Come on, everyone is doing it

Damn surveys…I just feel so left out I need to do the Year 2004 Sum-up Survey…I know I know…I said I’d never resort to this!

Here goes nothing…

1.What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? I got a real job…a wear slacks and blouses everyday real job. I can do things alone now! I’m not quite to reliant on others. I pay all my own bills…Financial independence is a bitch and a blessing all at once.

2. Did you keep your new years resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I didn’t keep my resolution (to tone up and get my old body back) the entire year until October…then suddenly poof…mission accomplished. This year I want to simply live life to the fullest and live it for myself.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die? My granddaddy

5. What countries did you visit? England and Ireland with my family

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?I would like to have relationship stability. I want to make up my mind with no regrets and no looking back.

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?July 4th in Vegas with all my friends…from what I remember, it was the best time I have ever had. Fireworks over the Bellagio, good friends, amazing city…

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?Getting my own place, getting my career started, my journalism award of excellence

9. What was your biggest failure?Maybe finding out that I am a little too much like my cheating mother…

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?Nothing too bad

11. What was the best thing you bought?My ball python, Ballah. He’s my baby!

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?My little sister. She has handled my parent’s pending divorce with maturity and wisdom beyond her years.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? My friend Sarah’s. She has lost her identity to her boyfriend and is changing everything about herself out of love. It is disgusting!

14. Where did most of your money go?Rent…and I spend way too much $$$$ at Starbucks

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? My magazine articles, my new job

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?Unfortunately, the highly over-played, Let’s get Retarded…the anthem of my senior year

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:i. Happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? 15 pounds thinner!
iii. richer or poorer? Richer…but not by that much

18. What do you wish you`d done more of?Exercise more self-control. Kyle for example…the best and worst thing I have done for myself recently

19. What do you wish you`d done less of?Stress about the future…job, place to live, etc. Everything worked out just fine, not worth all that stress at all.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?Been there done that.

21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2004?I definitely chewed out a guy for grabbing my ass at the bar, when it was one of my friends who did it the entire time

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?Have you read my diary?

23. How many one-night stands?Just one, and what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

24. What was your favorite TV program? CSI and Desperate Housewives

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?My old restaurant manager…she is the devil!

26. What was the best book you read? I know it’s overdone, but The DaVinci Code

27. What did you want and get?Freedom from my parents with my own place

28. What did you want and not get?An easy solution to my man issue

29. What was your favorite film of this year? Shrek 2

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?I was 22 and I spent it in Daytona Beach Florida with all my best friends

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?My parents not being at each others throats all the time

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? Mostly a jeans girl, but always with a cute little top. Cute casual

33. What kept you sane? My best friends…who are always always there when I need them

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? ?Jake Gyllenhall

35. What political issue stirred you the most?That damn Dubya!

36. Who did you miss?Well now I miss my college friends who moved back home. But they are coming for New Year’s Eve!

37. Who was the best new person you met?My friend Colleen

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:Things tend to work out the way they are supposed to, regardless of the stress and worry you put into them. Live your life and let things fall into place. You aren’t making the wrong decision if it feels right.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn’t mean to do it
But there’s no escaping your love
These lines of lightning
Mean we’re never alone, Never alone, no, no

Come on, Come onMove a little closer
Come on, Come on I want to hear you whisper
Come on, Come on Settle down inside my love
Come on, come on Jump a little higher
Come on, come on If you feel a little lighter
Come on, come on We were once Upon a time in love

We’re accidentally in love
Accidentally in love” ~Counting Crows