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[pfloyd]

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
Get married

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I had any... but I plan to make some for '04

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
To me, no... To Colleen, a colleague at work did...

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not this year...

5. What countries did you visit?
None

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
Cleaner apartment, maybe a real gaming room...

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
11 October -- Wedding day

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
See #s 1 and 7

9. What was your biggest failure?
Keeping the apartment clean, some financial stuff...

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No major injuries, and only the lingering illness

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Wedding rings

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Everyone involved in the wedding

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
None, I think...

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills

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

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
"Thank You", Led Zepplin

17. Compared to this time last year, are you
i. happier or sadder?:
Happier in most respects

ii. thinner or fatter?
About the same, maybe a little heavier

iii. richer or poorer?
Richer in a lot of respects

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Cleaning and keeping people happier

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being lazy-assed

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
On the road to Virginia to see the in-laws

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
Already was, still am (same person too)

23. How many one-night stands?
Yer joking, right?

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Just one? Try a few... CSI, JAG, Stargate SG1, Monk, Coupling

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No

26. What was the best book you read?
Gods, I don't want to pick... I've read quite a few...

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Pink Floyd done by orchestras and string quartets

28. What did you want and get?
Work, at least for a fair amount of the year

29. What did you want and not get?
Full time job

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
so far, Pirates of the Caribbean, as I haven't seen Return of the King or The Last Samurai as of yet (but they're on my list of what to see...)
X2 was up there too. What the hell else did I see this year?

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old?
32, and damned if I truly remember, apart from celebrating it at a Japanese restaurant.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Clean apartment and a full-time job
(Okay, two things, but that's what would have done it.)

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
Whatever was comfortable and I could get away with at work.

34. What kept you sane?
Colleen, gaming, TV, reading

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Hah!

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
How people think that Bush has anything at all to do with what our troops do in Iraq when he's over here.

37. Who did you miss?
Up until recently, friends and family that I hadn't seen in a long time

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I would have to say my uncle Tim. It had been probably at least twenty years since I had seen him last.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
Love entails a sacrifice that one makes from time to time to make the other person happy. Love also doesn't take a lot of energy or effort to maintain, but you have to want to spend it.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

For me, that would mean going through all the lyrics stored in memory... and see if they would fit.
Let it just be said that some lyrics would fit for a particular moment in the year, but not the whole year. Nothing I've heard could do that.