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Wait, what? When did we start a new year?
This is kinda late, but it seems to be going around. Maybe Morri's fault? Even though he hasn't posted it on the rl journal. I am brainless right now because I started effing bleeding yesterday evening and then I went and left the good painkillers at work. I realized this wwhen I woke up in agony at three am. Bleh.
Posting brainlessly before work. Because.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Handled a whole lot more bugs? Uhhh...Oh! Drove. Had a liscence and drove and stuff. I am now coming up on the one-year anniversary of that.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't generally make them anymore, except in a vague sense. I think it was to get a decent job and if it was then yes, I have.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes! Heidi, our puppeteer friend, had a baby at home at the very end of November. Her name is Iris Tegwyn and I went over specifically to see her when she was a week old. I usually don't go to see babies because they were spooky, but it's Heidi's so... yeah. Okay. I was in awe of how tiny it was. I am recently in awe of how miraculous it is that a thing that tiny evolves into us. Bridgie says maybe that's my biological clock going off. My biological clock is broken, but we already knew that. I still do not want babies or children of any kind ever. My gods they are the spooky.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
...No. Not in 2006. It bothers me I had to think.
5. What countries did you visit?
Just the usual one that I always live in. ;P I need to travel outside the U.S. desperately.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
A sense of accomplishment.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Hunh. I think anyone who believes a specific date is going to stand out for them every damn year is shitting themselves. When I am 80 I will remember Sept. 11, and the day Whatcom creek caught on fire, but there's really only a handful of actual dates our minds hold onto in the end.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
The work I've done with Heidi.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Continuing to not send my distant relatives letters? I don't know...
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I don't think so? No more than the occasional allergy attacks and colds.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I'm really not sure. Christmas presents because they made other people happy?
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
This is a slightly weird question. I dunno. I think the people I'm close to always merit celebration but it's not really for any specific acts, just for generally being cool and wonderful.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The majority of the voting population of Virginia. WTF? Are you so desperate to ban gay marriage that you are willing to screw over a boatload of heterosexual people along with us?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Oh man... I ask that all the time. Food mostly, general daily things that eat away at your account when you're not really thinking about it.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I am going to be performing in a puppet show this spring, traveling around to DC etc. I'll also be eventually illustrating a children's book. Both of these come from Heidi Rugg (barefootpuppets.com), and the children's book thing is a little on hold right now, with the whole 'just had a baby' thing.
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Demon Days and the entire album from Gorillaz, just because this was the year I got introduced to/hooked on them.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
I think I'm happier, overall.
ii. thinner or fatter?
Uhhh... maybe slightly fatter? Because that happens. I still wear really old clothes though so...
iii. richer or poorer?
Most definitely richer. This time last year I was jobless.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Art.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Nothing. I don't mean there's nothing that I wish I'd done less of, I mean I wish I'd spent less time sitting around doing nothing.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
At home and then at G-Bridgie's parents, opening presents and eating and watching movies. I called my own parents and wished them well. It was a nice Christmas.
21. If you could relive one thing in 2006 so that you could have acted differently, what would that be?
I really don't know. That's the kind of thing you wish on a handful of stupid little occasions that you've forgotten a week later.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
All over again? Um. Sure. I have been steadily and wonderfully in love for years.
23. How many one night stands?
We don't have a night stand, just bookshelves.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Red Dwarf on DVD and all the Doctor Who tapes I snagged when the videostore sold their VHS collection.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope, still hated my last boss last year, which would be why I quit. I don't hate many people.
26. What was the best book you read?
Thud! by terry Pratchett, because when I came across it I had no idea it existed, and just about exploded with excitement.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The MP3 player my parents got me. ;)
28. What did you want and get?
The art of Discworld book, for Christmas. More significantly, a job in puppeteering, albeit a temporary stint.
29. What did you want and not get?
New frigging boots. I am still on a quest for these. I have the money but finding what I need is harder than you'd think.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Of this year as in made this year? Beats me. We did see Lady in the Water on DVD recently, and were sorry we waited so long to see it. I need to buy that now.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I honestly can't remember what I did on the birthday itself, it has a habit of falling midweek. We went to the Highland Games and stuff later. I was 28 which is a little awkwardly close to thirty... but I also know I have no grounds to complain.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Fifty million weird things that are unlikely to happen? Like being randomly hired by the Jim Henson company or winning a trip to Europe. It was a pretty satisfying year and I don't really feel I missed out.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
I wear clothes! Some of them are kind of old! I needed new boots for months! I would not know fashion if it bit me in the ass.
34. What kept you sane?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't generally go in for that, but I have an eternal admiration for Jim Henson. He brought so many wonderful things to the world with quiet humility.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Really, I think the voting this November in VA. I would like to say the ongoing war but I will honestly admit that it's just too big and tangled and has been going on too long for me to really comprehend. It's just a huge overwhelming and convoluted mess that I think most people feel only a vague sense of misery over and wish would just end peacefully. We also know that it probably won't, because anything that drags on this long has it's own kind of momentum to continue doing so.
37. Who did you miss?
Gabe and Alex, always, because they need to move out to wherever I am. My grandfather, even though I never really knew him.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Plenty of people online, who are coolness. *waves* My current co-workers. I knew my boss before that.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
I relearned a hard one, that sometimes really good things do come at you out of the blue, or seemingly out of the blue but connected with a slow constant and sometimes seemingly pointless effort towards them.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I'm going down to cow town, the cow's a friend to me.
It lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be,
beneath the waves, the waves, and that's where I will be.
I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea.
My life never gets any less random, and I'm just fine with that.
