Looking back at 2010 meme
Just read a neat post by lytab5 and thought I'd give the end-of-the-year meme a try too:
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Joined Twitter
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't/don't make any
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?
An aunt and an uncle, not close though
5. What countries did you visit?
Mexico
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Love life
7. What date(s) from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
None
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving
9. What was your biggest failure?
My relationship with my wife
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Hard drive
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Daughter went to college, joined clubs and still had all As
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My wife
14. Where did most of your money go?
Hard drive (my own paltry $); mortgage (my wife's $)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
House & Cuddy getting together on House MD
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter
iii. richer or poorer? same
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sex
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Depressed, self-pity
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
We went to my wife's uncle (my parents and sister live in Belgium; wife's parents passed away long ago)
21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No
22. How many one-night stands?
None. never had one in my life, sometimes wish I had when I was young
23. What was your favorite TV program?
House MD surprisingly redeemed itself: Huddy!
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
25. What was the best book you read?
1st Bones book by Kathy Reichs (probably the only one too)
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
ZXZ; also Phish, The Fireman, Phil Lesh & Friends
27. What did you want and get?
Continued stable health
28. What was your favourite film of this year?
True Grit (2010)
29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Nothing memorable; I was 49
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Love: sex/cuddling/enjoying each other's company
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
You're kidding, right?
32. What kept you sane?
House MD Huddy and to some extent Bones B&B fan shipping
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Lisa Edelstein
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Obama not putting up much of a fight with those @$!&*# Republicans
35. Who did you miss?
My young, idealistic, I-can-do-anything-I-put-my-mind-to self
36. Who was the best new person you met?
I don't go out much at all. Only started tweeting a few weeks ago so I don't know...
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
I'm not getting any younger and I better get of my ass and do something worthwhile as nobody cares much about me
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"We're middle aged
We were wild in the old days
Birth of rock 'n roll days"
-Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody by Joni Mitchell
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Joined Twitter
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't/don't make any
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?
An aunt and an uncle, not close though
5. What countries did you visit?
Mexico
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Love life
7. What date(s) from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
None
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving
9. What was your biggest failure?
My relationship with my wife
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Hard drive
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Daughter went to college, joined clubs and still had all As
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My wife
14. Where did most of your money go?
Hard drive (my own paltry $); mortgage (my wife's $)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
House & Cuddy getting together on House MD
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter
iii. richer or poorer? same
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sex
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Depressed, self-pity
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
We went to my wife's uncle (my parents and sister live in Belgium; wife's parents passed away long ago)
21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No
22. How many one-night stands?
None. never had one in my life, sometimes wish I had when I was young
23. What was your favorite TV program?
House MD surprisingly redeemed itself: Huddy!
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
25. What was the best book you read?
1st Bones book by Kathy Reichs (probably the only one too)
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
ZXZ; also Phish, The Fireman, Phil Lesh & Friends
27. What did you want and get?
Continued stable health
28. What was your favourite film of this year?
True Grit (2010)
29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Nothing memorable; I was 49
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Love: sex/cuddling/enjoying each other's company
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
You're kidding, right?
32. What kept you sane?
House MD Huddy and to some extent Bones B&B fan shipping
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Lisa Edelstein
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Obama not putting up much of a fight with those @$!&*# Republicans
35. Who did you miss?
My young, idealistic, I-can-do-anything-I-put-my-mind-to self
36. Who was the best new person you met?
I don't go out much at all. Only started tweeting a few weeks ago so I don't know...
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
I'm not getting any younger and I better get of my ass and do something worthwhile as nobody cares much about me
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"We're middle aged
We were wild in the old days
Birth of rock 'n roll days"
-Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody by Joni Mitchell