I Need to Blog

I need to do keelin’s 8 and 9 month update and I suppose I should say something about the close of the year. Since I am out of practice I will start by attempting to fill out this quiz I stole from another blog


End of Another Year

1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Had a baby

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make em

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes my best friend Ashley had a little boy a week before I had keelin, 2 friends from my congregation had little girls, and several co-workers had babies.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
I don’t think so.

5. What countries did you visit?
None. But we really need to go to Mexico to get Keelin a blanket

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
a vacation, and yes I realize I only worked for the first 2 months of ’09 and we did take impromptu trips up north and we went to Chicago, but I want a planned out all FUN vacation.

7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 3, it’s the day keelin was born and October 31st, it’s the day I was reunited with my big brother.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Having a natural birth and breastfeeding.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Cooking and cleaning. My house is a mess and we eat way too much fast food

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
a cold and breast infections UGH

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Our king size bed

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I’d say my mom, she has been really generous and made sure keelin has not been without anything she needs. And she managed to keep her sanity while people around her fell apart

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Appalled and depressed seems pretty extreme

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Having delegates for the convention

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Probably anything from the Juno soundtrack

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

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

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

20. How did you spend Christmas?

21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
yes, with keelin.

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Do moms get to follow a tv series?

23. Do you hate anyone now that you did not hate this time last year?
No

24. What was the best book you read?
The vaccine book (that’s a little sad)

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Pandora

26. What did you want and get?
A healthy baby.

27. What did you want and not get?
to meet my friend ashley’s little boy

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
I know we went to the movies, I just don’t remember loving anything we saw, we did rent changeling and I really liked that

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 26.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
getting to keep my job and work from home

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
new mom

32. What kept you sane?
Pablo

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

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Only that this world is going to hell in a handbag

35. Who did you miss?
can’t think of anyone

36. Who was the best new person you met?
probably Keelin

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
If you live your life for what might happen, you will miss out on what is happening.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
The dishes in the cupboards will rattle when the elephants arrive