Questions for the New Year

This blogging prompt was passed around the blog circuit last year, and I thought it would be a great meme for the “out with the old, in with the new” sort of thing that we writers generally do after the rush of the holidays subsides. Have fun!

What did you do in 2005 that you've never done before?  

Did you keep your New Years' resolutions and will you make more for next year?

Did anyone close to you give birth? 

Did anyone close to you die?

What countries did you visit? 

What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? 

What date from 2004 will remain etched in your memory and why? 

What was your biggest achievement of the year?

What was your biggest failure?

 Did you suffer illness or injury?

What was the best thing you bought? 

Where did most of your money go?

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

What song will always remind you of 2005? 

Compared to this time last year are you:
a. Happier or sadder?
b. thinner or fatter?
c. richer or poorer?

What do you wish you'd done more of?

What do you wish you'd done less of?

How will you spend Christmas?

Did you fall in love in 2004?

What was your favorite TV show?

What was the best book you read?

What was your greatest musical discovery of 2004?

What did you want and get?

What did you want and not get? 

What was your favorite film this year? 

What did you do on your birthday? 

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

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?

What kept you sane? 

Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?

What political issue stirred you the most?

Who did you miss? 

Who was the best new person you met? 

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

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Pattie Reitz is a writer and a teacher. She received her B.A. in English Education in 1991 and her MSEd in English in 1995. Pattie has experience teaching several age groups: middle school for one year, high school for eight and a half years, and college for five semesters.  She received training in 1997 as an Advanced Placement instructor in English and in 2002 as a teacher-consultant with the Greater Kansas City Writing Project.  

In addition to her work at Writers Remember as Assistant Editor and Journaling & Writing Prompts Guru, Pattie is a book reviewer for Armchair Reviews (one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Web Sites for Writers, 2006), and blogs about books at Bookworm's Nook, a blog on Dot Com Women's network of blogs. She is also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. She considers journaling and personal narratives her passions in terms of writing genres, and she loves to encourage others to record their stories.  Pattie has had a few pieces published, both in print and online, and her current goal is to write more for publication in 2006. Online, Pattie is a moderator on the Women at Home message board and up until recently worked as a community leader on iVillage's former Journaling board.  

She is wife to a chaplain and mother of two girls, ages 9 and 6. Her blog is found at www.xanga.com/pattierwr.