A 2005 meme

[pfloyd]

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Became a father

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any really... at least I don't think I did.

Next year: Have the house in order and organized.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Um, yeah...

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
None

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Order and stability

7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
5 May - Marcus' birthday
Whatever the date of the LIve 8 show was, as Pink Floyd took to the stage intact


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Becoming a father and staying employed full time for a year

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not keeping the flat in order

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Apart from the usual maladies... bronchitis and another flare-up or five of sacro-iliitis

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My car stereo

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Um, what?

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Apart from the leaders of the US government?

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, food, roof over the head

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Marcus

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier
b) thinner or fatter? same
c) richer or poorer? poorer in some respects, richer in others

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Cleaned the house

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sitting on my arse doing nothing

20.How will you be spending Christmas?
In Virginia with the in-laws

21. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Already am in love

22. How many one-night stands?
Not

23. What was your favourite TV program?
The list? It includes (in no particular order): Family Guy, Simpsons, Two and a Half Men, NCIS, House, E-Ring, CSI, Numb3rs, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Monk, Mythbusters...

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
A few, perhaps... work related...

25. What was the best book you read?
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher, for one... I read quite a lot of good books this year.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
None, really. There have been some good songs on the radio, but nothing that would make me rush out and buy the CD.

27. What did you want and get?
A healthy baby boy

28. What did you want and not get?
Lottery winnings

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
I think we saw only one movie in theatre this year -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... as for a favorite, can't really say as yet.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
34, and I don't quite remember what we did. I think Colleen, my parents and I went to Brew City.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More money, and a little more gaming here and there. But considering that Marcus came along, I think that says it all.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Comfortable

33. What kept you sane?
Family... music... the small bits of gaming... reading...

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Anything and everything that's associated with the current regime in this country

36. Who did you miss?
In the long term, no one

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Marcus

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Marcus makes everything worthwhile. There's nothing that his smile and laugh can't take away.

39. Song lyric that sums up your year:
There are none that exist. Nothing leaps to mind, in all the songs that I can think of.