It’s here! The New Year Review Questionnaire! 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 2025 that you’d never done before?
Had to call a plumber. The family & friends possess many skills and plumbing is not one of them. $835 later and I don’t have to think about plumbing ever again. (knock wood)
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
- Paint doors – Nope, I can’t decide on a color
- Debt Reduction – also Nope. This is the Year of Broken Things
- Writing & Reading – Improved, not achieved
My resolutions for 2026:
1. Just get through the year. I have low expectations for anything good.
2. Paint the doors, I’m trying to avoid resale grey and I like sage or black but I dunno
3. Write more (no, really)
4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, we are out of that particular milestone for a while
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Friends but no one close. Celebrity deaths this year however…sigh.
Wait, close call for my father-in-law over Christmas…it could still happen.
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. We were supposed to go to the Oregon Coast but we just haven’t made that happen.
6. What would you like to have in 2026 that you lacked in 2025?
Peace. In all of the ways.
7. What dates from 2025 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Kevin running a personal best at the track and all of our friends there to watch and celebrate with us.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
This won’t make sense to some, I finished Monica’s Closet. This has been a want and a to-do for literal years. (bloggity post upcoming, stay tuned)
9. What was your biggest failure?
Writing and debt reduction. So much fail
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Another laser surgery on one eye. The other eye will be done sometime in 2026
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Honda CRV. It just made everything so much easier. Who knew that I would finally age out of driving a truck….wait, that was in 2024. Ummm, then nothing.
12. What is the best thing you created? It can be a spreadsheet, organizational thing; it could be a human!
Along with Monica’s Closet, I have been working on making the office cozy. I’m nearly there.
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Kevin, for keeping it all together when the world keeps throwing punches
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 2025?
The Big Goodbye - AJR
Would if I Could – Ernest
I am Not Okay – Jelly Roll
18. Compared to this time last year, are you:
– happier or sadder? Sadder. And Angrier.
– thinner or fatter? Same somehow.
– richer or poorer? Poorer but still remarkably lucky
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Writing. I always wish that I had spent more time writing
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Paperwork & phone calls
21. How did you spend Christmas and the New Year?
- Eve – At the hospital then at home. We had cereal for dinner.
- Day – Next door with the fam and it was lovely, despite it all.
- Eve – Home, low key
- Day – Home, low key
22. Did you fall in love in 2026?
Every day.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Shrinking
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope, not that I'll discuss here. lolsigh.
24. What was the best book you read?
Jane Eyre. I had read it years ago then joined my BFF’s family’s book club. I’d forgotten how much I like that book.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Greylan West
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 “president” in prison.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
I don’t really watch new movies anymore. The Life List on Netflix was good.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
57 – I did nothing. No chores, no work, just ran two errands in the pouring down rain then read/slept/watched television all day.
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 2026?
This is a repeat: Lazy…Yoga pants and hoodies or tshirts, no shoes unless walkies
42. What kept you sane?
Walkies with Lucy. 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. The new IT guy at work is nice, I guess. lol
47. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025
It can always get worse.
