Friends

2. Did you keep your New Year’s Resolutions, and will you make more for the new year?\
Let’s see, what did I resolve last year?

2. Continue taking Chinese courses and memorizing characters – failed

3. Increase my RRSP contributions – Half-kept

4. Buy only what I love. No more cheap shoes – will continue

5. Take pictures of memory items and then let them go – failed

6. Continue yoga and exercise at home at least 1x a week. Play more badminton. – failed at yoga. played badminton until I hurt my foot and then stopped.

7. Do the program at Blanche MacDonald. Fiscally, this may not be feasible, but I will aim for it anyway – carry over

New resolutions for the new year to come in a separate post.

7. What dates(s) from 2009 that will be etched in your memory and why?
March 1st, the day that J asked for the biggest commitment of my life to date

8. What was your biggest achievement this year?
Planning and executing a 3-week stint around Europe, stepping into the Coordinator role, and carrying over to next year, planning a massive (to me) wedding

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting into the grad program I had applied to. I was somewhat saddened at first, but got over it, and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I wouldn’t have done well at this point anyway, I don’t think.

10. Did you suffer from illness or injury?
Still hard at work staving off H1N1. Hurt my foot playing badminton and hobbled around not realizing that my leg had swollen to the size of a ham.

11. What was the best thing that you bought?
A flat-screen TV (well, technically J bought it) and a comfy small grey sectional. Oh, and a CAR. And a digital piano. I went all-out this year.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Ours, because we started volunteering with PADS. it’s been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done, and playing with adorable puppies doesn’t exactly hurt.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The idiots downstairs from my grandparents were worse than ever this year. But thanks to my meticulous note-keeping and use of camera phones, they got KICKED OUT!! Goodbye and good riddance, suckers (with an f)!

14. Where did most of your money go?
Europe trip was $$$ but totally worth it.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The Europe trip. And marriage.

16. What song will remind you of 2009?
Black-eyed peas: boom boom pow (dislike) and I gotta feeling (like)

17. Compared to last year this time, were you:
i) happier or sadder? happier.
ii) thinner or fatter? Fatter – lots
iii) richer or poorer? poorer – every spare penny going into the wedding

18. What did you wish you had done more of?
Exercise. Stopping badminton was necessary but not good. Stopping yoga was just lazy. More volunteering with adorable puppies.

22. How many one night stands?
heh.

23. What was your favourite TV program?
If I had to pick just one that is completely new, I would say 30 Rock, since I just started watching it. Other favourites include:

25.What was the best book you read all year?
Push, by Sapphire, and then Precious, the movie based on it.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

29. What was your favourite film this year?
I really liked Slumdog Millionaire, which I watched this year but was technically from last year.

30. What did you do on your birthday this year, and how old were you?

33. What kept you sane?
I was sane?

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Gabourey Sidibe ever since I saw the trailer for Precious.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Not much moved by politics this year (bad, I know), although I have my opinions on the US Health Care Reform and the introduction of the HST in BC.