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Retrospective Survey - 2007
« on: December 05, 2007, 04:16:05 pm »
Retrospective Survey 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

Traveled to California, Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, and rode a horse!

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Not quite sure.  I did resolve to save more money, and I’m earning more, but did more traveling.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No

4. Did anyone close to you die?

no

5. What countries did you visit?

Just the USA….Next year, UK!

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

spending cash, and a guy to spend it with. 

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Memorial Day 2007  (Colorado Trip) and September 14-17  (California Trip)

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Getting back into the health/fitness routine after I fell out of it.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not reaching my diet/weight loss goal.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

My knees gave me some trouble this year.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Tickets to Ca., Az., and Co., and my TomTom (GPS device) which got me to Michigan.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

My friends…..they’re so great!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

No comment.

14. Where did most of your money go?

trips

15.What made you really really really excited?

Meeting the members of DCF and BM that I hadn’t already, and reconnecting with those I had.

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

Umbrella by Rhianna

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  Happier
b) thinner or fatter?   Same
c) richer or poorer?  Same
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Focusing on myself.

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

Letting myself get distracted

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

with family

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with friends

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

Nope, bring on 2008!

23. How many one-night stands?

None.

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

Most of the shows on “Discovery Health”

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I hate no one….bad karma.

26. What was the best book you read?

Bad Dirt, Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Daughtry

28. What did you want and get?

More money

29. What did you want and not get?

boyfriend

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Hairspray

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Went out to dinner with friends, I was 38.


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

More spending cash, less rushing around.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Old Navy/Gap....Jeans and unbuttoned shirts. I like that look.

34. What kept you sane?

My family and friends.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Jake Gyllenhaal or George Clooney

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Gay marriage......duh!

37. Who did you miss?

all my Brokie friends who live in other states.

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

Oh geeez….I met so many great new people from both DCF and BM…no way I could list them all!

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

Myself

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

That it’s ok to feel lonely, as long as I remember that I can stand on my own two feet.


40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:

Well I can't tell you where I'm going, I'm not sure of where I've been
But I know I must keep travelin' till my road comes to an end
I'm out here on my journey, trying to make the most of it
I'm a puzzle, I must figure out where all my pieces fit

 

“Travelin’ Thru” by Dolly Parton


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'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2007, 04:53:25 pm »
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

Traveled to Alberta, rode a mechanical bull and saw the filming sights.

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I don;t do them no more.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No

4. Did anyone close to you die?

not really close, but my uncle died.

5. What countries did you visit?

The Dominion of Canada

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

Peace of mind all the time.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Sunday, 22 July 2007, at lunch, looking down the table and seeing the sweetest face smiling back at me.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Going to Alberta, then New York, then San Francisco.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not keeping up with my exercize routine once the weather changed.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

The usual bouts of diverticulitis.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

An IPod.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Richard's.  ;D

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

The Fruitcake lady would say: "What in the hell you come at me with a question like that for? You know you make me mad!!!!"   :laugh:

14. Where did most of your money go?

trips

15.What made you really really really excited?

Meeting online friends and becoming better acquainted.

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

"They tried to make me go rehab and I said no, no, no"

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?  About the same, more hopeful.
b) thinner or fatter?   a tad thinner

c) richer or poorer?  Richer, except monitarially,
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Have sex.

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

Fretting,

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

with family

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with friends

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

(After a pregnant pause and with dreamy eyes) Yes.

23. How many one-night stands?

None.


24. What were your favorite TV programs?

Torchwood

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I get mad at people, there are people I will avoid, but I try and not hate them.

26. What was the best book you read?

This year? The Kite Runner


27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Amy Winehouse

28. What did you want and get?

A trip to Alberta

29. What did you want and not get?

Freedom.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Hairspray was one, The Queen, maybe that was last year.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Consumed Margaritas with friends and I was 44.


