1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
• travel to Thailand
• Go on a weeklong Habitat trip without knowing anyone
• Be really, truly alone. in the best sense possible
• Travel through Europe and live in Italy
...there really are so many more, but thats a start.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolution, and will you make more for next year?
I kept two of my resolutsions of the three that I made. Im ok with that.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?: yes. mel.

4. Did anyone close to you die?: no.

5. What countries did you visit? whew um Thailand, England, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Austria, Scotland and Switzerland.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
• more of a focus on my actual future. But tahts kind of ok if Im still unsure of that. But I figure it couldnt hurt

7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?:
• March 17 - breaking up with Tim.
• August 26 - leaving for Europe,which was the best time of my life, in case I havent made that clear
• December 15 - the hardest day of my year, leaving a life I had come to love and cherish so much because I had made it for myself.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
• Oh god this is so big for me. I feel so renewed and so proud of myself for everything. I feel entirely dependent and I feel like I can do anything now. So cliiche, but its so true. I just feel liberated.

9. What was your biggest failure?
• Hmm...Nothing I would call a failure. This was the best year of my life. I have only maybe 2 or 3 regrets.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
• no.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
• My ticket to Europe.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
• Honestly? In regards to my year this year? Well, mine. Not that everyone hasnt done awesomely at life this year because they have. But I kinda feel like to my life atleast, this was the year of Steph.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
• Eh. I dont know. It depresses me sometimes to watch relationships deteriorate but I cannot say that that really depresses me anymore but is just a normal progression of things. People arent perfect, definitely not myself. Sometimes things jsutu fall apart because they fall apart.

14. Where did most of your money go?
• Europe. Making myself entirely and completely happy at all times. ha.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
• LIVING in Italy. It was home. MY home. I was really really excited when it began to feel like my home, which was after Fall Break, the beginning of November.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
• Probably "this years love" by david gray. I dont know. there are always going to be a ton of songs, but that one reminds me of Italy for some reason. I listened to it a lot after I had come to be in a really good place with myself.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier.
b) thinner or fatter?: fatter, but its good i was too skinny last christmas for some odd reason. My body is weird and fluctuates liek that.
c) richer or poorer?: richer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?:
• hmmm I did a lot on my own but I guess I could have done more. And at hte beginning of 2007 I probably should have spent more time just being ok with myself and accepting that some situations are just never going to be perfect, so who gives a fuck.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?:
• Whining. So things are dramatic. Decide how to handle it and just do it. Stop thinking about it or about how you MIGHT be hurting someone else. Decide what you want and go for it.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?:
• at home for 3 or 4 weeks to recoup before heading back to schoool.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007: No one will believe me, but yea. I did actually.

22. How many one-night stands?: one night stands involve sex. so no. But I did have one night make outs. And I believe there were...3.

23. What was your favorite TV program?:
• There wasnt much TV in 2007 until the past week.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
• No. Im trying not to dwell, but even still, no. There are no new hard feelings

25. What was the best book you read?
• Cant remember everythign I read this year, but Eat Pray Love was good.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?:
• Tough. But I did fall pretty ahrd for Bloc Party this spring.

27. What did you want and get?
• Personal satisfaction and liberation...and independence.

28. What did you want and not get?
• Someone new with no strings attached. But truly its totally fine athat I havent found someone "new" yet because maybe Im not meant to and Im not stressing about it at the moment.

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
• I dont know...

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
• Tim and I went to dinner at the Deli, just the two of us, and then he threw McCaff and I a party.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
• Nothing. I dont think.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
• Changing? A lot? Kind of changing as I did.

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

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
• I guess environmental stuff. that always gets me going.

35. Who did you miss?
• I suppose I always miss people that Im not around at the moment. But asking who I missed makes it sound kind of intense and it wasnt like that. It feels good because now Im home and I missed people a little bit, not a lot. The best part of that is that Ive come back and I realize that these people mean just as much as they did before ot me, but I was much less dependent on them now. I just need them less even though I love them maybe more.

36. Who was the best new person you met?
• Leah Go Fig Shaffer.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
• There's a lot out there. Go for it. If things fall apart, its really ok. You have yourself and most of the time your family, and tahts all you need. There are a lot of people in the world, and theyre worth getting to know. Dont ever limit yourself to what you think is all you have or can have. Trust yourself and love yourself.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "Everyone wants to go forever, I just wanna burn out hard and bright"