I haven't got anything pleasant to say and I know nobody likes to hear non-stop bad news from anyone

[shiraphant]

1.] What did you do in 2007 that you have never done before?
Voluntarily wore brown clothing.

[2.] Did you keep all of last years resolutions?
I didn't make any.

[3.] Have you any resolutions for next year?
Nope.

[4.] What countries did you visit?
Just Scotland.

[5.] What would you like to have in 2008 that you didn't have in 2007?
Some sort of financial security would be nice. - Yeah, that thing. Also a viable pregnancy that ends in the birth of a live healthy child, but that's been consigned to the "yeah, right" heap.

[6.] What date in 2007 will remain etched in your memory?
April 12th.

[7.] What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into Fat Acceptance/Health At Every Size via Kate Harding's Shapely Prose and realising that it's okay for me to be fat, and that I didn't have to torture myself by starving myself or only eating food I despise.

[8.] What was your biggest failure?
I failed to make any money except for the earnings from the painting Jenny commissioned. Oh, I also failed to learn how to make clothes.

[9.] Did you suffer any illness or injury?
Ongoing illness and the diagnosis of a previously unidentified one.

[10.] What was the best thing you bought?
Luuuuuulaaaaaaa! She is a pointy little cat but she is also purry and sweet.

[11.] Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Oh, god, too many people to mention.

[12.] Where did most of your money go?
Oh, you know, stupid stuff like food and bills and rent.

[13.] What did you get really really really excited about?
Getting Lula! Going to see Tori Amos.

[14.] What songs will always remind you of 2007?
I have no idea. Probably the latest NMA album.

[15.] Compared to this time last year are you:
[A] Fatter or thinner? Fatter
[B] Happier or sadder? Sadder
[C] Richer or poorer? Poorer

[16.] What do you wish you'd done more of?
Peak oil prep, knitting, painting.

[17.] What do you wish you'd done less of?
Grieving. Being depressed. Having migraines. Hospital appointments. Dealing with idiots.

[18.] How will you be spending Christmas?
At my mum's

[19.] Which LJ users did you meet for the first time?
I can't remember all of them so I shan't put any for fear of offending people.

[20.] Did you fall in love in 2006?
Never fell out of love

[21.] How many one night stands?
None. Thank god I'm past all that.

[22] What was your favourite TV show?
Buzzcocks. It will NEVER stop being weird to see Simon on the telly.

[23.] Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hrrmmm. Yes.

[24.] What was/were the best books you read?
Piece By Piece by Tori Amos and Ann Powers, and The Party's Over by Richard Heinberg.

[25.] What was your greatest musical discovery?
Didn't really have one.

[26.] What did you want and get?
A kitten.

[27.] What did you want and not get?
A baby.

[28.] What was your favourite film this year?
All of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[29.] What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
I stayed at home with James, I think. I was 27.

[30.] What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Viable pregnancy.

[31.] How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Stuff that fits and doesn't make me look bilious/flushed.

[32.] What kept you sane?
James, friends, cats. Not that I was sane the whole time.

[33.] Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
Viggo Mortensen. Beth Ditto.

[34.] Which political issue stirred you the most?
All sorts of stuff. Israel, obviously, but also the complete lack of give-a-shit about climate change and peak oil, and also various feminist issues.

[35.] Who did you miss?
Melissa. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN A WHOLE NOTHER COUNTRY? Chris yalith. My Tess.

[36.] Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
It is okay to be fat. I don't have to hate myself for it, or starve myself, or force myself to eat stuff that disgusts me.

[37.] Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
"the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters and no pearls" - A Long December, Counting Crows.

Comments

[miyo-chan.livejournal.com]

Number 20 made me smile.
Also, because I have been blithering about the two of you in one way or another all week. Why have you been on my mind ladyface, eh? Eh?

I love you, your beautiful body, your boobs of amazing, your face that looks like its been carved out of marble, your Wizzband (husband of the wizarding kind), your kittings and in the words of Justin Timbersnake, your brain.

I have cat in haus. He be of the strange mewling kind and tortoiseshell back. He is named Flea and he persists in resting atop my bosom.

I miss you xxxxx

[tomatorama.livejournal.com]

IAWTC (birthday!)

[adamosity.livejournal.com]

april 12th was your wedding, right?

My brother is getting married on april 12th. ;p

[tomatorama.livejournal.com]

KITTIN KITTIN KITTIN KITTIN
"pointy little cat" awwwww!
I hug you!

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

"Buzzcocks. It will NEVER stop being weird to see Simon on the telly."

Oo how do you know of him previously?
He used to go to school with my cousin, and I remember him in their school production of Little Shop Of Horrors. Out in Ilford, being a good Yiddische boy.
I do like him on telly now very much.

[redshira.livejournal.com]

Yup, I went to school with him as well - primary school and sixth form. We were pretty good friends in sixth form (he was going to be the one to give me away when I was planning a sooper sekrit wedding which and I'm annoyed that I lost touch with him around 2003 - I actually really miss him and I can't contact him now because it would look starfuckerish.

Who's your cousin? I was in that production of Little Shop as Audrey! You came to see that? Dude.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

Heh were you?! I vaguely remember the play as being very good, well done!
Am trying to remember what my cousin did in it. She's a bit younger than you if you are the same age as Simon Amstell, she's 22 now I think... or 23? I'm rubbish at remembering all my younger relative's ages.
She's called Corinne.

Small world innit, wouldn't like to dust it though etc etc...