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

Financial independance.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Goodwill

34. What kept you sane?

Bettermost.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

I just feel sorry for them.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Gay marriage

37. Who did you miss?

Garth Brooks

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

Juan, Rich, Chuck, Roland

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

Scott

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

That when the spirit of love move thru you, you can;t stop it, you can't direct it, to do so would be a sin. You just gotta let it flow.


40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me


"It was only you in my life, and it will always be only you, Jack, I swear."

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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2007, 05:19:55 pm »

Retrospective Survey 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
I am sooooo not telling!!

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

No. Maybe?

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Not this year

4. Did anyone close to you die?



5. What countries did you visit?

Just the USA…

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

hard to say, 2007 has been such a year of change for me.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

April15th when I joined Bettermost, June 30th when I met sferic and Sept 14-17th the San Fran Trip

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Coming out to my family

9. What was your biggest failure?

Hurting a friend

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Only mental! LOL

11. What was the best thing you bought?

A ticket to San Fransisco

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My Brokie friends! Where would I be without you all?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

My Ex's as well as my own?

14. Where did most of your money go?

Lawyers  :-\

15.What made you really really really excited?

My first Brokie meeting ever with Eric! Going to SF to meet the rest!

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

There are more than one! The Wings, The Maker Makes, Wrapped, How Bout them Cowgirls, Nothin Better to Do, Breathe in Breate out Move on.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  Happier
b) thinner or fatter?   Thinner
c) richer or poorer?  poorer in terms of wealth, richer in terms of life
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Nothing

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

bitching

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

with family

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with my daughter

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

Twice

23. How many one-night stands?

None.

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

Hero's, my name is earl

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I hate no one….bad karma.

26. What was the best book you read?

Close range by AP

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Brokeback Mountain Radio

28. What did you want and get?

A man!!

29. What did you want and not get?

Not tellin!!  ;D

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

I didn't see nay movies that came out this year. I saw Brokeback for the first time this year so I'm counting that!

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

 Had cake and stuff with my daughter and ex
b]32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?[/b]

If My Dads Cancer went away

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Jeans, boots, shirts

34. What kept you sane?

My family and friends.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Jake Gyllenhaal or George Clooney

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

I'm over politics

37. Who did you miss?

all my Brokie friends who live in other states.AMEn and my Grand parents who have passed away. I miss them everyday

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

Oh geeez….I met so many great new people no way I could list them all!

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

Not tellin! LOL

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

I learned so many! I guess the main thing is this "You have but one life make the most of it! Live every moment as it is your last because it just may be'!


40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:


I ain't settling for just getting by
I've had enough so so for the rest of my life
Tired of shooting too low, so raise the bar high
Just enough ain't enough this time
I ain't settling for anything less than everything



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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 05:51:47 pm »
Retrospective Survey 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?

Speak on the telephone in English, write stories.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I don't even remember them... :-\  no point in making new ones I guess.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Yes! :D

4. Did anyone close to you die?

No.

5. What countries did you visit?

I didn't get out of my own country.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

I want to work! And I will!  :D  And I´d like to have a better immunosystem, please, if anyone could tell me where to order that, thanks.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

This whole year will remain etched upon my memory as the year I came to know some very special people.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?


Improving my English, preparing for my new start as a midwife, seeing many things from a different point of view.

9. What was your biggest failure?

I try to forgive myself my failures and won't warm them up here.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Oh, this and that, but nothing severe. I'm just getting older and start sounding like Gary sometimes.  :laugh:

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My ticket to California.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

My friend's...they're so great! (quote Chuck) My family's, they support me whenever I need them. My husband's, for he is one of the most tolerant and liberal persons I know. (and he must be, since he's married with me. ;D)

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Nobody's.

14. Where did most of your money go?

If I only knew. ::)

15.What made you really really really excited?


Buying my ticket to California.

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

the soundtrack of BBM

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:


a) happier or sadder? Much happier.
b) thinner or fatter?   thinner.
c) richer or poorer?  richer in everything but money.
 
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?


Crazy, insensible things. And sports. And sleep.

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

criticising my child.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

with family

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with friends

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

Yes.

