1) What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Well, I don't know if I've "never" done it before, but I spent almost the entire year 'single'...that's a new one...there were a few weeks in between where no one really knew if I was single or not, but in general 2004 was a single year.
2) Did you keep your New Years resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't really tend to make New Years resolutions. I like to work on the negative aspects of myself on a continual basis. But I guess I lived up to a few goals and crashed and burned in some others (like going to all my classes...HA!)
3) Did someone close to you give birth? Nope, but there were a few Pi Phi births...Congratulations Leah and her new baby girl!
4)Did anyone close to you die? Not "close" to me, but people that I knew or who were very close to friends of mine. Phil, my heart goes out to you and your family.
5) What countries did you visit? Just my own, Good old Canada, but I did get to see quite a lot of it this year which was pretty cool.
6) What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? Health
7) What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Some of these are very happy memories, others very sad; For better or for worse:
Bid day, Big/Little sister night, August 24th, Greek God and Goddess, Initiations (november 19th in particular), and a few more special moments that I can't remember exact dates for but I will remember forever: Avenue Pizza with Janine and Jon, the first time I saw my best friend cry, the day I broke up with Phil. Montreal, Toronto.
8)What was your biggest achievement of the year? Surviving my illness. Befriending Janine and Victoria. Learning to be on my own. Being asked on Conference in Montreal.
9) What was your biggest failure? I let down some people I love and didn't tell them things that I should have...I lost a lot of friends (though I made new ones), I was afraid a lot.
10)Did you suffer illness or injury? Yes, I was seriously ill this year. I also broke my foot in the summer which was good because it meant that I had to change jobs and work for the Youth department again...with Janine! :)
11) What was the best thing you bought? hmm, I'm a pretty big fan of the x-mas gift I got janine...liquor at scholars??? I don't know...my friends????
12) Whose behavior merited celebration? Everyone's but I'm going to highlight a few in particulars: Janine: who learned and adapted brilliantly this summer, Victoria: who has showed tremendous strength of character in dealing with her long distance love. Phil: for his tremendous loyalty, patience and understanding. My mom for rocking the world out of her MBA! Antoine for being strong out in Ottawa.
13) Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? I have been truly and disallusioned by a few of my "friends" this year...But I'm happy to know now who can be trusted and who can not. I am the better person for it, and I take solace in that. But it hurt.
14) Where did most of your money go? Liquor, it's always liquor...and yes, it's always worth it.
15) What did you get really, really, really excited about? Montreal. Formal Recruitment with Janine. Tonight...;), long distance excitement: My double team B-day/Farewell party with Neener this April. WooHoo!
16)What song will always remind you of 2004? Meet Virginia (Train), HWC (Liz Phair), Stay (Lisa Loeb), "Would you go to bed with me?", Medium Pace (Adam Sandler), FEVER/RIDE A COWBOY! Karma Chameleon, the stupid song that Janine hates that I love from the Mouse people..., Thank you (Led Zeppelin)
17)Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or hardened? I don't see hardened as being the opposite of happy. I am stronger than I have ever been and I am happier now than I have been in years. I have and always will be "hard", but that's just me and people can take it or leave it.
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner and I'm going to keep getting thinner. Hopefully not as thin as first year, but I plan on looking hot for formal. Even being sick has a perk.
iii. richer or poorer?definitely poorer! Hardcore...so's my mom.
18) What do you wish you'd done more of? Cry. Have faith in my friends. Go to class...(LOL)
19) What do you wish you'd done less of? Fake smile, write papers at the last minute, care what others thought of me.
20) How will you be spending Christmas? with my mom on the 25th. With Phil and my mom on the 26th or 27th. With my friends on the 30th (I want to make a big X-mas supper)
21) Did you fall in love in 2004? Yes, and out of love, and in love and out of love...It was a difficult year romantically.
