1:
What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
I hiked the Salkantay Trail.
2:
Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Never made them for 2012. For 2013 - I want to live more purposefully. And use my Rosetta Stone at least twice a week.
3:
Did anyone close to you give birth?
No babies yet.
4:
Did anyone close to you die?
No, and I'm grateful.
5:
What countries did you visit?
Peru
6:
What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A raise.
7:
What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Jared and I graduating. Getting my first big girl job. Traveling to Peru. My twin sister getting engaged.
8:
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing graduate school.
9:
What was your biggest failure?
My lack of discipline.
10:
Did you suffer illness or injury?
No, thankfully.
11:
What was the best thing you bought?
Our cast iron skillet.
12:
Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My brother, he is making that important transition into a fully autonomous adulthood.
13:
Whose behaviour made you appalled?
Ariel's when she broke up with all the Turkey's.
14:
Where did most of your money go?
Outside of rent, utilities and things of that nature...grocery shopping probably. I didn't make any big purchases.
15:
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Gabriella getting engaged. Finding out months before and then finally watching it all unfold was really special.
16:
What song will always remind you of 2012?
Anything with Levon Helm
17:
Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
About the same on the first two, monetarily poorer on the third.
18:
What do you wish you’d done more of?
Read more, studied Spanish more, worked out more.
19:
What do you wish you’d done less of?
Overanalyzing.
20:
How did you spend Christmas?
It was my first Christmas eve not spent with my family & my first with Jared. It was also me and my families first Christmas in Richmond.
21:
Did you fall in love in 2012?
Yes, again with Jared.
22:
What was your favourite TV program?
Downton Abby and Game of Thrones.
23:
Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No.
24:
What was the best book you read?
The Game of Thrones series.
25:
What was your greatest musical discovery?
Of Monsters and Men
26:
What did you want and get?
A new bike.
27:
What did you want and not get?
The salary I wanted.
28:
What was your favourite film of this year?
Moonrise Kingdom.
29:
What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Jared and I fully moving in together.
30:
How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Cozy and Quirky?
31:
What kept you sane?
Norma & Chloe
32:
Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
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33:
What political issue stirred you the most?
More than an issue, it was our current polarity within our political system. I really realized how contrived the whole system is, and made the choice to no longer cast votes for the better of two evils.
34:
Who did you miss?
My brother.
35:
Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
Disagreements don't need to be symptomatic of larger problems. They are not necessarily characteristic of something larger.
I go through phases. Somedays I feel like the person I’m supposed to be, and then somedays, I turn into no one at all. There is both me and my silhouette. I hope that on the days you find me and all I am are darkened lines, you still are willing to be near me.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
Yvon Chouinard (via soul-surfer)
