Meme
I've seen a bunch of these so I figured I'd do one as a year-end recap.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
This was very much a year for gettin' shit in order. I don't know that there were too many groundbreaking new things. I did, however, spend New Year's Eve in a bar for the first time and that carried into New Year's Day so that counts. Also, I undertook my first major remodeling project.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really make resolutions. That's a little organized for me. I did, sort of, vow to move forward: Spend a whole year making house payments and living my life without feeling like I was barely holding on by December. While I absolutely felt that way in June, I feel pretty confidently over the hump. For 2009, I'm vowing to spend less frivolously and rediscover the glory of milk through the reduction in soda consumption. We'll see...so many vices...
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don't think anyone this year. Johnny Danger is coming in the spring of '09.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
I hope not. I'm so sorry if I forgot.
5. What countries did you visit?
United States and Milwaukee. I have dual citizenship.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A little more cushion in the pocketbook. I didn't find 2008 lacking in the important things, so I'll just say a lot more of the same.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I'm bad with dates. I don't even know what today is, but I remember New Year's, 4th of July, first night of Moondance Jam, the first night in Vegas and the last and I remember them because they were just a few days where I hadn't a care in the world.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Doubling the house payment that I was, inexplicably, struggling to pay and managing to maintain that throughout the year and be still be ahead of where I was last year. Also, I learned a lot about myself on my home remodel. Oh! I got a pretty good start on understanding the basics of politics this year and I get why republicans and democrats hate eachother and I learned it in the same way that I learned about beer. When you wrap your head around that thought, you can ask me about it further.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Every year I tell myself I'm going to make it to the lake to fish more. It didn't really happen this year. $4 gas didn't help. Also, I totally failed my lunar mission, but to be fair, I didn't really have the resources.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got sick a couple times and there was about 2 weeks where I couldn't lift my arm over my head, but nothing epic.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I bought a billion tools this year and while none of them stand out as great, they are all tools that I won't have to buy again. I really like knowing I have all of the necessary tools to complete a project. Nothing sucks more than when you want to dig a moat and you have to stop everything to go buy a shovel.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Easy. This guy's. I was arrested zero times this year...so far.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled & depressed?
Pretty much everyone in banking. The Vikings(At times, they do every year, but they can fix it). Was Roger Clemens this year? The government, which is really bad, because this is the first time I really even noticed. They must have been really bad.
14. Where did most of your money go?
My house. From the kitchen to the stairs to the living room to the landscaping to the tools to undertake all of those tasks. Homeownership was pricey this year.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The trip to Vegas. The election, until I realized I wasn't going to like the outcome. The future.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2008?
Kid Rock - All Summer Long. It's not even close.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. Happier or sadder? Happier.
b. Thinner or fatter? Fatter. But sexier.
c. Richer or poorer? Richer. Which is more a reflection of how poor I was last year.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
The aforementioned fishing, traveling(I had no vacation time this year), playing the guitar, spending time with my special ladyfriend and relaxing.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Work. School. This year we'll ease back on those things.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Christmas was spent with family. Eating too much and napping on the couch.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Sadly, it was probably Pete.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I'm not sure when it happened, but yeah.
23. How many one-night stands?
None that I remember.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Office. Locked Up Abroad(That's a weird choice right). Honestly, I don't watch that much tv and when I do, it's low attention span content like Seinfeld, Family Guy and South Park. I've been too busy to relax and enjoy television. I watch to decompress.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I'm too lazy to hate anyone.
26. What was the best book you read?
I'm not sure if i read a book this year. Well, for fun. I read for class.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I'm officially getting old. I didn't find anything new that I like. Since, picking up guitar, I pay attention to music more so it's like hearing every song for the first time again, so that's pretty nice.
28. What did you want and get?
A brand new upstairs and the Yankees missing the playoffs.
29. What did you want and not get?
A pony.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight, but to be fair, I only saw about 3 movies.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 29 and I went to the Strip Club with a dozen, or so, of my friends. We also went to Mayslack's and maybe somewhere else in Noreast.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A big fat raise and that aforementioned pony. That's two things, but how does one decide between the two?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Lazy. i haven't gone shopping in a year and I've more or less stopped caring what people think. All that said, I'm just saying that I'm rarely over or under dressed. I'd like to be over-dressed more.
34. What kept you sane?
My girlfriend and just enough vacations to get by.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't know, but I do know that I loathe Heidi and Spencer.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The economy, the war, and the games played in politics themselves.
37. Who did you miss?
Sunday Family. My poker compadres. Smokey from Pervert Suicide.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
New people? Scary! I met my girlfriend last year but we really got to know eachother this year and I can't underscore the impact she has on my life, but technically we met was last year. Maybe the Beecher. He was an acquaintance prior to this year. He's going to get me killed one day, but at least we'll die with Cheez-Its.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
I learned a lot about safety this year. Most of it wildly paranoid, but some of it worthwhile. I lock the door to my house now because intruders usually break in and lurk in the shadows instead of robbing you. I learned that a candle burning in a jar 8 feet from any walls could burn down the whole house. I've learned that there is a virtual cornucopia of gases waiting to kill me in my sleep and to diligently maintain the batteries in all of the devices that protect me from said gases. I've learned that electric heaters may run 24/7 without incident while you watch them, but the moment you leave them unintended, they burn your house down(without remorse).
