A year-end wrap up, stolen from Linda…
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Launched a website, downhill skied, pierced my tongue, lifted weights like I was serious about it, gave up my car
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I haven’t the foggiest idea what they were last year, but I think I kept them. All.
For 2010, I pledge to make time for my husband, (continue to) eat clean most of the time, keep in touch with family, practice a little balance, take more photos and drink wine (I should lake sure there’s a guaranteed winner on here somewhere)
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes, a few friends did; Kirsten, Erin, Kylie…
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes, our 14 year old cat.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada? Not big news as I live here. Man. The sick cat REALLY curbed all the vacation plans.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Balance. I worked like a rabid squirrel, then collapsed, then repeated, over and over again.
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 1 – 2008 was finally, mercifully over.
Nov 14th – the day the cat passed on…we’re still reeling a little.
Dec 31 – the day it all felt like it was going to get really freaking great.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Launching my coaching practice and finally knowing my purpose in this world.
9. What was your biggest failure?
None. Lots of great learning experiences, not real failures.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A crazy throat infection threatened my life in August. It was touch and go for a few hours there. Or maybe it was just the fever…
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My iPhone. Haven’t looked back since. Also my yoga towel that fits my mat perfectly.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Our basset hound’s – he is a delightful little guy now, and he almost never gets into the garbage.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Either one of the Gosselins. It was like watching a van with 8 un-restrained children in it repeatedly involved in a head on collision.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Groceries, yoga, surgery for the cat.
15. What did you get really excited about?
My new coaching practice, the new season of Mad Men.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Crack the Shutters, by Snow Patrol. Makes me think of Man.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
– happier or sadder? WAY happier. No comparison.
– thinner or fatter? Thinner, and a bit more muscley
– richer or poorer? Richer, in about 200 different ways.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Vacation, lie on the beach, read books, cooking
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Working till all hours, not having any sort of balance for my passions
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Quietly, at home, with Man and the basset hound.
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Yes, with Man. It was lovely to reconnect with him and realize again how fabulous he is.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
As in, one? Impossible: Mad Men, Big Love, Life After People
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don’t really Hate anyone.
24. What was the best book you read
The Renaissance Soul
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Yeah, because I regularly prowl nightclubs after dark to bring new and emerging artists into the limelight…I have no idea.
26. What did you want and get?
Excitement, time with friends, lots of mini-breaks
27. What did you want and not get?
A vacation to somewhere hot. A vacation, period.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Division 9
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 34 and we spent it in Smithers, skiing and visiting
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not more money, necessarily, but to have been able to worry less about it
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
I-watch-What-Not-To-Wear meets Look-My-Clothes-Fit-Again
32. What kept you sane?
Puppy joy, Man, friends, regular dates with both.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Tosca Reno
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
I try not to have opinions about these things.
35. Who did you miss?
George, Mrs. B and her group, Jack and Anna, Colin Firth.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Connor Brodie
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
You can reinvent yourself every day. You can dream big. You cannot get more awake by drinking more coffee; you need to sleep.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
There’s always going to be another mountain
I’m always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody’s gonna have to lose
Ain’t about how fast I get there
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side
It’s the climb, yeah!
-Mylie Cyrus (I know…shut up)
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