It's gonna be a bit big, so take a deep breath, make yourself a cuppa, and then sit down and give it a shot...
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
20 comments:
1. Favourite album, this year (NOTE- doesn't have to have been made this year, just what your fav. was. Same goes with books, movies etc.)
2. Favourite song, this year
3. Favourite movie, this year
4. Favourite TV show, this year
5. Favourite book, this year
6. A global phenomenon you'd like to see not carried into the next decade
7. Most annoying word/saying of the year
8. Biggest eye-roll inducer of the year
9. Over-exposed celeb of the year
10. Interesting world event
11. Highlight of your year
12. Lowlight of your year
13. Something you're proud of achieving this year
14. A disappointment
15. Something you'd change if you had the chance again
16. Describe your year in a sentence or two, bare bones.
17. A way that you are different now than you were in January
18. A way you'd like to be different by next December
19. A hope for next year
20. A resolution
1. Skunkhour - Feed
2. ??
3. Paris, je t'aime
4. ?? watching 24 with friends was fun
5. A fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
6. human trafficking
7. GFC
8. Matt Preston
9. same as above
10. Just watching how climate change has become the new 9/11
11. falling pregnant
12. Being made redundant (this just happened on friday)
13. culled my wardrobe and didn't buy more clothes than I needed!
14. I still can't bake for peanuts
15. nothing really
16. moved to marrickville, changed churches, went for a trip to Vietnam, fell pregnant, lost my job.
17. I care less about what people think of me, and am more comfortable doing things my way, even if it goes against the norm
18. More disciplined with my time.
19. That I will be a good mother.
20. I will go to the gym regularly
Thanks for being brave enough to go first, Soph. I'm really sorry to hear about what happened on Friday, that really sucks. I'll pray that something comes along soon.
Thanks Ben, prayer would be great. It's a bit tricky with bub on the way, not sure how many people are going to want to hire a pregnant woman! But will keep you posted on how things are going :)
aww soph, that sucks :( Will pray for you guys. Keep trusting in God's timing. x
1.'For Emma, Forever Ago' (Bon Iver) and 'Don't Break The Oath' (Mercyful Fate)
2.'Flume' (Bon Iver)
3. The Wizard Of Oz
4. Food Safari
5. The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
6. Twilight, Twitter, Harry Potter, harem pants, elf boots
7. Tweet
8. Yet another crest-fallen and contrite sportstar sprung doing something stupid.
9. Micheal Jackson, Lady Gaga
10. Lady Gaga met the Queen
11. Birth of my second beautiful daughter. Finally doing something about my speech problems.
12. Really difficult personal issues in latter half of year.
13. Doing speech therapy. Standing up in front of large group doing public speaking at Toastmasters.
14. Same as 12.
15. Maybe my expectations directly after my speech treatment. I fell into despair at the first hurdle, because I'd thought I'd never have to stutter again.
16. One of my hardest, but most rewarding years of my life. Began hard road of working on my speech, had second child, had some personal issues that really shook my world up. Closer than ever to E, and to God.
17. Hopefully wiser and more mature, and slightly better at controlling my temper.
18. I'd like to keep working at becoming more self-controlled.
19. That it will bring some good changes, and new scenery.
20. Begin a big drawing project I've been planning for a looooong time.
1. Black Gives Way To Blue - a great return from Alice in Chains.
2. Black Gives Way To Blue - a great tribute to Layne Stanley
3. Tough one. I just saw "Moon" on the weekend, so it's always easier to name the last movie I saw that I enjoyed. Oooo, and The Dark Knight, and The Wrester, and In Bruges, and District 9, and Bronson, and Inglorious Basterds, and ...
4. Dexter
5. "Watch You Bleed" The Saga of Guns N' Roses
6. Global financial crisis
7. LOL - and no I'm not laughing out loud. I will hate that till the day I die.
8. Kyle Sandilands - idiot of the year! Or every year for that matter.
9. Poh
10. Obama sworn in.
11. Getting married. No brainer
12. Getting sick on the honeymoon. Gastro - nasty
13. Learning the guitar and banging out my first half decent tunes - by my standards anyways
14. Work slowing down again at Funnyaz
15. Redskins football team's dismal season
16. Got married, worked, made some good mates, started learning the guitar.
17. Married!
18. Be a killer rhythm guitarist. The world of rock/metal watch out
19. Steady work
20. Not to have resolutions
1. Paul Dempsey - everything is true
2. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
3. (probably Bright Star, when I see it!) but otherwise, An Education
4. Masterchef (hah soph - matt preston is awesome!)
5. nothing sticks out, but maybe the poetry of Robert Gray
6. Starbucks
7. GFC, toxic assets and most other economic terms
8. Twighlight - new moon
9. The vampire guy from Twilight
10. Obama inauguration
11. enjoying poetry more/when Dad's health returned
12. When Dad was critically ill in hospital in July
13. Getting a poem published/losing weight
14. My general negativity
15. Way I've treated people at times
16. that's hard! erm... trials of different degrees, but overall lots to rejoice in.