23. How many one-night stands?

None.  >:(  :laugh:

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

I don't have TV. But I go watch Grey's Anatomy at my friend's every now and then.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

No.  :)

26. What was the best book you read?

It's not published yet. And I read BBM, and Maurice about 3 times, and I liked the last Harry Potter.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

I'm living behind the moon. There are no musical discoveries behind the moon.  8)  Oh, Eartha Kitt maybe.  :laugh:

28. What did you want and get?

I talk about this stuff with close friends only. ;D

29. What did you want and not get?

more self-confidence

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

I discovered BBM only this year, so for me it's the movie of this year.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I'll have my friends over, sans kids, sans husbands, it's going to be fun.  ;D I'll be 33!  :D


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?


See: what did you want and not get?

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Fashion?? What's that? You mean what I wear? Let's see: Jeans, shirts, most of the time stained because my kids use them as wipes... :P ::)

34. What kept you sane?


My family and friends when Bettermost was driving me crazy, Bettermost when my family was driving me crazy.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?


Jake Gyllenhaal. Oh, my, God, it doesn't wear off.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Various things.

37. Who did you miss?


My sister when she was in Russia, my Godmother who died last year.

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

 :) They know.

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

Myself and my friends.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:


No matter how hard I try, I can never see the world through another person's eyes. But that shouldn't keep me from trying.







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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2007, 07:29:42 pm »
Retrospective Survey 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

Joined the YMCA


2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?


I dont do new years resolutions

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

YES!  My niece

4. Did anyone close to you die?

yes.  My Mother n Law

5. What countries did you visit?

None, just stayed right here In the USA

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

better finacial security

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?


dont know

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

started a yoga class

9. What was your biggest failure?

not sure

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Only mental! LOL

11. What was the best thing you bought?

a new car

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

my nephew for graduating highschool

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

my brother n law and his gf !

14. Where did most of your money go?

all on bills

15.What made you really really really excited?

My first Brokie meeting with TampaTalon and Kenn

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

Rehab by Amy Winehouse

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  Happier
b) thinner or fatter?   Thinner
c) richer or poorer?
poorer in terms of wealth, richer in terms of life
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Go to more Brokie gatherings

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

bitching

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

with family and friends

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with a friends

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

Ive been in love with my husband since the first time I saw him 16 and half years ago :)

23. How many one-night stands?

None.

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

Sopranos

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I dont hate anyone

26. What was the best book you read?

Mainwriter's fan fic Through the Veil of Time

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Amy Winehouse

28. What did you want and get?

Brokeback Mountain 2008 Calendar

29. What did you want and not get?

financial security

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Latter Days

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Went out for a steak dinner with my husband,  I was 46

b]32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?[/b]

If i could have gone to Alberta

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Jeans and a t-shirt  :)

34. What kept you sane?

My friends on Bettermost

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Jake Gyllenhaal

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

The war in Iraq

37. Who did you miss?

my mother n law

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

Online~all my Bettermost friends,  RL~Steve, Kenn and their friends

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

All my fellow Bettermostians

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

That material things dont mean shit if you dont have love and and faith

40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:



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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2007, 09:04:21 pm »
Retrospective Survey 2007


1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

I rode a banana boat.

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I don't make NY resolutions, so no and no.  :P

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Yes.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Yes.


5. What countries did you visit?

USA

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

A smokin' figure with small very well-defined muscles.  :)

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

January 6 -- my friend was killed in Iraq.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

I wrote nominations and got scholarships for 12 students.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not losing weight.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nothing major.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Many special gifts for my niece's 16th birthday. (I worked part-time so I could get her extra stuff since it was #16!)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Not really behavior, but we were HAPPY when my cousin (who is like a sister) was free of cancer after surgery and radiation.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Anyone mean to the troops.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Bills/Gas.

15.What made you really really really excited?

I was very excited for Dottie becoming Heather's mommy and for Rich to be so happy about getting to go to CA. For Gary getting to move to CA and for Dagi to get to go visit him next year. For my friend at work who is expecting a baby.  

