I wanna be the one you can hold down

I’m bored and boring, and my friend has this meme, so here I am!

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
2008 was pretty typical for me. No milestone was reached, to be perfectly honest.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make one since improvement should be made every day. I did make an unofficial one: watch my diet and exercise more.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes, my sister-in-law gave birth to the prettiest baby girl in the world.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
None.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A college freakin’ degree. Christ, I’m tired with it all.

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The road trip to Cali a few weeks ago. My birthday trip back to Cali in September.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
“Seven Sins of the Sisters.”

9. What was your biggest failure?
2008 was one big year of fail.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope. *knocks on wood*

11. What was the best thing you bought?
The used books. My bookshelf doubled and for cheap!

12. Where did most of your money go?
Bills. *le sigh*

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Doctor Who and the albums that came out: The Killers, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, etc.

14. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder: fairly more happier.
b) thinner or fatter: about the same. I need to shock my metabolism.
c) richer or poorer: poorer.

15. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Nothing. I have no regrets in that department.

16. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spend money.

17. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Christmas working, holiday pay and all.

18. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I wish.

19. How many one-night stands?
Ha. None.

20. What was your favorite TV program?
I rediscovered my love for NCIS.

21. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope. No one’s pissed me off too much.

22. What was the best book you read?
Hard to say, hmm. I was too burned out from required reading and work to read casually.

23. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Crystal Castles and Forever the Sickest Kids.

24. What did you want and get?
I didn’t get anything I wanted, but that makes me sound ungrateful.

25. What did you want and not get?
A new bookshelf.

26. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight. Doy.

27. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went back to Cali, and I turned 25.

28. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Going to San Diego.

29. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
A soul-sucking brown uniform.

30. What kept you sane?
Writing.

31. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Ben Barnes. Butch Walker.

32. What political issue stirred you the most?
Obviously, Prop 8 in Cali, even though I didn’t vote here and can’t vote in Cali.

33. Who did you miss?
My mom, even though she’s been here for a few weeks.

34. Who was the best new person you met?
No one special.

35. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
We are raising a generation of dancers.

36. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“This is how it begins/With a smile/Give an inch/Take a mile/Then again/What’s another little sin?”