2003

Jensteltä otettua, taas enkuksi:

1. What did you do in 2003 that you’d never done before?
-Lived alone

2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next
year?
-I don't make any New Years' resolutions. I did make one for 2004 and didn't
keep it. I didn't do my dishes yesterday (that was the promise :D).

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
-Nope

4. Did anyone close to you die?
-Thankfully no.

5. What countries did you visit?
-Spain (for the 10th time in my life!), Sweden, Denmark, Germany

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
-Self-dicipline

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
-4th of July, I found out that I was accepted to DIEM.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
-Getting into university

9. What was your biggest failure?
-Not doing enough sports in the autumn.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
-I got two moles removed and had the flu a couple of times.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
-My trip to Madrid. Travelling alone <3

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
-Oh god, I don't know. I can't choose any particular person. My dad, he
supported me so much in the spring when I was panicking about getting into
university.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
-Bush. Ew.

14. Where did most of your money go?
-I've no idea. Rent, food, travelling... I haven't calculated yet how much
money I spent on alcohol. I'm not sure I even want to do that.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
-Going into university, moving to live on my own, going to Madrid

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
-I don't know. I could say for instance HYH (of all my readers probably only
Katia knows which song that is), but I have so many older memories about it.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you
i. happier or sadder?
-Definitely happier.
ii. thinner or fatter?
-10 kg fatter. :( I blame my role as Merry.
iii. richer or poorer?
-I'm always broke. Probably poorer, though.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
-Cycling

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
-Spending money

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
-I was with my family. I ate way too much.

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
-No

24. What was your favorite TV program?
-E.R., of course.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
-No.

26. What was the best book you read?
-Like water for chocolate (Pöytään ja vuoteeseen) by Laura Esquivel. And now I
don't count all my old favourites that I read again this year.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
-Mariska (easy, it was practically the only one)

28. What did you want and get?
-I got into university, pedalled faster than ever before and got laudatur from
maths. ;)

29. What did you want and not get?
-Eximia from Finnish, but it doesn't really matter anymore.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
-Kuninkaan paluu. And I don't mean Peter Jackson's version.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old?
-I turned 19, cooked some vegetables and made Sacher-cake. Nothing special, but
I really enjoyed the day.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
-Some freetime after the entrance exams. I started to work too soon.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
-I didn't have one. Red colour.

34. What kept you sane?
-Exercizing.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
-Aragorn. By far the sexiest man in literature.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
-All the conversation about how to make students graduate faster from the
university. I think dad agrees on this, I have complained to him so much about
the subject.

37. Who did you miss?
-I guess I've missed all my friends at least at some point during the year.
Especially I miss eating lunch daily with my high school friends in "our
table", and generally not seeing them every day. I've missed Deli so much since
I moved. :( And during Christmas... You know who you are.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
-I can't choose.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
-Travelling alone is great.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
hyvää yötä ja huomenta, ehdit myöhemmin nukkua
24 tuntia, toivottavat sulle onnea
hyvää yötä ja huomenta, hei älä vielä luovuta
kaikella on hintansa mut mikään ei oo vielä mahdotonta
- Don Huonot: Hyvää yötä ja huomenta

I actually started to cry in Ruisrock when they played this song.

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