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  Sadder
b) thinner or fatter?  Same
c) richer or poorer?  Poorer
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Excercising.

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

Driving.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

With family and friends who are as close (or closer) as family.


21. How will you be spending New Year's?

At home.


22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

No.

23. How many one-night stands?

None.

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

"Everybody Loves Raymond" reruns, "The O'Reilly Factor", "Sister, Sister" "Cops".

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I don't hate anyone.

26. What was the best book you read?

"The Outsiders"

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Daughtry and Taylor Swift

28. What did you want and get?

Nothing.

29. What did you want and not get?

Nothing.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Zodiac

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I worked -- a friend took me out and I got lots of gifts -- and I was older than I feel, dude.


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

Money left over at the end of the month!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Same clothes as last year and hand-me-down/garage sale couture.  :P

34. What kept you sane?

Sleeping a lot.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Jake Gyllenhaal.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

War.

37. Who did you miss?

My granny who raised me and my nephew.

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

Can't choose -- all great!

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

?


39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

It's nice to get online with friends and just chill and be silly and laugh or share and cry!


40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:

I'm through with standing in line
To clubs we'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth
And I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out
Quite the way I want it to be

(Tell me what you want)

I want a brand new house
On an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub big enough
For ten plus me

(So what you need?)

I'll need a credit card that's got no limit
And a big black jet with a bedroom in it
Gonna join the mile high club
At thirty-seven thousand feet......   :P ;D

"Rock Star" by Nickelback
"Gettin' tired of your dumbass missin'!"

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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2007, 09:31:43 pm »
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I try to forgive myself my failures and won't warm them up here.

Dagi! I love that!  ;D


Quote
Having sex. ...um, with someone other than myself, that is.   


Oh Gary, I am so in touch with that! LOL   :laugh:  :laugh:

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OUR TOWN by Iris DeMent

I knew you were special!!  ;)
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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2007, 09:39:19 pm »
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
     Met people in real life, I met online.  Traveled to opposite side of the country...........

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
    Dont do resolutions anymore.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth.
    Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die?
    No thank god.

5. What countries did you visit?
    Just the USA…

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
    Health issues resolved.

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
   March trip to Boston   May 30th in Colo. and Wyoming.  Sept 13th in San Francisco.
    Boston was like a trip to make believe.  Colorado and Wyoming was like meeting family you had
    never met before.  San Francisco, was like finding a buried treasure.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
    All my trips.  Climbing Brokenback

9. What was your biggest failure?
    Don't know.. Maintaining connections.. :(

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
     Nothing new to speak of,,,,,,,yuk

11. What was the best thing you bought?
      Ive gotta go with Richard on this one...I keep coming back to the trips.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
      Richard, Scott, Truman.  Lee Recca, Adam

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
      GWB

14. Where did most of your money go?
      Trips and holiday gifts. 

15.What made you really really really excited?
     Getting Kelsey to agree to take the trip to Boston.

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?
     Hallalulah,,Rufus Wainwright... Going to a Town, Rules and Regulations

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  Happier
b) thinner or fatter?   Thinner
c) richer or poorer?   
    Poorer, see earlier questions.
 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
      cant think of anything.

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
      with family

21. How will you be spending New Year's?
     with my husband

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
      Umm,  yes with more of the Brokies.

23. How many one-night stands?
      None

24. What were your favorite TV programs?
      Dancing with the stars...don't laugh...figure skating..but there wasnt much this year.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
     No its to energy draining to hate anyone..

26. What was the best book you read?
      Reread, the book to screenplay,
     
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
      Andrea Bocelli,,,,,,,,Bo Bice     

28. What did you want and get?
      To meet Richard and Truman, and hear Scott sing

29. What did you want and not get?
      To win the lottery...

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
      The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford,  No Country for Old Men,  Eastern
       Promises.  Zodiac, Redemption.....