Heading off to work. The boss hired a new chick last night, someone who's been a regular customer for a while and seems like a pretty cool chick. I'll be training her tomorrow night. Peace Out Dawgs or something.
Posting brainlessly before work. Because.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Handled a whole lot more bugs? Uhhh...Oh! Drove. Had a liscence and drove and stuff. I am now coming up on the one-year anniversary of that.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't generally make them anymore, except in a vague sense. I think it was to get a decent job and if it was then yes, I have.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes! Heidi, our puppeteer friend, had a baby at home at the very end of November. Her name is Iris Tegwyn and I went over specifically to see her when she was a week old. I usually don't go to see babies because they were spooky, but it's Heidi's so... yeah. Okay. I was in awe of how tiny it was. I am recently in awe of how miraculous it is that a thing that tiny evolves into us. Bridgie says maybe that's my biological clock going off. My biological clock is broken, but we already knew that. I still do not want babies or children of any kind ever. My gods they are the spooky.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
...No. Not in 2006. It bothers me I had to think.
5. What countries did you visit?
Just the usual one that I always live in. ;P I need to travel outside the U.S. desperately.
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
A sense of accomplishment.
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Hunh. I think anyone who believes a specific date is going to stand out for them every damn year is shitting themselves. When I am 80 I will remember Sept. 11, and the day Whatcom creek caught on fire, but there's really only a handful of actual dates our minds hold onto in the end.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
The work I've done with Heidi.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Continuing to not send my distant relatives letters? I don't know...
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I don't think so? No more than the occasional allergy attacks and colds.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I'm really not sure. Christmas presents because they made other people happy?
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
This is a slightly weird question. I dunno. I think the people I'm close to always merit celebration but it's not really for any specific acts, just for generally being cool and wonderful.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The majority of the voting population of Virginia. WTF? Are you so desperate to ban gay marriage that you are willing to screw over a boatload of heterosexual people along with us?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Oh man... I ask that all the time. Food mostly, general daily things that eat away at your account when you're not really thinking about it.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I am going to be performing in a puppet show this spring, traveling around to DC etc. I'll also be eventually illustrating a children's book. Both of these come from Heidi Rugg (barefootpuppets.com), and the children's book thing is a little on hold right now, with the whole 'just had a baby' thing.
16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Demon Days and the entire album from Gorillaz, just because this was the year I got introduced to/hooked on them.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
I think I'm happier, overall.
ii. thinner or fatter?
Uhhh... maybe slightly fatter? Because that happens. I still wear really old clothes though so...
iii. richer or poorer?
Most definitely richer. This time last year I was jobless.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Art.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Nothing. I don't mean there's nothing that I wish I'd done less of, I mean I wish I'd spent less time sitting around doing nothing.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
At home and then at G-Bridgie's parents, opening presents and eating and watching movies. I called my own parents and wished them well. It was a nice Christmas.
21. If you could relive one thing in 2006 so that you could have acted differently, what would that be?
I really don't know. That's the kind of thing you wish on a handful of stupid little occasions that you've forgotten a week later.
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
All over again? Um. Sure. I have been steadily and wonderfully in love for years.
23. How many one night stands?
We don't have a night stand, just bookshelves.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Red Dwarf on DVD and all the Doctor Who tapes I snagged when the videostore sold their VHS collection.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope, still hated my last boss last year, which would be why I quit. I don't hate many people.
26. What was the best book you read?
Thud! by terry Pratchett, because when I came across it I had no idea it existed, and just about exploded with excitement.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The MP3 player my parents got me. ;)
28. What did you want and get?
The art of Discworld book, for Christmas. More significantly, a job in puppeteering, albeit a temporary stint.
29. What did you want and not get?
New frigging boots. I am still on a quest for these. I have the money but finding what I need is harder than you'd think.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Of this year as in made this year? Beats me. We did see Lady in the Water on DVD recently, and were sorry we waited so long to see it. I need to buy that now.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I honestly can't remember what I did on the birthday itself, it has a habit of falling midweek. We went to the Highland Games and stuff later. I was 28 which is a little awkwardly close to thirty... but I also know I have no grounds to complain.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Fifty million weird things that are unlikely to happen? Like being randomly hired by the Jim Henson company or winning a trip to Europe. It was a pretty satisfying year and I don't really feel I missed out.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
I wear clothes! Some of them are kind of old! I needed new boots for months! I would not know fashion if it bit me in the ass.
34. What kept you sane?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't generally go in for that, but I have an eternal admiration for Jim Henson. He brought so many wonderful things to the world with quiet humility.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Really, I think the voting this November in VA. I would like to say the ongoing war but I will honestly admit that it's just too big and tangled and has been going on too long for me to really comprehend. It's just a huge overwhelming and convoluted mess that I think most people feel only a vague sense of misery over and wish would just end peacefully. We also know that it probably won't, because anything that drags on this long has it's own kind of momentum to continue doing so.
37. Who did you miss?
Gabe and Alex, always, because they need to move out to wherever I am. My grandfather, even though I never really knew him.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Plenty of people online, who are coolness. *waves* My current co-workers. I knew my boss before that.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
I relearned a hard one, that sometimes really good things do come at you out of the blue, or seemingly out of the blue but connected with a slow constant and sometimes seemingly pointless effort towards them.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I'm going down to cow town, the cow's a friend to me.
It lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be,
beneath the waves, the waves, and that's where I will be.
I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea.
My life never gets any less random, and I'm just fine with that.
Heading off to work. The boss hired a new chick last night, someone who's been a regular customer for a while and seems like a pretty cool chick. I'll be training her tomorrow night. Peace Out Dawgs or something.