Year in review meme
Dec. 28th, 2005 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beige_alertGackked from the various Germans:
1.What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
I held a crying month-old baby, and smiled at her anyway
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Not much for resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister-in-law, to Heidi, the above-mentioned screaming infant
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
I haven’t been out of the United States in years, alas.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
More opportunity to travel
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I don’t tend to remember specific dates.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Actually talking to people at OVFF, meeting some of filkers through Livejournal, and most of all meeting my German friends, who don’t even think of me as shy.
9. What was your biggest failure?
No major screw-ups this year, fortunately.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
11. What was the best thing you bought?
iPod Nano. It’s amazing how all the small refinements make it so much better than the seemingly functionally similar generic MP3 player I had before.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Joyce, who continues to love me :)
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Personally? No one. In the larger world? Just about everyone in my government.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Well, to rent, actually, but among the more fun and variable expenses, the various cons and the week at Oshkosh.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
OVFF
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aryana_filker‘s The Willow, for I met her through that song.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Camping
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Driving
20. How will you be spending New Year’s?
At the Milwaukee fannish New Year’s party at Lytheria, seeing friends and filking.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Not with anyone new, no.
23. How many one night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
Hard to pick. Maybe Jared Diamond’s Collapse.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That even really simple finger picking on the guitar can sound really good.
28. What did you want and get?
Hugs!
29. What did you want and not get?
Sanity from people in power
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I watch so few!
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 33, and Joyce and I went out to eat.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Time to travel together with Joyce.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Is this practical for long-distance bicycling?
34. What kept you sane?
friends
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None come to mind.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
We have so many to choose from in the USA!
37. Who did you miss?
barbarakitten_t, who lives so far away and didn’t get to the usual conventions this year.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
aryana_filker, for sure.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Filkers are friendly. Meeting people is less terrifying that it sounds.
40. How would you sum up 2005?
Happy!
1.What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
I held a crying month-old baby, and smiled at her anyway
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Not much for resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister-in-law, to Heidi, the above-mentioned screaming infant
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
I haven’t been out of the United States in years, alas.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
More opportunity to travel
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I don’t tend to remember specific dates.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Actually talking to people at OVFF, meeting some of filkers through Livejournal, and most of all meeting my German friends, who don’t even think of me as shy.
9. What was your biggest failure?
No major screw-ups this year, fortunately.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
11. What was the best thing you bought?
iPod Nano. It’s amazing how all the small refinements make it so much better than the seemingly functionally similar generic MP3 player I had before.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Joyce, who continues to love me :)
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Personally? No one. In the larger world? Just about everyone in my government.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Well, to rent, actually, but among the more fun and variable expenses, the various cons and the week at Oshkosh.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
OVFF
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
aryana_filker‘s The Willow, for I met her through that song.17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Camping
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Driving
20. How will you be spending New Year’s?
At the Milwaukee fannish New Year’s party at Lytheria, seeing friends and filking.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Not with anyone new, no.
23. How many one night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
Hard to pick. Maybe Jared Diamond’s Collapse.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That even really simple finger picking on the guitar can sound really good.
28. What did you want and get?
Hugs!
29. What did you want and not get?
Sanity from people in power
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I watch so few!
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 33, and Joyce and I went out to eat.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Time to travel together with Joyce.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Is this practical for long-distance bicycling?
34. What kept you sane?
friends
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None come to mind.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
We have so many to choose from in the USA!
37. Who did you miss?
barbarakitten_t, who lives so far away and didn’t get to the usual conventions this year.38. Who was the best new person you met?
aryana_filker, for sure.39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Filkers are friendly. Meeting people is less terrifying that it sounds.
40. How would you sum up 2005?
Happy!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-12-28 11:58 pm (UTC)Filkers are friends, no food! *giggle*
no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 03:49 am (UTC)Astounding, isn't it? I was very surprised to find that out, too! ;)
And: Filkers don't bite. Usually. Unless it's the full moon... ah, no, stop,different story... ;D
no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 10:59 pm (UTC)*cloaks herself in mysterious silence*
no subject
Date: 2005-12-29 07:13 am (UTC)