2010

I am shamelessly going to recycle these questions and see how 2010 compares to 2009...

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
* Had a biopsy.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
* Yes - lost weight. Probably - quit smoking.

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
* At home with the iPlayer.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
* Thankfully, no.

5. What countries did you visit?
* None. (that's no good is it?)

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
* Better inner faith.

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
* March 28th - it all started so well!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
* Losing a stone AND keeping it off

9. What was your biggest failure?
* Not quitting smoking.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
* Thankfully no, though there was a period in November when I thought I might be.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
* My iPod touch

12. Where did most of your money go?
* Ciggies.

13. What song will always remind you of 2010?
* Darwin Deez - 'The City'

14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
* Laughed. Slept.

15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
* Blamed myself.

16. What was your favourite TV program?
* Luther - by a country mile!

17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
* Not particularly.

18. What was the best book you read?
* Ooh.. read quite a few. Virginia Woolf 'Mrs Dalloway' stands out as feeling like an achievement.

19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
* Lissie/Darwin Deez

20. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
* Good friends, each time I was heading downwards.

21. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
* They know who they are.

22. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
* Catching up with long distance friend - Gillums and Ziggy particularly.

23. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.

24. How did you spend Christmas?
* With the folks.

25. Did you fall in love in 2010?
* Yes. Very much so. Though it may have been a rebound thing...

26. How many one-night stands?
* 2.

27. What did you want and get?
* Romance. For a while.

28. What did you want and not get?
* Romance.

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
* Didn't go to the cinema at all.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
* I went to Accrington - well nearly did. Snow stopped play so no FAC 3rd round game for me. I was 37.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
* Not beeing dumped - twice!

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
* MBT's and whatever looks less hideous with them.

33. What kept you sane?
* Strangely work..

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
* Controversially Andy Carroll. And Nicky Hayden

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
* The election. Farce.

36. Who did you miss?
* My brother.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
* Kathy.

40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
* seek and ye shall find... or not! Always stick to your beliefs.