| December 28th, 2019 |
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1. What did you do in 2019 that you'd never done before?
Picked a lock.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't make any and won't.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not super-close.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes.
5. What countries did you visit?
I didn't.
6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2019?
Social contact with people who don't live in my house other than my mother.
7. What dates from 2019 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
25th of November. 5th of December. In a better way, the 19th of October and 30th of November.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Still being here at the end of it, I think.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not seeing Mitzy sooner.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Of course.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A ring.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya. myfyr. Steve Smith.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Most politicians.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Outside of, like, basic living expenses? Ring.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
A video game wedding.
16. What song will always remind you of 2020?
Ride of the Valkyries.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Both, in different ways. I'm still grieving, but a couple of sources of deep sadness have been converted to happiness.
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same. Maybe slightly thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? About the same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Visiting Mitzy.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being sick. Not visiting Mitzy. Being anxious. Grieving.
20. How will you spend Christmas?
See previous post.
21. What LJ users did you meet for the first time?
"LJ"
22. Did you fall in love in 2020?
I did not.
23. How many one-night stands?
Ha.
24. What was your favourite TV program?
I don't watch a lot of TV. The Untamed, probably.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate is such a strong word.
26. What was the best book you read?
A book of collected texts of WW2-era radio broadcasts by the RAF.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing comes to mind.
28. What did you want and get?
Relationship commitment.
29. What did you want and not get?
To talk to Mitzy again. Ever.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I don't watch a lot of movies.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 39. I spent the day at home, not doing much. Tried not to feel shit about how few people sent me birthday wishes of any kind.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Talking to Mitzy.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2019?
"These are clothes."
34. What kept you sane?
velithya and myfyr.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
n/a
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
"Why is my country keeping refugees in concentration camps?"
37. Who did you miss?
Mitzy.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Lucas (age 8 months).
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019:
Loving someone and being loved makes painful things more bearable. The flip side is that if forced to endure those things alone, the absence feels like an open wound.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I got through all of last year, and I'm here
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