HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!! 2004....another year full of new things to experience, new people to meet, more tests and academic stress to meet head-on, more laughs, more good times, and im hoping less scarring (on my knees).

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
SKIING!!!! that included crashing into a fence

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i don't make new years resolutions

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
no

5. What countries did you visit?
none

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
i want my dad to find a job and while we're at it i want a job too =D

7. What date(s) from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
May: senior prom, and interact beach cleanup
August 3, 2003: first bf

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
surviving....but specifically: surviving 10H english, making varsity tennis, interact co-vp

9. What was your biggest failure?
being demoted (numerous times.....but im actually happy not having presidential stress), not making asb (which i don't regret anymore), being turned down for a lot of jobs (which i probably couldn't handle with tennis going on).....so in the end, all my "failures" happened for a reason.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
the common cold

11. What was the best thing you bought?
i don't buy exciting things.....but david bought me two REALLY cool LOTR ROTK posters

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
troops in iraq

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
none i can think of now....

14. Where did most of your money go?
gifts for friends and family

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
senior ball, making varsity tennis, marathon dance

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
"I hope you dance" -leanne womack

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

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
beleive it or not....study for my SAT's.....cuz now i realize I'M SO SCREWED!!!!!!

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
next year....hopefully a heck of a lot better than this year

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
in love? no.
fall for someone i ended up caring a lot about? yes

23. How many one-night stands?
too many to count...haha, j/k

24. What was your favorite TV program?
ALIAS!!!!!

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no

26. What was the best book you read?
i read A LOT of good books...one of them is To Kill a Mockingbird

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
LOTR music

28. What did you want and get?
a boyfriend

29. What did you want and not get?
elvish script bracelet......however, i've changed that now. i want elvish script earrings instead =D

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
LOTR ROTK!!!!!!!!!!!! (finding nemo comes in a close second =D)

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i went to school and received a lot of hugs and gifts from my friends. and i realized that ashley is the bestest friend in the entire world.....and i have the absolute coolest friends ever =D

32. What's one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
less cheating (in school)

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
flip flops rule!!

34. What kept you sane?
God

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Orlando Bloom, Michael Vartan, Jennifer Garner, Dr. Richard King

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
our retarded governor of CA

37. Who did you miss?
my grandma (she's in China now), my sister (she's hardly around), a great guy that was in my life for 4 really great months, and friends that i don't spend enough time with

38. Who was/were the best new person/people you met?
hmmm....i met a lot of new really cool people last year: peter, percy, laura & her msj friends, matthew, max, jump, perry & some other sophomores, matt, ryan, david, scott, and a whole bunch more ppls i can't think of.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003.
failure is a part of life. don't think about it as failure.....think about it as a learning experience because from that we can learn and grow.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"Boats Against the Current" -lyrics by eric carmen

I know it’s over
You know it’s over
We’re just goin’ through the motions
But we’re sailin’ separate oceans world’s apart
And you know it’s breakin’ my heart

I was a dreamer
You were a dreamer
But perfection is consuming
And it seems we’re only human after all
And we’ve both been takin’ the fall

But tomorrow
We’ll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We’re gonna find what we’re after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There’s romance in the sunset
We’re boats against the current to the end

Maybe we’re older
Maybe we’re colder
So we disregard solutions
While we cling to our illusions once again
And we keep rememberin’ when

Seasons are changin’
Reasons are changin’
But the story isn’t ending
So we find ourselves pretending one more day
While the years keep slippin’ away

But tomorrow
We’ll run a little bit faster
Tomorrow
We’re gonna find what we’re after at last
Feelings that we left in the past
There’s romance in the sunset
We’re boats against the current to the end