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight?
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
This was very much a year for gettin' shit in order. I don't know that there were too many groundbreaking new things. I did, however, spend New Year's Eve in a bar for the first time and that carried into New Year's Day so that counts. Also, I undertook my first major remodeling project.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really make resolutions. That's a little organized for me. I did, sort of, vow to move forward: Spend a whole year making house payments and living my life without feeling like I was barely holding on by December. While I absolutely felt that way in June, I feel pretty confidently over the hump. For 2009, I'm vowing to spend less frivolously and rediscover the glory of milk through the reduction in soda consumption. We'll see...so many vices...
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don't think anyone this year. Johnny Danger is coming in the spring of '09.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
I hope not. I'm so sorry if I forgot.
5. What countries did you visit?
United States and Milwaukee. I have dual citizenship.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A little more cushion in the pocketbook. I didn't find 2008 lacking in the important things, so I'll just say a lot more of the same.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I'm bad with dates. I don't even know what today is, but I remember New Year's, 4th of July, first night of Moondance Jam, the first night in Vegas and the last and I remember them because they were just a few days where I hadn't a care in the world.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Doubling the house payment that I was, inexplicably, struggling to pay and managing to maintain that throughout the year and be still be ahead of where I was last year. Also, I learned a lot about myself on my home remodel. Oh! I got a pretty good start on understanding the basics of politics this year and I get why republicans and democrats hate eachother and I learned it in the same way that I learned about beer. When you wrap your head around that thought, you can ask me about it further.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Every year I tell myself I'm going to make it to the lake to fish more. It didn't really happen this year. $4 gas didn't help. Also, I totally failed my lunar mission, but to be fair, I didn't really have the resources.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got sick a couple times and there was about 2 weeks where I couldn't lift my arm over my head, but nothing epic.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I bought a billion tools this year and while none of them stand out as great, they are all tools that I won't have to buy again. I really like knowing I have all of the necessary tools to complete a project. Nothing sucks more than when you want to dig a moat and you have to stop everything to go buy a shovel.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Easy. This guy's. I was arrested zero times this year...so far.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled & depressed?
Pretty much everyone in banking. The Vikings(At times, they do every year, but they can fix it). Was Roger Clemens this year? The government, which is really bad, because this is the first time I really even noticed. They must have been really bad.
14. Where did most of your money go?
My house. From the kitchen to the stairs to the living room to the landscaping to the tools to undertake all of those tasks. Homeownership was pricey this year.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The trip to Vegas. The election, until I realized I wasn't going to like the outcome. The future.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2008?
Kid Rock - All Summer Long. It's not even close.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. Happier or sadder? Happier.
b. Thinner or fatter? Fatter. But sexier.
c. Richer or poorer? Richer. Which is more a reflection of how poor I was last year.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
The aforementioned fishing, traveling(I had no vacation time this year), playing the guitar, spending time with my special ladyfriend and relaxing.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Work. School. This year we'll ease back on those things.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Christmas was spent with family. Eating too much and napping on the couch.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Sadly, it was probably Pete.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I'm not sure when it happened, but yeah.
23. How many one-night stands?
None that I remember.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Office. Locked Up Abroad(That's a weird choice right). Honestly, I don't watch that much tv and when I do, it's low attention span content like Seinfeld, Family Guy and South Park. I've been too busy to relax and enjoy television. I watch to decompress.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I'm too lazy to hate anyone.
26. What was the best book you read?
I'm not sure if i read a book this year. Well, for fun. I read for class.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I'm officially getting old. I didn't find anything new that I like. Since, picking up guitar, I pay attention to music more so it's like hearing every song for the first time again, so that's pretty nice.
28. What did you want and get?
A brand new upstairs and the Yankees missing the playoffs.
29. What did you want and not get?
A pony.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight, but to be fair, I only saw about 3 movies.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 29 and I went to the Strip Club with a dozen, or so, of my friends. We also went to Mayslack's and maybe somewhere else in Noreast.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A big fat raise and that aforementioned pony. That's two things, but how does one decide between the two?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Lazy. i haven't gone shopping in a year and I've more or less stopped caring what people think. All that said, I'm just saying that I'm rarely over or under dressed. I'd like to be over-dressed more.
34. What kept you sane?
My girlfriend and just enough vacations to get by.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't know, but I do know that I loathe Heidi and Spencer.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The economy, the war, and the games played in politics themselves.
37. Who did you miss?
Sunday Family. My poker compadres. Smokey from Pervert Suicide.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
New people? Scary! I met my girlfriend last year but we really got to know eachother this year and I can't underscore the impact she has on my life, but technically we met was last year. Maybe the Beecher. He was an acquaintance prior to this year. He's going to get me killed one day, but at least we'll die with Cheez-Its.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
I learned a lot about safety this year. Most of it wildly paranoid, but some of it worthwhile. I lock the door to my house now because intruders usually break in and lurk in the shadows instead of robbing you. I learned that a candle burning in a jar 8 feet from any walls could burn down the whole house. I've learned that there is a virtual cornucopia of gases waiting to kill me in my sleep and to diligently maintain the batteries in all of the devices that protect me from said gases. I've learned that electric heaters may run 24/7 without incident while you watch them, but the moment you leave them unintended, they burn your house down(without remorse).
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight?