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2016 end of year meme
Dec. 23rd, 2016 12:56 pm1. What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before?
Had laser/eye surgery. Had a flu vaccination. Heard Alestorm.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
As I say every year, I don't make them. The way you live your life is for life, not just New Year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I recall.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Bel, the cat I've known the longest, at the age of 17 and a half, in January. Great start to the year, right there.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. Unless you count Wales.
6. What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
The usual- Contracts for paid-up-front work. Stress-free periods of time. No surgeries. (Fat chance of this – there's one next month that I already know about.) Doing some proper fencing, choreography, and self defence workshops.
7. What date from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
May 24th, me and the boatman pulling a woman from the canal into a water taxi in Leeds. I've been in the right place at the right time to save nine lives over the years, but this one was from water, which for various reasons in my past makes it particularly meaningful to me.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
See the answer above- pulling a woman from the canal.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not attending any convention or teaching any fencing/choreography/self defence workshops... I dunno, really – I'm sure there are too many to choose from.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Eyesight went south in late January, bottoming out around late April/early May, but has largely recovered, to the state it was in around the end of 2015. And of course there have surgeries of one kind or another every few weeks - averages out to at least one a month, though more in the first half of the year than the second, and I managed to have December off from any.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I dunno. Really – can't think of anything specific. Something really cheap in a charity shop, probably.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Lots of people, as always... Lesley, Anne, Lynette, Cedar, Becky and Tony, Tlanti and Tyrone. Grouse. The various eye surgeons...
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Brexiters and Trumpeters.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and arrears and Lesley's SCA adventures.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Nothing much. At least nothing much that actually happened.
16. What song will always remind you of 2016?
Alive by Meatloaf.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I dunno. The same. Neither?
ii. thinner or fatter? The same.
iii. richer or poorer? The same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Work that paid, of course. Fencing/choreography/self dence workshops teaching and coaching, as I already said. Orgies and bisexual depravity? Political assassination? Bank robbery?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Having machines shoved down my throat and needles stuck in my eyeballs.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Same as last year- sitting at home, hoping the Dr Who special isn't shit.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Same as last year- sitting at home, hoping Sherlock isn't shit.
22. Did you fall in love in 2016?
Not specifically, but I fall in love with Lesley over again all the time. I think I mentioned that in previous years' answers as well.
23. How many one-night stands?
None. Ish.
24. What was your favorite TV program(s)?
Game Of Thrones, Westworld, Ripper Street, Murdoch Mysteries, The Flash, Gotham, etc.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Various politicians I'd never heard of last year. Otherwise just the same people.
26. What was the best book you read?
Probably Stephen King's “Revival” though the end was a bit of a letdown.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Alestorm
28. What did you want and get?
Improvement in health and eyesight? I think.
29. What did you want and not get?
Good paid contracts, the workshops I like to do, an Xbox One, a tidy house....
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I think Rogue One is the only movie I saw at the cinema this year, so...
31. What did you do on your birthday?
It's next week. Don't remember what I did last year.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I've mentioned the swordy martial arts teaching thing in this already, right? Or if we go with the other meaning of “satisfying” then I've made a crack about orgies and depravity...
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016?
Clothed. Occasionally with armour.
34. What kept you sane?
Who said I kept sane? You should feel the inside of my head.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I dunno, I tend to fancy people that I actually know, based on personality, and the purely visual fancying tends to be when I'm watching movies or TV that could be decades old, so who knows what they even look like now, let alone what they're actually like?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The EU referendum.
37. Who did you miss?
The same people as always, and also Bel.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Cedar the Barefoot Bard, and also not forgetting some other SCA types such as Kirk Poore and Master Ulrik von Matanuska. But Cedar was the one who kept us singing, and was in our pageant!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016:
Probably none of the ones I should.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
We'll roll the old chariot along, and we'll all hang on behind.
Had laser/eye surgery. Had a flu vaccination. Heard Alestorm.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
As I say every year, I don't make them. The way you live your life is for life, not just New Year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I recall.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Bel, the cat I've known the longest, at the age of 17 and a half, in January. Great start to the year, right there.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. Unless you count Wales.
6. What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
The usual- Contracts for paid-up-front work. Stress-free periods of time. No surgeries. (Fat chance of this – there's one next month that I already know about.) Doing some proper fencing, choreography, and self defence workshops.
7. What date from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
May 24th, me and the boatman pulling a woman from the canal into a water taxi in Leeds. I've been in the right place at the right time to save nine lives over the years, but this one was from water, which for various reasons in my past makes it particularly meaningful to me.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
See the answer above- pulling a woman from the canal.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not attending any convention or teaching any fencing/choreography/self defence workshops... I dunno, really – I'm sure there are too many to choose from.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Eyesight went south in late January, bottoming out around late April/early May, but has largely recovered, to the state it was in around the end of 2015. And of course there have surgeries of one kind or another every few weeks - averages out to at least one a month, though more in the first half of the year than the second, and I managed to have December off from any.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I dunno. Really – can't think of anything specific. Something really cheap in a charity shop, probably.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Lots of people, as always... Lesley, Anne, Lynette, Cedar, Becky and Tony, Tlanti and Tyrone. Grouse. The various eye surgeons...
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Brexiters and Trumpeters.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and arrears and Lesley's SCA adventures.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Nothing much. At least nothing much that actually happened.
16. What song will always remind you of 2016?
Alive by Meatloaf.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I dunno. The same. Neither?
ii. thinner or fatter? The same.
iii. richer or poorer? The same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Work that paid, of course. Fencing/choreography/self dence workshops teaching and coaching, as I already said. Orgies and bisexual depravity? Political assassination? Bank robbery?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Having machines shoved down my throat and needles stuck in my eyeballs.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Same as last year- sitting at home, hoping the Dr Who special isn't shit.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Same as last year- sitting at home, hoping Sherlock isn't shit.
22. Did you fall in love in 2016?
Not specifically, but I fall in love with Lesley over again all the time. I think I mentioned that in previous years' answers as well.
23. How many one-night stands?
None. Ish.
24. What was your favorite TV program(s)?
Game Of Thrones, Westworld, Ripper Street, Murdoch Mysteries, The Flash, Gotham, etc.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Various politicians I'd never heard of last year. Otherwise just the same people.
26. What was the best book you read?
Probably Stephen King's “Revival” though the end was a bit of a letdown.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Alestorm
28. What did you want and get?
Improvement in health and eyesight? I think.
29. What did you want and not get?
Good paid contracts, the workshops I like to do, an Xbox One, a tidy house....
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I think Rogue One is the only movie I saw at the cinema this year, so...
31. What did you do on your birthday?
It's next week. Don't remember what I did last year.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I've mentioned the swordy martial arts teaching thing in this already, right? Or if we go with the other meaning of “satisfying” then I've made a crack about orgies and depravity...
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016?
Clothed. Occasionally with armour.
34. What kept you sane?
Who said I kept sane? You should feel the inside of my head.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I dunno, I tend to fancy people that I actually know, based on personality, and the purely visual fancying tends to be when I'm watching movies or TV that could be decades old, so who knows what they even look like now, let alone what they're actually like?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The EU referendum.
37. Who did you miss?
The same people as always, and also Bel.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Cedar the Barefoot Bard, and also not forgetting some other SCA types such as Kirk Poore and Master Ulrik von Matanuska. But Cedar was the one who kept us singing, and was in our pageant!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016:
Probably none of the ones I should.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
We'll roll the old chariot along, and we'll all hang on behind.
