Mä rakastan tätä kyselyä

Okay, so I did this about the decade, but let's not forget this year! I also added some relevant questions this time.

1.What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Ran Cooper's test.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I never make any.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Lala.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
Estonia, Sweden (15 minutes in Haparanda!), China and Netherlands (Schiphol airport)

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
A direction in my life, perhaps.

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory?
15.6., when I found out that I was hired to my current job.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I lost a significant amount of weight and while doing so, became a better skier and got back on my bike.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not losing enough weight.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Some flu here and there, got stung by wasps like 8 times in one thigh, and found out that am most definitely NOT allergic to wasps.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Well, obviously the ticket to China. A bit more tangible thing would be my iPod.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Mira was wonderful showing me around Beihing.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
This horrible wench living in the building next to ours who has yelled at me three times for walking in my own frigging yard.

14. Where did most of your money go?
If you don't count the essentials (food and living), then exercise, mainly my ridiculously expensive gym membership.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Skiing, cycling, organic chemistry, haircare.

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Happoradio's cover of Unelmia ja toimistohommia. The sunny afternoon in Levi, good times, good times.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you
i. happier or sadder?
Happier

ii. thinner or fatter?
Thinner!!!!

iii. richer or poorer?
Richer

A good year!

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Eating empty carbs

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I was at dad's for the evening. This was the first Christmas ever when I spent the night in my own home. It was nice, I guess, but somehow it didn't feel right. I like my Christmas traditions.

21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
I was eating fondue at friends' home in Järvenperä.

22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
I was already in love.

23. How many one night stands?
Zero, once again.

24. What was your favourite...

a) TV programme?
The Amazing Race, The Simpsons, Project Runway

b) restaurant?
Roadhouse in Olari

c) (new) hair care product?
Tie between L'Anza's Hair Repair Leave-In Protector and Joico's K-Pak Deep Penetrating Reconstructor Treatment.

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

26. What was the best book you read?
I gotta say Henning Mankell's Rauhaton mies. I was literally hyperventilating when I found out that it had been published in Finnish.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I re-discovered Robbie Williams.

27b. What about greatest literary discovery?
Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Cao novels.

28. What did you want and get?
My job.

29. What did you want and not get?
A trip to somewhere warm in November.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Brüno! I was laughing even after the movie ended. I also really liked Confessions of a Shopaholic, so you could say that Cohen-Fisher family kept me entertained this year.

31. What did you do on your birthday?
I had a dinner at Kilim with Mika.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More travelling (ie. more money to travel)

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
It evolved from skirts and ballet flats to skirts and heels.

34. What kept you sane?
Was I sane? ;) Light therapy lamp really helped in November and December.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Norwegian athletes like Andreas Thorkildsen.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
A certain pile of plank wood

37. Who did you miss?
Many people

38. Who was the best new person you met?
I don't know.

39. What was the best new blog you discovered?
Anna Goodman's, who is a Canadian slalom skier.

40. Best sport moment

a) you accomplished?
Skiing Levi Black down succesfully.

b) you watched?
Tanja Poutiainen winning GS world cup.

Yup, skiing rocks!

41. Worst sport moment

a) you failed?
Not finishing the Suvisaaristo time trial course under 20 minutes. (cycling)

b) you watched?
Finland-England match at women's European Championships, especially the England's goal minutes after Finland's... (football)

42. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
After heating a pipet on a Bunsen burner, do not touch it!