything from Train's "My Private Nation" album
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder? maybe a little sadder since I'm not with my friends
ii. thinner or fatter? I'm never thinnner, especially right after the holiday feasting, but generally i've been about the same size for 5 years
iii. richer or poorer? i guess about the same actually.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? i dunno, i pretty much lived it up last year, but i wish i had e-mailed some of my faraway friends more
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? spending money and fighting about dumb things and letting them get in the way of friendships
20. How did you spend Christmas? with the Fat Fam here in buffalo, eating, sleeping, reading, watching movies and playing canasta. it was awsome
22. Did you fall in love in 2003? not with anyone real, though a few fictional fellas came pretty close, and some of the real guys i met i could have loved.
23. How many one-night stands? none none none. i didnt even kiss a boy for the whole year :(
24. What was your favorite TV program? Gilmore Girls
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Tony though he was working his way up around this time last year. but i dont hate Gina anymore! haha and i might have at this time last year, can't remember
26. What was the best book you read? Zamboni Rodeo - Jason Cohen
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? oh geez there were many, Trapt, Train (My Private Nation album), The All-American Rejects, Ryan Adams, Better than Ezra, Spungewurthy,
Chantal Kreviazuk
28. What did you want and get? Real friends and a job that is on the path to my career destination..
29. What did you want and not get? lots of boys
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Pirates of the Caribbean was excellent, i really liked X-2 also and anything with VIGGO MORTENSEN
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 22 and I spent the day with 'Nee and Emmy dagmarathena and emmycantbemeeko in Florida. we went swimming in a freshwater spring and ate tasty food. it was a pretty cool birthday
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? meeting a decent guy
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003? hockey jerseys? ;)
34. What kept you sane? Morgan. wine. lots of movies and lots of hockey. midnight skating and hockey sessions with Morgan. livejournal. my fam. countless friends near and far.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Viggo Mortensen, Johnny Depp or Martin Brodeur
36. What political issue stirred you the most? i try not to be political
37. Who did you miss? Nee! and after I moved to buffalo in august, I missed my friends from Dayton- Morgan most of all, and my fam
38. Who was the best new person you met? Lindsay, and technically i MET her in '02 but we didnt start talking till '03, Emmy!.....and Richard Naumann
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: Life is short. LIVE IT!
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Story About A Girl Our Lady Peace:
Suddenly something I'm not
You're something that you bought
Was it something I said my friend?
Baby girl are you tripping on this
Are you tripping all over it
Better come up for air
Story about a girl
My story about the world
My..
Are you waking up slowly
Nothing but lonely
Are you waking up holding, holding your breath
Are you looking for something
I promised you one thing
I promise I'll always always be there
Baby girl stand up and fight
This is not some paradise
Well it's just where we live
And Finally you think you're alright
And then it eats you up alive
You'd better get used to it
Story about a girl
My story about the world,
my
Are you waking up slowly
Nothing but lonely
Are you waking up holding, holding your breath
Are you looking for something
I promised you one thing
I promise I'll always always be there
With all my faith and all my heart
and all those simple things you are
I know it's stuck inside your head
You're alone, you'd better get used to it
And I know the feeling has to end
You're strong, it sucks you in again
And you're lost, you can't make any sense
This world, it tears you limb from limb
And hold on,
You're nothing but the best..
and i have to add this from Made of Glass by Trapt cuz it goes with it kinda:
I don't know anything at all and I'm somebody else
It could take years to find you, it could take years to find myself
And I don't need to hear your answer, I just need you to see
That it's time to break down, these walls that we throw up
Am I still breathing
Have I lost that feeling
Am I made of glass
'Cause you see right through me
I don't know who I am
You're the only one who sees that
I can't ask these questions
They cannot be answered today
there ya have it.. my year in review. :) all in all it was definetly an interesting yaer. I did my fair share of partying, drove to a lot of cool places (read: hockey games) ate tons of good food, enjoyed good company, drank innumerable bottles of wine and vodka, met some new friends, lost some friends, learned about people's true colors and loved and lost. in closing, i'd like to present a quote from William Butler Yeats' He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven:
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
Happy New Year, Y'all!
1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
visited Peoria, Ill, (the furthest west I've ever driven), made (and ate) a vodka watermelon, stumbled home drunkenly, singing the whole way, started a livejournal, moved away from home, saw the rock 'n roll hall of fame, ate poutine, saw the New Jersey Devils live, earned a college degree, got my hair cut by someone that was not my mother, flew on an airplane by myself, and i'm sure there was more but those stand out.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I dont remember making any, and the ones i might make this year are to get in shape and meet some people.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My older sister Quincy (aka Slim), my half-sister (also older) Jessi, and my friend Lisa
4. Did anyone close to you die? close might be a relative term, but someone I cared about, yes.
5. What countries did you visit? Canada
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
motivation to get myself in shape and inspiration about my future
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? March 14, the last day I saw Trevor, June 14 as the day I graduated from college, and July 27 as the day I learned that Trevor Ettinger committed suicide
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? managing to get through school without failing any classes, while working 4 jobs.
