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(Why rabbits?) New year is, frankly, my least favorite holiday because it seems so arbitrary. I just generally find it uninteresting and now I’m gearing up for my (and Barb’s!) birthday! I will be a creaking 38, which much like 37 is a pretty boring number to be. 36 was good because it’s divisible by 3. I have high hopes for 40.
I feel hung over from all the holidaying and anxious to get back to a predictable schedule. I’m not great with chaos — I like things quiet. Plus I’ve been sleeping too much. I know, cry me a river, right? But I keep waking up groggy and with a headache. It’s time to set the alarm and actually heed it’s raucous call, dangit.
And now I feel the urge to do the New Year’s meme coming over me.
Untagged 1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? Spoke at a conference; went to a quick-connect speed dating type of networking event; said to someone, “Call me. We’ll do lunch.” 2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I do believe last year’s goal was to be a better writer and to get into some new markets. I feel I’ve become a more competent writer and I did break a couple of new markets. Next year my goals are more specific and one of them is about cold hard cash. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? (I interpret close to be non-virtual) This was very nearly no but thank goodness someone in my writer’s group saw fit to push a baby out last week. 4. Did anyone close to you die? My Uncle Eddie. 5. What countries did you visit? This one. 6. What would you like to have in 2008 which you lacked in 2007? Personally? I’d like to have a more consistent income but really I feel rather overflowing with good things. 7. What date from 2007 will remain etched in your memory, and why? My gosh, this must have been a slow year because I can’t think of a one. 8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Our family achievement is being a work-at-home/school-at-home family and not starving while doing it. 9. What was your biggest failure? No failures. A couple of tough learning experiences but no failures. 10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing outside the usual mundane cold. 11. What was the best thing you bought? 12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Brett’s. He stepped out on a very steep learning curve, faltered a few times but persevered. He rocks. 13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Outside of national figures? Umm, I don’t blog the in-real-life people who make me appalled and depressed. 14. Where did most of your money go? Room and board. And Brett made some large appliance purchases (front loader washer/dryer, for example), which goes to #12 with the faltering. 15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? All the career accomplishments, all of Brett’s big personal epiphanies and both kids in general. 16. What song will always remind you of 2007? Probably this one because I can’t stop listening to it. (Download it and play it on a stereo with a decent bass.) 17. Compared to this time last year, are you: Happier or sadder? Thinner or Happier although I wasn’t all that sad last year. The same. Both richer and poorer, depending. 18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Hmmm. I did a lot of the stuff I liked. I’d like to be exercising more especially lately since without an easily accessible bath/shower, we’re trying to keep sweating to a minimum. (Brett has also not been running of late.) 19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Worrying. Fretting. Imagining all the bad things that might happen. 20. How will you be spending New Year’s? Brett and Madison watched the ball drop. Noah spent the night with friends. I read The New House. 21. Did you fall in love in 2007? I’m swiping Eve’s message: I fell in love with my husband in a different way. 22. What was your favorite TV program? Mad Men, I think. I also really liked 30 Rock this year so maybe that would be my favorite. For one there is that priceless line Alec Baldwin delivers, “I like when a woman has ambition; it’s like seeing a dog wearing clothes.” OK, yeah, 30 Rock it is! 23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Hate, my friend, is a strong word 24. What was the best book you read? Good question. I can’t remember all the books I read this year. Oh I know! Z. Z. Packer blew my mind this year. Now where in the hell is her next collection??? 25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Did you download that song yet? That’s 4Hero. I’ve been listening to a lot of what the kids call “nu jazz” and “neo soul.” Apparently I’m late to that party but I’m having a great time anyway. 26. What did you want and get? Less stress. 27. What did you want and not get? An iHome dock for my 2nd generation iPod that won’t hold a charge. (Brett — my birthday is coming up. Are you listening?) 28. What was your favorite film of this year? It seems like we saw a movie that we liked about 11 months ago (probably for my birthday) but now I can’t remember it. It must not have been all that terrific, eh? 29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn? Let’s see. I turned 37 but I can’t remember what I did. And (looking at my archives) I didn’t blog it! 30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? More publication. I know. I know. It’s the journey not the destination but I’d like to journey towards more clips in small prestigious magazines. 31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? This is the year that I added work-wear to my wardrobe including slips, tights and not-so-comfortable shoes. 32. What kept you sane? BRETT. He also drove me crazy. He is a paradox. 33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? No crushes this year, much to my dismay. Life is more fun with an imaginary crush. OK, I did battle lightly with Barbara over who loves Alec Baldwin best but I think she won. Damn her. 34. What political issue stirred you the most? Right now I seem to be stepped in adoption/reproducti 35. Whom did you miss? I have to admit that I missed my kids some when I was out being professional. But I got over it. 36. Who was the best new person you met? Oh my lord, there have been A LOT. Too many to mention because there are the people I’ve met networking and then the virtual people I met in real life. It has been a great year for meeting amazing people!!! 37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. That it really is all about attitude. 38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Again, did you download that song? (Which, because I double-checked the lyrics, was put out in 2001 making me really late to that party I mentioned.) “Inside every man lives the seed of a flower/if he looks within he finds beauty and power” Untagged
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