the 2004 wrap-up survey
12/22/04 ~ 4:28 p.m.
this is entry #3 today, so scroll past the survey if you haven't read the other stuff.
i was going to wait until next week to fill out this "end of the year" survey thing, but hey. i'm THAT bored.
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
contributed to a 401(k), used disability pay, went on a "couples" vacation, claimed bankruptcy, totalled a car
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
my resolutions always have to do with weightloss, but i feel justified in making htme because they're aren't like 99% of resolutions out there, and i am actually losing the weight. no, i didn't make the resolution of hitting my weightloss goal this year. next year, i am going to have more resolutions. they're not fully formed yet, but they'll look something like this:
* lose 40 pounds
* run in a 5k and a 10k
* get my savings account to have two months salary in it by the year's end
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no
4. Did anyone close to you die?
no
5. What countries did you visit?
none, sadly.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
more money, more energy
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
sept 24th - my friend sarah's wedding.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
recovering from knee surgery
9. What was your biggest failure?
being financially instable
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
yup, had that knee surgery
11. What was the best thing you bought?
our second car, the 93 saturn
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
sarah and jon, for finally getting married.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
my boss, for a while. she doesn' thave the best managerial skills.
14. Where did most of your money go?
paying for cars (either the loan on the white one, paying david back for the gold one, and paying back on old loan on my honda) AND on my knee surgery! not cheap!
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
winning a poker tournament
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
ugh, that horrible "how far is heaven" song.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier
b) thinner or fatter? within 5 pounds
c) richer or poorer? about the same, sadly
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
exercising
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
spending money
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
there will be 6 parts:
* christmas eve with just david and i
* christmas brunch with david's parents
* midafteroon visit with david's maternal grandparents
* christmas dinner with david's paternal grandma and aunt/uncle/9 kids
* dec 26th morning with my paternal grandparents
* dec 26th dinner with my mom, brothers, and maternal grandparents.
YIKES!!!
21. How will you be spending New Years?
i don't know, hopefully with friends. i want to be with sabrina and tony, if we can work that out.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
even more than last year. :) it just keeps getting better!
23. How many one-night stands?
none
24. What was your favorite TV program?
most of the year, it was watching sex and the city on DVD. also, i watched friends until the finale. and i've recently become addicted to the oc.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no, i don't hate anyone
26. What was the best book you read?
little earthquakes by jennifer weiner
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
no discoveries, really. i just listen to pop radio. my musical tastes have really gotten less sophisticated.
28. What did you want and get?
my digital camera! woooooooooo!
29. What did you want and not get?
dear god. i'm such a materialistic whore, i shouldn't even get started on this. but someday, i'd like to own a treadmill of my own. also, i really want an ipod for running! reallyreallyreally. other than that, right now i'm pretty statisfied.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
garden state, narrowly edging out harry potter 3 and the incredibles.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i turned 24 less than two weeks ago, and i had a bunch of friends eat dinner at chevy's and then go bowling.
32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
actually reaching goal weight. sometimes i worry it will never happen. :|
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
inexpensive
34. What kept you sane?
david
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
john corbett (specifically, him playing aiden on sex and the city
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
the whole election thing
37. Who did you miss?
jeannine, mostly. brooke, too, but i see her more often.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
wow, i can't think of anyone new! i guess sabrina, because i really got to know her this year, even though we met oct 2003.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
saving money is *very* important
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"it's all about the benjamins"
i heart my neighbor
12/22/04 ~ 3:14 p.m.
yesterday my long-lost neighbor came to see me! i went to 2.5 years of high school in livermore, and i lived next door to two fellow students: one was jordan, who was featured in that MTV show, sorority life, and the other was my wonderful dan, who was the first person to befriend me after i moved there. we hung out a lot, but drifted as we got older, and drifted a lot after i moved away.
every time i'd go to visit livermore, i'd swing by his house to say hi. we lived in the exact same house models, so it was just so crazy to go there. then he went to UCLA, and we saw each other even more rarely. two years ago, he was at a new years party that i also attended. he was quite drunk, and told me many many times how much he loves me! heh.
so last night was the first time in a long time that we'd been able to talk. and talk we did. david, dan and i had dinner at chilis, where we blabbered on so long i think the waitress was ready to kick us out, and then we came back to my house and talked until almost 11:30. dan's just so cool. david likes him a lot, too, which is good because when he first called me out of the blue, david was slightly threatened. but not anymore. david and dan have many of the same views on life. and on girlfriends.
i wish i could see him more often, but even after he graduates, he's probably going to be staying down in LA for a while. his job, grad school, and a long-term girlfriend are reasons he'll stay there. sigh. life pulls everyone in different directions.
free ipod?
12/22/04 ~ 11:14 a.m.
ok. so. i'm a skeptic of all of those "free offers". but i'm less skeptical after a recent post in upwardlymobile, a livejournal community i'm in about trying to become more financially stable. she actually got her free ipod! there are pictures. and boy, do i want an ipod.
so i went to her link, which was a referral for her, and i signed up (using an email address that i don't care if it gets spammed). and i'm (very cautiously) trying it out.
but now i really need to refer people, and i don't want to just email everyone, i wanted to explain. so maybe you, my internet friends, will check it out with me.
here's my link: free ipod!
so, check out the post at that community (and my comments and her reply), and check out this site. and if you do this for me, that would be SO SO awesome. an ipod would reallyreally enhance my running program.
so far i have 3 people signed up! :) yay!
love, holly
p.s. in order to do it, you have to sign up for one "free offer." the one that is the least scary was the 2 weeks free blockbuster online offer, and it's JUST like netflix, and i'll cancel it after 2 weeks so i don't get charged. plus i got free rental coupons out of the deal. so try that one if you're worried.
p.p.s. and if you need anyone to fill out something for your free stuff, i promise i'll reciprocate!
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