The last day of the year, and I thought I'd do a little review of 2007, and what I achieved.
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? Get married. Adopt kittens. (I know saying adopt is really wanky, but we didn't buy them, and nothing else seems to fit.) Buy a house. Change a broken tail-light on my car. Change my surname. Buy pink windscreen wipers. (How funny that apart from the major, life-changing never-done-before's, the only things I can think of are things I did in the last few weeks.)
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No, I didn't make resolutions last year, and I won't this year. I tend to have an ever evolving list, or lists, of things I want to do, or things I want to change. I have bought a fresh new diary for 2008, a lovely purple one with a day a page, and a ribbon bookmark. The Prince said, "Oh, you use a paper diary?" in surprise when I pulled it out to nerdily fill in all my details on the front page. I confessed that I had never succeeded in keeping one beyond a few months into a new year, but this was going to be the year when all that changed. This was going to be the organised year, the year with the diary entries for everything. The Prince looked sceptical.
3. Did anyone close to you have a child? My cousin had his second child at the beginning of the year. One of the Prince's friends had his first child - the first of our contemporaries to have children, it was a bit alarming.
4. Did anyone close to you die? Well, no, but I did attend a funeral - the baby who died shortly after birth.
4. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? I can't think of any material things that I lacked, spoiled as I am. Perhaps bigger bookshelves. The ability to persevere with the grand plans I am often concocting.
5. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 30, our wedding day.
6. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I think the two big feats of organisation - our wedding, and buying and moving house. I enjoyed the wedding far more than moving house - moving house is horrible. So much tedious work. Oh, and asking for and getting a raise.
7. What was your biggest failure? Failure? There have been no failures! No, actually, I can't think of any. Er, not doing any Christmas baking? Not taking enough photographs?
8. What was the best thing you bought? Our honeymoon trip, and my new zoom lens.
9. What did you do differently this year? I wore and bought more pink possessions, inspired by Pink Lawyer's collection of pink accessories. I always despised the colour as being too girly, but I think I like being a bit girly, now and then. I had the most expensive haircut of my life, and loved the result.
10. What do you hope to achieve in the new year? I would like to focus again (but this time, a bit more successfully) on writing fiction. I would like to take more photographs - the only way to get better is to practice. I would like to feel that I've improved my skills at work, and to become more independent in my work without freaking out about not being supervised (I am attached to supervision purely because of the lack of accountability it allows me. I need to be more responsible for my own work). I would like to be more organised about setting and achieving goals. Hey, look, faux-resolutions!
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