It’s here! The New Year Review Questionnaire! I made a few tweaks from the original. You could do it too, it can be a good or fun way to look back on your year. Although no one really wants to look back at these past years. Sigh, Let’s do this anyway.
1. What did you do in 2024
that you’d never done before?
Apply for
Medicaid, zero stars. Do not recommend
2. Did you keep your new
year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I have finished painting
the walls. I have not even considered the doors.
Debt reduction plan is
working but shhhh, the universe will hear.
My resolutions for 2024:
1. Paint the doors, inside and out
2. Debt reduction the Sequel. One more year left, all going well.
3. Read and writing more. Reading more, yes. Writing…well…sigh.
My resolutions for 2025:
1. Just get through the year. I have low expectations for anything good.
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4. Did anyone close to you
give birth?
YES! My niece grew from scratch my grandnibling
4. Did anyone close to you
die?
In a shocking twist, my
mother.
Putting my father-in-law
into a facility felt like a death
5. What states or countries
did you visit?
Oh Canada and no other
states but have traveled from one end of Western Washington to the other
6. What would you like to
have in 2025 that you lacked in 2024?
I am on the struggle bus
even contemplating 2025. Little kid me
had such high hopes for this specific year, life was supposed to be like the
Jetsons by now
7. What dates from 2024
will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
August – Entering my father-in-law
into a facility
November – the death of my
mom and our democracy. She didn’t cause
it, it just coincided.
8. What was your biggest
achievement of the year?
Medicaid Approval
9. What was your biggest
failure?
I cannot think of one...I did the best I could last year.
10. Did you suffer illness
or injury?
I
think I made it out unscathed.
11. What was the best
thing you bought?
Third
monitor for my desk.
12. What is the best thing
you created? It can be a spreadsheet,
organizational thing; it could be a human!
A
cozy office. It’s always been the room
where all the car memorabilia, my books, and storage lived. Now it has been
painted, new curtains, organized, added a rocking chair. It’s now cozy instead
of cluttered and haphazard.
13. Whose behavior merited
celebration?
I
got nothing…my faith in humanity has been diminished.
14. Whose behavior made
you appalled and depressed?
This will be my answer
perhaps for eternity: The entire GOP & its brethren
15. Where did most of your
money go?
Ugh.
Bills
16. What did you get
really excited about?
It just wasn’t
that kind of year again. I was mildly - but skeptically - excited about the
election.
17. What song will always
remind you of 2024?
Pink Skies – Zach
Bryan
Superman – Luke Combs
Down Bad – Taylor Swift
18. Compared to this time
last year, are you:
– happier or sadder? Gah, I don’t even know. Sadder.
– thinner or fatter? Same somehow.
– richer or poorer? Neither but tipping back toward
the richer side
19. What do you wish you’d
done more of?
Writing. I always wish I spent more time writing
20. What do you wish you’d
done less of?
Paperwork
21. How did you spend
Christmas and the New Year?
Eve – Having dinner at the facility with my
father-in-law
Day – Next door with the fam
Eve – Had Olive
Garden take-out, watched a movie and watched the Needle drop.
Day – Gloriously
nothing. I read a book.
22. Did you fall in love
in 2024?
Every day.
23. What was your favorite
TV program?
Newsroom (I know,
I’m very late in watching it)
24. Do you hate anyone now
that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope
24. What was the best book
you read?
I’m
still in the Meh with reading.
Tom
Lake went immediately into the neighborhood library.
I
finished, sort of, the Edilean Series by Jude Deveraux, which I did enjoy
I’m
enjoying The Secret History of Witches when I can actually sit and read.
25. What was your greatest
musical discovery?
At risk of
sounding like a pre-teen: Tortured Poet’s Society is a Master Class of an
album.
It is this centuries
Joni Mitchell Blue album
26. What did you want and
get?
Working from home for the foreseeable future
27. What did you want and
not get?
Gosh, I can’t think of a single thing. We are
also at that time of our life.
Well, also, I really
wanted a certain former “president” in prison.
28. What was your favorite
film of this year?
I watched To All
The Boys I Loved Before and the sequels. I really enjoyed it. Netflix thinks I’m
an angsty teenager. Whose to say that I’m
not.
29. What did you do on
your birthday, and how old were you?
56 – Slept in, went to
lunch with Kevin & hung out in his office, browsed an antique shop I’d not
been to before.
40. What one thing would
have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Tiny
bit less death
41. How would you describe
your personal fashion concept in 2024?
This is a repeat:
Lazy…Yoga pants and hoodies or tshirts, no shoes unless walkies
42. What kept you sane?
Stupid little walks for my stupid little
mental health:
44. Which celebrity/public
figure did you fancy the most?
44. What political issue
stirred you the most?
The
Election
45. Who did you miss?
My mother-in-law, still
46. Who was the best new
person you met?
Being
a feral hermit, I don’t usually meet new people now.
47. Tell us a valuable
life lesson you learned in 2024
This
sounds fatalistic: Nothing is in our control.
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