17. i'm physically different, and probably more comfortable with who I am
18. more patient, and loving
19. to learn heaps
20. more patience and love
Thanks Soph, please do keep me posted.
1. Far - Regina Spektor
2. Fav song changes month to month (as I have it on repeat so much that I get sick of it...)
3. Up
4. Glee
5. The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
6. Twi-hysteria
7. Programmatical specificity
8. Too many to mention
9. Most of them
10. Victorian bushfires
11. Getting on better with my husband than ever before
12. Getting on worse with my husband than ever before
13. Giving myself permission to do some stuff for me
14. Letting work dominate my life.
15. Stop procrastinating and get the house finished. Remove non-helpful things from my life.
16. Exhausting
17. Have realised (mostly) that the ONLY people's opinions of the way I live that matter are mine and my husbands and God's - no-one else.
18. To be confident and at peace
19. A finished house, my own business, less worky work
20. Have fun.
Hicksy- Awesome to catch up the other night bro. Had a really good time.
Gotta actually get the 'new' AIC album. What I've heard sounded really good.
Sophg- My friend gave me a Robert Gray book for my bday. I like it. And well done on 13.
Amy- your 17 answer is a good observation. I'd give you my oppinion on it, but obviously it wouldn't matter..
1. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
2. Mumford and Sons - Awake My Soul
3. Lars and the Real Girl
4. Castle
5. Salt - Mark Kurlansky
6. Bad teenage hair based on bad football player hair.
7. The use of sustainable as an adverb.
8. Tiger Woods.
9. Tiger Woods.
10. Tiger Woods.
11. Being accepted into Bible College (QTC)
12. Telling work I was leaving
13. Having the world's angriest atheist blogger respond to one of my posts.
14. Tiger Woods.
15. Pretty happy with how things are/went.
16. Transitional.
17. I'm almost a year older - and hopefully wiser.
18. More prayerful, less arrogantly independent.
19. That I pass first year.
20. Actually study.
1. ???
2. Brother let me be your servant. Reminded me earlier in the year about what God requires of us all.
3. Hardly seen any worth mentioning.
4. Packed to the Rafters
5. LOTS of great books. None stand out.
6. Child pornography.
7. What the...? and "such and such is the new..."
8. My eyes constantly roll as I read the outrageous journalism in some newspapers.
9. Tiger Woods
10. I can't remember anything that happened...
11. Coming home to Australia.
12. An "elephant" diagnosis I can't talk about.
13. Having an article published.
14. I still only have 24 hours in a day.
15. My mother-in-law's love life.
16. Prepared for and packed up our lives in Japan and moved to Australia for a year.
17. I have more confidence that I am a good parent.
18. I'd like to be happily settled back in Japan by next December.
19. That we could get some help with the "elephant".
20. To write more. To do a spiritual retreat.
Wow. I think I'll need to put aside an hour to do this one.
1. The Dailies - Mixing Metaphors
2. The Dailies - The Tide
3. Twilight
4. Torchwood
5. Twilight [I'm being honest. I'm not proud of it.]
6. Global Warming
7. moving forward
8. All the stupid talk over Micheal Jackson's death. For the average one of us, it really isn't going to make a scrap of difference.
9. Micheal Jackson
10. ?
11. It's been a year of low-lights, not highlights. The fellowship of the blog has been a highlight.
12. Children dying
13. I think I wrote a few good songs for 'God Unlimited' earlier in the year.
14. I taught RE really badly
15. I'd insist on a different arrangement of a couple of our songs. Make one acoustic. Take out the guitar on another.
16. cyclone, bush fire, personal sin crisis, child's death, another child's death, sadness, not coping with stuff I normally cope with, many tears.
