My 2006

2006

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
School musical, central australia trip, saw Tim Freedman play, bought a ticket to BDO 2007, OD'd on caffine, surfed on my own surf board

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't keep them whatever they were. I think I'll try to make realistic ones and stick to them

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, maybe an aunt or cousin did... I can't keep track. Oh, Marama's Aunt did! I've seen her more times than my relatives anyway!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully, no.

5. What countries did you visit?
The desert. It's a whole different continent out there.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
A job, good school results, overall happiness

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I didn't do anything overly memorable.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Quitting swimming.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Going back to swimming and fucking up my dancing year and concert

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
My skin has been a real bitch especially of late and i now have an iron deficiency.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Little Cloud

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Anyone who doesn't hate me right now

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
I think most of us know who that is

14. Where did most of your money go?
Coffee... I wish I could say more but that's about it

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
This years been a bit of a dud year

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Beauty in Me - The Whitlams

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder – Probably Sadder
b) thinner or fatter – Fatter
c) richer or poorer – Poorer
Haha hopefully things will start to look up next year

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sport and staying in touch with friends

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being slothful

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Xmas at our family friends house then went home and slept and watched Empire Records.

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
I think I realised what I'd had all along

22. How many one-night stands?
None

23. What was your favourite TV programme?
Friends, Gilmore Girls, House

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hating takes a bit too much effort, I went through disliking a few more people, now it's just indifference

25. What was the best book you read?
I Escaped Auschwitz

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Billy Joel, I've also listened to a bit more Augie March

27. What did you want and get?
Freedom and spare time, bathers, more dance classes

28. What did you want and not get?
Satisfaction with freedom I had from quitting swimmng, more sleep

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
None stick out.. I liked Step Up I guess

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 15 and we won chorals

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More time and being able to continue with swimming with one of three of my old coaches

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Whatever I can buy with money left over from other expenditures

33. What kept you sane?
Ari and Jess

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
The guy from Bend it like Bekham

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocal

36. Who did you miss?
A lot of people

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Ari and Jess

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Time waits for nobody and happiness is in knowing everything has a way of working itself out

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
So no one told you life was going to be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, you're love life's DOA.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
Well, it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.

I'll be There for you - Rembrandts