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December 25 2008 Synopsis1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? 2. Did anyone close to you give birth? 3. Did anyone close to you die? 4. What countries did you visit? 5. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? 6. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? 7. What was your biggest achievement of the year? 8. What was your biggest failure? Nothing is ever truly a failure. It is more like a trial run for the real thing. 9. Did you suffer illness or injury? A Cold in November and that is about it. 10. What was the best thing you bought? I can't think of anything 11. Where did most of your money go? House 12. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Laird 13. What song(s) will always remind you of 2008? "The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson
i. Happier or sadder? Happier, love does wonders ii. Lighter or Heavier? Heavier but back on Weight Watchers I go iii. richer or poorer? The same. I have money in the bank but my house has lost a bit of value as many people would say 15. What do you wish you’d done more of? Can't think of anything, maybe scrapbooking and writing. 16. What do you wish you’d done less of? Nothing 17. How will you be spending Christmas? I will be spending it with my parents and brother and grandmother at their home. 18. What was your favorite TV program? 24, Numbers, CSI, Samantha Who, AMW, Cold Case, Heroes, there is so much I rush home for nowadays. 19. What was the best book you read? I re read some childhood favorites of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. 20. What was your greatest musical discovery? Not I can think of. 21. What did you want and get? I wanted to pass my Science Class, go to Las Vegas, be successful at my job, and I feel I did all of this! 22. What was your favorite film of this year? I really liked Sex and The City, Juno, Indiana Jones, X Files, Atonement, Burn After Reading, Iron Man! 23. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 34 and my friends tried to take me to the Ingrid Michaelson the Friday before. However, it was sold out. On the actual day, I spent the day working in my pajamas . 24. What kept you sane? Working. Constantly working, the peace of my home, and Laird. 25. What made you crazy? School 26. Where did you ring in 2008? At home, single, sick and in bed. 27. What was your status by Valentine’s Day? Presenting in my PE class. 28. Were you in school (anytime this year)? Working in one and taking classes at another. 29. How did you earn your keep? The two jobs, Target and Registrar. 12 years at Target and 7 years at Westwood.
Not once. Knock on Wood.
31. Did you encounter the police? Other than at work, not that I recall 32. Where did you go on vacation? I went to Cabo San Lucas with Sonya in April. Then Las Vegas with Tracey, Meghann and Beth. These trips were fun. 33. What did you purchase that was over $500? No major purchases this year. 34. Did you know anybody who got married? I went to the wedding of a co-workers in June 35. Have you run into anybody you graduated high school with? All the time. 36. Did you move anywhere? No. I am pretty stationary. 37. What sporting events did you go to? Other than my niece's soccer games, no sporting events were on my calendar 38. What concerts did you go to? I won tickets to Santana through KBCO's Select-A-Set Weekend in September. Counting Crows were here the following weekend with Augustana and Marroon 5. I almost saw Ingrid Michaelson if the tickets had not sold out a half hour earlier. One of the more impressive concerts though was my niece's school choir concert at the local high school. 39. Are you registered to vote? Of course
40.) If so, did you do your patriotic duty in Nov? Hell Yes! 41. Where do you live now? My house, mine all mine (and my brother's and the mortgage company's)
42. What’s the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2008? Sang Karaoke 43. What is one thing you regretted this year? Je ne rien regret ( I have no regrets) 44. What’s something you learned about yourself? My heart could open up agai, full and wide 45. Any new additions to your family? None 46. What was your best month? All of them. 47. What from pop culture will you remember 2008 by? DNC-Wondering around Downtown with old friends in the great sense of energy. September 10 If elephants can miss members of their pack, why can't dogs?
He has been gone for 11 years and I still miss him. I wish I could sit next to him but this is as close as I can get... July 07 Why Paris?A friend asked me where my fascination with French culture and, most importantly Paris, comes from. I could not give her a definitive answer. I can not trace it to an one moment in my life. What I believe is this grew from is a sum of experiences that led up to the greatest vacation I have ever took! I remember seeing Chanel commercials as a young child., so graceful and sexy though I probably would not have said so at the time. I remember seeing the Red Balloon in first grade. The story was simple but, the landscape is what really got me with the grey streets punctuated with color. The interest grew in my favorite movies with lines like, "We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night" or And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes. I remember seeing Audrey Hepburn striding through Fashion Central, Cooking School, and Intrigue on Saturday night movies on PBS and thought, "this is for me". I saw images of the sites on the news, on television, and in movies over the years. I learned about the culture and the history of the country. When it came to junior high and choosing a language to study, my choice was obvious (although not practical) was French. While girls had posters of the latest heartthrobs on their wall, I had one shot of the Eiffel Tower at dusk, glowing against the violet sky. In high school, I was in French club although a language class would not fit into my class schedule. I would have studied abroad in Paris if I didn't have a nervous mother. I had hoped to go on my honeymoon but such was not the case. It was easy to see what I wanted, it was harder to make it happen. When things turned for me, I pulled money together, little by little, and saved for my passport and two days in Paris. |
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