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I’m not going to lie, 2010 was an awful year. Every time I thought the year was turning around for me, it got measurably worse. And every time I thought it seriously can’t get worse than this? It did. I’m so excited that it’s over. I’m looking forward to this year for one reason: it’s not 2010. Before, I ask that we never talk of last year again, I’m going to do a little reflection ( I’ve done it before in 2009 and 2008 ). By the time you’re all done reading, I will have shoved 2010 out the door.

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?

Developed an extreme case of The Agoraphobia. Good times!

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

I don’t think I made any and if I did, I didn’t keep them. Will I make any for this year? I haven’t decided yet.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Nope. It’s been a quiet time on the baby-making front.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

Nope. Knock on wood.

5. What countries did you visit?

None. None. None.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?

A break.

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory and why?

August 17th and September 17th. And that is all I will say about that. FOREVER.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Does getting through this year count as an achievement? HELL YES. That’s the one I’m sticking with.

9. What was your biggest failure?

My biggest failure is that I let the smallest man I have ever met (yes, in terms of that size and also more symbolically) treat me like trash because I was so desperate for some attention, and affection and love.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Intestinally speaking, it’s been a good year. (Crohn’s Disease, I scoff at you.)

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My couch.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

My family. There are no words to describe the gratitude I feel for my mother, my sister and my brother. I adore these people and I’m so lucky to have their support, their love and their understanding. I will never forget all that they have done for me this year.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

See #9.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Doctors and Starbucks.

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

The Rally to Restore Sanity. TRUE STORY.

24. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Citizen Cope, The Weepies, State Radio, Kate Earl, Heartless Bastards, Mumford & Sons. A great year for music.

25. What did you want and get?

To be understood. I got that in heaps.

26. What did you want and not get?

I wanted to know what the inside of love feels like. At the bare minimum, I wanted to know what it feels like to be wanted. Didn’t. Get. That. Not. Even. Close. Sigh.

27. What was your favourite film of this year?

Scott Pilgrim V The World.

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

I turned 29 and I spent it half with family and half with friends eating, drinking and talking. I remember laughing so hard with a boy, and I remember a lot of tequila shots. Also, Alexia returned from Miami two days early to celebrate with me and brought me my first ever Anthropologie gift. (It’s a beautiful, gold bracelet that I literally had to pull out of her hands. WITH FORCE. It’s so beautiful that we decided that both our future daughters have equal ownership rights to it.) (Seriously Lex? Seriously? That wasn’t a gift, that was blackmail.)

29. How you would describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?

What do you call it when you dress top to bottom from H&M, Zara and Pull & Bear?

30. What kept you sane?

I did. (With some help from Xanax.)

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

Jon Stewart. (With or without his beard, I’d still have his babies.)

32. Who did you miss?

A lot of people. They know who they are because they’re not next to my face.

33. Who was the best new person you met?

I met so many new people this year that I’m finding it hard to pick one. There are two AMAZING girls I’ve met a few times who stand out in my mind and I am excited to get to know them better this year (if they’ll have me and my unsocial tendencies). (If you’re reading, here’s a hint: YOU’RE COUSINS. Is it me or should there be a law against so much awesome existing in one family?) But if I had to pick one person who was the best, the one I felt a certain kinship with, I’d pick him. He really was the bestest.

34. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.

Never, ever, ever give up.

(Also, and I learned this twice. When a man kisses you, it doesn’t mean he is attracted to you, it doesn’t mean that he likes you, it doesn’t mean that he sees you or wants you. You’ll think it does, but it doesn’t. All it means is that he was drunk.)

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

“And you asked me what I want this year, and I’ll try to make this kind and clear: “Just a chance that we’ll find better days.”