39 Questions on 2007

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Traveled to Darwin and lived there for three months. Traveled to Norway (yay for the Arctic Circle), Belgium, Germany and Spain. Had the chicken pox (and as a result had my first doctor's appointment in French). Called a dance show. Baked pound cake, lebkuchen and vast quantities of shortbread. Went dog sledding, tobogganing and horse sleigh riding under the Northern Lights. What a year of firsts!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I think I achieved same same, but different however the three ball juggling still needs practice.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I'm aware of or recall.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully no.

5. What countries did you visit?
France, England, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Singapore, Qatar.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

Direction.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
2nd Feb - Gene & I celebrated our 5th anniversary in St Flour and Nick gave us the most beautiful gift of a script.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Starting to make life decisions and learning (still learning) to life with the repercussions.

9. What was your biggest failure?
not working hard enough on my relationship

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Chicken pox, minor joint damage to my left shoulder and a rather nasty case of tonsillitis. All in all a good year...

11. What was the best thing you bought in 2007?
my laptop!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My parents for both taking the news that Mum has pancreatic cancer in their stride. For their strength and determination and solidarity through the treatment so far and for the serenity that they seem to have found in this difficult time. I applaud them and hope that one day I will find a similar serenity in the face of challenge.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Probably my own but that's more depressed than appalled.

14. Did you do to any weddings?
nope.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Cookies! Armed with 500 Cookies and the internet the baked goods world is my oyster. On a more serious note, hearing that Mum's cancer seems to be gone.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Intermission by The Scissor Sisters

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
---happier or sadder? sadder
---thinner or heavier? *sigh* thinner
---richer or poorer? poorer financially, richer in life experience

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
reading, knitting/crochet, baking

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
being unproductive

20. How did you spend Christmas?
Eve was spent singing carols in the dark to entertain Mum (we had a black out) and handing out cookies to people in the court we live in. Day was spent partially at Grubby's and at home cooking roast for my folks.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
no

22. Were you rejected by anyone?
no

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Had a big Gilmore Girls thing going mid year but seem to have taken a real shine to Grand Designs. Oh and the Green Wing ("She's your schmoo too!", classic...)

24. Do you dislike anyone now that you didn't dislike this time last year?
nope

25. What was the best book you read?
Close call between His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie (comics count as books in my library) and The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Oedo Sukeroku Taiko

27. What did you want and got?
many things with many outcomes

28. What did you want and did not get?
the location of a missing box of my favourite books from when my folks moved about 5 years ago!

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
Honestly didn't see much film this year so I don't feel I can answer this one!

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Mourned the loss of Percy the pinata, spent the day with Gene & my folks before dinner at my favourite Japanese restaurant to celebrate both my birthday and my family's 21 years of being in Australia before catching up with my ever wonderful friends at the Bystander Bar for Comedy at Trades. I'm still 24.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
it would take more than one thing (yes I want to eat the damn cake too)

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
fashion concept you say...? umm same as last year although possible more summer oriented given the three months in Darwin. Still largely black though.

33. What kept you sane?
My ever patient friends and family.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I'm still happy to watch Johnny Depp, Clive Owen and Cillian Murphy at this point but to be honest I haven't really followed the celebrities much this year either.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
probably the abortion debate although I acknowledge that climate change is a rather important issue too.

36. Who did you miss?
no one in particular, I've managed to keep in touch with quite a few people even if it hasn't been face to face.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
I can't pick! The team I worked with up in Darwin and most of the people I worked with the the last half of the year are all pretty amazing.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
See below.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
... getting your dreams it's strange, but it seems a little - well - complicated. There's a kind of a sort of cost. There's a couple of things get lost. There are bridges you cross you didn't know you crossed until you've crossed. And if that joy, that thrill, doesn't thrill you like you think it will. Still... Who wouldn't be happier? So I couldn't be happier, because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true. Well, isn't it?