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1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
Well, I could list all those things like winding up in a psych ward, an inpatient rehab, and making a record number of trips to ER, but that’s just depressing, isn’t it?
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think I made any New Year’s resolutions. This year my New Year’s resolution is no more trips to ER
3. What countries did you visit?
None
4. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
Continuous sobriety and ego strength.
5. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?
It’s kind of a blur – unemployment and too much drinking will do that to you. I will probably never forget March 6-7 though. And there are plenty of eventful things I’ll never forget either
6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not giving up on DC – I didn’t run back to Jersey, despite being tempted to do so many times (Getting offered my old job back, being angsty and a mess at the end of October). I stuck it out here, and I forced myself to go out and be social, and I found a job. Although the life I’m creating is in Alexandria, and not DC proper. Believe me, this is not what I planned, but this little corner is good for me.
7. What was your biggest failure?
Drinking too much and doing stupid/destructive things while drunk
8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Lots of black and blues and hangovers/withdrawals.
9. What was the best thing you bought?
The best thing I did was hire movers to haul my stuff from DC to Alexandria, because they were awesomely efficent
10. Whose behavior merited celebration?
So many people.
Jill-IAN: For continuing to make me laugh hysterically at the craziest things, and, as she did 5 years ago, refusing to let me mope.
Joe: For always knowing the right thing to say and being on my side even when I’m wrong.
Ellie: For listening to me and encouraging me and sending me a plane ticket to visit her at the height of my drama and angst and weepiness. (Even though I didn’t get to use said plane ticket. Ellie should use it to come visit me instead. Hint. Hint. Hint.)
Charlotte: For being my twin from across the ocean.
Various Message Board of Note People, who I won’t list for fear of leaving someone out, who read my angsty-whiny posts and responded with support every single time.
Keithers: For being understanding, for taking care of things while I was away from DC, for looking after me even though it wasn’t his job and I sometimes resented it, and for being the best roommate ever, even when I was being the worst.
The Roommate: For giving me a place to stay when I had nowhere to go and removing 10,000 tons of stress, and for being the best roommate ever, even when I was being the worst.
Brent: No words necessary. He is my best friend.
Basically I have amazing people in my life. I am very lucky.
11. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
First and foremost – my own. Hundreds of times. More minor – occasionally co-workers at the Job-That-Wasn’t-2.0.
12. What did you get really, really, really excited about??
Moving to Alexandria. Finding a new job.
13. What song will always remind you of 2011??
The entire Taylor Swift album “Mine,’ particularly the song Long Live, several songs that the girls in rehab played incessently (Firework, Turn on the Lights, and One Step At A Time), White Horse, also Taylor Swift (“cause I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairlytale”), Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars, Until The Night, Billy Joel, Bend and Not Break, Dashboard Confessional, The Way You Loved Me, Taylor Swift, Songs Like These, Carrie Underwood, Spring Street, Dar Williams,
14. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Thanks to the last couple weeks, happier.
15. What do you wish you’d done more of?
I wish I had socialized more and gotten out of the Glover Park place more.
16. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Drink
17. How will you be spending Christmas?
Jewishly
18. Did you fall in love in 2011?
No.
19. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No.
20. What was the best book you read?
Middlemarch, George Eliot. A classic I’d never read.
21. What was your greatest musical discovery?
N/A
22. What did you want and get?
I got myself fired from my job instead of having to quit (well not exactly), I got a new place to live that is way, way, way better than Glover Park, I wanted to be more social, and I am, and I wanted a new job, and I got that. I am crossing my fingers that this isn’t another case of getting what I want and then watching it all blow up in my face.
23. What did you want and not get?
Sigh. It was unwise to want what I thought I wanted in the first place.
24. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
My birthday was uneventful, but celebratory. It fell on the same day as my parents’ “supper club” with the psuedo family. I turned 28. I’m going to be 30 before I know it – shoot me in the head.
25. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I can’t think of anything. Well, I can – but, anything to happen differently would mean I wouldn’t be exactly where I am right now, and I think I am finally, finally in a good place. So, for all the disappointments, I’m very grateful to having been dropped into Alexandria for living/job.
26. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
I was unemployed for months – so I wore a lot of whimsical pajama pants
27. What kept you sane?
This is a trick question since I went completely insane in 2011. What helped was my parents, Brent, Keithers, The Roommate, and MBON. Oh, and Xanax.
28. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most??
Other than the usual stand-bys (Christopher Meloni, as Elliot Stabler, Josh Lyman, Jon Stewart), I did develop a thing for the local weatherman, as well as a contestant on the Jeopardy tournament of champions.
29. Who was the best new person you met?
Technically, I met The Roommate in 2010, but that hardly counts. I am incredibly grateful for the amount of meeting, which led me to have a place to live. Some drama happened, but I think we’re okay
30. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011?
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
That when it comes to boys, I will never learn.
