1. What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before?
lived with someone, Craig
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
did not make one, do not plan on making one this year
3. Did anyone close to you get married?
Tom and Sara – Oct 11
Jackie and Matt – Sept 29
4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
5. Did anyone close to you die?
No
6. What countries did you visit?
none this year
7. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
friends in NY
8. What dates from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
End of Jan/Beginning of Feb – Sophie was missing for 18 days
Last week of March – move/drive across country to NY
Oct 10-12 – Tom and Sara’s Wedding
9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
moving across country and finding an apt in NY
10. What was your biggest failure?
not exploring our new city more
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
12. What was the best thing you bought?
wood to build the wine rack we built
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
courts in 19 states allowing gay marriage
14. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
drivers of NYC, they have to be the most impatient
15. Where did most of your money go?
rent
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
moving back to the east coast
17. What song will always remind you of 2014?
Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake – Love Never Felt so Good
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
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
sleep
21. How will you be spending christmas?
in MD with Craig
22. Did you fall in love in 2014?
Craig since 2007
23. How many one-night stands?
zero
24. What was your favorite tv program?
Once Upon a Time, Agents of SHIELD
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
sadly, I don’t think I read any books this year
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
not really a discovery but setting it up correctly – using the airport express to play music wirelessly in more than one room
28. What did you want and get?
to move back to the east coast
29. What did you want and not get?
a trip to the WV farm, it was sold
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Dallas Buyers Club
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
37, dinner with Craig
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 2014?
jeans, t-shirt, hoodie
34. What kept you sane?
Craig
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Michael Socha again
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
gay issues again
37. Who did you miss?
wish I got to see my Dad more often
38. Did you re-connect with anyone in 2014?
Pete and Heather
39. Who was the best new person you met?
did not really meet anyone new
40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014:
the older you get the harder it is to make friends
41. Are you ready for 2015?
Yes