Holidailies 2008: Special Holiday Edition*

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Year End

So I think the goal was to post once per day not once per week, and on that note....FAIL!

Oh well.

Time to recap:

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Tried Wii bowling and WON.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yeah.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
My Uncle.

5. What countries did you visit?
Sadly, none.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Um...psychotropic meds?

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 21- the day I got my new job
December 15-The day I won the trip to Vegas
December 23-The day I learned I got into grad school

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
All of the above, although Vegas isn't really an achievement, just luck.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Leaving my teaching job.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yeah off and on.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Wii

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My brother's

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I can't say. Or, I guess I could name names, but that's not my habit.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Clothing, books. Oh and rent.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
New things.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Little Boxes

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter.
c) richer or poorer? Richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Trying.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it with the family.

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Nope.

22. How many one-night stands?
None.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Weeds

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I guess.

25. What was the best book you read?
Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Blind Pilots

27. What did you want and get?
Just...about...everything. I guess. knock on wood. (or for you UK folk, touch wood)

28. What did you want and not get?
Things I could never have in the first place.

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight. But honestly it was a toss up with Wall-E

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 28. I hung out at home, but the day before I went out with my parents and ate Chinese food.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Valium? But I would settle for more In N Out.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Very blue. and green.

33. What kept you sane?
I'm not really sure I was sane.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Mmmm Christian Bale, as always.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Prop 8.

36. Who did you miss?
All the people I lost.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
April.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Sometimes good shit happens. You know, after the bad shit. But between everything else.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

If I ever leave this world alive
I`ll thank for the things you did in my life
If I ever leave this world alive
I`ll come back and sit beside your feet tonight
Where ever I`m you`ll always be
More than just a memory
If I ever leave this world alive

If I ever leave this world alive
I`ll take on all the sadness
That I left behind
If I ever leave this world alive
The madness that you feel will soon subside
So in a word don`t shed a tear
I`ll be here when it all gets weird
If I ever leave this world alive

So when in doubt just call my name
Just before you go insane
If I ever leave this world alive
Hey I may never leave this world alive
But if I ever leave this world alive

She says I`m okay; I`m all right,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would
Now everything should be alright

She says I`m okay; I`m all right,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would
Now everything should be alright
Yeah should be alright
-Flogging Molly

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Day 20: I haven't given up on you yet.

I kind of mean that, but not in the way you think.
Today's topic is: write what you want for someone else.

Dear friend,
I guess ostensibly, I want your sister to wake up from her coma. I really do. Because you want it so bad, and I'm tired of coming to work every day and seeing it written on your worn face. I want your sister to be okay, on the level of where she was before that day in July that other guy hit her with his car at 60mph. But I don't know if that will happen. And neither do you. I know you want to believe it will, so badly that you live it and you breathe it, but the truth is, neither of us knows what life has in store. Tomorrow might be the last tomorrow you ever see. And that is scary. I want life to be less scary for you, i want your life to have something more. I want you to wake up and have something to look forward to someday. But right now you come to work, and you sit at your desk and you answer calls and talk to students like nothing ever heppened, like the little trooper you are and I don't know what to tell you. I'm no Pollyanna. I know things don't work out, sometimes they just downright suck, but I want you to be better. I want the counseling to work, I want for you to feel the way you used to, before that guy took what life you had in you-from both you and your sister. I want to be able to give you the strength to deal with all of this, I want to be able to give you what you need. But, I can't. It isn't enough for me to tell you to feel what you feel, and to deal with it in your own time. It will never be enough. So this Christmas, I want to give you the gift of enjoying it. I want to give you the light back in your eyes, the hope back in your heart, I want to take the feeling of dread from your soul. I want you to be okay. I don't want to give up. I don't want to give up on her and I don't want to give up on you, on the fact that someday you will have a good life again, and all will be well. That it will somehow work out. I want to be here for you in this most horrible test of faith. And that's all I want for you.

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