Happy New Year, people!
Hope it has been a good year for you 'cause it has been for me, it really has. I'm going to celebrate at home with my family, eating good and playing board games. Otherwise, not much new from me - there is quite a lot of snow and pretty cold. I mostly got kitchen supplies at Christmas, plus some money. Some of the money was spent on winter shoes a few days ago. (Mellandagsrea is the shit.)

And I'm getting tired of the family computer; so slow, too slow.

The first half of 2008 isn’t very clear in my memory – I guess it was mostly studying and studying, but it feels like it was years ago now.

What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Graduated. Moved away from my parents’, lived at a school, lived on Gotland. Been to several new countries. Probably more, but this is what I could think of right now.

Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t make new years’ resolutions.

Did anyone close to you give birth?
No. My sister is pregnant again, though!

Did anyone close to you die?
No.

What countries did you visit?
Denmark, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Vatican City, Austria, Germany and Italy. Heh.

What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Not sure. More ambition and determination? I’m sort of restless right now, sort of want something to really, really put down some work and brains in.

What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I’m bad with dates. >_> But I really will remember when I visited Pompeii, and my first days on Gotland.

What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Um. Getting into the school I wanted, and moving there, I guess? And completing my project – the website layout ended up being damn good, if I may say so myself. Took a lot of work, too.

What was your biggest failure?
Nothing. Shut up.

Did you suffer illness or injury?
Mm. A few days with a really bad cold and fever, but I think that’s it.

What was the best thing you bought?
I don’t know. I haven’t got much money as it is.

Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Most people I know – including myself. :P

Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Don’t really want to talk about that.

Where did most of your money go?
Rent and bills, it feels like.

What did you get really, really, really excited about?
A variety of tv-shows that I really, really liked, graduating, moving...

What song will always remind you of 2008?
Don’t know right now...will probably realise later. I’m thinking either “Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg” by Håkan Hellström or “Power of Love” by Huey Lewis. And “500 miles” by The Proclaimers.

Compared to this time last year, you are:
a) happier or sadder? Happier!
b) thinner or fatter? Same.
c) richer or poorer? Poorer.

What do you wish you'd done more of?
Nothing I can think of, now. I can’t think of anything I regret, right now.

What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying. I always worry too much.

How did you spend Christmas?
With my family. <3

How did you spend New Years?
Again, with my family. We’re going to just take it easy and play board games and stuff.

Did you fall in love in 2008?
No.

How many one-night stands?
None. >_>

What was your favorite TV program?
Doctor Who & Twin Peaks.

Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Don’t think so.

What was the best book you read?
Mn. If I had my reading diary here I could just check, but I don’t remember now. Possibly a few books by Tove Jansson.

What was your greatest musical discovery for 2008?
Happy Rhodes perhaps? Don’t think I’ve found much new this year that I’ve bothered to get.

What did you want and got?
Don’t know. So difficult to just think of something.

What was your favorite film of this year?
Lord of the Rings-trilogy.

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Turned 19...don’t remember what I did at all.

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
XXX breaking his leg. Or something.

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Too-poor-and-lazy-to-buy-anything-new.

What kept you sane?
Family and friends and the possibility of being alone and huddle with a cup of tea whenever I needed it.

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I’m adding fictional characters to this list too, because, umm. I had a huge crush on Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks, that is, the character and not the actor. Also a lot of hobbit-fancying at the beginning of the year. David Tennant and John Barrowman of course, and Donna Noble. A two-week crush on Sam Weller, too.

What political issue stirred you the most?
The US election and Obama becoming the president. (Stirred me in a good way, that is.) It’s quite sad that out-of-the-country-happenings stir me up more than anything in Sweden. The FRA-law had a short moment of fame, though.

Who did you miss?
My siblings and parents - during the time when I was away.

Who was the best new person you met?
Lots of people at school.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
It doesnt have to be complicated.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Coming up with one demands too much thinking for me right now.