1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Wow, where to start? This year has been full of new experiences like: rock climb, white water rafting, caving, sleeping directly under the stars over the summer, canoeing twice, pulling an all nighter and going for a walk at 5am around campus in the rain, running 3 miles, donating blood, driving, meeting someone I had only talked to before, made out with someone and…, stayed out past 1am, cooked a 5 course dinner, lived in a dorm, missed a chemistry final, had a boyfriend, wore flip flops while snowing out, got braces, got sick from vicodin, graduated high school, left home, had a tax deductible job, learned how to hospital tuck bed sheets,… the list goes on.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolution and will you make more for next year?
I don’t really make new year’s resolutions except oaths to myslf about how to live my life better… so I guess this year I would say I want to continue to stand up to my morals, experience new things, take risks and make myself happy.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Close? No, but Christina Ocasio would’ve sat right next to me at graduation so I guess that counts!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Rest in Peace Mrs. Curry
5. What countries did you visit?
None
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Security: emotional, physical and financial.
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I am so bad at remembering dates, but events I can do: Homecoming, April visit to Baltimore Inner Harbor, Sascha’s/first communion, Prom, Outdoor Adventure Week, Dance Marathon preperations, many Ice Cream Corner trips, Aquarium trip and the horrible trip home, Ice Skating on Super Bowl Sunday, getting my wisdom teeth removed, getting 4 bicusped teeth out, braces, root canal, move in day at SRU and the 11pm debunking of the beds, the day Amanda finally tricked me into stealing a pepper shaker from the Fluh, late night talks at Rocky’s Grill, bowling “it’s like releasing a baby turtle out to sea”, graduation, 8/5/04, 8/20/04, 10/26-27/04, the BEACH! and the Jolly bus, 5 ppl u meet in heaven, texas hold em, power outage of the year at SRU, cake days in journalism, Mrs. Curry’s memorial service… a lot.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
living on my own and surviving, not getting sick at college, maintaining great friendships, going outside my comfort zones and getting involved.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Lying to my parents
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Talk about wisdom teeth out, 4 molars out, high fevers of 103, root canal, TMJ.. I took more pain killers and antibiotics this year than in my whole life combined.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My parents
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I try not to let other ppl’s behavior or actions make me feel that bad, but I think a few ppl succeeded this year.
14. Where did most of your money go?
School, clothes, dinners.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Seeing some special people in my life, going to school, getting over my fear of heights with Buck, going to breakfast on the weekends, nightly phone conversations.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
oh wow, my taste in music has changed so much this year that is hard to say… a lot of songs will remind me of this year, like: hanging by a moment, a reason, accidentally in love *shrug*
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier
b) thinner or fatter? It keeps changing, yo yo
c) richer or poorer? Richer but still poor
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Met more people
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Wasted time over analyzing
20. How did you spend your Christmas?
With family, went for a walk and drove around looking at Christmas lights
21. Did you fall in love in 2004?
I’d say so.
22. How many one-night stands?
I’m in college…and for me that still means none.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Everwood
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I am at peace with everyone I know or care about
25. What was the best book you read?
I read a lot of good books, 5 People You Meet in Heaven however was the most meaningful for me at this time in my life.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Emo stuff courtesy of Amanda and Keith
27. What did you want and get?
I wanted to resolve things with some people, and we have. I wanted friends who never gave up on me and they are still here. I wanted someone who I could share everything with and I did. I wanted to be happy and I think I am.
28. What did you want and not get?
I wanted honesty and I didn’t always get that.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
I really can’t remember a mind-blowing movie from this year.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 18 on March 28 and I can’t remember what I did.
31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
nothing
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Meggyo style… quietly comfortable and reassured
33. What kept you sane?
My friends and my morals/beliefs
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
No one impressed me that much however I do remember a brief crush on Orlando Bloom
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Abortion rights, gay marriage, tax “cuts”
36. Who did you miss?
Who didn’t I miss? I even miss people who I haven’t seen since 7th grade.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
My friends at SRU
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
You can’t solve everyone’s problems
Some things are out of your control
Honesty still is the best policy
You have to pick your battles if you want to win
Trust your heart but don’t be blinded by it
If u are faced with an easy way out and a hard way ALWAYS choose the hard way or else you’ll pay for it down the road, anyone can tell you what to do but you have to learn for yourself.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Tell me what you thought about when you were gone
And so alone
The worst is over
You can have the best of me
We got older
But we're still young
We never grew out of this feeling that we wont give up

Here we lay again
On two separate beds
Riding phone lines
to meet a familiar voice
And pictures drawn from memory
We reflect on miscommunications
And misunderstandings
And missing each other too
Much to have had to let go

Turn our music down
And we whisper
"Say what you're thinking right now"

Jumping to conclusions
Made me fall away from you
I'm so glad that the truth has brought back together me and you

We're sitting on the ground and we whisper
"Say what you're thinking out loud"
-starting line

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I want babies! (kinda sorta, maybe) After babysitting today I realized how awesome babies are, as well as how not prepared I am to have my own. Then after watching Meet the Fockers and other such movies, u think about what a baby means, brings and *sigh* I dunno... babies? I need some stress relief.

What am I doing? yea I dunno either.

I dislike balancing acts... but that's life for ya.

It's hard enough to learn lessons the hard way, but eevn harder to watch someone u care about have to learn the hard way as well...

