2004

Mutterings continued.

This was nicked from Lee Battersby's blog.

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?

Arranged a funeral for a parent.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No and no, I gave up making NY resolutions a looooong time ago.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
One of the directors I PA for had a bub in October.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
My Mother

5. What countries did you visit?
England, Scotland, Wales.

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Security from jumping every time the phone rings in case it's the hospital informing me that a parent has been taken ill.

7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
19 October, the day mum died.
25 October, her funeral. I think the 'why' is pretty evident.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Driving to and from Stratford to Portmeirion in a day and actually seeing something of The Village.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not spending enough time in The Village.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Just the usual - asthma and high blood pressure.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Manfred!!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My mother's

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
George Bush/John Howard, it's a tie.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Into my trip OS.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
I don't tend to get really, really, etc excited over much, I'm afraid. Finally picking Manfred up and driving him home was cool. As was learning that my mate Ashley plans to visit in 2006 (there! It's in my blog so it MUST happen!)

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Hmmm, dunno about this year. In 2000 it was Robbie William's Millenium (heard it all over the UK while driving around) and in 2002 it was Black Coffee's Black Coffee (it's the bit I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else but here, heard while driving from Middlesbrough to Huddersfield, that summed up my mood exactly. Mark Knopfler's Why Aye Man also summed up 2002 for me.)

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Def. sadder.
ii. thinner or fatter?
'bout the same, sadly.
iii. richer or poorer?
Def. poorer!

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Travelling.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Not travelling.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With the family.

21. Who did you meet for the first time?
Simon and Grant.


22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Nah!

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Little Britain, Green Wing, Mythbusters.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope.

26. What was the best book you read?
Going Postal.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
None really.

28. What did you want and get?
To see Derek Jacobi on stage.

29. What did you want and not get?
To see Paris again.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Harry Potter 3. Last year it was RotK.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
47, spent with friends.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Pretty obvious really.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
What's a fashion concept?

34. What kept you sane?
Friends (NOT the tv series).

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
David Suchet's Hercule Poirot - I want his tussie mussie. Ahem.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The ALP supporting the government's stand on same sex marriages. Wrote to head office and told them I wasn't voting Labor in the forthcoming election because of it. Not that I ended up voting.....

37. Who did you miss?
Mum.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I don't meet new people, just tatty old ones, tee hee. Probably the friend of B and B owner in Stratford upon Avon.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
Never leave anything unsaid.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Nothing comes to mind that won't make me burst into tears.

So there you go.