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This year
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Listen, and enjoyed, Tori Amos.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any resolutions last year. But I have made a few for this year.

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

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes

5. What countries did you visit?
Does Iowa count? Otherwise, no.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Love

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 3rd, 8:48AM when I awoke to find that Bush had been declared reelected.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Deciding it was time to get rid of excess baggage, and doing a lot of that.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Playing no-no naughties in the thing

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
*points to BK head wound*

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Erm...Any of my clothes.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Lots of my friends have suprised me.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
*ehem* a person in the thing

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My new car, Dr. Henry, and setting foot on a new path. Wow...I'm getting all "Rainman".

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?!
"Mother" by Tori Amos
The Loveboat Theme
"Going West" by Annie Lenox
Anything off American Idiot

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter.
iii. richer or poorer? much poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Reading for pleasure, spending time with friends, and working out.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying, ranting, and wishing people would change.


20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Spent it at home and with the steps.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Nah

23. How many one-night stands?
Erm...three or four.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Real Ghilligan's Island

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Suprisingly, no.

26. What was the best book you read?
DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Norah Jones

28. What did you want and get?
A new car

29. What did you want and not get?
self-assurance

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

"How happy is the blameless vessel's lot / The world forgetting by the world forgot"

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to class and then my friends threw me a suprise party...turned 20.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
knowing that everything will turn out okay

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
work in progress

34. What kept you sane?
music and fanfiction

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
uh, none

36.what political issue stirred you the most?
take your pick

37. Who did you miss?
friends long gone, my family

38. Who was the best new person you met?
didn't really meet anyone new

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
chill out, relax, and don't take things so personally. also, things and people are rarely what they seem.