STRATFORD, NJ, USA
2007 was, quite frankly, a pretty shitty year for me. I can’t wait to see it go.
I fill out this survey every year, but it’s never particularly interesting. But I might as well keep up tradition.
So, here we go with my…..
Year in Review!
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Visited the West Coast.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think I really made any resolutions this year, and I don’t really have any for next year, either. Just try to be more productive, I guess.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Tiffany!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Mexico (Tijuana, Baja California)
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
More freedom.
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Jan. 14.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Successfully navigating governmental bureaucracy well enough to get my job back after months of trying.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not putting my down time at Nana’s to better use.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Airplane tickets to California.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
The two people who worked so hard to get me jobs. Thanks!
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I skip this one each year; I see no reason to change that now.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Into the bank.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going back to work part-time! 
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
None in particular. Spoonman?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder? Sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Studying topics on my own in my down time.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Wasting time, usually online.
20. How will you/did you spend Christmas?
I got up, went to the laundromat, and had Chinese food. Then, my mom and I went out for more Chinese food. Then we opened presents with my grandmom in the rehab home.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
(I say this with the risk of sounding melodramatic, and with the hope that I am eventually proven wrong):
I lost the love of my life. I can’t imagine anything ever coming close to equaling that.
23. How many one-night stands?
0.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
CAVEMEN!!!!!
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I don’t think I made any this year. I got more into Eve 6.
28. What did you want and get?
My job back.
29. What did you want and not get?
More time for travel and just freedom in general.
30. Did you make any new friends this year?
Tiffany. And a few of my new coworkers may grow into friends.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 24. I didn’t do too much except for feel sorry for myself.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If my grandmom could be left alone for longer periods of time, and/or if I could get Jan. 14 out of my mind.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I wore dirty old sweatpants and ripped-up t-shirts around the house!
34. What kept you sane?
No idea. Strength of character? Hope that my job would work out?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Alizée, toujours.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Last year I said the whole immigration debate, and the short-sightedness and lack of understanding about it still bothers me a lot. But Benazir’s assasination in Pakistan really hit home this week.
37. Who did you miss?
No comment.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Tiffany, by default. (I didn’t meet many people this year.)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
Don’t get discouraged when everyone thinks you’re nuts. I mean this about my job; well, both jobs, really (TV and grandma-sitting). In terms of the TV job, I learned the same lesson with the same organization in 2005, but I was reminded of it again this year. In terms of my grandmom, people tell me that I should give it up. But seeing her in the nursing home this week just reminds me that this really is the better option.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
You know, I had an appropriate lyric to put here, but I forgot. Hopefully it comes back to me.
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So, there you have it. 2007. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Here’s to a better 2008. I’m optimistic that 2008 will indeed be a step up.
By default. =P