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Retrospective Survey - 2007
Shasta542:
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
loneleeb3:
--- Quote ---I try to forgive myself my failures and won't warm them up here.
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Dagi! I love that! ;D
--- Quote ---Having sex. ...um, with someone other than myself, that is.
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Oh Gary, I am so in touch with that! LOL :laugh: :laugh:
--- Quote ---OUR TOWN by Iris DeMent
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I knew you were special!! ;)
I love Iris Dement and almost no one knows her!!
ifyoucantfixit:
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
Retrospective Survey 2007
dot-matrix:
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
Shasta542:
--- Quote ---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.
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"Do we know this face, and if so, are you tellin'??" asks nosy Shasta. ::) :P
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