1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Attend school full-time, become involved in a poly quad.
2. Did you keep your New Year’s Resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t usually do New Years resolutions. I will make a few for next year, and the years to come though:
1) Stop letting people take advantage of my natural compassion and understanding, and instead, call people on their bullshit. That especially includes loved ones.
2)Study more frequently and on a more daily basis, but not get to the point where I have to sacrifice everything in order to study. It makes me crazy.
3) Keep standing up for myself, and my loved ones, and people who are being treated injustly.
4) Work towards becoming a 2nd degree Wiccan High Priestess. I may not have a coven anymore, but there are people in my life who need me in the role of High Priestess/Goddess Incarnate, including me.
**update** 5) Stop sacrificing things I shouldn't be sacrificing for the people I love. My New Year mantra: Only sacrifice when the partner's need is greater than mine, or when my needs are petty and selfish.3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Neila and Ernie!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Percival, online friend - suicide, euthanasia. Aaron Graves, first lover - suicide. Walt Brake, my ex-boyfriend's dad - suicide. 2007 has been the Year of the Suicide.
5. What countries did you visit?
None other than Canada. :(
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Nothing. I want to keep building on what I already have.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Mabon, September 22nd - the night my life went haywire and I lost my Daddy.
**update** Also the night I began to love Mo. The Goddess smacked me on the head and said, "Not that one, THAT one!"8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Being in school full-time and working hard at it. Learning that you should never do anything antithetical to your nature for love.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Data entry work.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
11. What was the best thing someone bought you?
My mom got me a lightbox and a freezer full of poultry for Christmas. My roommate bought me a copy of Wicked last week. I bought myself a bunch of sex toys from marmot's big blowout sale.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Mine! For being so strong despite everything that happened to me this fall.
Mo's - for facing down so many personal demons and working hard to make a better life for himself.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
You know who you are, and you know what you did. Maybe eventually you'll stop making excuses for the horrible way you treated me, and apologize. And maybe pigs will fly too.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Money?? I had money?
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
School, having a new roommate, my new-found sexual freedom.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Breakup songs. Never Again - Kelly Clarkson. Here I Go Again On My Own - Whitesnake. Show Must Go On - Queen.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Much much happier.
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner! The breakup diet, combined with the dental diet this Christmas, which I call "the Bridget diet" (named for my anorexic ex-girlfriend). Oddly, though I keep getting thinner and my clothes are starting to fall off me, the scale doesn't register a huge change. Oh well, doesn't matter, I can fit into my leopard print jeans again.
c) richer or poorer? Richer, in money and vastly wealthy in friends and love.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Study. Play. Have sex.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Study. Cry.
20. How do you plan to spend Christmas?
I spent it being very sick passed out on a friend's couch, and visiting the Emergency room. Joy.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Yes, and though unrequited love is a bitch, semi-requited love may be even more frustrating.
**update** It isn't semi-requited anymore!22. How many one night stands?
Heh heh. None for me, exactly, but I got to watch a couple of gay one-night stands, which was even better! Watching hawt boy-on-boy action beats having sex myself - yes, I know, I am strange.
**update** I've had like, a dozen, of these hot boy-on-boy voyeuristic threesomes now. Life is good. 23. What was your favorite TV program?
American Idol, Scrubs.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I have a lot of repressed hatred of abusers from my past coming out, to the point of killing rage. Time to go to therapy again.
25. What was the best book you read?
I'm reading Wicked right now, and it's quite good.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That I can sing hard, and loud, and angry really well.
**update** Also, that I seem to have a natural talent for opera, and that singing it blasts my heart wide open.27. What did you want and get?
Lightbox. Freedom.
**update** Mo.28. What did you want and not get?
For things to get easier with school. They still haven't.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
I didn't watch a lot of films. SinCity was really good.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
29 and I spent it in Victoria with my sister.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less stress. If my computer had come on time and I didn't have to get behind in school.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I dunno. Same as always, really. Eclectic, dramatic, and very Gemini. Didn't wear skirts much.
33. What kept you sane?
My friends.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Eh. None, really.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
I'm pretty apolitical.
36. Who do you miss?
Aaron Graves. I wish I'd known he was in so much pain before he died, although I probably couldn't have helped save him. He wouldn't accept help from anybody, sadly, and he took his life. I hope he's happier now.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
Mo, Brian, and Jenn, the poly unit. My new family.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007?
Karma's a bitch, and so am I. If karma takes too long to deliver the blow, I can always kick some ass myself.
Also: As much as I'd like to make some people suffer, I must remember that having to live with themselves will do the job far more effectively than I ever could. Yes, I am angry, and bitter, and vengeful. A lifetime of being abused by people I loved will do that to me.
2007 taught me: Take No Shit, but don't be afraid to dish it when needed.
