The 2010 Retrospective Meme

[poire_gourmande]

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Quit my job after only 3 days of training.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
My resolutions for last year:
-Exercise
Did at the beginning but stopped early in the year.
-Read a lot.
I did read a lot!
- Find a job I like.
I did it!
- Discover some new activities
Went to a couple museums, worked in one, traveled a bit, but I'm kinda short on the money, so it kinda failed. I went on a cruise on St. Lawrence river though!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
My own province ;)

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More money, more cetainty about what I want to do with my life.

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I don't even know the exact date, but I'll always be grateful for that day I went for a coffee with someone and we manage to fix our almost broken friendship. She's now one of the most important people in my life.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
It's a tie between growing the balls to quit my shitty job and finishing my bac for real, this time.

9. What was your biggest failure?
My lack of motivation for exercising.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Some colds now and then (especially NOW)

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Two pairs of 10$ winter boots, and all those books I found in thrift shops.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Bobby's for putting up with me through thick and thin, and that friend from question #7.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
That other friend, who stopped talking to me altogether without granting me an real explanation.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Food and alcohol. I feel ashamed =_=

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Glee, How I Met Your Mother, travelling, and Christmas.

16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Mamma Mia - Abba

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? About the same
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same, according to my Christmas dress
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Savings

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Wasting my time in a shitty job.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I've had some parties with my friends, I spent the 24th with my parents and boyfriend, I'll have a party on the 31st with my friends, and I'll be at my sister's on the 1st.

22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
With Glee.

23. How many one-night stands?
None

24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Glee, How I Met Your Mother

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate him, but that guy from question 13 isn't far from it.

26. What was the best book you read?
I read a lot, and I'm proud of it, but I don't really have a favorite. I really liked Le Baron Perché, by Italo Calvino, and Geisha, by Arthur Golden.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Glee

28. What did you want and get?
A job I like

29. What did you want and not get?
A job I like who pays well

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Deathly Hallows

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Ated sushis and partied with my friends, I turned 23.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Certainty about what's next.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Dresses or tunics, leggings, boots, flowers in my hair.

34. What kept you sane?
Bobby.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Darren Criss.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I'm ashamed to say 2010 was a year when I lost interest in the actuality.

37. Who did you miss?
That guy from question 13 and that girl from question 7

38. Who was the best new person you met?
One of my best friends' new girlfriend. I don't really know her that much yet, but I can tell she's going to be a great friend.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
I'd rather be happy at a job that pays less than be miserable but have money.