My sister is also a blogger, and I stole her awesome end of the year quiz. I found it most difficult to answer a lot of these questions as I don't remember most of this year...
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before? Got an apartment!!
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't make New Year's resolutions...
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes...a lovely new addition to the Bhatt family :)
4. Did anyone close to you die? No
5. What countries did you visit? I stayed in the US
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010? More friends, specifically girls
7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory? July 18, my first one year celebration with the bf, and August 1, when my sister moved far far away
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Hiking another 14er
9. What was your biggest failure? Hmm, not sure.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My ticket to the Brad Paisley concert
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? My sisters, my bf
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? I think I'll skip this one...
14. Where did most of your money go? School, and groceries, and gas to and from Fort Collins
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My free trip to NY, although it didn't play out quite as expected, the initial reaction was excitement
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2010? Robyn, fun., and the bed intruder song on youtube, thanks to my roommate
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) Happier or Sadder? Happier
ii) Older or Wiser? Both
iii) Thinner or Fatter?
Same
iv) Richer or Poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Meeting people, cooking real dinners, skyping with my sister
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Biochem, or school in general
20. How will you be spending Christmas of 2011? Probably at home with the fam
22. Did you fall in love in 2010? Yes
23. How did you start 2010? At a friends house playing card games...the same as this year
24. What was your favorite TV program? Friends, The Buried Life, Modern Family
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Close...
26. What was the best book you read? I don't read much...so Harry Potter, again
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Robyn, complements of Selah and Mara
28. What did you want and get? A job at school, and at least having one of my sisters home
29. What did you want and not get? To be able to do online classes and live in an apartment with my sister
30. What was your favorite film of this year? Harry Potter, or Shutter Island, or Despicable Me
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Went home for the weekend and had a wonderful candlelight chocolate fondue dessert in the basement by the fire with my bf
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Not being in school
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? Same, t-shirt and jeans, but trying to expand to a little more grown up and dressy
34. What kept you sane?
My friends and family
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you like the most?
Quite possibly Brad Paisley
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I'm not too caught up on my politics...
37. Who did you miss? My family, Jenni, Lauren
38. Who was the best new person you met? Keifer, if only everyone was that chill
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010. To be content where I am and not always looking for something better. Living on my own is fun. To trust people more.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"And be calm. Be calm.
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Oh I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
Be calm."
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
