1. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before?
got glasses (bifocals at that)
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Did not make one
3. Did anyone close to you get married?
No
4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Erin – Sawyer born June 15
5. Did anyone close to you die?
Aunt Annette – November 8th
Uncle Dave – November 13th
6. What countries did you visit?
None
7. What would you like to have in 2024 that you lacked in 2023?
more energy
8. What dates from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Feb 25-Mar 4: FL trip to Disney and visit Dad and Ms Deb
June 24-July 1: SML Trip
Aug 20-27 Duck, NC
9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
10. What was your biggest failure?
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
smashed thumb in car door
12. What was the best thing you bought?
A/C for the house
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
14. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
15. Where did most of your money go?
the house
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
17. What song will always remind you of 2023?
18. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? same
b) thinner or fatter? same
c) richer or poorer? same
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
napping
21. How will you be spending Christmas?
in MD with family
22. Did you fall in love in 2023?
same as every year, with Craig since 2008
23. How many one-night stands?
None, need to find a new question here for next year
24. What was your favorite tv program?
Bodies on Netflix
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
finished the Tales of the City series
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
28. What did you want and get?
to get rid of the window a/c units
29. What did you want and not get?
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Barbie was fun
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
46
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2023?
workout clothes
34. What kept you sane?
Craig
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jonathan Bailey
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
37. Who did you miss?
38. Did you re-connect with anyone in 2023?
No
39. Who was the best new person you met?
40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2023:
41. Are you ready for 2024?
Yes