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(a 6 year old tradition)<\/p>\n

1.What did you do in 2012 that you\u2019d never done before?
\nTalk to investors.<\/p>\n

2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
\nYep have been going to the gym every week for over a year and adding a new sport. <\/p>\n

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
\nYes, my friends A and S had another little girl and my sister in law had L.<\/p>\n

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

5. What countries did you visit?
\nFrance, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Estonia, Finland, Australia, Canada.<\/p>\n

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

7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory?
\nMarch 16th.<\/p>\n

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
\nHaving the courage to start another company. I have started 3 companies since 2006.<\/p>\n

9. What was your biggest failure?
\nToo little holidays. <\/p>\n

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
\nNo.<\/p>\n

11. What was the best thing you bought?
\nA plate from the Jules Verne restaurant at the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
\nLondon during the Olympics. <\/p>\n

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
\nThe NRA.<\/p>\n

14. Where did most of your money go?
\nThe Good Night Lamp.<\/p>\n

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
\nThe next 30 days where I go to Vegas to show off the Good Night Lamp at CES.<\/a> <\/p>\n

16. What song\/album will always remind you of 2010?
\nRuin by Cat Power.<\/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?
\nCooking at home. <\/p>\n

19. What do you wish you\u2019d done less of?
\nHaving conversations with the wrong people. <\/p>\n

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

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

22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
\nsee previous response. <\/p>\n

23. What was your favourite TV programme?
\nI don’t watch TV.<\/p>\n

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

26. What was the best book(s) you read?
\nEverything that is solid melts into air.<\/a><\/p>\n

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
\nNone I can think of. <\/p>\n

28. What did you want and get?
\nA great team to work with. <\/p>\n

29. What did you want and not get?
\nMore hours in the day. <\/p>\n

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
\nHaywire & the Hunger Games. Skyfall & Batman were good too. Mission Impossible 4 was surprisingly good. <\/p>\n

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
\nI turned 32 and spent it 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?
\nA return to black. <\/p>\n

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

35. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?
\nRyan Gosling.<\/p>\n

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

37. Who did you miss?
\nM.<\/p>\n

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

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
\nDo or do not, there is no try. <\/p>\n

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

“Goddamn Europeans!
\nTake me back to beautiful England
\nAnd the grey, damp filthiness of ages,
\nAnd battered books and
\nFog rolling down behind the mountains,
\nOn the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.<\/p>\n

Let me walk through the stinking alleys
\nTo the music of drunken beatings,
\nPast the Thames River, glistening like gold
\nHastily sold for nothing.<\/p>\n

Let me watch night fall on the river,
\nThe moon rise up and turn to silver,
\nThe sky move,
\nThe ocean shimmer,
\nThe hedge shake,
\nThe last living rose, quiver.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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