Snow Melt

2007 in Review

19 Masa'il 164 B.E. - Sunday, December 30, 2007 about 10:07 AM PST

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?

I made money from one of my blogs – Poet 999’s Thoughts about Writing and Other Stuff.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I didn’t make resolutions until Naw-Ruz, March 21, I’m still attempting to work on those. I will make more resolutions at Naw-Ruz in 2008. The time between
January 1 and March 21, I review what’s working and what’s not.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

My nephew's wife in Colorado gave birth to a boy just before Christmas 2007.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

No

5. What countries did you visit?

None

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

More money

7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

March 19, 2007, that was my Mother’s 86th birthday and she was in the operating room having a bowl resection; she survived and is doing well.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Learning to put my worries in God’s hands and not try to take them back.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not putting everything in God’s hands from the beginning.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

No, but my right knee kept acting up.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Come Be My Light The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Any firefighter who goes into a building to rescue a trapped person.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Those who marched against the immigration policy and wanted to send illegal aliens back to their country without reviewing their cases individually.

14. Where did most of your money go?

To pay bills.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

My mother still being alive.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?

I don’t want any song to remind me of 2007 it was a stressful year I’d just as soon forget. I won’t and I don’t need a song to remind me of it.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder? .sadder

b) thinner or fatter? .thinner

c) richer or poorer? poorer

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

Laughed

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

Cried

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

I spent Christmas at home with my mother watching the neighbors Christmas lights.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007?

No

22. How many one-night stands?

Don’t do those

23. What was your favorite TV program?

The Britcom As Time Goes By

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

No, hate takes too much energy.

25. What was the best book you read?

Come Be My Light

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

None

27. What did you want and get?. and didn't know it!

More faith in Baha’u’llah

8. What did you want and not get?

More money

29. What was your favorite film of this year?

Didn’t see a movie

30. What did you do on your birthday?

Didn’t celebrate my birthday

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

More money

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Reaching into the closet and pulling out a long skirt, then finding a blouse and
hoping the match.

33. What kept you sane?

Prayer and the writings of Baha’u’llah

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

None

35. What political issue stirred you the most?

Homelessness and immigration

36. Who did you miss?

My mother being home while she was in the hospital

37. Who was the best new person you met?

The nurses in the hospitals my mother was in

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:

To depend only on God, Baha’u’llah and myself

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

“Grandma got run over by a reindeer” – 2007 was the reindeer and I was Grandma