2008 - a year in review, inspired by Riley...

My 2008 - reflections on a pretty good year.

- I may have left some things out with no intention. Feel free to do the ol copy past thing and comment back with how your year was.

1) Where were you when 2008 began, and who were you bringing it in with?
Paris - with Julie Stafford... and absolute legend of a woman.

2) Where will you be when 2008 ends, and who will you end it with?
London - everyone in my heart (cheesy... i know...)

3) Was 2008 a good year for you?
Yes... exciting and terrifying.

4) Did you keep your new year's resolutions?
Yup - vowed to make it the year of "Hey that's me!" Moving on from 2007's "Hey, I know that guy!"

5) Do you have any new year's resolutions for 2009?
More exercise, less wine, more time out, less thai food.

6) What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Worked on Broadway!

7) What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Turned 28 - drank ALOT of champagne and made too many calls to Australia.

8) What did you get really, really excited about in 2008?
New York.

9) What was your favourite month of 2008?
Mid October - Mid November

10) What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Nov 15th - got on a plane to Orlando.

11) What was your favourite moment of 2008?
Amy this is Neil... Neil this is Amy... (its too big a name to drop on facebook)

12) What was your least favourite moment of 2008?
Mark Priestly - you are missed by many.

13) What was your proudest moment of 2008?
"Amy - are you free to go to New York tomorrow?"

14) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2008?
Too many to list.

15) What was your biggest achievement of 2008?
Surviving it.

16) What was your biggest failure of 2008?
Not seeing as many friends as I would have liked.

17) What did you want and got?
Next step in a career

18) What did you want and not get?
My own apartment.

19) What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing.

20) What do you wish you'd done less of?
Wine consumption.

21) If you could go back in time to any moment in 2008 and change it, what would it be?
ll those mornings i was too lazy to get out of bed and go to the gym.

22) Did you fall in love in 2008?
I fall in love everyday.

23) Did you travel overseas in 2008?
Yes. Europe and America

24) Did you travel outside of Victoria in 2008?
Um... I don't live there.

25) Did you suffer illness or injury in 2008?
several lapses in sanity.

26) What political issue stirred you the most?
SARAH PALIN

27) What kept you sane in 2008?
My amazing friends. you know who you are.

28) How many one-night stands?
um... err.... next question.

29) What was the best thing you bought in 2008?
A new passport.

30) How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Casual scruffy. no where near as business like as perhaps i should be.

31) What was the best book you read?
Time Travellers Wife. Broke my heart.

32) What was your favourite movie that you saw at the cinema in 2008?
No County for Old Men? Dark Knight? Iron Man? I don't know.

33) What song will always remind you of 2008
"Who loves You" but Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

34) What was your greatest musical discovery?
Jeff Blumenkrantz.

35) What were your favourite songs of 2008?
My heart was set on you - Jeff Blumenkrantz and Single Ladies - Beyonce. Yes I am a gay man.

36) What albums did you buy in 2008?
Beyonce, Legally Blonde, Nina Ferrow - yup. Again i am a gay man.

21) What concerts did you go to see in 2008?
Did i see any? do shows count as concerts?

37) What was your favourite Tv program?
Californication, Studio 60, 30 Rock, The Family Guy, Top Gear.

38) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
The same one since 1995. Hugh Jackman. Yesterday, today and forever.

39) Whose behaviour left you feeling happy or inspired?
OBAMA

40) Whose behaviour left you feeling angry, appalled or depressed?
Apart from Palin and Prop 8.....? Nothing I can remember.

41) Who was the best new person you met?
Too many to mention.

42) Compared to this time last year, are you?

i: happier or sadder? happier

ii: richer or poorer? financially poorer but definitely richer overall

iii: thinner or fatter? fatter

43) What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked most in 2008?
Balance.

44) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008
No one else is going to do it - you have to.

45) Quote a line of a song lyric from 2008 that sums up your year?
um.... err.... "never hide your light under a bushel... no matter how big the bushel"