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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Day 28
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Walked across the Charles Bridge.

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?
Nope.

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

5. What countries did you visit?
England/UK, Czech Republic.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Happiness.

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 22nd- the day my grandfather died.
November 30th- the day I finished NaNoWriMo
September 6th- the day Muffy died.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing NaNoWriMo.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Basically everything else.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes, illness big time.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
All that yarn to play with.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My brothers'.

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?
Travel.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Travel.

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
"How to Save a Life".

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

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Not caring.

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

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

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Ugh. No.

22. How many one-night stands?
None.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Grey's Anatomy.

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

25. What was the best book you read?
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Reindeer Section.

27. What did you want and get?
Starbucks gift cards.

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 Pursuit of Happyness.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 26. I stayed home, went out for pizza with my roommate and her boyfriend.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less emotional pain and distress.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Improving.

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?
Honestly, politics makes me angry.

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

37. Who was the best new person you met?
I can't pick just one. Corinne, for one, who taught me how to be an exemplary Bond Girl, and the ladies in my knitting group who sort of kept me sane when it seemed impossible.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
The only thing I could think of was something insanely cynical, so i'm not even going to bother with this question.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I just want peace
And quiet in my head
I can't find it in the bars or in my bed"
-Reindeer Section, "Where I Fall"
posted by purplefishy 3:31 PM  
 
1 Comments:
  • At 5:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I'm sorry 2006 was a sad year...I kind of feel the same way. I hope 2007 brings much more cheer your way!

     
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