The MeMe of 2005

[kimkali]

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Wrote a funding application bid (there were other things, but not that I’d include here *grin*)

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No… and in true Pinky and The Brain style this year I shall try to do the same again

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A distant relative in Canada

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Someone I’d known for about 15 years

5. What countries did you visit?
Wales.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A motorbike license and motorbike
Publication

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
13th June
7th July

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
The Accountants Love Song
NewJob

9. What was your biggest failure?
Motorcycle practical test

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Wisdom tooth
Fever

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Oxford Tube pass

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Fabulous friends

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
My own

14. Where did most of your money go?
Motorcycles, commuting
Presents *grin*

15. What events did you get really, really, really excited about?
My interviews (especially Oxfam…) and starting a NewJob

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Billie Jean *grin*

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer


18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Poetry

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Procrastinating

20. How did you spend Christmas?
At home, restful, with presents and duck

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
roadkillgerbiland quisalan

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Oh yes

23. How many one-night stands?
None, well, not really

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Dr Who was good, but BTVS still wins

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, well, not “hate” anyway

26. What was the best book you read?
I am very much in love with Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr

27. What was your greatest musical discovery or rediscovery?
The Unchosen

28. What did you want and get?
Scent

29. What did you want and not get?
Full motorcycle license

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
Mr & Mrs Smith
Ice Age

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I celebrated the conclusion of my 26th year, and there was a gathering at The UberFlat (as was)

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting the Oxfam job (that would have made it easier) and getting a motorbike

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Careless

34. What kept you sane?
Poetry

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most/least?
Most = Angelina Jolie
Least = Margaret Thatcher

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Civil liberties

37. Whom did you miss?
. . . but my aim is improving . . .

38. Who was the best new person you met?
roadkillgerbil

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Try

40. Do you have any lost feelings of others.
Changed