Happy New Year Everyone!!!
I believe everyone has made it here into the New Year, so a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!
First thing's first, I'm gonna do this year end review thingy, because...well...the downside to always spending New Year's with the family is that they all go to sleep at like 1, leaving me bored. So, here goes...
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Suffer from severe depression. Get totally and hopelessly drunk. Work for the Federal Government. Get an A in a University course, get a B on a final exam. Go to a casino.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Nope, I failed miserably.
Here are my new ones: Procrastinate less, Meet new people and keep in better touch with old friends, Be more consistent with my non school/work commitments.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not really, the closest is like my second cousin's aunt, whom I've never met before.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully no.
5. What countries did you visit?
None, was in Canada the full 12 months.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
It's a very long list of unreasonable things.
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I actually don't have a date associated with anything memorable from 2005
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting my first decent mark in University
9. What was your biggest failure?
Getting 5.0 credits of terrible marks in my first year at University.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I'm consistently dealing with chronic bronchitis, I've also had bouts of insomnia and depression (mostly concentrated in the first half of the year). I also had a bout of salmonella in November.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My laptop...Serenity =D
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
If this question means behaviour above the ordinary, then nobody that I can think of.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
All the Canadian politicians, especially the leaders of all the federal parties.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Laptop, Textbooks, Transportation and Food in that order. Next year it will be Tuition, Textbooks and Transportation.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going to a casino for the first time in my life.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
"Greatest Gift of All" by Jim Brickman and Michelle Wright: I swear everytime I turned on CHFI I heard this song within half an hour.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. Happier or sadder? Happier by a LARGE amount. Think dividing by zero.
ii. Thinner or fatter? Probably fatter, although with my weight it's such a small percentage that I'm sure it goes unnoticed ;)
iii. Richer or poorer? About the same, although I've earned more this year than last.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Talking to people, studying for end of first year finals
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Hating myself, hating my life and regretting decisions I'd made back in high school.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Probably asleep for most of the day (I don't celebrate Christmas)
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Not so much.
23. How many one-night stands?
None
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Probably Family Guy, either that or Firefly
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Not that I can think of.
26. What was the best book you read?
probably the War of Souls triology of Dragonlance. What? I'm a popular fantasy junkie.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Finding my Duke Ellington Gold Collections 4-CD package
28. What did you want and get?
Job working for the Government
29. What did you want and not get?
This relates back to that long list I mentioned earlier, but it's cool I wasn't really expecting to get any of those things. Most of them are intangibles.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Probably Episode III, although I didn't really see many movies this year.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
19th birthday, celebrated by getting drunk and/or inebriated multiple times in the same day, causing me to give myself a low-voltage shock in physics lab the next day.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Perhaps doing well enough to avoid having been put onto probation. Aside from that, nothing really realistic.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
I lack one.
34. What kept you sane?
My family and friends, mostly. Eventually learning how to take all my grief and depression and lock it away in a corner of my heart and get on with my life. School and work, kept me busy and focused.
35. Celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Lohan before she turned blonde and got all thin.
37. Who did you miss?
All my friends from Woburn that don't go to U of T, and even some that do. I miss the relationships I had back in high school, as I really haven't been able to build the same level of friendship with as many people that I've met at University. Some, mind you, just not as many.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
In 05? Hrm...probably someone from work.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Don't just sit around and whine about how much life sucks and how bad the world is, go out and do something to change it and keep on doing something until it works. It's not the ultimate end result that's important, but how you better yourself and the world/people around you as you go. This was how I viewed things in high school, but I kind of forgot that last year.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I like Hydralisks (actually I can't think of one, my year had too much variation in it for one lyric to sum it up)
Now that that's done...happy new year again!