2008 in Review

I stole this from Drew three years ago (and like his this year, a lot of my answers are going to be about my new house):

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Paid for my own utility bills

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
No (but I only half-heartedly made one last year) and yes

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes-Amber had another son

4. Did anyone close to you die?
My best friend's grandfather

5. What countries did you visit?
None :(

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A bf

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 29 - First officially of my first real job
April 17- Day we made settlement
October 29/31 - Phillies won the world series and the parade

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting a real job and a house

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being able to paint the edges of my room neatly.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not that I can think of.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My house

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My insurance agent because he was the only competent person involved in buying my house

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Everyone I had to deal with when buying my house: Specifically the real estate agent, and the mortgage people. I don't think they had half a brain between them.

14. Where did most of your money go?
House and associated bills

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
House and parties at my house

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Womanizer and Wow I Can Get Sexual Too (I called her on the phone and she touched herself) because I heard these a lot at Alpha Lambda Parties

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) Happier or Sadder? Probably about the same
b) Thinner or Fatter? I have no clue, probably about the same
c) Richer or Poorer? Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Travel

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

20. How did you spend Christmas?
my grandfather came over for our tradition of lasagna, exchanged gifts with the Stedmans and then with the girls at my house.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Not even close

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Californication is the greatest show ever

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
yes

24. What was the best book you read?
One of the Philippa Gregory's books about Henry VIII's wives

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I didn't have one

26. What did you want and get?
House and job

27. What did you want and not get?
bf, a million bucks

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Since I can't remember all the movies I saw, I'll say Role Models

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Ummm...I think I turned 24. I hate the top layer of my "Happy Birthday Susan" cake that my friends and I made and froze last year.

30.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
People not being idiots

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Same as 2007: Causal--jeans and a cute shirt with a hoodie or sweater; Work--business casual

32. What kept you sane?
Sane? If anything, the girls. At work, I'd say being able to bitch to Dave and his funny remarks.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't think I liked real people.

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Hearing about the election drove me nuts

35. Who did you miss?
Beck-even though she didn't move that far away, I don't get to see her as much.

36. Who was the best new person you met?
I can't think of anyone new, but I got to know a few people better

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Almost everyone with a job is an idiot (even when it comes to their specific job)