Belated Goodbye 2007

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Got a promotion and a raise. Lived alone. Prioritized love. Learned how to shoot a mean game of pool.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?


I think I resolved to be happy. Always a work in progress.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

The anatomist, Jack and Sara, Scott and Marley, GalloBlue. Wow.
4. Did anyone close to you die?

No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Costa Rica and Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
The adventurous spirit of my late teens combined with a strategic plan for not having to eat cat food when I retire.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
New Years Day, when Double I and I surfed with the sea turtles. Greg’s wedding. The VA Beach half-marathon. Seeing Pat Green in Poughkeepsie. Christmas with the family in Costa Rica.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Obsessing about the wrong things.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Lyme disease and jellyfish stings. Both quickly cured.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Um…whiskey?
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Double I.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bushie is always an easy target.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Savings, retirement, and plane tickets.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting a raise, promotion, and more time with Double I all in one day.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Ticks by Brad Paisley
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
 a) happier or sadder? 
b) thinner or fatter? 
c) richer or poorer?

Happier, thinner, and richer. That sounds really braggy.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Relax.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?


Stress.
20. How did you spend Christmas?


Doing yoga in Costa Rica.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Already was.
22. What was your favorite TV program?
The Office. Planet Earth.
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.
24. What was the best book you read?
Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing.
26. What did you want and get?
Some fun adventures. Money in the bank.
27. What did you want and not get?
Clarity about the future.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Into the Wild.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Went out to dinner at Oliveto in Oakland. I was 27.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
To have someone offer to pay Double I and I to travel the world, surfing and taking pictures.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Cowboy boots, jeans, and American Apparel.
32. What kept you sane?
Double I.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?


All of them.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?

Clean Energy.
35. Who did you miss?


Santa Barbara.
36. Who was the best new person you met?


Emily P., I think.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.


If it wasn’t work, they wouldn’t call it work, they’d call it wacky crazy zany fun time.