Funny way to sum up 2011 with a meme taken from 's journal.

1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Sadly - I've been to a court and a law firm, as I've been victim of a fraud.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I've done only one resolution - to finish anything I started - and I finished hardly half of the projects I wanted to complete. On the other hand, I started a lot of new projects T_T

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope

5. What countries did you visit?
Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg (not really as a tourist though).

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
A job (or at least an opportunity to move to a bigger place) - and self-confidence.

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
14 March 2011 - the day I found my boss cheated on us and ran away with the money, leaving 4 people unemployed. The schock was too big.
26 November 2011 - the day I travelled to Denmark.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Those little graphic jobs I did for several small companies and associations.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not finding a new job

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes - and how! I fainted and fell on my head on the pavement, and ended up at the hospital with an ugly wound on the hairline.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A new sketchbook and a laptop cooler.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My dad, my ex-colleague who helped us through the lawsuit against my former boss, my friends and family for their support.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
My former boss. The boss of my country and his court.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent, bills, food. Sometimes books and stuff for graphic design and illustration.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Visiting my friends in France and abroad.
- Travelling to Denmark - I felt like I hadn't travelled for ages.
- NaNoWriMo 2011 - it's the only period of the year where I have something close to a social life. And that year, I made new friends

16. What song will always remind you of 2011?
I listened to so much music, so it'll be hard to choose a particular song :\ According to my Last FM page, the song I've listened to the most was this : [link] (though it came out in 2005).

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier?
Not really

ii. thinner or fatter?
A wee bit fatter

iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Have more confidence in myself and more strength to speak up.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Waste time watching videos and surfing junk sites. Going to bed late and getting up late, spending the day in my PJs.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Done. With the family.

21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
Nope.

22. How many one-night stands?
None.

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Karambolage on Arte

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

25. What was the best book you read?
Let the right one in, by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nephew - very very much late, though!

27. What did you want and get?
Opportunities to work as an independent graphic designer, and try new documents, new styles, etc.

28. What did you want and not get?
Well, a new job.

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn't get to see many movies. I'd say "Intouchables" (a french comedy), because it was the last one I saw and it made me laugh and cry a lot.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Gee! I spent the evening of my birthday locked in the office with my boss putting a printing project to bed. I came back home at 9PM, physically and mentally exhausted. Worst. Birthday. EVER!! I turned 31.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I stopped worrying.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
Alternative and casual.

33. What kept you sane?
My family, my diet, going out everyday, writing and drawing, finding something to laugh about.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Alexander Skarsgård (AKA Eric Northman in "True Blood"). I definitely dig Scandinavians! And yet, the most fan-ish things I've done about him are to download a couple of pics of him and have one as a desktop wallpaper I don't have much time to fangirl.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Anything Sarko did.

36. Who did you miss?
Most of my friends, those who live away from me.

37. Who was/were the best new person(s) you met?
My two NaNo-buddies in Lorraine

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011?
Listen to your guts - and trust them.

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

"Spread your legs as wide as you can
when you get yourself fucked
Someday the wheel will turn
and then, you'll get your fun.
Grateful, be grateful, a little grateful about it!"
From "Dankbar" by die toten Hosen (translated from the german)

Feel free to do this meme too.