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Picked this up from Writebrained.

1.    What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
-went on a trip with my sister
-paid my own medical bills/set up my own cellphone account
-questioned the belief that I'm untouchable
-Went kayaking!
-Made plans and stuck to them.
-Took a cycling class.
-Walked a half-marathon
-Felt comfortable outside my comfort zone
-Yelled at my mom
-Went to a concert
-Played a console video game online
-Filled up a book with illustrations
-Took a semester off school
-Facebook (meh)
-Shoveled snow (off our roof, no less)
-Interacted with a shopping cart I took a picture of.
-Ate (sampled, really) tongue, shrimp and a few other food I'd rather not try again.
-Fed a cow
-Been on a subway
-Been seriously and completely lost
-Saw the Atlantic ocean (sort of. what you could see from inside a bay anyway)
-Gotten drive-thru fast food by myself.
-yoga
-held a few hours old baby 

2.    Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Maybe? I wrote them down but I don't want to check. I'm over it if I didn't.

3.    Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nik and Beth had babies! Babies!!!

4.    Did anyone close to you die?
No, thankfully.

5.    What countries did you visit?
The..um...United States?

6.    What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
The belief that everything will be ok.

7.    What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 4th, when Kenna went to California to see family and was instead diagnosed with cancer.

8.    What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Becoming more self-reliant.

9.    What was your biggest failure?
Failing to be strong in the face of tragedy and difficulty.

10.    Did you suffer illness or injury?
Now that I think about it, I don't think I did...

11.    What was the best thing you bought?
Probably my camera. No, probably the Woot Lights.

12.    Whose behavior merited celebration?
Nik. She had a baby during the worst time you could have a baby. And my mom for helping everyone out even though she could have used some herself.

13.    Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Library management. Lost all respect for them.

14.    Where did most of your money go?
I haven't organized my Mint.com account to detail everything I bought, but a good amount went to picture frames...

15.    What did you get really, really, really excited about?
If it was at a better time and I was in a better mood it would have been the trip to Massachusetts.

16.    What song will always remind you of 2008?
Chaos-Mute Math. And after reading my sister's list I'll also add Over the Rainbow and the cat rendition of The Broken Road by Nate and myself.

17.    Compared to this time last year, are you:
a)    happier or sadder?
sadder
b)    thinner or fatter?
fatter
c)    richer or poorer?
poorer (yeesh. great way to start the year)

18.    What do you wish you’d done more of?
Working out, spending time with friends

19.    What do you wish you’d done less of?
I'm going to go with Writebrained and say "moping".

20.    How did you spend Christmas?
Doing nothing at all, and that's how I like it.

21.    Did you fall in love in 2008?
I don't pretend to know what love is.

22.    What was your favorite TV program?
Chuck, Pushing Daisies, How I Met Your Mother and Psych. And Burn Notice. Aaaand I think that's it. Oh Big Bang Theory. Monk was good this year too, also....

23.    Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I hate your mom.

24.    What was the best book you read?
All the Twilight books. MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. But seriously, it's hard to remember all the good ones I read. Probably the Dumas Club or Illustrating Childrens Books

25.    What was your greatest musical discovery?
Mute Math and Kenna (um, a different Kenna than the one with cancer)

26.    What did you want and get?
My camera, and the best food I ever had in Massachusetts.

27.    What did you want and not get?
An XBox 360. Only thing on my Christmas list too.

28.    What was your favorite film of this year?
I thought this was going to be very hard. Then I remembered Wall-E.

29.    What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Had a rock band party at Marcie's house with AJ, Autumn, Jennifer and my sister. 23.

30.    What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Graduating college.

31.    How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Started off good with the momentum built in 07, then it gradually became apathetic again near the end.

32.    What kept you sane?
Nothing.

33.    Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't.

34.    What political issue stirred you the most?
Mostly the immaturity of democrats and republicans treating the election like a sporting event.

35.    Who did you miss?

Uh, I dunno. Eric? He left last year and comes back next year. But really, I miss Nate the most. (And by Nate I mean Bethany)

36.    Who was the best new person you met?
Autumn! And not..you know...because she was the only new person I met.

37.    Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
You can't wait for life to turn out ok.

Ok not really.

If I was still in a bad mood it would probably be from from Ok Go's 'The House Wins'

"If evil were a lesser breed than justice all these years
The righteous would have freed the world of sin
The house wins, oh, the house always wins."

But since I'm a little more hopeful than that, let's go with Ingrid Michaelson and Be Ok

"Open me up and you will see
I'm a gallery of broken hearts
I'm beyond repair, let me be
And give me back my broken parts"