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
      Went out to dinner with my husband, and daughter.  68

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
      If all the people I care about get their prayers granted.  They discover a cure
      for cancer, and Multiple Sclerosis.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
     Casual, mostly.

34. What kept you sane?
     My beautiful wonderful grandaughters, and family.   Bettermost, and my trips...my friends online.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
      Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Holloway Viggo Mortenson

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
      Anything just about....the war I guess, gay rights, treatment of the returning vets

37. Who did you miss?
      my bro, and my mom

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?
      The people of Bettermost.  Richard...he really inspires me.

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?
      Lee Recca, and Laura gigs, Milli

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
      I am more strong willed than even I thought.

40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:
     
       Maybe I have been here before
       I know this room, I've walked this floor
       I used to live alone before I knew you
       I've seen your flag on the marble arch
       Love is not a victory march
       It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
  
       Hallulelujah  by Leonard Cohen

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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2007, 09:42:35 pm »
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

Adopted a child

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I don't make resolutions, never have, never will

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Yes

5. What countries did you visit?

Figi, Mexico and the USA

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

I can't think of a thing

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

November 30, the day my little girl called me Mommy the first time

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Coming to terms with what is really important to me and daring to see our future in a different way

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not losing weight

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

No

11. What was the best thing you bought?

my new digital camera

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

My brother retiring from the Army Rangers and deciding to go home to ranch with my Dad

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

GWB

14. Where did most of your money go?

Gas/Mortgage payments

15.What made you really really really excited?

Being Heather's new Mommie

16.What song will forever remind you of 2007?

"Thank You" by Dido

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder?  happier
b) thinner or fatter?  fatter
c) richer or poorer?  Poorer financially but richer in spirit
  
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Excercising

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

Eating

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

With family and friends at home

21. How will you be spending New Year's?

with Bob, in Bed watching videos...we do that every year, sometimes we play games or cards

22. Did you fall in love in 2007?

I fell deeper in love with my husband.  

23. How many one-night stands?

Don't do one night stands, never did, never will

24. What were your favorite TV programs?

Prison Break, Bones, Hotel Babylon, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, Most Haunted and CSI Las Vegas

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I don't hate anyone, but a few people have disappointed and annoyed me.

26. What was the best book you read?

"All Through the Night" by Suzanne Brockmann

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Andre Bocelli

28. What did you want and get?

My daughter

29. What did you want and not get?

Being thinner, younger and prettier

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

My husband wined and dined me and then he got lucky, as for how old I was...shame on you, never ask a lady how old she is.


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

More money!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

same ol, same ol  

34. What kept you sane?

My dogs and my Bob, they ground me

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Jake Gyllenhaal

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

The War in Iraq and Terrorism and Religous Fanaticism in general

37. Who did you miss?

My mother, I really missed having her at my wedding

38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?

To hard to choose just one

38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?

 ??? 

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

"Life is a dance, a movement of rhythms, directions, stumbles,and missteps, at times it is slow and precise, others fast and wild, sometimes joyous. We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."


40. Quote a song lyric (any song, any year) that sums up your year:


When You Find Yourself by Brad Paisley

When you find yourself
In some far off place
And it causes you to rethink some things
You start to sense that slowly
You're becoming someone else
And then you find yourself

When you make new friends in a brand new town
And you start to think about settlin' down
The things that would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell
And you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself

Where you go through life
So sure of where you’re headin'
And you wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's really just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that’s when you find yourself

When you meet the one
That you've been waitin' for
And she's everything that you want and more
You look at her and you finally start to live for some one else
And then you find yourself
That’s when you find yourself

When we go through life
So sure of where we're headin'
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's really just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
Life is not a dress rehearsal

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Re: Retrospective Survey - 2007
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2007, 10:26:27 pm »
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7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Sunday, 22 July 2007, at lunch, looking down the table and seeing the sweetest face smiling back at me.

"Do we know this face, and if so, are you tellin'??" asks nosy Shasta.   ::)  :P
"Gettin' tired of your dumbass missin'!"

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