Friday. 12.31.04 3:59 pm
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
