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Redux

This Year-End 2006 Meme was snatched from and I swear I gave largely the same answers last year and the year before.

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Went to Dragon*Con

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No, and I’ll try again, with the same ones, next year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yup!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not really close.

5. What countries did you visit?
*snicker*

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Sex

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
June 26, 2006.  Scotty’s wedding.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Didn’t go completely broke.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Meeting men.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Well, he was technically free, but Istar.

Where the hell did 12 and 13 go?

14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Doctor Who, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Heroes, ANTM, Torchwood

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
“Chasing Cars”  I LOVE that song.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder – Happier
Older or wiser – Of course I’m older! Probably a bit wiser…
Thinner or fatter? – I think maybe a little thinner… just a little.
Richer or poorer? – Poorer…much.

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

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Not going out

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Christmas Eve at grandparents, Christmas Day at parents.

22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Nope.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
All of the ones mentioned above

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
… Well, I don’t care about them enough to hate them…

26. What was the best book you read?
Aside from the HP books, Eragon and Eldest.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Hmm.

28. What did you want and get?
To meet celebrities

29. What did you want and not get?
Ah, but the year isn’t over yet.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I think I saw only one, The Devil Wears Prada.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 34, regular day

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
… Money.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Idealistic.  I have great fashion sense, but only conceptually.  I wear cords and sweaters every day

34. What kept you sane?
Hobbit

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Sean Bean, Cliff Simon, Christopher Eccleston

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Hypocrisy of democrats in general

37. Who did you miss?
… No one, really.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I don’t really remember all who I met this year. I didn’t meet anyone in real-life because all my friends live inside my computer.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Everyone needs a friend, whether they want one or not.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Second verse, same as the first

Where Was I

I don’t even remember last time I posted or what I said. I’m still too sick to even go back and read it. I’ve been having just a bit of a chest cold, but it’s got me feeling tired and blah. Mom insisted on bringing me some cough medicine (even though I wasn’t coughing) with about 42 different narcotics in it. Well, probably none, but it felt like it. She also brought me two cubes of Diet Mtn. Dew, some tiramisu (YUMMM), cube steak, and $50. What an assortment, eh? That’s my mom, though–covering all the bases :elf:

SGA was awesome again, although Rodney haters won’t see it that way. Torchwood was… Um, Torchwood was…Dang, I can’t remember what it was about. Oh, I remember, it was actually one of my favorite eps so far. Yes, and I can’t remember it quickly. Sums up that show, huh?

A-OK

istar1.jpgIstar’s vet visit went extremely well. There had been some concern because one of his, um, male parts had not descended and they were afraid he would need a more extensive surgery to be neutered. Now, his surgery (December 28) should go smoothly with minimal cutting or pain. He finished his vaccinations and even handled the nosedrops like a champ. (Un)fortunately, he’s been knocked out by the medicine and he has slept most of the last two days. Hobbit must be having sympathy side-effects; she’s slept the last two days, too.

My parents are in Dollywood for their annual Christmas trip. I thought they were due back today, but Scott informed me that they aren’t coming back until Wednesday. Wednesday! You’d think they would notify the child responsible for taking care of their cats of their return date, but you’d be wrong.

I miss Heroes. I don’t want to wait for it to come back. I think I miss it even more than SG-1, though it could be due to the fact that once SG-1 comes back, it’s over–for good. ANTM is finished, Heroes is on winter break, SG-1 has been on Winter Break forever now, TAR finishes tonight…I think I’ll start taping all of the CSI eps on Spike just so I’ll have something to watch.

No zar’roc here

Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2)It’s been a long time since I posted anything, for a number of reasons. First and foremost, my grandmother had serious surgery this week and I’ve been a bit more into family than friends. She’s doing great and I’m not going to worry about her needlessly.

Secondly, I’ve been reading a couple of books. With the movie version of Eragon coming out soon, I finally felt the rush to read it. I’d been thinking about reading it for quite some time, but it began to feel like a race against time. I finished it Thursday night, absolutely certain that I had already figured out a huge mystery hinted at in the first of the three books of The Inheritance. Yesterday, I stopped on the way to work and purchased Eldest, the second book. As usual, not only am I NOT clever, I’m worse: Thinking I’m clever has made me an even bigger fool than usual, as my theory was clearly not even close to the truth of the mystery. Looking back, I see that it was not my own sharp thinking that lead me to my conclusion, and everyone reading probably thought the same way as I did. Suckas!

The books themselves borrow heavily from Tolkien. I mean HEAVILY. The words, places, a bit of the mythology, it’s all Tolkien-lite. I’m not complaining, just stating. I’ll be waiting for the concluding book with much anticipation, as the story has hit home for me; Hobbit is my Saphira, proud and independent, and Istar is the Dragon Rider, if only for the way Hob has to drag his goofy butt around on her back.

See? It always comes back to Da Hob.