It’s that time of year again!
Time for Linda’s annual year-end wrap up. I’ve played along for the last three years because this time of year I find myself struggling to come up with things to post about. Please, feel free to join in the fun. All the cool kids are doing it.
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
I had a kid. And quit my job. And started working from home since The Workplace didn’t want me to quit. I also bought a minivan, aka: The Pimpmobile.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No and no. I’m done with resolutions. There are things that I’m going to do this year, BIG THINGS, but there are no cheesy resolutions about these things. I’m just doing them. Oh, don’t get all huffy. I’m totally going to tell you about them, just not right now.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My good friend Diane had a baby boy in July.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully, no.
5. What countries did you visit?
Does Cleveland count? Three days in a car with a four month old has to be worth something.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Self-control
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 17 - Maddie’s birthday and pretty self-explanatory, no?
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Deciding to stay home and take care of Maddie full time.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Weight loss
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got really sick right after Maddie was born. Other than that, no.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My van. I was very anti-mini-van before we got it. Now, I can’t imagine life without it.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Mine. I turned out to be better at this motherhood thing than I thought I was going to be.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Again, mine. I don’t always bring my A game.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Target
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Poop, teeth, smiles, giggles, clapping, rolling, crawling, talking and walking.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Why Does The Sun Shine, by They Might Be Giants.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
b) thinner or fatter?
c) richer or poorer?
a - Happier, b - thinner, c - richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Sleep
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Cry
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With family.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Yes, yes I did.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Dr Who or Torchwood
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.
24. What was the best book you read?
The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Lily Allen and Mark Ronson
26. What did you want and get?
A Dyson
27. What did you want and not get?
About a million things.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Blades of Glory
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 31 and we went out to dinner. It was a disappointing birthday.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More money? I mean, come on, how do I answer this one?
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
“Fat and comfortable.”
32. What kept you sane?
My blog.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Johnny Depp
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Mandatory HPV vaccinations for young girls in Texas.
35. Who did you miss?
My mommy
36. Who was the best new person you met?
CHEESE ALERT!! My daughter. She’s awesome!
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
I learned to sacrifice for my kid. I also learned that I don’t really mind it at all.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.”
When Dan and I flew back east for his family reunion thing, we ended up just crashing in our hotel room the first night, exhausted from the flight. The hotel TV had “Blades of Glory” available to buy so we thought, what the hell, it’s a suitable cheesy flick for our tired minds/bodies. To our surprise and delight, it was VERY funny and we roared with laughter. Dan was even more surprised than I was, since that is NOT a movie he would have ever picked to watch on his own.
And I’ll have to check out the Twilight Series; always looking for something good and since we both love Doctor Who, maybe I’ll like that too!
My lyrics are from “Stand” by REM:
“Stand in the place where you live, now face north
Think about direction, wonder why you haven’t before
Now stand in the place where you work, now face west
Think about the place where you live, wonder why you haven’t before
If you are confused check with the sun
Carry a compass to help you along
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around”
So it doesn’t make sense, SO WHAT!?
Neither does Life Itself much of the time, am I right? YEAH! *laughs*
Happy New Year Erica!
Well, now I’m dying to know about these BIG THINGS.
Happier, thinner, and richer, sounds like a great year!
Happy New Year!
Amen to #34. Do you mind sharing what kind of minivan you have? Only because my husband is really, really against one and I find it my duty to point out successful minivan stories to him.
Tomika - It’a Kia Sedona. I got it in October and I can’t tell you how much I love it. When my husband and I were talking about a new car, he suggested a minivan and I almost had a coronary. I’m waaaay too cool for a minivan! I’m not a SOCCER MOM!
But, once I had time to get used to the idea, it wasn’t nearly as repulsive. And then I test drove it and fell in love. We’re road trippers, and the room it gives us is well worth the hit my street cred takes for driving it.
Tessie - Patience, Grasshoppah. I want to just blurt it all out, but then I’ll be out of post ideas again. I need all I can get!
Amber - I was pleasantly surprised with Blades of Glory, too. I hated Napoleon Dynomite, so I was prejudiced against John Heder from the beginning. But he totally won my heart in Blades. And Will Ferrell makes me laugh in every movie I see him in.
The Twilight Series is actually for young adults, but I bought them anyway. I read all three books in two days. I could not put them down. I’m sure I neglected my child in favor of reading them on more than one occasion. *ahem*
Happy New Year to you, too!