22)Any one-night stands? Sorry, i'm too smart to answer this question even if I did have something to say...NEVER NEVER ADMIT, DENY DENY DENY!!!
23) What was your favorite TV program? 24. That was easy. Simpsons comes in second
24) Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Hate is a strong word. I try not to hate anyone...but there are people that I don't respect or care to be around. I think that's natural though.
25)What was the best book you read? Milan Kundara: Laughable Loves
26) What was your greatest musical discovery? A lot of Janine's music, but don't tell her I told you. I rediscovered some old friends musically this year too...nostalgia kick from the late 80s and early 90s. And now, I'm in a Zeppelin phase, but that's a whole other story.
27) What did you want and get? I'll tell you tomorrow. Lol- just kidding. A good friend, that I could tell anything too and who sees right through me even when I don't want her to. The support and respect of my family. Strength.
28) What did you want and not get? Something silly, not even worth talking about anymore...Sometimes you actually want to not get what you thought you wanted...it just takes some time to figure that out.
29) Favorite film of this year? Hmm...there's a few: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", 'The Village", "Kill Bill 2", "Shrek 2"...
30) What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 23 on April 21, 2004. I celebrated on the 22nd, at Avenue Pizza Karaoke. Tons of people showed up and it was amazing. I understand that I had a fantastic time, though in all honesty, I don't remember much...
31) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If Antoine still lived in Edmonton. If Phil had never left for Slave Lake. If I had never gotten sick. Lots of stuff. But you can't go back and change it, all you can do is deal with the consequences.
32)How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? Whatever Victoria and Krystal McLay told me to wear. A lot more feminine, a lot more "grown-uppy", a lot more "sexy" ("low cut shirts make me squirmy!")
33)What kept you sane? Phil. Janine. Victoria. My piano. My poli-psych class. Going to Montreal and knowing that I am good at what I do. Solitude.
34) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Big Brad Pitt thing, Still on my Keiffer Sutherland thing, I'll never lose my Johnny Depp thing.
35) What political issue stirred you the most? HAHA! what political issue DIDN'T stir me??? Um, well, the elections (triple election year for Edmonton. Craziness) Tuition, like always. I'm starting to get really big into minority rights (see my dissertation on the "Invisible Minority"), the cabinet shuffle (OH MY GOD!!!!)
36) Who do you miss? My brother, my mom, my dad, Phil, Aaron (I've missed Aaron a lot lately), the Newton Kids, Janine when she's in the Park...:P
37) Who was the best new person you met? Janine, hands down, no contest....But in all fairness, I met victoria in 2003- but only really got to know her this year- so throw her in there too.
38) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: It is okay to be afraid, It is okay to let yourself be vulnerable, It is okay to let yourself be loved and It is okay to try new things.
"The only things in life we regret are the risks we did not take"
39) Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Lisa Loeb's Stay:
you say i only hear what i want to.
you say i talk so all the time so.
and i thought what i felt was simple,
and i thought that i don't belong,
and now that i am leaving,
now i know that i did something wrong 'cause i missed you.
yeah, i missed you.
and you say i only hear what i want to:
i don't listen hard,
i don't pay attention to the distance that you're running
or to anyone, anywhere,
i don't understand if you really care,
i'm only hearing negative: no, no, no.
so i turned the radio on,
i turned the radio up,
and this woman was singing my song:
the lover's in love, and the other's run away,
the lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay.
some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born.
well, this is not that:i think that i'm throwing, but i'm thrown.
and i thought I'd live forever, but now i'm not so sure.
you try to tell me that i'm clever,
but that won't take me anyhow, or anywhere with you.
you said that i was naive,
and i thought that i was strong.
i thought, "hey, i can leave, i can leave."
but now i know that i was wrong,
'cause i missed you.
you said, "i caught you 'cause i want you and one day i'll let you go."
you try to give away a keeper, or keep me 'cause you know you're just scared to lose.
and you say, "stay."
you say i only hear what i want to.
