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2019 Year-in-Review
I haven't done this for a few years, but the internet is forever, right? Also, welcome, new friends!
1. What did you do in 2019 that you’d never done before?
Almost became a widow?
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember if I made any resolutions. It was a hell of a year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Our nephew & wife had a baby girl over the summer, so we have a little princess of a sweetheart to pass around at family gatherings.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not that D didn't give it good try, but no, we managed not to lose anyone.
5. What countries did you visit?
Just my little corner of the US.
6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2019?
A federal government that doesn't fill me with despair and terror?
7. What date(s) from 2019 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Sitting around the ER watching D's blood pressure spike up to 210/163 was suuuuper-special.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Only losing it once with my freakazoid of a co-worker in the middle of the medical drama. And even then, I managed to keep my voice low enough that only the woman who sits on the other side of me noticed. (Open workplaces are hideous.)
9. What was your biggest failure?
I really need to refigure out finances now that D isn't going to be working.
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I ended the year with an infected cut that knocked me flat (and then had a mild allergic reaction to the antibiotics I was on) so that was special.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
1-Day park passes to Disney World with a full-on day of Star Wars activities.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My brother flew down and handled all the home stuff while I got D through the initial hospital stay and settled into the rehab center, which was just above and beyond the call of family. Oldest stepped up and handled a lot of the out-patient transportation. #2Son is never not there when I need help. BabyBoy pulled himself out of a bipolar spiral and managed a 3.82 GPA and Deans' List.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The Nice White Ladies who landed us in this fucking mess and who keep doubling down on their pearl-clutching, asshole behavior.
14. Where did most of your money go?
College tuition x 2. D's medical bills.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The second season of Star Trek: Discovery ate my brain over the summer and then I got to run around taking some of the actors to their panels at DragonCon, which was just so unexpected and they were so nice and fun that I really had to ask myself if I'd dreamt it all.
16. What song will always remind you of 2019?
Six, from the musical of the same name. BabyBoy had it going a lot, as a let's-get-pumped song, so it's kinda stuck in my head, especially the lyric Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I'm mostly just tired.
ii. thinner or fatter? Actually a little thinner, which I'm not sure exactly how.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer, because D is on disability right now, so that's a cut.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Read more. My brain kind of shut off after D's stroke and I really just couldn't get into anything.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Pretending I didn't need a way to manage the dramas of the current job because mostly I was just gritting my teeth and gutting it out and that's not really a viable long-term plan.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
We always spend Christmas Eve with D's family and I only got the infection diagnosis on 23 Dec so I was still staggering around with a fever and some seriously disgusting drainage from the cut. Christmas Day was at home and I made Beef Wellington with BabyBoy's assistance. Then I crashed for a couple of days and we drove to Orlando on the 28th to hang out at Disney World with friends, only coming back yesterday. It was pretty awesome.
22. Did you fall in love in 2019?
D & I are still bopping along, and somewhere in there, we got giggly after the stroke, which was unexpected, but beats the hell out of being mad at the world.
23. How many one-night stands?
There was an anniversary expedition, which counts, right? (It was a fancy hotel for the night. That totally counts.)
24. What was your favorite TV program?
As mentioned before, the second season of Star Trek: Discovery ate my brain, but how can I not mention Baby Yoda?
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
The whiny Star Wars fanboys have upped their game sufficiently to be in the running for this.
26. What was the best book you read?
Circe, by Madeline Miller. Fortunately, I got to it early in the year, before my brain cycles died and I couldn't finish anything.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
um, I finally got around to watching Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born, does that count?
28. What did you want and get?
We managed to ride both Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run and Rise of the Resistance on the same day, and earlier in the same trip, I watched The Rise of Skywalker with my SW-loving kid *and* we ran through the Star Wars VR escape room at Disney Springs, so I had a seriously Jedi New Year. :D
29. What did you want and not get?
A president who won't start World War III? (same as last time)
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I had favorite bits of movies -- "On your left," from Endgame, Chewie mourning for all of us in TROS, the beautiful animation from Frozen 2...
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 57, and ... we didn't do anything. It was the middle of the week and we'd just gotten back from Food & Wine at Epcot, so mostly I just went and got a foofy tea drink.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
See above re: no World War III anxieties.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2019?
Can I wear it with Tevas?
34. What kept you sane?
Focusing on the essentials. If you can get those done consistently, it's a lot easier to add the extras that make life entertaining.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Holy crap, Anson Mount, even before I got to say hi to him at DragonCon and he was not a jerk.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
It all comes back to the racist fucks, every. single. time.
37. Who did you miss?
I miss chatting with a lot of people I used to see every day. I need to be better about reaching out, both online and IRL.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
I got invited to join the Patio Tribe at the hotel we've been staying at for the last few DragonCons and that was a cool group of people. Also, a new player joined the boys' D&D group and we are semi-convinced that she is a time-shifted me, so that was fun. The 2nd Floor Acquired Brain Injury families kept me sane after the stroke.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019.
Take your meds. Wear your seatbelt. Get up and move a little every single day.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Truckin', like the doo-dah man -- it's been a long, strange year, kids.
