Year-End Survey 2024 in Trichotomy

1. What did you do in 2024 that you’d never done before?
Sell a house.
2. Did you achieve your goals for the year, and will you make more for next year?
Did not make resolutions
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Flautist #1’s husband.
5. What countries did you visit?
Did not leave the country this year at all, for a change.
6. Where did you go on vacation?
California.
7. What would you like to have in 2025 that you lacked in 2024?
New team.
8. What date from 2024 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The day we rode the train from Oakland to Los Angeles. First time on a half-day train ride.
9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not getting fired from the job.
10. What was your biggest regret?
Dragging my feet with changing teams.
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I caught a cold.
12. What was the best thing you bought?
A house.
13. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
The Treasurer. She lost her mother earlier in the year she was still the support of her family and friend group.
14. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Idiots.
15. Where did most of your money go?
House
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Moving
17. What song will always remind you of 2024?
The Yellow River Concerto
18. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same.
iii. richer or poorer? In liquid assets, poorer.
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Exercise.
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Watching TV
21. How did/will you spend Christmas?
At La Professeure’s parents opening presents.
22. Did you fall in love in 2024?
With the right person, you fall in love every day.
23. How many one-night stands?
0
24. What was your favourite TV program?
We discovered and liked Young Sheldon.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Idiots.
26. Who is someone you will probably never see again after this year?
Not double-checking the account number I am wiring money to.
27. What was the best book(s) you read?
What If by Ranall Munroe
28. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Coralie Clement
29. What did you want and get?
A house.
30. What did you want and not get?
A house in the North Shore.
31. What was your favourite film of this year?
Young Woman and the Sea
32. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Packing. Too old.
33. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A different election result.
34. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2024?
Bum
35. What kept you sane?
La Professeure.
36. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Hannah Fry
37. Who did you miss?
Flautist #1’s husband.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Our new neighbour; my nephew.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2024:
It pays to be patient.
40. Tell us something you’ve learned about yourself:
I still like playing at Carnegie Hall.
41. If you could relive any day from 2024, which would it be and why?
Aug 17th, when we rode the train along the California coast.
42. Did any of your predictions for the future come true in 2024?
Did not make predictions.
43. What was the funniest thing that happened to you (or the funniest thing you did) this year?
Being duped by the rabbit.
44. What was the worst thing that happened to you this year?
Getting outbid on the North Shore house under suspicious circumstances.
45. What was the best thing that happened to you this year?
Finding the house.
46. What was the hardest thing you did this year?
Probably something at work.
47. A new food that you were introduced to:
Korean barbeque.
48. What traditions were started?
Daily statin.
49. What traditions were broken?
Going to open houses on weekends.
50. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Ah…
51. Did you save any Chinese fortune cookie fortunes from this year, what do they say?
Nope.
52. What is something you have vowed to never do again?
Get my hopes up before a deal is closed.
53. Headlines in the news from this year that you’ll remember most:
Felon elected president.
54. In 2024, what did you realize you had previously taken for granted?
A clean bill of health
55. Are there any memorable slogans/sayings that describe and/or are from this year?
“We finally beat Medicare”. “What’s in it for me?”
56. What will you be doing this New Years’ Eve?
Not sure yet… The Treasurer will be visiting during the day but not sure if she’ll stay late.
57. Where were you last New Years’ Day (2023)?
At home taking care of La Professeure’s Covid.