the final week of 2009 meme

I love doing memes, and here's one I found on this site:

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
~start a 365 picture blog

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
~since I didn't make any resolutions, I kept them very well. Nope, not making any.

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
~probably on the couch

4. Did anyone close to you die?
~no

5. What countries did you visit?
~none

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
~a better job with insurance

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
~ ugh...i don't know

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
~opened a shop on Etsy for vintage clothes

9. What was your biggest failure?
~ meeting my goal to have all my bills paid off

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
~nothing major

11. What was the best thing you bought?
~my laptop

12. Where did most of your money go?
~bills

13. What song will always remind you of 2009?
~ Don't Stop Believing

14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
~take pictures without feeling self conscious

15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
~gossip and argue with my co-workers

16. What was your favourite TV program?
~Glee

17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
~hate is an ugly word....dislike is better

18. What was the best book you read?
~The Alchemist

19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
~ The Polyphonic Spree

20. What was your favorite film of this year?
~I guess the Transformers movie, which it wasn't all that great but i can't think of anything better.

21. What did you do on your birthday?
~went to many various Goodwill stores

22. What kept you sane?
~building my vintage clothing stock

23. Who did you miss?
~strangely, Brenda

24. Who was the best new person you met?
~obviously I didn't meet anyone spectacular because I can't think of anybody.

25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
~keep my big mouth shut if i don't want everybody knowing my business

hooray for day after Christmas sales!!

I was not going to go to any after Christmas sales today, but I forgot that it was the last weekend of the month and so Goodwill was half off. So I headed up there about 10:30 with my mother and we got a lot of new dresses and skirts. Well, she got skirts. I got dresses to sell on my Etsy site. So anyway we were talking about what to have for supper (at like 12:30...it was a little early to be thinking about supper but oh well, we're just random like that) and we decided on vegetable soup but we needed some cabbage so we stopped at Walmart.

OK funny side note to my story here....as we were walking in this guy wearing a t-shirt and no coat was walking out with his girlfriend and proceeded to yell very loudly about how cold it was....yeah if you wore a coat buddy it wouldn't be cold.

So anyway there was this perfume that I originally saw at JC Penney and then later found at Walmart that I have been dying to get my hands on, but at the price of $30 for less than an ounce it wasn't happening. As we walked to the Christmas aisle there it sat on the shelf....for TEN DOLLARS!!!!! I was absolutely giddy with excitement! I bought two. hee hee heeeeeeeeeeee!!

It's called Harajuku Lovers and there are 5 different scents. The one I like is called "G". I later found out it's from Gwen Stefani, which I never would have guessed but I don't pay attention to trends or who's making what kind of fashions now.

I found it on Amazon.com for $50....oh my gosh I got such a deal!

So anyway, I could have taken a picture but I didn't, I took one from the amazon.com site, just in case the link page goes away, along with the link to the page instead:





and the link is HERE

So woo hoo! I'm glad I got off my hiney and got outside today.

So here's the finished product of previously said sewing project I started, and I think they turned out quite nicely! :

my most favorite one:

other favorites: