Year '08

End of the Year Survey
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Work in Retail

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I did pretty well the first 4-5 months, then they sort of fell through. Bummer.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes actually!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope, thank goodness

5. What countries did you visit?
None

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A new apartment I can call "home"

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Probably Graduation :D

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduation, duh!! ;)

9. What was your biggest failure?
Probably the whole diet/loosing weight goal. *pout*

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Eh, I got the cold a couple times...

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Anything Disney related XD

14. Where did most of your money go?
Food, Christmas shopping

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Graduation and the thought of moving out

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Hmm...not sure

Compared to this time last year, are you:

17. Thinner or fatter?
A bit heavier. I plan to change that next year

18. Richer or poorer?
'bout the same. Again, I plan on changing that. (one way or another)

19. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Being social with friends at College

20. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Wasting time

21. How will you be spending Christmas?
With family and extended family

22. Did you fall in love 2008?
Nope. Surprise surprise

24. What was your favorite TV program?
What not to Wear, the Office, and A Haunting

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope. I don't really hate anyone

26. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Fantasmic. *bliss*

28. What did you want and get?
Graduation and a social life here at home <3

29. What did you want and not get?
My own apartment D:

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Wall-E for sure <3

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
25 and I partied with my roommies, my brother, and my neighbors

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Again, having my own place to live...a bf would have been nice too. But alas...

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Cute but comfortable

34. What kept you sane?
My friends, my brothers, drawing, music

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
No one :P

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Politics are EVIL

37. Who did you miss?
My brother Darren who's in South Africa. I talked to him today for the first time in 4 months. ^___^

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Oh geez....probably all my new friends here in Oregon :)

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Don't be afraid of who you are. There are more people who look up to you than you know

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"As we go on, we remember all the times we had together..." (I know, right? Cheesy....but very true)