1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before? Ate vegetables every day for three months.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Not really & nope.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes a friend of mine from grad school.

4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes.

5. What countries did you visit? I stayed in the USA in 2010.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010? A sleep schedule that I feel rested with.

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I can't just pick one.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Finding my spirituality again, I feel better feeling connected to something bigger than myself.

9. What was your biggest failure? Procrastinating away when I could have just gotten stuff done.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? None that are noteworthy.

11. What was the best thing you bought? My kindle.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? My mother's, she has more patience than anyone I know.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled? My sister, she was an a rampage this summer and I have yet to figure out why.

14. Where did most of your money go? Eating out with friends.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Harry Potter 7: Part I.

16. What song will always remind you of 2010? "Who you are when I'm not looking" by Blake Shelton

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

- i. happier or sadder? Happier

- ii. thinner or fatter? The same

- iii. richer or poorer? Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Hiked more

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Spent time with people I don't enjoy

20. How did you spend Christmas? With my parents in Anchorage

22. Did you fall in love in 2010? No. I'll keep my fingers crossed for 2011.

23. How many one-night stands? Zero.

24. What was your favorite TV program? "How I met your mother" and "Castle" are tied for that one. They knocked NCIS out of the top spot for the first time in 5 years.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Nope.

26. What was the best book you read? Nalini Singh's "Angel's Kiss" was very good.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Classical music, Franz Shubert.

28. What did you want and get? More laughter in my life.

29. What did you want and not get? Someone to share that laughter with as a partner.

30. What was your favorite film of this year? "Killers" and "RED" are tied for that spot.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I went to a movie ("Kick Ass") and had gelato with a group of friends. I was 26.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Being done with school, soon--oh so soon it will happen.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? Comfortable but professional.

34. What kept you sane? Music and fiction books.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Kevin Durand and Paul Bettany were tied this year for drool worthiness.

36. What political issue stirred you the most? Marriage for all.

37. Who did you miss? My sister. She seemed not her usual self in 2010.

38. Who was the best new person you met? A friend of a friend who has become the older brother my parents never gave me.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010: that it's doable, you just have to have faith that you are the one who can do it.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: I think the line "Hold yourself together like a pair of bookends" from "Who you are when I'm not looking" works for me this year.