Meme of the Year 2019!
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Meme of the Year 2019
Meme of the Year 2019
1. What did you do in 2019 that you'd never done before?
Changed a baby’s nappy! Cuddled a baby! Loved a baby!
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Don’t really do new years resolutions. I am kind of resolving to stop eating ALL THE THINGS next year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A lot of people gave birth this year- two colleages, Pip and Bren, but mostly, and importantly: My sister! I became an aunt to the most beautiful, genius, lovely little girl in the world. I am obsessed with her.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Fortunately, no. A few people in the periphery have passed, which is sad, but no one close.
5. What countries did you visit?
France, Scotland, Germany! (Baden Baden and Nuremburg)
6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2019?
Direction, satisfaction, older housemates.
7. What date from 2019 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
29th of July, the day my niece was born.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I’m pretty chuffed with the video I made on how to use a haemocytometer. I’m getting quicker at video editing.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Still being where I am. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with it, I’m just not happy with things as they are.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I expelled my coil, which was a painful nuisance, and I had the usual collection of colds and things. I spent February-April with suspected glandular fever, which was never diagnosed, but I felt like nothing good.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My television. It replaced a tiny tiny one that was 10yr old. The apps on it work so well, and it’s really easy to use. This is kind of sad, but also, I haven’t bought that much this year. Especially anything life changing.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My sister and her husband are amazing parents, and I really admire the job they are doing.They’re taking it in stride, and she’s such a happy little baby.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
The news. Everyone right of centre. Trump, BoJo et al. I suspect if you look back far enough through these, you’ll see that I once had positive feelings about Boris. Don’t mock me, I was young and he wasn’t powerful. Amusing me counted for a lot.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent. I also got into the habit of buying rather than making lunch, which cost a fair bit.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Endgame. It was exciting and terrifying at the same time. My niece being born. I swear, it is so odd to suddenly and overwhelmingly love someone you’ve never met, just because they exist.
16. What song will always remind you of 2019?
The tragedy of Rob being away is that he doesn’t play songs for me all the time, and I don’t listen to quite as much on my own. The Steven Universe Movie soundtrack had some bops, and ‘Who We Are’ gives me chills.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Sadder, but also, I can’t remember how I felt at this time last year, so I’m making it up.
ii. thinner or fatter?
Probably a touch fatter. Oh dear. <— I said this last year, and it still seems to be true.
iii. richer or poorer?
Richer, but at the cost of happy, I suspect.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
This year my people energy has been stretched so thin by my job and my housemates that I haven’t spent much time with friends, but I wish I had more people energy to have spent seeing people.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sleeping. I am perpetually unconscious, which is a depression thing.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I did a Christmas on the 22nd with all surviving grandparents, my parents, my sister and her husband, and BABY! We got fed and peopled, and then I went down to Rob to spend the rest of the Christmas period with him. We did actual Christmas Day with his parents, which was peaceful.
21. Did you fall in love in 2019?
Twelve years with Rob!
22. What was the best thing you made?
I made a couple of videos which I was proud of for work, I also made some rather good socks earlier in the year.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Good Omens. I had a deep and powerful obsession with it for months. In fact, I didn’t see one friend over the summer because I was all “All I could say is “BABY!” And “Good Omens!”, and she’d have no interest in either of those things. Seriously- it's SO GOOD. I've watched it several times. I also really got into 'Taskmaster', which made me laugh a lot.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Not really- the names change but the political stances that inspire hatred stay roughly the same.
25. What was the best book you read?
I don’t remember reading a book this year. That’s awful.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I didn’t really listen to much music this year. I really really liked the ‘Behind the Bastards’ podcast a lot, and have really enjoyed binging that. I also really rate ’Slow Burn’ as a podcast too.
27. What did you want and get?
An automated imaging system! A niece! Recognition that I’m awesome.
28. What did you want and not get?
Another job. Tony Stark to live. Brexit not to happen.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
‘Knives Out’ was super good fun, but ‘Into The Spiderverse’ was just on another level. Like, I don’t know how it got made, but it was beautiful and amazing.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 33, Mikey and I went to Madame Tussaud’s and it was pleasingly shit. We had a great time, mostly marvelling at how hard they were trying to get money out of us, how much worse this would be if it was as busy as they clearly intend it to get.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Look, can we just invent teleportation already? It would make things much better all round. Stupid distance, getting in the way of everything good.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2019?
I went full on leggings and dresses this year. Waistbands, you have no power over me!
33. What kept you sane?
Not a right lot. I guess stubornness.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I didn’t really, but in my Good Omen’s obsession phase, Michael Sheen got a look in.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Urgh. What political issue didn’t?
36. Who did you miss?
My niece! I want to snuggle her all the time. Also, Rob. Everyone really.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
My new colleagues are very nice, and I’m generally liking the folk from the LGBT+ network at work.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019:
The main thing I’ve learned isn’t really a life lesson. It’s just- I love my niece. I love her so much, I am so charmed by her. She makes babies make sense. That said- I emphatically do not want one of my own. Life with a baby is not what I want my life to be. I appreciate all the things I couldn’t do if I had a baby all the more. I am going to extra enjoy snuggling all the other babies I get my paws on though.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“Oh we will all burn together when we burn
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn
You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas
Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dolla's
And we will all go together when we go”
Tom Lehrer, We All Go Together
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Date: 2020-01-03 08:58 pm (UTC)One of my not-a-NYR is to play more board games this year and I'm saying this to you as someone who might be willing to play with me and also in the hopes that we actually manage to meet up this year!