oloriel | I have so much to sum up...

... that I'll just start with the usual retrospective meme. And then we'll see what else of 2012 I get summarised.

1.) What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Attend various LARP and fannish events with a toddler.

2.) Did you keep your New Year's resolutions?
Didn't make any.

3.) Did anyone close to you give birth?
Sort of -- Jamie, the wife of

hamnar! (Congratulations again! <3)

4.) Did anyone close to you die?
Up until the day before yesterday, the answer would have been a clear No; then, my great-great-something-uncle Joggel (properly Otto-Adolf, and no, actually he was named Adolf before it was hip to do so, and no, I actually have no idea why his nickname was Joggel) died. While this is a great loss for the clan (he was our head geneaologist), he was 98, so his death was neither entirely unexpected nor extraordinarily painful. Rest well, Uncle Joggel.

5.) Which countries did you visit?
The Netherlands, Switzerland and France. Belgium if you count drive-throughs. (Also Bavaria, Newfiveland, the Dragonlands and Sapientia, although those probably don't fully count.)

6.) What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2013?
More contact with old friends, a chance to go to the cinema every now and then, a regular period (YES REALLY!) and a job.

7.) What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
Ummmmm...

I'm crap at remembering dates.

8.) What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Did I achieve anything this year? The only thing that comes to mind at all is winning NaNo. Which is kind of sad.

9.) What was your biggest failure of the year?
The fact that there's no big achievement. Also, my applications getting mostly ignored (with a few "Don't call us, we'll call you"s thrown in for variation) sure feels like failure.

10.) Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious, as usual.

11.) What was the best thing you bought?
I don't recall feeling excited about anything I bought. I feel excited about a couple of my Christmas presents, but that's not the same.

12.) Where did most of your money go?
I HAVE NO MONEY *wails*. If collective you: Fuel, food, building materials, as always.

13.) Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Brother and mother-in-law come to mind for various heroic deeds. Also, my parents invited us to Brittany, which was pretty awesome.

14.) Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Our tenants', more precisely, Mr. Tenants. Fortunately, they'll be moving out in February. Good riddance and a plague upon their new flat.

15.) What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Felix' many achievements. Brittany!

16.) What song will always remind you of 2012?
EUPHOOOOORIA!

17.) Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Sadder.

ii. thinner or fatter?
thinner, even though I've mysteriously gained weight during the past two weeks.

iii. richer or poorer?
Even richer in debts.

18.) What do you wish you'd done more of?
Met friends; created art

19.) What do you wish you'd done less of?
Gotten pointlessly angry.

20.) How did you spend Christmas?
Christmas Eve was celebrated at home with Jörg, his mum and brother, my parents, brother and grandmother; Feast of Stephen (HAH!) at my parents' with my grandmother and my father's side of the family; the day before yesterday, at a friends' house; and yesterday, at my parents with my aunt, three of her sons and her new boyfriend. No wonder I feel so full.

21.) Did you fall in love in 2012?
Usual answer.

22.) How many one-night stands?
Whenever I come to this question, I wonder whether there are people doing this meme who have one-night stands habitually. Again, usual answer.

23.) Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate? I wouldn't go quite so far. Strongly dislike, though.

24.) What was your favourite TV program?
Aside from the same old, Sherlock Season II, MasterChef and If Walls Could Talk.

25.) What was the best new book you read?
That would probably be The Help and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

26.) What was your favourite film of this year?
As I still haven't seen The Hobbit, the winner is... Prometheus.

27.) What was your greatest musical discovery?
No real musical discoveries this year.

28.) What did you want and get?
Brittany vacation !!1!eleventyone. New clothing, because the state of the old was getting ridiculous.

29.) What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Nothing. I went hiking in the Black Forest a couple of days later, though. I was, and still am, 29.

30.) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Many things, not one thing.

31.) What kept you sane?
As always, what makes you think I'm sane?
Felix both drove me insane and kept me sane, I guess.

32.) How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
"It's got holes in it, so I should replace it after all."

33.) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Thorin really is kinda hot, isn't he?

34.) What political issue stirred you the most?
"stirred" is maybe too much, but I payed attention to the fall of our federal president, to ACTA etc and to the US presidential elections.

35.) Who was the best new person you met?
If you think you should be listed here and your name slips my mind just now, please forgive me.

36.) Who did you miss?
Several friends I didn't manage to meet at all or as often as I'd have liked.

37.) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
Yes, everything really does change when you become a parent, no matter how much you plan to be different.

38.) Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Can't think of a song that fits this year.

Wasn't that fun. :P