This is my third year doing this quiz.  It’s a great way to look back on the past year and look forward to the new year.  2007, I hail thee.

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Bought my own domain, took a driving test, got a permanent job.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t lose any weight, but perhaps I resolved to get a job and get my license last year [I can't remember].  I will make resolutions for the new year and whenever I feel a new resolution is needed.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No and I thank God for that.

5. What countries did you visit?
USA.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
A car, a clean room, a boyfriend.

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
October 19, when I failed my driving test and October 31 when I got it.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting a permanent job and paying off my student loans.  Hurray to being debt free!

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not losing weight.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I hurt my back terribly back in July, lifting a box of scrapbooking stuff and had to take two days off from work because of it and spent several weeks recuperating.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A laser printer, a digital camera.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My parents, for celebrating 30 years of marriage this past August.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed disappointed?
Well I was neither apalled nor depressed, but I was disappointed by a friend I had met on one of them Nigerian forums.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Craft supplies, clothing.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting my own domain, going to Maryland!  By myself!  On a bus!

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Hips don’t lie, Shakira.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
thinner or fatter? Fatter!
richer or poorer? Richer!

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Saving money, travelling, exercising.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Pondering instead of doing.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Well Christmas has come and gone and I spent it sleeping, then opening gifts, then having a rousing conversation with our dinner guest and then sleeping some more.

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
No.

22. How many one-night stands?
Zero.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
I didn’t have one.

24. Do you dislike anyone now that you didn’t dislike this time last year?
Yes.

25. What was the best book you read?
Dr. Phil’s Love Smart.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
James Blunt.

27. What did you want and get?
A printer, a digital camera, a domain.

28. What did you want and not get?
A car, a colour printer, a new body.

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn’t see any super awesome movies.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 27 and spent my birthday in Maryland.  My birthday was on Father’s Day this year so I got to eat both a Father’s Day cake [my host iin MD was a new father] and a birthday cake.  When I arrived back in town, we went to the same restaurant as the year before [my favourite restaurant was booked], and then to a club afterwards, just like the year before.  I love dancing.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Losing some weight, I mean making a lifestyle change.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Same as last year:  uninspired.

33. What kept you sane?
Sleeping, deep breaths, blogging and God when I remembered to pray.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.  What a waste of my time!

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Again, none.  I am not the least bit politically inclined.

36. Who did you miss?
Melanie.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Vera!

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006?
You need to live your life with a good balance of cautiousness and adventure; balance is key. 
I cannot control anyone’s life but my own, so it should be my primary focus.

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

Because you never know where life is gonna take you
And you can’t change where you’ve been
But today, I have the opportunity to choose

Here I am now looking at 30 and I got so much to say
Gotta get this off of my chest, I gotta let it go today
I was always too concerned about what everybody would think
But I can’t live for everybody; I gotta live my life for me, Yea

I’ve reached a fork in the road of my life where
Ain’t nothing gonna happen unless I decide

And I choose, to be the best that I can be
I choose, to be authentic in everything
I do, my past don’t dictate who
I am, I choose

India Arie, I Choose

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