reviewing '09

1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I proposed marriage.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? 
yup – celebrated 2 years of sobriety and reached my goal weight.
for 2010 i’ve resolved to wait for Peter.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nadia and Etienne were blessed with a bundle of joy!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
yes.

5. What countries did you visit? 
Hong Kong (Taiwan and SA)

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? 
certainty, where certainty is possible.

7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Christmas Eve… Peter and i separated.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? 
making it to the 2 years of sobriety mark none the less.

9. What was your biggest failure?
loosing my cool when faced with infidelity.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
some epileptic fits, but nothing significant.

11. What was the best thing you bought? 
our air tickets to SA.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? 
still my Mom!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? 
unfortunately this answer is already way too clear.

14. Where did most of your money go? 
debt

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? 
Peter

16. What song will always remind you of 2009? 
Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance”

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer? 
a) sadder
b) thinner
c) richer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
holding his hand.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
worrying

20. How did you spend Christmas? 
took the high speed rail to Taipei to visit Simon and Mathilda.

21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
with Peter – over and over again – even after the disaster.

22. What was your favorite TV program? 
Project Runway, while we had TV.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? 
no.

24. What was the best book you read? 
Lamb: the Gospel according to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
that singing like Barbara Streisand is a great way to work through my emotions.

26. What did you want and get? 
a job that kept me in Taiwan.

27. What did you want and not get?
commitment

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
i really loved “Were the world mine”

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 
Peter took me to a western-style pasta restaurant for dinner on my 31st birthday.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? 
hearing a certain someone say “I do”

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
plaid

32. What kept you sane? 
my relationship with God

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? 
missed that bus completely

34. What political issue stirred you the most? 
state-sponsored homophobia in Africa

35. Who did you miss? 
my sister… still…

36. Who was the best new person you met?
Laura Moroni, my replacement at TFC.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
when you’re about to loose your cool – pray!

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“I want your everything…”