Well, I don't know if I've "never" done it before, but I spent almost the entire year 'single'...that's a new one...there were a few weeks in between where no one really knew if I was single or not, but in general 2004 was a single year.
2) Did you keep your New Years resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't really tend to make New Years resolutions. I like to work on the negative aspects of myself on a continual basis. But I guess I lived up to a few goals and crashed and burned in some others (like going to all my classes...HA!)
3) Did someone close to you give birth? Nope, but there were a few Pi Phi births...Congratulations Leah and her new baby girl!
4)Did anyone close to you die? Not "close" to me, but people that I knew or who were very close to friends of mine. Phil, my heart goes out to you and your family.
5) What countries did you visit? Just my own, Good old Canada, but I did get to see quite a lot of it this year which was pretty cool.
6) What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? Health
7) What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Some of these are very happy memories, others very sad; For better or for worse:
Bid day, Big/Little sister night, August 24th, Greek God and Goddess, Initiations (november 19th in particular), and a few more special moments that I can't remember exact dates for but I will remember forever: Avenue Pizza with Janine and Jon, the first time I saw my best friend cry, the day I broke up with Phil. Montreal, Toronto.
8)What was your biggest achievement of the year? Surviving my illness. Befriending Janine and Victoria. Learning to be on my own. Being asked on Conference in Montreal.
9) What was your biggest failure? I let down some people I love and didn't tell them things that I should have...I lost a lot of friends (though I made new ones), I was afraid a lot.
10)Did you suffer illness or injury? Yes, I was seriously ill this year. I also broke my foot in the summer which was good because it meant that I had to change jobs and work for the Youth department again...with Janine! :)
11) What was the best thing you bought? hmm, I'm a pretty big fan of the x-mas gift I got janine...liquor at scholars??? I don't know...my friends????
12) Whose behavior merited celebration? Everyone's but I'm going to highlight a few in particulars: Janine: who learned and adapted brilliantly this summer, Victoria: who has showed tremendous strength of character in dealing with her long distance love. Phil: for his tremendous loyalty, patience and understanding. My mom for rocking the world out of her MBA! Antoine for being strong out in Ottawa.
13) Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? I have been truly and disallusioned by a few of my "friends" this year...But I'm happy to know now who can be trusted and who can not. I am the better person for it, and I take solace in that. But it hurt.
14) Where did most of your money go? Liquor, it's always liquor...and yes, it's always worth it.
15) What did you get really, really, really excited about? Montreal. Formal Recruitment with Janine. Tonight...;), long distance excitement: My double team B-day/Farewell party with Neener this April. WooHoo!
16)What song will always remind you of 2004? Meet Virginia (Train), HWC (Liz Phair), Stay (Lisa Loeb), "Would you go to bed with me?", Medium Pace (Adam Sandler), FEVER/RIDE A COWBOY! Karma Chameleon, the stupid song that Janine hates that I love from the Mouse people..., Thank you (Led Zeppelin)
17)Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or hardened? I don't see hardened as being the opposite of happy. I am stronger than I have ever been and I am happier now than I have been in years. I have and always will be "hard", but that's just me and people can take it or leave it.
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner and I'm going to keep getting thinner. Hopefully not as thin as first year, but I plan on looking hot for formal. Even being sick has a perk.
iii. richer or poorer?definitely poorer! Hardcore...so's my mom.
18) What do you wish you'd done more of? Cry. Have faith in my friends. Go to class...(LOL)
19) What do you wish you'd done less of? Fake smile, write papers at the last minute, care what others thought of me.
20) How will you be spending Christmas? with my mom on the 25th. With Phil and my mom on the 26th or 27th. With my friends on the 30th (I want to make a big X-mas supper)
21) Did you fall in love in 2004? Yes, and out of love, and in love and out of love...It was a difficult year romantically.
22)Any one-night stands? Sorry, i'm too smart to answer this question even if I did have something to say...NEVER NEVER ADMIT, DENY DENY DENY!!!
