{"id":2238,"date":"2016-01-01T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2016-01-01T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T06:14:06","slug":"end-of-year-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/end-of-year-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"End of year review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson<\/a>\u00a0for initiating this habit, this is the 9th year I\u2019ve done these reviews.<\/p>\n

1.What did you do in 2015 that you\u2019d never done before?
\nWent back home five times.<\/p>\n

2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
\nWhat New Year’s Resolutions<\/p>\n

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
\nNo.<\/p>\n

4. Did anyone close to you die?
\nYes, my adoptive dad two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

5. What countries did you visit?
\nMorocco, France, Ireland, Canada, US, Germany, Luxembourg, Singapore, New Zealand, Sweden. <\/p>\n

6. What would you like to have in 2016 that you lacked in 2015?
\nMore time at home.<\/p>\n

7. What date from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory?
\nDecember 18th.<\/p>\n

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
\nShipping the Good Night Lamp. <\/p>\n

9. What was your biggest failure?
\nNot spending much time at home.<\/p>\n

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

11. What was the best thing you bought?
\nA drone for my dad’s last weeks.<\/p>\n

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
\nParisians.<\/p>\n

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

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

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
\nShipping the Good Night Lamp!<\/p>\n

16. What song\/album will always remind you of 2013?
\nThe 20\/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake.<\/p>\n

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

18. What do you wish you\u2019d done more of?
\nWriting, and reading books.<\/p>\n

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
\nWith family in Canada.<\/p>\n

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

22. Did you fall in love in 2013?
\nAlready in love.<\/p>\n

23. What was your favourite TV programme?
\nI don\u2019t watch TV.<\/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?
\nMr Gwyn by Alessandro Baricco.<\/p>\n

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
\nLord Huron, J.D. McPherson, Sufjan Stevens<\/p>\n

28. What did you want and get?
\nLots of time with F.<\/p>\n

29. What did you want and not get?
\nMore time with F.<\/p>\n

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
\nDrive, St Elmo’s Fire (I never watch films when I’m supposed to)<\/p>\n

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
\nSpent it with family, wrapping Christmas presents. <\/p>\n

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
\nLess travel.<\/p>\n

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2015?
\nGrown up.<\/p>\n

34. What kept you sane?
\nConversations with J.<\/p>\n

35. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?
\nNo time for that.<\/p>\n

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
\nSyria (3rd year in a row) and the Brexit.<\/p>\n

37. Who did you miss?
\nM + M (every year)<\/p>\n

38. Who was the best new person you met?
\nS + W in Singapore.<\/p>\n

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2015.
\nKeep your family close.<\/p>\n

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

“Long afloat on shipless oceans
\nI did all my best to smile”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson\u00a0for initiating this habit, this is the 9th year I\u2019ve done these reviews. 1.What did you do in 2015 that you\u2019d never done before? Went back home five times. 2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year? What New Year’s Resolutions 3. Did… Continue reading End of year review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"9th edition of my end of year review #2015 thanks @girlwonder","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-A6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}