meme stolen from natertots

[jianantonic]

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Ordered a drink at a bar. Yeah. Never did that before.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really do the resolution thing...

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not really close to me, but some family friends had babies.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes, several people. It's an occupational hazard as a bridge caddy.

5. What countries did you visit?
I didn't leave this one this year.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Peace of mind.

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
No specific dates from 2006 stand out this year.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
New job; sold my house; coming into my own as a bridge player; or just drinking at a bar - you choose.

9. What was your biggest failure?
my marriage, and to a point, my handling of its dissolution.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
pneumonia at the beginning of the year.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
my new condo - though I don't close until 2007.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Stealing Nate's answer here and saying the voters in America - especially those in VA!

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Virgil Goode.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage, getting my house ready to sell, various expenses associated with divorce.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Moving back to Cville

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2006?
Anything off the Drunk and Disorderly CD

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? tough call. happier, at the cost of great sadness, I guess.
b) thinner or fatter? thinner!
c) richer or poorer? richer, though, heh, that's not saying much.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
yoga, socializing

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

20. How did you spend Christmas?
same as always

21. How will you be spending New Years?
I'm not sure what it'll be like but I'll be in MN and more than likely completely out of my comfort zone.

22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
...

23. How many one-night stands?
0

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Scrubs

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

26. What was the best book you read?
A book about Options trading.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Eric Schwartz, Jim Boggia...it's a tossup.

28. What did you want and get?
a gym membership, a new job, a new place to live

29. What did you want and not get?
a better marriage, world peace.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Little Miss Sunshine

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 23, and I went to work, went to the gym (I think?), and ate a cheese sandwich while my parents ate the veal they'd cooked. Fun times.

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
That's impossible to say.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
It all revolves around the tights.

34. What kept you sane?
Ahren, Erin, Jay, and Jeremy F, and many many more of you to a lesser extent.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Zach Braff

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The marriage amendment

37. Who did you miss?
Jeremy.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Many of my coworkers could go here...

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Oh, something about my divorce, I guess...sad lessons, mostly.
And to play more bridge.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I wanna slide into the black and wear the black mask
I'm not getting what I lack but it doesn't hurt to ask
If I wanna sail I need my life to be breezier
Please God, or someone, make it easier"
~Indigo Girls