17. Life feels more fragile
18. I'd like to not have disappointed and frustrated as many people as I have this year.
19. That it will be a new year, not just an extension of this one.
20. Do less.
1. Come Weary Saints
2. Come Weary Saints
3. Can't think of one - did enjoy Where the Wild Things Are
4. TV - gotta be So You Think You Can Dance US
5. Alain de Bottom "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work"
6. Amazement over sportsmen being idiots
7. No idea
8. The entire NRL
9. Michael
10. I have found GFC analysis to be interesting
11. Jumping off 135m jump in NZ on my 20th anniversary
12. The last 3 months of hell at work
13. Getting through the last 3 months of hell and finally learning how to SCUBA dive
14. The last 3 months
15. I'd change the 9 months before the last 3, so the last 3 didn't happen
16. Ferret died, Got sick, Grandma died, NZ holiday, 3 months and more of hell
17. A lot more miserable and doubting my own ability and likeability
18. I'd like to be back to me, instead of this horrible creature
19. A hope that next year will BE better
20. A resolution to not panic so much
Just to get comments...
ok, here goes...
1. Lifesong, Casting Crowns
2. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. The West Wing
5. Breath, by Tim Winton
6. Climate change hysteria (and the GFC)
7. re-structure ... let's face it, we made people redundant, it wasn't a re-structure!
8. Anna Bligh (Qld Premier) on MasterChef
9. Michael Jackson
10. the Global Financial Apocalypse
11. hiking up Mt Warning at 2am (to see sunrise from the top) and then surfing for the rest of the day, with mates from work
12. miscellaneous personal stuff that inevitably crops up
13. kicked some goals on some projects at work
14. friends / family who aren't Christians
15. sort that miscellaneous personal stuff (see 12)
16. Redundancies at work (bad), company I work for got sold to some Poms (neutral), we planted a new church (good), didn't quite go surfing enough (oh well), good health (yay), great friends (another yay), became an uncle (cool, I guess), found out I don't cope well when my parents come to stay at my house (grrr), work was more enjoyable than it was stressful (relief).
17. better at surfing, and better at handling work pressure.
18. even better still at surfing, and even more in control at work.
19. for more surfing, fun times with friends and work mates, be more godly! (sorry that's 3 hey)
20. to surf lots, share the gospel with my friends, and enjoy life ... cos it's short!
1. Daughtry: Leave This Town..waited four years for this album to come out!
2. Need You Now by Lady Antebellum
3. I can only every think of the movies I've just recently seen, so I'm going to say Taken and Star Trek.
4. Brothers&Sisters, Top Chef, Fringe
5. Again, only the most recently read stay in my head, even though I've read 40+ for the year, so I'll say Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards...very touching book. I'm looking forward to diving into the latest Stephen King though!!!
6. Twitter
7. Tweet/Twitter
8. The Jackson family after Michael's death.
9. Sorry...Michael Jackson
10. Obama being elected our President.
11. Going back to school
12. Losing my job
13. Surviving everything that's been thrown my way.
14. How hard it is to date again.
15. I always say nothing, without everything that's happened, I wouldn't be who I am.
16. Lost my job, started school, finally have some health issues resolved....looking forward to the new year.
17. A little stronger for having survived...
18. Even a little more stronger and wiser from what life throws at me.
19. Finding Love!!!
20. Concentrating on my health.
Whew...had to actually do some homework on this one, but good quiz Ben.
1 Awake-Skillet
2 Green fields of France- Dropkick murphys
3 Star Trek (one of the few I saw twice so I guess that works)
4 NCIS
5 The name of the wind- Patrick Rufuss
6 Child abuse
7 Sorry to copy GFC
8 Celebrity Charity trips
9 Micheal Jackson
10 World cup approaching
11 US trip
12 feeling like I haven't achieved anything all year
13 Futsal Premier league grandfinalists
14 We lost :)
15 Managed my time better/ cut down on number of camps I went on- be a better small group leader (all tied in)
16 Mad chaotic and hectic
17 More wise and calm??? :D
18 I'd have the energy and time to care for the kids more at school
19 To lose weight
20 To be more organised
1. Hot Club of Cowtown Greatest Hits
2. "Nothing But the Blood of Jesus" a capella on some old jazz CD from Con Campbell.
3. Up
4. Glee
5. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
6. Global Warming Hysteria
7. Anything mentioned by Warren the Word Overuse Watchdog
8. The shock that Britney mimes.
9. Michael Jackson.
10. GLobal Warming Hysteria
11. Mid Year Conference on the Holy Spirit
12. Too low to mention.
13. Three steps towards an organised life (and only two steps back)
14. Needing to leave my church after 6 years
15. Some blogposts.
Oops. Out of time!
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