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End of Year Meme

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1. What did you do in 2009 that you??d never done before?
Give birth. See a good chunk of Alberta.

2. Did you keep your new year??s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
For the most part, no. Not sure if I’ll make more for next year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Me. 🙂 Also a few friends and a few people in the community.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
One of our parishioners who I became close to.

5. What countries did you visit?
Canada. Most specifically, Alberta.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
A parish for Jon.

7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 7th: Daniel’s birth

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Having the dude.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not dwelling on anything so I couldn’t say.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Strep throat, bronchitis, pre-eclampsia (more specifically HELLP Syndrome), multiple sinus infections, migraines, and whiplash.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Probably jeans from Lands’ End or pajama bottoms

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Obama
NICU staff
Mom

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The list is way too long and also too risky for me to post in an un-passworded entry.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Buying Similac Neosure for the dude.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Daniel kicking butt in the NICU.

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Not sure — there are many.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
(a) happier or sadder? a little of both in different ways
(b) thinner or fatter? unfortunately the latter
(c) richer or poorer? richer, actually

18. What do you wish you??d done more of?
Eating better and walking to get some of the pregnancy weight off.

19. What do you wish you??d done less of?
Worrying.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
In Seattle with my family.

21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Very deeply in love with Daniel.

22. What was your favorite TV program?
Smoking Gun: World’s Dumbest

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn??t hate this time last year?
Unfortunately yes.

24. What was the best book you read?
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
the Twilight books

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
No musical discoveries but I did find some great podcasts

26. What did you want and get?
A healthy baby.

27. What did you want and not get?
A parish for Jon.

28. What was your favorite film of this year?
None. I don’t do movies.

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
29 and I went out to dinner after work before heading down to the NICU.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less stress

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Maternity clothes.

32. What kept you sane?
Daniel’s smile and laughter. TIVO’ed episodes of “Smoking Gun”

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Healthcare reform.

35. Who did you miss?
A lot of people who I wish lived closer.

36. Who was the best new person you met?
The NICU staff at Benefis.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
Pre-natal care is important and life-saving.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“Let it be”

Grumping

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The pain in my ear finally got bad enough that I stayed home from work until I could see my doctor. Apparently, the really sore ear is the good one and the one that isn’t hurting is the bad one. My throat was also red from all the crap draining down it. So… another two weeks of cat antibiotics (it’s the one we give our cats but in BIG horse pill form) and two kinds of ear drops. Oh freaking joy.

After having done the drops twice, let me just say that I am repenting of every time I’ve had to give them to my kitties for ear mites. I HATE them — the pain one makes my ear feel slimey and the dropper makes a popping sound when I stick it in there.

It’s also changeable pressures here which means I have a headache on top of everything else.

*grumps*

Trying to Find Something To Write About…

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My lack of updates stems mostly from the fact that there is a whole lot of stuff in my life that I can’t write about because a.) Jon is in the call process and I can’t reveal where we’re interviewing or have interviewed; b.) I keep church drama off of public entries; c.) I’m dead exhausted all the time; and d.) I don’t have anything to say much of the time about my life because it’s pretty much work/Daniel/church drama at the moment.

Here are a couple tidbits that I can mention:

[+] I had so much fun with NaNo this year that I’m going to be writing some murder mysteries based in a small town in Minnesota. Yes, I know Minnesota lost in the poll but I can actually *create* the characters and settings there. I’ve been gone from Ohio too long to set it there and Montana is kind of painful to write about at the moment. I scoured a map of Norway and found a small town called Lesja which will be the name of the town in Minnesota. One of the hard things about creating one there: just about every name that is conceivable has been taken. The main character will be a pastor’s wife who solves mysteries.

[+] We had about a week and a half of -20F and then it got fairly warm again (for Montana) and now we seem to be dropping again. I just checked Weather.Com (which has an interesting headline: “Historic Storm Makes History” — paging the redundancy department!) and it’s actually not supposed to get below 10F.

[+] I’m headed out to Seattle with Daniel on Christmas Eve. We’re meeting my parents at Sea-Tac and then heading north to my grandma’s house. She’s doing well but she’s 89 and I want him to get to meet her. It’s also a chance to show him off to others in the family.