Went to a new coffeeshop today, got pumpkin pie latte mmm. Had to leave after a bit tho cuz I realized how much I did not miss the "wayyy too girly talk about what colors are TOTALLY in for weddings now a days" *gag* Watched a lot of halves of movies again... Van Helsing, 13 going on 30, shrek 2, 50 first dates (to make up for half last time). Took a trip to Colonial, got lunch (thanks)... so wasn't home since 8:45am for more than 15 minutes till I got in around 1am from Tim's.

Am I a defensive person? hmph.

ICURNOZtwo (2:47:28 AM): i just tried to say ur name out loud, only "o meggy" and it sounded rather sexual ... so we'd better leave that o at the end

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5 and 2 1/2 movies later... day after tomorrow, godsend, eurotrip, sex in the city, half of shrek 2 and 50 first dates. Godsend was a very good movie I'd say esp if ur into morality, science stuff... the title can be interpreted as god's end or god send... and since it deals with cloning, u can choose which u think it is. Sleepovers are the coolest, chapped lips are not. Thanks for the neck massages.

Went for a short walk around 3:15pm cuz it was 12 degrees outside and then sat and talked in my living room for about an hour or so which was nice. I sorted my cds alphabetically today into one big holder, kinda starting to feel like I own enough music to alphabetize. Checked out Granada gym finally since I have a month membership. It is small but friendly and mostly older folk who go there. Right now, I am quite bored. Got babysitting tomorrow at 9am and have to call the chiro to set up another appt even tho the last visit resulted in a migraine and strained muscle. The old headaches are back tho.

You'd think that with being home I'd eat better... but nope. I also gained back any weight lost over the past 4 months in this past week, that's what I get for not having a scale, can't keep track. I miss my beans, tuna, salad, and rice dinners, waffel and eggs white breakfasts, and late night breadsticks or pizza... not to mention SMOOTHIES! So far everyone I talked to is excited to go back to school after just one week of being home. Welp, off to a lonely night of nothingness... first one since I got home actually. I feel like going out for a drive.

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Got woken up at 9am this morning to open santa presents before my mom went to go ride her horse. Got me some niceness: mp3/cd/atrac player, cd holder, two shirts, comfy pants that match one of the shirts (or does he shirt match the pants?), a cd holder, Lois Greenfield calender, fleece sheets for my collld bed here, some earring studs...
"oh good i needed studs" -me
"well yea ur in college now meghan!" -brother.
"I didn't mean it like THAT" -me
scrapbooking stuff, gift cert to jockey...
"i can't pick out ur underwear for u"-mom
"but ur my mother!"
It's always best to get a few things that u can use and enjoy than a lot of things that u don't really care about. I think I am gonna go brew myself a cup of the fabulous pumpkin spice coffee tom gave me in a bit.

Last night when we were watching the news I saw the cutest thing. This old man veteran was in the hospital for something and his wife didn't have any money to get him a christmas gift. So she wrote him a letter instead, the cheapest and most meaningful gift in my book. It was a... this is what u mean to me, thank you for being so..., I love you letter and all I could think of was, when I am that old, or in that situation I want to be able to write something like that for my husband. THAT is what it is all about. She was saying how when she did her vows... "for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer... until death do us part" this is just following thru with those vows. I don't think those vows should be an obligation, cuz if u love someone enough to want to spend and share your whole self and life with them, then doing all of that should be AT LEAST what u WANT to do. If not, then u haven't found "the one" yet.

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How and when did you find out there was no Santa?

Today was nice... not so full of running around but there was some. Errands, Tim's to watch football game, home for dinner, presents, kidnapped for Court's, home. I finally slept in today too! Still doesn't quite feel like Christmas, it might be the weather or just the lack of spirit at this age or this time in today's world. Some ppl's generosity or thoughtfulness astounds me. I hate to think that I will have to go back to school in about two weeks... ugh.

I think a lot about the Christmas holiday spirit has dissappeared as we get older, less innocent, less to look foward to of the unexpected since most of us know what we are getting anyway. There is no trying to stay up to see Santa cuz we tend to stay up past midnight anyway. whew talking about staying up, I should hit the sack. sweet dreams!

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Arg besides being in agonizing pain from my back/neck/shoulder right now, (I think something is mis placed in there pretty bad), and a case of hives or some shit, I am fabulous.

Everyone just left from our Christmas festivities. The 7 of us: Tom, Tim, David W, Court, Chris, Lauren and I embraced the holiday with chocolatey goodness, some skin oriented interruptions, pow wows that were stopped once certain ppl returned, The Grinch, and presents. What means more to me than all of the thoughtful presents we got are the gestures of thoughtfulness that have been displayed throughout this past year. Even tho we are all far away from each other, living different lives and growing up painfully, we have still stuck together and are here when we return home. I love returning-haven't seen u in ages but u still mean enough to me hugs, or u need this so here u go hugs, or thank you for a great night hugs... I just love hugs in general really... best things I tell ya! Contact comfort indeed.

I think I am allergic to my house now cuz I am breaking out and my eyes are itching so bad now, must be the pets. Either that or cuz I have not worked out in a week.

I was relieved, impressed and enraptured today. Awesome new encounters, complimented by ridiculousness = stupendous times

I won't ask for much this christmas... cuz all I want is you.

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