2005 Year End Review Survey

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
I got divorced. Not doing that again.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make?
I don't even bother with making resolutions because its just an excuse to temporarily improve yourself. I rather improve myself in the long run.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No. And thank goodness for it.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes. My mother.

5. What countries did you visit?
None. Unless you count a New Jersey as a separate country. In that case, I drove through it.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
I would like to have more happiness in my life and less disappointments.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory?
Nov. 6, 2005: Meeting Trent Reznor and having him sign The Head.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Developing my photography skills even more and being interviewed by a swedish photography magazine.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Digging myself further into debt.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I have been sicker this year than I have ever had ever in my life.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My left arm tattoo

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
No one.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
My Ex.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Paying my credit cards, buying shit for other people, and paying bills.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
This small moments I get with Felixx in which we bond.

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
The album that The Cure released in 2005.Especially the song Anniversary, the music is a emotional reflection of my year, beautiful and daunting.

17. Compared to this time last year, how happy are you?
Well I am definitely more happier this year than last year considering what a horrible avalanche it was.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Worked more on my photography.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Stressing.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
At home with Felixx and play Guild Wars and I love every moment of it.

20. How will you be spending New Years Eve?
Not sure if we are even gonna go out.

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Technically I fell in love in 2004 but since Felixx moved out in to Miami in 2005 I think it counts in 2005 as well =)

23. How many one-night stands?
None

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Mythbusters and anything on the food network and TLC.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Yes and its the same answer as 13 plus his whore.

26. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
More like a re-discovery: NIN, Cure, Bauhaus, and Bowie

28. What did you want and got?
Peace with my mother.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Farinelli

31. What did you do on your birthday?
I honestly don't fucking remember.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
To have less stress and more control of my life.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
It's getting dark and funkier by the month. Though I yet to change my work fashion.

34. What kept you sane?
Music and Felixx's love.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't 'fancy' any celebrities or public figures.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The ineptness of Mr. President.

37. Who did you miss?
My mother.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
It would have to be the ETS gang at the PA shows: Drunkpoet, Anita, Meathead, Orestes, NotHoney, Levi and his beautiful wife Mormolyke, Violent_n_Delicious.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005?
Life is what you make of it, hell or happiness. It's your choice to live in which condition.

40. Quote a saying that made the year?
I reject your reality and substitute my own. Adam Savage 2008