random

i saw this on a different blog and thought it was fun. i really want to be a better 'blogger' this year. here's hoping...

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
I don’t think anything…that leads me to believe that I live a very safe, sheltered life. I should branch out in 2011…

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't set any, because I knew I wouldn't keep them. However, I always say this is the year I will become more organized and keep my house clean and cook for my family at least 5 nights a week and lose weight. None of those things really ever happen.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No…but I’m pregnant. Again.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
My uncle.

5. What countries did you visit?
None

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More patience. More time. More empathy.

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
August 20 – positive pregnancy test. Nov. 21 – day my dad told me he had cancer. December 27 – Arianna turned 4..when did she get so old? December 30 – my baby turned 2.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I don’t know. Making it through another year with my sanity in tack?!

9. What was your biggest failure?
I wanted to spend more personal time with God. I didn’t do that.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
not anything major.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
a TV for my bedroom. Don’t tell my husband.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
a family from the school district I teach in. They came to our school on Veterans Day to talk about the son they lost in Iraq. What that sacrifice meant and what it means to honor a veteran. Beyond moving.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Mean people. People who are ignorant.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Monthly bills and shopping.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
positive pregnancy test

16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
I have no idea. Probably something from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat since it was the show I directed this fall.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer?
Happier, fatter (due to pregnancy…I’m blaming it all on the baby), richer (at least less in debt)

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Exercise

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

20. How did you spend Christmas?
with family, eating…a lot

21. Did you fall in love with 2010?
only more in love with the people around me

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Probably Greys Anatomy or Private Practice or Glee

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don't hate anyone. There are plenty of people who annoy me – like people who go under the speed limit in the left lane – but those people will always annoy me. I guess no one annoyed more in 2010 than what they normally do.

24. What was the best book you read?
Same Kind of Different As Me

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Glee

26. What did you want and get?
A nook

27. What did you want and not get?
I don’t really know. A new camera lens?

28. What was your favorite film of 2010?
This is really embarrassing to admit, but I don’t think I saw any films in 2010 that were worth remembering…

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 31. I have no idea what I did, but I know I worked.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less stress and less worry.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2010?
Leggings and tunics

32. What kept you sane?
My family (most of the time, sometimes they were what made me insane though) otherwise my good girlfriends

33. Who did you miss?
my girlfriends. I don’t see them often enough

34. Who was the best new person you met?
I don’t know. Probably people from my church.

35. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Your house will always be dirty, your children won’t always be little.