While I'm not too busy, a review of 2006:

2006 Year in Review Meme (with 2005 answers in italics):

1.What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Went to the other side of the world. It was only the second time I’ve been out of Europe too.
Went to Scotland and Ireland. Moved into an unfurnished flat on my own. Drove a car on my own, on the motorway and on roads with no street lights.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
See further down for the first part. For the second, I’m not planning on making any more because I just don’t know how the year it going to turn out.
I don't seem to have made any for this year, not that I can find anyway. I think I'll not make any for next year too, except to go back to fencing and do something with the rabbits at the Donkey Sanctuary in the spring.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
A couple of friends did, but they're not particularly close friends

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
No

5. What countries did you visit?
Australia. And technically speaking, since I didn’t leave the airport, I didn’t go to Singapore.
Britain. I hear it's very nice.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Food that tastes nice. Plus a car (which is cheating really, as I know I’m getting dad’s in the summer). And a place to live that’s not in someone else’s house.
Well, I pretty much got those. I can't really think of anything I'd like in 2007

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
None of them in particular. I’m crap with remembering dates.
16th September does, which was the date I flew out to Northern Ireland. But that's because I planned it ages in advance and had to know it to plan other things around it.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Going to a strange country on my own for three weeks, one week after going lactose-free.
Renting my own flat!

9. What was your biggest failure?
There’s no one thing that sticks out in particular.
I can't think of anything in particular

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Depends on how you define illness. I have all these intolerances now, and I have something making me tired, which seems to be caused by nothing at all and I’m hoping is going to go away.
Apart from getting flu a lot...

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A ticket to SG10. Because it was good fun and I wasn’t really expecting it to be.
My car insurance. I'd say the car but that was actually all I spent money on in relation to it, except for driving lessons.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Anyone whose lives were made more complicated by my eating problems
Anyone who sat in the passenger seat while I was driving

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Everyone at the work Christmas party smoking
The idiots I met while driving

14. Where did most of your money go?
Looking at My Money, most of it went on rent and savings. But the biggest non-boring thing was my Australia trip.
Rent. I don't even have to look.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going to Australia.
Moving

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Probably Amarillo. I just remember everyone dancing to it at Conference. I had never heard the song before and had no idea why they were all doing a conga to it. I later found out it was No 1 in the charts.
Snow Patrol - Run.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: Happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
Probably sadder, but thinner and richer.
Happier, thinner and richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Travelling. Not just abroad, either.
I actually can't think of anything

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Going to the doctors!
Feeling depressed about food, and wanting to eat things I can't.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it at home, relaxing
At home, relaxing

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
No
No

23. How many one-night stands?
Yeah, right.
No

24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Doctor Who
Still Doctor Who

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No
No

26. What was the best book you read?
Not a book, but the Lois McMaster Bujold ones were good new reads.
Probably the Chalet School books. There are multiple people to blame for those

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
A guitar!
Pandora

28. What did you want and get?
I wanted freeview and got it.
A car. A place of my own

29. What did you want and not get?
Oh, so many things.
My wheat/gluten intolerance going away

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I really enjoyed Narnia, Harry Potter, Wallace and Gromit, Star Wars
Little Miss Sunshine

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn?
I spent the bank holiday weekend at Rotaract Conference, having a good time and getting drunk. I turned 26.
Nothing, I think. Couldn't really be bothered

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Being able to eat whatever I like.
Same as last year, I think

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Cheap is good.
Falling down trousers, due to losing so much weight I went down a size. And it was hard enough as it was finding my size.

34. What kept you sane?
Sometimes I just don’t know.
Everything in my life that didn't change

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Ewan McGregor. Like that’s going to change, especially having seen him up close (through binoculars)
Ewan McGregor. Of course

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The whole smoking ban thing.
Probably the same thing

37. Who did you miss?
Emma. Although she’s only been gone a couple of months.
Emma. Mostly because we're both crap

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Maybe David for being enthusiastic about Rotaract (never a bad thing)
Everyone on sarahjane_fic

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
To expect the unexpected
Just when you think things can't possibly get worse, they will. I would say 'just say no' but I look at the number of Rotaract things I have going on and I don't think I have learned that one yet.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I don’t know any song lyrics!
In the middle of the night,
it feels alright,
but then tommorow morning.
Oh then you come down.
From Pulp's Sorted For E's and Whizz

The 2006 fic review meme:

I decided, at the end of January to write 20,000 words this year. So, I looked at everything I wrote and added up the number of words:

Stargate/Atlantis (Langford U): Divide and Subtract
Bugs: Happily Ever After
Doctor Who: University
Doctor Who: Ordinary Morning
Lord of the Rings: March 3019
Atlantis: I Still Haven't Found What I've Been Looking For
Atlantis: Dear Jack (The Elizabethan Remix)
Doctor Who: To live...
Lord of the Rings: The Power of the Mind
Lord of the Rings: Pass It On
Lord of the Rings: Hobbits in Trees
Doctor Who/Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the TARDIS
Doctor Who: Dream a Little Dream
Doctor Who: The Last Dinner
Doctor Who: Tango
Doctor Who: Aliens Made Us Do It (So We Made The Doctor Talk Them Out Of It)
Doctor Who: The Path of Irresistible Temptation Does Not lead to Enlightenment
Doctor Who: The Soap Opera
Doctor Who: Drabble Tag drabbles
Doctor Who: Home, Again
Stargate/Atlantis: Never Easy

Total: 85,149. So, I think it's fairly safe to say I managed 20,000 then.

Fics completed this year: 15, and about 52 drabbles!

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted?
More. So much more.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2006?
Fandom: Doctor Who. And see how that got out of hand.
Pairing: Jack/Elizabeth (Stargate). And now I think I prefer it to any other ship.
Genre: Action. Certainly didn't see that one coming.
I wrote a WIP as well, which I never planned to do, ever. And finished it, although I haven't quite posted it all yet.
I participated in my first ficathons, as well as doing Remix for the first time.

What’s your favourite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest?
Dream a Little Dream, for being my first proper Doctor Who story, my longest story so far, and my first foray into Action. And needing a prequel and sequel(s)

Did you take any writing risks this year? (See above for unexpected pairings, etc.) What did you learn from them?
See above! I learnt I can write long stuff. I wrote some R rated drabbles for the Doctor Who drabble tag. I wrote lots in a day for both that and for the Back to Middle-earth Month challenge at there_n_back

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?
I didn't count the script I wrote for picowrimo, and that's just a first draft, so I'd like to finish that. I want to do Remix again. I really want to finish off the series I started with Dream a Little Dream. And maybe try for 100,000 words?

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