(Lifted from Cami.)
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
- I was a bridesmaid in a wedding that didn’t involve a family member.
- Paid someone to do our taxes (not sure it was really worth it, though. We’ll probably do them ourselves this year.)
- Went to St John and Bermuda
- Accidentally ate someone’s sandwich out of the work fridge.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t generally make resolutions, but I try to choose “themes.” I think this year’s theme will be “hydration.” I’ll explain what I mean, but I think that would be another entry.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
One of my favorite couples on the planet just had a baby last month!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thank goodness, no.
5. What countries did you visit?
I guess Bermuda counts as part of Britain?!?
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
More answers for number 5.
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
7/25/08 - The day I watched my sister become a soldier.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Turning 30 and rolling with it pretty well.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not finishing NaNoWriMo.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I accidentally got a shrimp in my eye.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Umm, a fancy pair of jeans that I originally felt really guilty about buying, but don’t anymore because I would wear them every single day if I could get away with it.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My sister, who toughed it through her military training with people ten years younger than her and who made them all look like wimps.
My friend April for getting through her dissertation, even though I know it was the last thing she wanted to do.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Sarah Palin!
14. Where did most of your money go?
Tyler’s Taproom in Durham.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My sister and her family moving all the way across the country and landing only 90 MINUTES away from me!!!!!
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier
b) thinner or fatter? the same
c) richer or poorer? i’m always rich 
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Traveling with my husband. Producing great work.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Drinking beer. Complaining. Usually at the same time.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
For the very first time, I spent it in my own home and people came to stay with us instead of us going to stay with someone else! I think that makes me an official grown-up.
21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Every single day.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
30 rock. Intervention.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I’ve got nobody to hate. And, even if I did, my mom always told me that “hate is a very strong word” and would force me to instead say “I greatly dislike.” But, honestly, there’s not even anyone I greatly dislike.
24. What was the best book you read?
Toss up between The Kite Runner and The Life of Pi.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
American Idol Karaoke for the Wii!!!!!!! (Best Christmas gift ever from my sister and her family.)
26. What did you want and get?
Self-acceptance.
27. What did you want and not get?
Rock Band. Randy says it will make too much clutter in the living room 
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
I know it wasn’t done this year, but I saw it for the first time and absolutely adored Stranger than Fiction. Surprisingly awesome.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 30 and saw two of my favorite people in the world, was serenaded by my husband and got hit in the face with a pie!
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Fewer scary things happening to people I care about.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
I dressed better in 2008 than I have in my entire life combined. In fact, a woman who sits near me once said, “Jenny, you dress like a modern-day Audrey Hepburn.” I walked on air for like a week after that one!
32. What kept you sane?
My husband. My friends. My therapist.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Barack Star Obama!!!!!!!
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Prop 8 being passed in California. It was a pretty big blow to my faith in people, especially coming right when our nation’s sense of unity and hope was so strong.
35. Who did you miss?
My mom, as always. Lili and Sherie, who are too far away. My friends Nicole and Stephen in Seattle. And Dino and Aninda, who Randy and I realized are our soulmates, only six months after they moved away.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Kim! An instant BFF, I met her at Nicole and Stephen’s wedding in March and we hit it off so fabulously that she invited me to her wedding in Bermuda in July! (I wonder if, after seeing me do the worm in my nice dress, she regrets that decision. Haha.)
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Wait until you have all the information before you freak out. Be patient with yourself. Trust that everything is proceeding exactly as the universe intends.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I can’t complain but sometimes I still do
Life’s been good to me so far
The Eagles “Life’s Been Good”
So that’s 2008. I’m looking forward to seeing what 2009 has in store for me.
