{"id":1175,"date":"2010-12-28T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2015-11-21T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T16:23:58","slug":"end-of-a-year-review-endings-arent-ever-real-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/end-of-a-year-review-endings-arent-ever-real-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"End of a year review (endings aren’t ever real endings)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4 year old tradition.<\/p>\n

1.What did you do in 2010 that you\u2019d never done before?
\nMissed a flight.<\/p>\n

2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
\nReally didn\u2019t as far as I can remember. I have a lot on next year\u2019s list as a result.<\/p>\n

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
\nYes, my friends A and S had a little girl R who is totally wonderful.<\/p>\n

4. Did anyone close to you die?
\nNo.<\/p>\n

5. What countries did you visit?
\n26 trips, too many to name.<\/p>\n

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
\nMore freedom.<\/p>\n

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory?
\nNovember 7th.<\/p>\n

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
\nHaving the courage to take a big decision that will change my life forever.<\/p>\n

9. What was your biggest failure?
\nNot making that decision earlier.<\/p>\n

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
\nYes to both.<\/p>\n

11. What was the best thing you bought?
\nGolden shoes for my friend’s wedding.<\/p>\n

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
\nNobel Peace Prize jury.<\/p>\n

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
\nJulian Assange’s. Good intentions on paper, strange egotistic execution.<\/p>\n

14. Where did most of your money go?
\nMy business.<\/p>\n

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
\nWorking with great people on exciting projects!<\/p>\n

16. What song\/album will always remind you of 2010?
\n“I’ll try anything once” by The Strokes.<\/p>\n

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
\nMore positive.<\/p>\n

18. What do you wish you\u2019d done more of?
\nSports<\/p>\n

19. What do you wish you\u2019d done less of?
\nTravelling<\/p>\n

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
\nHome.<\/p>\n

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
\nBrock<\/p>\n

22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
\nYes<\/p>\n

23. What was your favourite TV programme?
\nThe Wire (late to the party, I know)<\/p>\n

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn\u2019t hate this time last year?
\nNo<\/p>\n

26. What was the best book(s) you read?
\nEverything Julain Barnes wrote.<\/p>\n

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
\nThe soundtrack to I Am Love<\/p>\n

28. What did you want and get?
\nA sidekick.<\/p>\n

29. What did you want and not get?
\nMore time for my own work<\/p>\n

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
\nSomewhere, I am Love, Inception, A Single Man, The September Issue.<\/p>\n

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
\nI turned 30 and spent it with friends in London<\/p>\n

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
\nMore time to read books<\/p>\n

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
\n1920s<\/p>\n

34. What kept you sane?
\nHanging out with C, C and K.<\/p>\n

35. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?
\nThe entire cast of Inception.<\/p>\n

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
\nThe Wikileaks scandal, fascinating.<\/p>\n

37. Who did you miss?
\nFriends across the world, C more than most.<\/p>\n

38. Who was the best new person you met?
\nC & N<\/p>\n

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
\nPick yourself up, Dust yourself off and start all over again.<\/p>\n

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?<\/p>\n

“There is a time when we all fail,
\nsome people take it pretty well,
\nsome take it all out on themselves,
\nsome they just take it out on friends,
\noh everybody plays the game,
\nand if you don’t you’re called insane,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4 year old tradition. 1.What did you do in 2010 that you\u2019d never done before? Missed a flight. 2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Really didn\u2019t as far as I can remember. I have a lot on next year\u2019s list as a result. 3. Did… Continue reading End of a year review (endings aren’t ever real endings)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-iX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}