While I Get My Second Wind…a NYE Meme!

I smooth out stole this from Kizz. God bless her for her answer to #12…and looking over it, she’s featured in many of MY answers! HA!

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?


Did stand up comedy. Planned my 20th High School Reunion.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?


I looked for my list for 2009…turns out I dinna make one. Huh. So I’m going with YES! I kept them ALL!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Yes! Miss Radley Banks Miller came to see us a mere few weeks ago! She’s perfect and she belongs to two of my newest friends, Ali and Matt.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Kizzy’s pretty girl, Emily is first on my list, my friend Darci lost her daddy.

5. What countries did you visit?

Landlocked. I did travel to NYC for Kizz’s birthday party, and to Chicago/Wisconsin for our theatre reunion.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Financial security. A Passport. A healthy relationship with the opposite sex.

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

August 3rd was my stand up night…Oh what a night!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Ya know, coming to the end of this one, I’m feeling a little meh. But on a whole, I think I really took some risks this year. I got back onstage in a show after 6 years. I did stand up. I planned/worked the reunion. I entered into a relationship, be it short lived and based in lies…still…a relationship. I moved up a level at work, and really embraced being a homeowner.

9. What was your biggest failure?

falling into the emotional eating vacuum that always swallows me whole and putting some weight back on. I always feel like such a failure, to my core, when this happens.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nah. I got a cold/flu funk for about 4 days last month, but for the most part, fine and dandy!

11. What was the best thing you bought?

The best thing I bought, (with the help of my guardian angel in fort worth) is my new computer! My shiny shiny. My link to you.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Gert took a huge risk in going to chef school in Texas…Leaping. I applaud her chutzpah.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Mr.Everything-I’ve-said-and-done-has-been-a-lie…seriously.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Bills. Bills. Bills…and I think, even though I wasn’t very social, didn’t spend tons traveling, I could have saved more. Cut back on things earlier.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?


My trip to Kizz’s birthday. My trip to Chicago/Wisconsin. Doing stand-up.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?


I’ve listened to A LOT of Taylor Swift this year. A Lot!

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
 a) happier or sadder? 
b) thinner or fatter? 
c) richer or poorer?


a. I think a little sadder.

b. Little fatter. Thinking about how I want to handle that.

c. Definitely poorer. This is probably the cause of a.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Saved money.
Traveled more.
Been more focused on organization and goals.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

sad clown moods, holding on to anger, wishing the days away.

20. How did you spend Christmas?

With family in Arkansas…a White Christmas!

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?

I think I fell in love with the concept and idea of love again. I got hurt a few times last year, but I finally took the blinders off and see each experience for what it was. A step forward.

22. What was your favorite TV program?

Modern Family! Glee! How I Met Your Mother! Big Bang Theory! Californication! Dexter! True Blood!

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I really don’t. Too much effort.

24. What was the best book you read?

wow…this has been one helluva reading year. I am still massively in love with Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim…and I’m ass deep in the Outlander series.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Glee!!!

26. What did you want and get?

Insulation for my house…a second job.

27. What did you want and not get?

Financial security>

28. What was your favorite film of this year?

well, I’m sadly lacking in film watching this year. I’m going to correct that this weekend, so we shall see!

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I celebrated my birthday the weekend before with my friends from the Saginaw Tour Years. I had two birthday cakes, some Rock Band and a lot of laughter. My actual birthday was an impromptu gathering at Classics with friends and some gin & tonic and karaoke! I turned 39.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

If I hadn’t lost most of my clientele.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?

Brighter colors. Old Navy.

32. What kept you sane?


Wow. I think I was saner earlier in the year, not so much now. The Gazebo. We had Gazebo Nights every week…an open forum. a sanctuary. Those really kept me sane. It’s ironic that the gazebo is in ruins under the snow storm at this very moment.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?


Carrie said it best…”ahhhh Goerge Clooney. Clooney’s like a Channel suit. Never goes out of style.”

34. What political issue stirred you the most?

Health Care.
Health Care.
Health Care.

35. Who did you miss?

I miss Kizz and Chrome and Dionysis and Abbylicious and The Vegan. I miss Gert. I miss the Purple Pool gals…haven’t seen much of them. I miss my family living here.

36. Who was the best new person you met?


I know I met a ton of people this year…I seem to always do that. I met Nan. Kizz’s Nan and took her Chinatown shopping and she knitted me socks. She was brilliant and fabulous. I met Kizz’s momma. TUCK TUCK TUCK. That woman made me pee myself. I met Miss Shirley and Alli and MattMiller, who seem like they’ve been part of my life forever.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.

I’ve learned that taking risks is a scary ass thing to do but the payoff is amazing.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

well, I’m stealing again from Kizz. I sung this song in a show I did years ago with Dionysis. It’s always been my theme…

and from the incomparable Kander & Ebb there’s a snippet from Cabaret’s Maybe This Time:

All the odds are in my favor
Something’s bound to begin
It’s got to happen, happen sometime
Maybe this time I’ll win