9. What was your biggest failure? my timidness concerning the opposite sex
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Richard Naumann's game-worn Bombers jersey. it was surely the most expensive thing i bought, and I think it's pretty cool, and for that matter, so does he. :)
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Morgan, just for being herself and keeping me sane.
Everyone, including people I had never met, helping me get through Trevor's death
my fam, for keeping me motivated and believing in me
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Tony and at times Erin, though she and I are past it. Tony's still an ass.
14. Where did most of your money go? my car, in the form of payments and gas, hockey games, hockey jerseys, food and alcohol.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Andrew Ianiero, Richard Nauman, going to fla to visit Nee (and meeting Emmy!), the Stanley Cup finals and the Devils' game 7 win!, seeing the Devils and Martin Brodeur a few weeks ago, seeing the Red Wings play, going back home to visit after I left, the night I got to announce a BOMBERS game
16. What song will always remind you of 2003? "bubblegum bandit" by Buckra- hockey road trips, and anything from Train's "My Private Nation" album
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder? maybe a little sadder since I'm not with my friends
ii. thinner or fatter? I'm never thinnner, especially right after the holiday feasting, but generally i've been about the same size for 5 years
iii. richer or poorer? i guess about the same actually.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? i dunno, i pretty much lived it up last year, but i wish i had e-mailed some of my faraway friends more
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? spending money and fighting about dumb things and letting them get in the way of friendships
20. How did you spend Christmas? with the Fat Fam here in buffalo, eating, sleeping, reading, watching movies and playing canasta. it was awsome
22. Did you fall in love in 2003? not with anyone real, though a few fictional fellas came pretty close, and some of the real guys i met i could have loved.
23. How many one-night stands? none none none. i didnt even kiss a boy for the whole year :(
24. What was your favorite TV program? Gilmore Girls
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Tony though he was working his way up around this time last year. but i dont hate Gina anymore! haha and i might have at this time last year, can't remember
26. What was the best book you read? Zamboni Rodeo - Jason Cohen
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? oh geez there were many, Trapt, Train (My Private Nation album), The All-American Rejects, Ryan Adams, Better than Ezra, Spungewurthy,
Chantal Kreviazuk
28. What did you want and get? Real friends and a job that is on the path to my career destination..
29. What did you want and not get? lots of boys
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Pirates of the Caribbean was excellent, i really liked X-2 also and anything with VIGGO MORTENSEN
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 22 and I spent the day with 'Nee and Emmy dagmarathena and emmycantbemeeko in Florida. we went swimming in a freshwater spring and ate tasty food. it was a pretty cool birthday
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? meeting a decent guy
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003? hockey jerseys? ;)
34. What kept you sane? Morgan. wine. lots of movies and lots of hockey. midnight skating and hockey sessions with Morgan. livejournal. my fam. countless friends near and far.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Viggo Mortensen, Johnny Depp or Martin Brodeur
36. What political issue stirred you the most? i try not to be political
37. Who did you miss? Nee! and after I moved to buffalo in august, I missed my friends from Dayton- Morgan most of all, and my fam
38. Who was the best new person you met? Lindsay, and technically i MET her in '02 but we didnt start talking till '03, Emmy!.....and Richard Naumann
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: Life is short. LIVE IT!
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Story About A Girl Our Lady Peace:
Suddenly something I'm not
You're something that you bought
Was it something I said my friend?
Baby girl are you tripping on this
Are you tripping all over it
Better come up for air
Story about a girl
My story about the world
My..
Are you waking up slowly
Nothing but lonely
Are you waking up holding, holding your breath
Are you looking for something
I promised you one thing
I promise I'll always always be there
Baby girl stand up and fight
This is not some paradise
Well it's just where we live
And Finally you think you're alright
And then it eats you up alive
You'd better get used to it
Story about a girl
My story about the world,
my
Are you waking up slowly
Nothing but lonely
Are you waking up holding, holding your breath
Are you looking for something
I promised you one thing
I promise I'll always always be there
With all my faith and all my heart
and all those simple things you are
I know it's stuck inside your head
You're alone, you'd better get used to it
And I know the feeling has to end
You're strong, it sucks you in again
And you're lost, you can't make any sense
This world, it tears you limb from limb
And hold on,
You're nothing but the best..
and i have to add this from Made of Glass by Trapt cuz it goes with it kinda:
I don't know anything at all and I'm somebody else
It could take years to find you, it could take years to find myself
And I don't need to hear your answer, I just need you to see
That it's time to break down, these walls that we throw up
Am I still breathing
Have I lost that feeling
Am I made of glass
'Cause you see right through me
I don't know who I am
You're the only one who sees that
I can't ask these questions
They cannot be answered today
there ya have it.. my year in review. :) all in all it was definetly an interesting yaer. I did my fair share of partying, drove to a lot of cool places (read: hockey games) ate tons of good food, enjoyed good company, drank innumerable bottles of wine and vodka, met some new friends, lost some friends, learned about people's true colors and loved and lost. in closing, i'd like to present a quote from William Butler Yeats' He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven:
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
Happy New Year, Y'all!