The year that was 2006

As we’re approaching the end of this year and I’m trying to recap this rollercoaster of a year and went back to one of those corny questionnaires that a friend from Quebec sent me a few years ago and fill it out, it’s good for the karama people! Those who are brave enough can post theirs up in the comments if you dare!

1.What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Started freelancing
 
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
 resolutions are so last century! My ADD prevents me from making any and keeping any as well.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My friend Simon and Isabelle his wife had a baby, little Amy!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Diane Bélanger, my former boss, and a wonderful immigration lawyer in montreal, woman and mother.
 
5. What countries did you visit?
Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK, (woops, forgot Norway, France)

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

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory?
20th of July
 
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating and finding work within a fortnight
 
9. What was your biggest failure?
Creating more bad karma with some people around me than i would have liked.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes 

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Kennedy space centre tour bag.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Al Gore for An Inconvenient truth

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Domus Academy’s closure of IDII.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Traveling 

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Working with great people on exciting projects!

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2007?
Body and Soul by Death Cab Cutie

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
More tired, busier, more confident of the future.

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

 19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Partying
 
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Going to the UK.
 
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Matt

22. Did you fall in love in 2006?
Yes
 
23. What was your favourite TV programme?
Scrubs
 
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No

26. What was the best book(s) you read?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand but i haven’t finished it yet.
 
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Iron & Wine
 
28. What did you want and get?
To be captain of my own boat.

29. What did you want and not get?
Prototype my thesis project

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
The Departed

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
It’s coming up, i’ll be spending it in London, turning 26.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less drama

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Whatever fits in a suitcase

34. What kept you sane?
My family

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Don’t know any anymore…

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Canadian elections
 
37. Who did you miss?
Caroline, Marc-André, Mylène

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Matt

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
All things come to those who wait

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?

drink up baby down
Are you in or are you out?
Leave your things behind
‘Cause it’s all going off without you
Excuse me too busy you’re writing your tragedy
These mishaps
You bubble-wrap
When you’ve no idea what you’re like

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3 comments

  1. 1. started freelancing, writing things in a blog everyone can read
    2. i stopped with ny resolutions as they are utopistic and i never stick to them
    3. my brother and his girlfriend had a boy in june, little Gustav, so I’m an auntie
    4. no
    5. Hungary, Romania, UK, Germany (home), Netherlands
    6. LOVE!!!! and fun and relaxing time, plus yoga
    7. difficult, all days when i played drama queen
    8. Graduating from RCA, getting awards for my work, getting jobs and exhibitions, setting up a studio
    9. not believing in what i do
    10. nothing really worth mentioning
    11. my short silver sparkly dress for 9 pounds at zara
    12. uff, i would say the administrator of the jewellery department, Jo Laurie, as she’s dealing patiently with all the crazy artists form all over the world
    13. ah there are so many people doing shit. J’s behaviour made me really depressed
    14. Material and living in London
    15. i have to admit its quite a long time ago that i wa really really exited. soemtimes just very small things
    16. Gorecki(global communication mix) from Lamb, a-ha music
    17. More confident, happier, more tired
    18. having fun, being nicer to myself
    19. working, worrying
    20. with my family in Germany
    21. Ekki
    22. unfortunately not
    23. oh god, some silly stuff on cannel 4 and 5
    24. no, but some people do not matter anymore which is better than hating someone
    HA,you forgot 25.!!!!!!!!
    26. was not a good reading year…
    27. some old stuff again and Lamb, Sigur Ros etc
    28. what did i wanted?
    29. huhu, some love
    30. not a good movie year either…’das Leben der Anderen’
    31. did my first lost wax casting (sucess), had a party at home and turned 31
    32. more love and less drama
    33. hide and reveal but let it be black!
    34. making a list of achievements and good things happened, my family and ekki
    35. none
    36. I’m a bit in a vakuum and things from home do not touch me that much, ignorant i know
    37. Nadja, Gustav, Jens
    38. even though we have issues: Ekki
    39. be yourself, surpises happen, have fun and a drink more often! things come to those who don’t expect them.
    40. ich stehe völlig neben mir

  2. 1. started freelancing, writing things in a blog everyone can read
    2. i stopped with ny resolutions as they are utopistic and i never stick to them
    3. my brother and his girlfriend had a boy in june, little Gustav, so I’m an auntie
    4. no
    5. Hungary, Romania, UK, Germany (home), Netherlands
    6. LOVE!!!! and fun and relaxing time, plus yoga
    7. difficult, all days when i played drama queen
    8. Graduating from RCA, getting awards for my work, getting jobs and exhibitions, setting up a studio
    9. not believing in what i do
    10. nothing really worth mentioning
    11. my short silver sparkly dress for 9 pounds at zara
    12. uff, i would say the administrator of the jewellery department, Jo Laurie, as she’s dealing patiently with all the crazy artists form all over the world
    13. ah there are so many people doing shit. J’s behaviour made me really depressed
    14. Material and living in London
    15. i have to admit its quite a long time ago that i wa really really exited. soemtimes just very small things
    16. Gorecki(global communication mix) from Lamb, a-ha music
    17. More confident, happier, more tired
    18. having fun, being nicer to myself
    19. working, worrying
    20. with my family in Germany
    21. Ekki
    22. unfortunately not
    23. oh god, some silly stuff on cannel 4 and 5
    24. no, but some people do not matter anymore which is better than hating someone
    HA,you forgot 25.!!!!!!!!
    26. was not a good reading year…
    27. some old stuff again and Lamb, Sigur Ros etc
    28. what did i wanted?
    29. huhu, some love
    30. not a good movie year either…’das Leben der Anderen’
    31. did my first lost wax casting (sucess), had a party at home and turned 31
    32. more love and less drama
    33. hide and reveal but let it be black!
    34. making a list of achievements and good things happened, my family and ekki
    35. none
    36. I’m a bit in a vakuum and things from home do not touch me that much, ignorant i know
    37. Nadja, Gustav, Jens
    38. even though we have issues: Ekki
    39. be yourself, surpises happen, have fun and a drink more often! things come to those who don’t expect them.
    40. ich stehe völlig neben mir
    nicht glücklich weil nicht neben dir
    ich rufe dich nur an um dich zu fragen
    kann es sein, daß ich bei meinem letzten besuch
    bei dir verlor was ich jetzt such
    ich fühl mich unwohl ohne kopf in der straßenbahn
    deswegen lern’ ich koflos Fahhrad fahrn’
    und ich weiß wahrscheinlich mit den jahrn’ werd
    ich lernen dabei mein gesicht zu wahrn’

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