23) What was your favorite TV program? 24. That was easy. Simpsons comes in second
24) Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Hate is a strong word. I try not to hate anyone...but there are people that I don't respect or care to be around. I think that's natural though.
25)What was the best book you read? Milan Kundara: Laughable Loves
26) What was your greatest musical discovery? A lot of Janine's music, but don't tell her I told you. I rediscovered some old friends musically this year too...nostalgia kick from the late 80s and early 90s. And now, I'm in a Zeppelin phase, but that's a whole other story.
27) What did you want and get? I'll tell you tomorrow. Lol- just kidding. A good friend, that I could tell anything too and who sees right through me even when I don't want her to. The support and respect of my family. Strength.
28) What did you want and not get? Something silly, not even worth talking about anymore...Sometimes you actually want to not get what you thought you wanted...it just takes some time to figure that out.
29) Favorite film of this year? Hmm...there's a few: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", 'The Village", "Kill Bill 2", "Shrek 2"...
30) What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 23 on April 21, 2004. I celebrated on the 22nd, at Avenue Pizza Karaoke. Tons of people showed up and it was amazing. I understand that I had a fantastic time, though in all honesty, I don't remember much...
31) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If Antoine still lived in Edmonton. If Phil had never left for Slave Lake. If I had never gotten sick. Lots of stuff. But you can't go back and change it, all you can do is deal with the consequences.
32)How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? Whatever Victoria and Krystal McLay told me to wear. A lot more feminine, a lot more "grown-uppy", a lot more "sexy" ("low cut shirts make me squirmy!")
33)What kept you sane? Phil. Janine. Victoria. My piano. My poli-psych class. Going to Montreal and knowing that I am good at what I do. Solitude.
34) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Big Brad Pitt thing, Still on my Keiffer Sutherland thing, I'll never lose my Johnny Depp thing.
35) What political issue stirred you the most? HAHA! what political issue DIDN'T stir me??? Um, well, the elections (triple election year for Edmonton. Craziness) Tuition, like always. I'm starting to get really big into minority rights (see my dissertation on the "Invisible Minority"), the cabinet shuffle (OH MY GOD!!!!)
36) Who do you miss? My brother, my mom, my dad, Phil, Aaron (I've missed Aaron a lot lately), the Newton Kids, Janine when she's in the Park...:P
37) Who was the best new person you met? Janine, hands down, no contest....But in all fairness, I met victoria in 2003- but only really got to know her this year- so throw her in there too.
38) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: It is okay to be afraid, It is okay to let yourself be vulnerable, It is okay to let yourself be loved and It is okay to try new things.
"The only things in life we regret are the risks we did not take"
39) Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Lisa Loeb's Stay:
you say i only hear what i want to.
you say i talk so all the time so.
and i thought what i felt was simple,
and i thought that i don't belong,
and now that i am leaving,
now i know that i did something wrong 'cause i missed you.
yeah, i missed you.
and you say i only hear what i want to:
i don't listen hard,
i don't pay attention to the distance that you're running
or to anyone, anywhere,
i don't understand if you really care,
i'm only hearing negative: no, no, no.
so i turned the radio on,
i turned the radio up,
and this woman was singing my song:
the lover's in love, and the other's run away,
the lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay.
some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born.
well, this is not that:i think that i'm throwing, but i'm thrown.
and i thought I'd live forever, but now i'm not so sure.
you try to tell me that i'm clever,
but that won't take me anyhow, or anywhere with you.
you said that i was naive,
and i thought that i was strong.
i thought, "hey, i can leave, i can leave."
but now i know that i was wrong,
'cause i missed you.
you said, "i caught you 'cause i want you and one day i'll let you go."
you try to give away a keeper, or keep me 'cause you know you're just scared to lose.
and you say, "stay."
you say i only hear what i want to.
posted by Zita Dube @ Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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