1. What did you do in 2019 that you’d never done before?
Almost became a widow?
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember if I made any resolutions. It was a hell of a year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Our nephew & wife had a baby girl over the summer, so we have a little princess of a sweetheart to pass around at family gatherings.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not that D didn't give it good try, but no, we managed not to lose anyone.
5. What countries did you visit?
Just my little corner of the US.
6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2019?
A federal government that doesn't fill me with despair and terror?
7. What date(s) from 2019 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Sitting around the ER watching D's blood pressure spike up to 210/163 was suuuuper-special.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Only losing it once with my freakazoid of a co-worker in the middle of the medical drama. And even then, I managed to keep my voice low enough that only the woman who sits on the other side of me noticed. (Open workplaces are hideous.)
9. What was your biggest failure?
I really need to refigure out finances now that D isn't going to be working.
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I ended the year with an infected cut that knocked me flat (and then had a mild allergic reaction to the antibiotics I was on) so that was special.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
1-Day park passes to Disney World with a full-on day of Star Wars activities.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My brother flew down and handled all the home stuff while I got D through the initial hospital stay and settled into the rehab center, which was just above and beyond the call of family. Oldest stepped up and handled a lot of the out-patient transportation. #2Son is never not there when I need help. BabyBoy pulled himself out of a bipolar spiral and managed a 3.82 GPA and Deans' List.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The Nice White Ladies who landed us in this fucking mess and who keep doubling down on their pearl-clutching, asshole behavior.
14. Where did most of your money go?
College tuition x 2. D's medical bills.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The second season of Star Trek: Discovery ate my brain over the summer and then I got to run around taking some of the actors to their panels at DragonCon, which was just so unexpected and they were so nice and fun that I really had to ask myself if I'd dreamt it all.
16. What song will always remind you of 2019?
Six, from the musical of the same name. BabyBoy had it going a lot, as a let's-get-pumped song, so it's kinda stuck in my head, especially the lyric Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I'm mostly just tired.
ii. thinner or fatter? Actually a little thinner, which I'm not sure exactly how.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer, because D is on disability right now, so that's a cut.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Read more. My brain kind of shut off after D's stroke and I really just couldn't get into anything.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Pretending I didn't need a way to manage the dramas of the current job because mostly I was just gritting my teeth and gutting it out and that's not really a viable long-term plan.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
We always spend Christmas Eve with D's family and I only got the infection diagnosis on 23 Dec so I was still staggering around with a fever and some seriously disgusting drainage from the cut. Christmas Day was at home and I made Beef Wellington with BabyBoy's assistance. Then I crashed for a couple of days and we drove to Orlando on the 28th to hang out at Disney World with friends, only coming back yesterday. It was pretty awesome.
22. Did you fall in love in 2019?
D & I are still bopping along, and somewhere in there, we got giggly after the stroke, which was unexpected, but beats the hell out of being mad at the world.
23. How many one-night stands?
There was an anniversary expedition, which counts, right? (It was a fancy hotel for the night. That totally counts.)
24. What was your favorite TV program?
As mentioned before, the second season of Star Trek: Discovery ate my brain, but how can I not mention Baby Yoda?
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
The whiny Star Wars fanboys have upped their game sufficiently to be in the running for this.
26. What was the best book you read?
Circe, by Madeline Miller. Fortunately, I got to it early in the year, before my brain cycles died and I couldn't finish anything.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
um, I finally got around to watching Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born, does that count?
28. What did you want and get?
We managed to ride both Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run and Rise of the Resistance on the same day, and earlier in the same trip, I watched The Rise of Skywalker with my SW-loving kid *and* we ran through the Star Wars VR escape room at Disney Springs, so I had a seriously Jedi New Year. :D
29. What did you want and not get?
A president who won't start World War III? (same as last time)
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I had favorite bits of movies -- "On your left," from Endgame, Chewie mourning for all of us in TROS, the beautiful animation from Frozen 2...
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 57, and ... we didn't do anything. It was the middle of the week and we'd just gotten back from Food & Wine at Epcot, so mostly I just went and got a foofy tea drink.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
See above re: no World War III anxieties.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2019?
Can I wear it with Tevas?
34. What kept you sane?
Focusing on the essentials. If you can get those done consistently, it's a lot easier to add the extras that make life entertaining.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Holy crap, Anson Mount, even before I got to say hi to him at DragonCon and he was not a jerk.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
It all comes back to the racist fucks, every. single. time.
37. Who did you miss?
I miss chatting with a lot of people I used to see every day. I need to be better about reaching out, both online and IRL.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
I got invited to join the Patio Tribe at the hotel we've been staying at for the last few DragonCons and that was a cool group of people. Also, a new player joined the boys' D&D group and we are semi-convinced that she is a time-shifted me, so that was fun. The 2nd Floor Acquired Brain Injury families kept me sane after the stroke.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019.
Take your meds. Wear your seatbelt. Get up and move a little every single day.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Truckin', like the doo-dah man -- it's been a long, strange year, kids.
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I still have to watch Discovery, and since i now have CBS Access, I can...
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Oh, K, I liked Disco, but I LOVED Pike. He is fantastic.
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Thanks--I hope so too!