2004 Meme

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Swiped from luvboromir24601.

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Worked in retail.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I doubt I did. even though, I made some this year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
None.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
More money would be nice. That failing, a better relationship with the MU and a little more sanity in my life.

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
*blinkblink* Maybe July 22. But only because it was my 18th birthday.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into college.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not really sure. Maybe the constant self-centeredness that existed no matter how hard I tried to get out of it.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No injury, but there was a long time involving depression. Which is still around, though not as bad.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Not really sure.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My dad.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Though more embarrassing then appalling and depressing, my mother.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Probably music/movies and school related things.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting into the University of Arizona

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
*blinkblink* Maybe Corner of the Sky from Pippin. Despite the fact that it's rather melodramatic and such, but 2004 was, for me, a year of finding out what was going on. 2005 looks to be too.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? About the same
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner (though that's just barely)
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Spent more time with Thoroughbred Sale Results.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Shutting myself off from people.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
At my dad's. MU showed up for a bit, and then dinner at my grandmothers.

21. How did you spend New Year's?
At mom's. Quietly.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
*laughs* No.

23. How many one-night stands?
*laughs even harder* As if... None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Roseanne

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Don't think so.

26. What was the best book you read?
There were so many... So I'll just say Jane Yolen's Books of Great Alta (Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna)

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Not really sure. Techno/Trance or Death Cab for Cutie.

28. What did you want and get?
To get into the University of Arizona.

29. What did you want and not get?
Not really sure.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Seeing as I barely saw anything... Hero probably.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I worked. It was my 18th birthday.

32. What one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I had more money,

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Button-down shirts. Wow. They really changed me. :D

34. What kept you sane?
My dad.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Johnny Depp. I seemed to see a large amount of his movies in the past year. Or Hugh Grant.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Iraq War

37. Who did you miss?
My shrink, Ginny. Life would probably have been a bit better if I saw her more.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Tom.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
That maybe my dad is right when he's constantly telling me to take deep breaths to calm down.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer. / Well it feels pretty soft to me. / And if it takes shit to make bliss, / then I feel pretty blissfully.