now i know i said i would be back after the new year, but this little year-end meme from ejshea has brought me out a little early. let's just say i've been in a reflective mood lately.
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? taken an entire week off of work for a vacation. and it very well might have been the best vacation of all time.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i didn’t really make a resolution for 2007, as i claim to not be in the habit of doing such things. but my moods, they are mercurial. so, my resolutions for 2008 are as follows:
- start approaching life as something to be experienced, not just survived
- cook more
- run a five-mile race
- get over myself, in general
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? um…no? my cousin had a baby, and my other cousin’s wife had her third baby - but that might have been in 2006. i’ve been out of new england a long time…
4. Did anyone close to you die? no.
5. What places did you visit? i went to the eastern shore – see aforementioned “best vacation ever” mention. i went home, twice – once to escape the heat of august and celebrate our birthdays, and then for christmas. i went to shenandoah national park for the first time, and it was even more enjoyable than i thought it would be.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? some more perspective. or, to put a finer point on it, some mo’ better perspective.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? there are no dates, in particular, actually. and i consider that a good thing. usually, if you can remember the date, it’s because something traumatic happened.
8. What was your biggest achievement(s) of the year? landing my job. probably one of the most exciting moments of my life thus far was answering the phone that day and hearing them make the offer.
9. What was your biggest failure? i don’t think i set any goals that i then failed to achieve. i mean, major things – if i had to count the number of times i should’ve done laundry/cleaned the living room/gone to the gym/written the great american novel and didn’t, well…
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? again, nothing major. i did puke that one time, two days before my 5K – that really sucked. i never puke.
11. What was the best thing you bought? a grey sweater with a huge cowlneck from H&M. i am sort of in love with it. “1234” by Feist from iTunes. i am really in love with it.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? MomCat. she is not celebrated nearly enough.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? someone get me a staff directory for the department of justice – that should cover it.
14. Where did most of your money go? rent. goddamn east coast. and then savings, student loans, and food. we buy lots and lots of food.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? again, my job. the whole process was long and draining – six weeks! four interviews! – and when it finally fell into place, the combination of relief and sheer elation is hard to describe. and then when BoyCat got a new job in October, i got to vicariously experience it all over again! so it was a good year on the career front, for sure.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? “1234.” namely because i’m fucking obsessed with it.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier.
b) thinner or fatter? i’ll choose door number three, “treading water.”
c) richer or poorer? richer. two raises between the two of us helped in that regard.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? the first thing that comes into my head is writing. i always seem to wish i’d done more writing. i think i could crank out the seven harry potter novels in 12 months and still have the same answer to this question. of course, this points to my own unrealistic goals/mental problems more than anything else.
[ed. note - i just realized there's no question number 19. how odd.]
20. How did you spend Christmas last year? in MA, with the fam. wouldn't be anywhere else.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007? fall in love? no. wake up every day still in love? yes.
22. How many one-night stands? zero. naturally.
23. What was your favorite TV program? Ugly Betty! got hooked during a marathon on january 1, 2007, actually.
24. What did you do for your birthday in 2007? fled DC. drank copious amounts of “mr. pibb” (don’t ask). floated in the pool.
25. What was the best book you read? The Secret Life of Bees.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? please refer to every musical mention in this meme so far.
27. What did you want and get? a job. a raise. a haircut. new glasses.
28. What did you want and not get? a friend making the time. a burrito from bueno. a flat-screen tv, because who am I kidding, we don’t fucking need one.
29. What was your favorite film of this year? i have to say, The Bourne Ultimatum was a lot of fun to watch in the theater. that Matt Damon – well.
30. Did you make some new friends this year? yes, definitely. which is a great thing, and is one of the reasons i’d say that i was happier this year than the one before.
31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? “immeasurably”? winning the lottery. not much else could fall into that category!
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? ha. absent. but i’m working on it. it’s part of my whole “get some fucking perspective, woman” plan for 2008!
33. What kept you sane? BoyCat. CatCat. my family. box of wine. the gym.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? CatCat. wait, she’s not technically a public figure? ok, then i have to admit that i find the Seal/Heidi Klum family to be freaking adorable. don’t you just want to hug them all?
35. What political issue stirred you the most? i was so stirred by so many goddamn political issues, i may as well be a soup. and while i am chomping at the bit for a democratic nominee and i welcome the 2008 fight with the republicans, i just can’t wait for someone to cast a vote already. i'm sick of this primary bullshit.
36. Who did you miss? my family. i know, broken record, but seriously – i did. and i do, a lot.
37. Who was the best new person you met? the best?? whoa. i will say the person who makes the fried plantains at the banana café brunch. ok, we haven’t actually met, but he or she is high on my list of Totally Awesome People.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. get to the crux of it. or at least, start trying to.
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OK, so I'd always liked "The iPod commercial song with the woman in the blue dress" - as I refer to 1234 - but I'd never bothered to find out who sung it and download it. This post was just I needed to nudge me. Love it. Now, tell me honestly: Is the rest of the album as good?
Oh, btw, thanks for tagging me with this. (ahem)
you're the best kate. this is a great list. i'm home, alone, on new year's, eating a fairly indifferent fake stir-fry and moping, but this posting made me feel better. you and boycat are two of my favorite new(ish) people of 2007. thanks for being so fastasmic.
hugs. and happy new year. erin
ps thanks for introducing me to lolcats. seriously. they've gotten me through dark times.
omg toast, i was totally only going to tag you because you always want me to tag you, and then the mister needed to use the computer to check on something for work, and i forgot! argh!
and erin, we are here on our own doing nothing, and one of us is sick. and it's not me. party hardy! :) and hopefully we will continue to be one of each other's favorite old(ish) people in 2008!
oh and toast, BoyCat got me the album for christmas but i haven't moved it onto iTunes yet. but everything i hear is good.
Alright, so on a whim I downloaded the rest of that Feist album. On the whole, it's pretty good, but I must say she did kinda pull a Smashmouth: The song from the iPod commercial is nothing like anything else on the album. Seriously, albums should carry warning labels when that's the case...
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