2003 Meme

[percival]

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
embarked on training in bodywork. I always thought of myself as a very cerebral person before, but turns out I'm good at something manual.
I am also starting to come to terms with the fact that I may never be able to give birth to a child. (More than two years is a LONG wait.)

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No, and yes:
- start book keeping
- meditate daily

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
piperx fell pregnant! And my sister-in-law gave birth to hubby's goddaughter. Then there's heidi8's baby, and aome adopted.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
Germany four times (2 60th birthdays, 1 christening, Christmas), America, the Netherlands (transit to Germany)

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
Peace

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
none in particular. Contenders are Geekmoot and Hubby's birthday that we celebrated in the States.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Re-entering academia.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting pregnant.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
The massage and the aromatherapy course.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My husband for being so incredibly, incredibly, incredibly supportive.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Hm. Apart from Shrub? Unfeeling relatives.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Books, books, books and two massage courses.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Our visit to America, my visit to Texas, my departure from The Company, and Geekmoot.

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
None in particular. Pretty much stopped listening to the radio this year.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
I. happier or sadder? Wiser.
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner, I think
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing up journal articles, researching.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Lazing about and procrastinating.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With relatives, travelling between towns.

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
With my husband, all over again.

23. How many one-night stands?
None, just drastically improved connubial bliss inducing activities.

24. What was your favourite TV program?
None, did not watch much TV at all. But I like What not to Wear.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I used to hate my sister in law for being smug about her pregnancy, but not anymore.

26. What was the best book you read?
Difficult to say. I love all of my babies, erm, books. But I would say Tortora and Grabowski's Princilpes of Anatomy and Physiology.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I started to like Christina Aguilera, to my great surprise. But Beautiful was a great song, and I also like The Voice Within.

28. What did you want and get?
A job in academia.

29. What did you want and not get?
A baby.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Love Actually, although it makes me feel fat and ugly. (I mean, come on, Martine McCutcheon is NOT chubby!)

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
29, and had a pizza at home to celebrate the end of the Anti Candida diet.

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

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
Figure hugging skirts and tops, if I felt like dressing properly.

34. What kept you sane?
My husband and LJ.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nobody, really.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Germany cutting people's pensions, which is leaving my parents high and dry, and budget cuts in academia.

37. Who did you miss?
Nobody in particular.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
All of you, but in particular piperx and stolensocks. I wonder if murasaki99's cats count ...

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003.
To go with the flow

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
n/a

Comments

[piperx.livejournal.com]

Hubby's birthday that we celebrated in the States.

Hee! :D

And (TWIN!) I love What Not to Wear. I like it better than Queer Eye for the Straight Guy because the make-overees are always so opinionated and some of them fight it every step of the way. :D

But I'm most happy that you seem to have gained some peace in your life.