1. What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before?
pull up a tile floor and put down another (small 4×4 area)
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Did not make one and do not plan on making any for 2018
3. Did anyone close to you get married?
No
4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
5. Did anyone close to you die?
No
6. What countries did you visit?
None
7. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017?
friends to do things with regularly
8. What dates from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
March 24-28 – moving from NY to MD, driving back and forth many times
June 30 – house settlement
9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
surviving the process of buying a house
10. What was your biggest failure?
not exercising enough and being to sedimentary
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
12. What was the best thing you bought?
our house
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Tom, Dad, Don – drove to NY to help us pack the moving truck and get us to MD
14. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A&G Plumtree Apt management – no idea what they are doing and have no desire to be doing what they are doing
15. Where did most of your money go?
house downpayment
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
owning our first home
17. What song will always remind you of 2017?
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?
exercise – having trouble finding a program now that we have moved
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
sitting around
21. How will you be spending Christmas?
with family
22. Did you fall in love in 2017?
Craig since 2007
23. How many one-night stands?
None
24. What was your favorite tv program?
This is Us
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
again, sadly, did not read any books this year, need to work on this
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bose wireless speakers
28. What did you want and get?
to no longer have to pay rent
29. What did you want and not get?
a vacation for just Craig and I
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Baby Driver
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
40 – Craig planned a surprise party at a restaurant with Mom, Don, Tom, Sara, Emma, Darcey and Erik
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
winning a large lotto jackpot
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2017?
comfy pants and t-shirt
34. What kept you sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Finn Jones
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
anything and everything Trump
37. Who did you miss?
38. Did you re-connect with anyone in 2017?
39. Who was the best new person you met?
40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2017:
41. Are you ready for 2018?
Yes