1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
I started writing my first fanfic story ever, Right Where You Are.
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Did not make one
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, unlike this year...
5. What countries did you visit?
England and Switserland
6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Relaxation
7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
No particular date
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Starting writing again after nearly 5 years of chronic shoulder and wrist pain from nerve entrapments
9. What was your biggest failure?
I don't believe in calling something a failure
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Cervico Brachial syndrome
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My iPod
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My sister, she finally divorced her husband and bought her own house for her children
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My ex-brother in law. But he also stopped having that influence on me, so that's good
14. Where did most of your money go?
Holiday to the mountains of Switserland
15.What made you really really really excited?
The mountains in Switserland, they always make me excited. Driving through them in our car with the BBM soundtrack blaring out of the speakers.
16.What song will forever remind you of 2006?
None, my iPod is full of beautiful songs, and I always put it on shuffle
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner
c) richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Relaxing
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Stressing
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Having fondue with my parents and my boyfriend
21. How did you spend New Year's?
At my parent's with my boyfriend
22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Already was!
23. How many one-night stands?
None. I'm a good girl.
24. What were your favorite TV programs?
Grey's Anatomy
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don't hate anybody
26. What was the best book you read?
Oh that must be something by Bill Bryson
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That I could sing
28. What did you want and get?
What I wanted: something that taught me to relax more. I didn't get it yet, but I am getting there
29. What did you want and not get?
see above
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 30 and had friends and family over for cake and finger food
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I didn't have to have the operation I had in June to get rid of the nerve entrapment in my wrist and hand
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Laid-back, kind of weird at times, comfortable most of the time.
34. What kept you sane?
Thinking that at least I still have the use of my hand and chronic pain is not the end of the world.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
JAKE!!!! or was it Jack?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The issues and questions surrounding 9-11.
37. Who did you miss?
My dog Muscha
38. Who was the best new person(s) you met?
Huh? Can't think of anybody, just Gordon Lightfoot, but that was the beginning of 2007, does that count?
38. Side question...who would I like to get to know better?
JAKE!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
See 34
40. Quote a song lyric (from any song, from any year) that sums up your year:
Ik wacht hier op jou
Ook als je naast me ligt,
je gezicht opnieuw het mooiste blijkt te zijn
Dit is een aanzoek zonder ringen
En ik vraag niet om je hand maar om je vingers die me wijzen op mezelf