1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?
Weight training
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Nope, I didn’t keep last year’s resolutions, but I have made more for this year. So far so good! See my post entitled Here’s to a Great New Year for more info on my 2005 resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes. My ex-boyfriend Chris and his wife had a baby boy a couple of months ago. Amazingly, we all get along very well. Chris and Jennifer are both great friends.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully, no.
5. What countries did you visit?
I didn’t make it out of the US.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
A boyfriend. Well, technically, I had a boyfriend for part of 2004, but I couldn’t even tell you how long it lasted. It was off and on (mostly off) for the first few months of 2004.
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
May 18th – G’s birthday – I had made huge plans, but he ditched me a few days beforehand.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I shared a secret that I had been keeping for 10 years.
9. What was your biggest failure?
My relationship with G
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A new washing machine
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Denis Leary’s. What a funny, talented man! He got a new tv show, Rescue Me, in 2004. He wrote, produced, and even starred in it! He also released a DVD, complete with No Cure for Cancer and Lock and Load. And he was as big an asshole as ever!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
G’s
14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage and car payments
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
A future that just wasn’t in the cards.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
What a Beautiful Day by Chris Cagle, for reasons I don’t care to discuss.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier
b) thinner or fatter? About the same
c) richer or poorer? Slightly richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Dating
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Arguing
20. How did you spend Christmas?
My brother Jake and I went to our parents’ home. We had dinner and exchanged gifts. Had a good time!
21. How many one-night stands?
Using my definition of “one-night stand”, none.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
Rescue Me
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don’t hate anyone.
24. What was the best book you read?
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
American Idol. I started watching at the beginning of last season and instantly became addicted.
26. What did you want and get?
A Chia Donkey (from Shrek)
27. What did you want and not get?
Someone to love me unconditionally
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Luther
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I don’t think I really did anything special on my birthday. My friends and I celebrated my birthday a few days early. We had a small party at Tina’s apartment, and then we went to see a Smokies baseball game! I turned 32.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
True love
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
These jeans are comfortable. 
32. What kept you sane?
My online pals
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Denis Leary
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The war in Iraq.
35. Who did you miss?
G
36. Who was the best new person you met?
I can’t narrow it down to one person. I met lots of wonderful people on MySpace.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
Don’t do anything for someone that that person would not be willing to do for you.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“How far do I have to go to make you understand?
I wanna make this work so much if hurts, but I just can’t
Keep on giving, go on living with the way things are
So I’m gonna walk away
And it’s up to you to say how far”
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