2015

2015 was a year. A year, it was.

1. What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before?
Performed weekly with an improv team. Lived in the Midwest.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think I made any resolutions. I am not making any for 2016.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister-in-law!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
None. (CRYFACE EMOJI.)

6. What would you like to have in 2016 that you didn’t have in 2015?
(Haha, last year I said, “A finished kitchen.” Since we sold our house, now I don’t give a fuuuuuuq about my kitchen.) Anyway, I would like a goddamn vacation.

7. What dates from 2015 will be etched upon your memory, and why?
September 15, the date our shit was packed up and headed off to Illinois. September 19, the date we left California for Illinois.

8. What was your biggest achievement of this year?
Being asked to perform weekly on an improv team, finding a job I really liked, being a very supportive spouse.

9. What was your biggest failure?
I don’t think I failed at anything.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I can’t really think of anything that I bought that was that great. Champagne?

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Chris got promoted! He’s a badass. LG continued to be chill and took all the big changes in stride. I was, once again, a very supportive spouse.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
After marriage equality, when people continued to passive-aggressively quote Bible scripture on Facebook as if to make some stupid point…STOP IT. The only point you’re making is that you’re a bigot. Go away.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Mortgage/rent, daycare, food, booze.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Being asked to be on an improv team!

16. What song will always remind you of 2015?
“Changes,” by Langhorne Slim and The Law. I heard this in my last yoga class in California the week we moved and I cried and then I couldn’t find the song anywhere and then a few weeks ago, I randomly heard it during an Auto Trader commercial and I was like, There’s that song! And also I need to send my yoga teacher a Christmas letter! Life works in funny ways sometimes.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: A) happier or sadder? B) thinner or fatter? C) richer or poorer?
A) Same.
B) Same.
C) Richer.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Improv or anything else comedy-related. Stand-up, sketch, etc.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Ate fried food.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
The three of us spent Christmas at home, just us and a shitton of food. The usual.

21. Did you fall in love with 2015?
Nah.

22. What was your favorite TV program?
All the Real Housewives, as usual; The Affair; Homeland; The Americans; Better Call Saul; The West Wing; Vanderpump Rules.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.

24. What was the best book you read?
Yes Please, by Amy Poehler.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I recently downloaded Grace Potter. I dig it.

26. What did you want and get?
More comedy!

27. What did you want and not get?
A family vacation!

28. What was your favorite film of 2015?
Haha, “film.” I don’t think I saw any movies this year, except the Peanuts Movie, which was really quite stupid, and Inside Out, which was not stupid, but which made me cry.

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Chris and I went to San Diego–alone!–and hung out with friends and went to the bar where we met. I turned 32.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
It was a pretty legit year, so I can’t say there’s more I would have wanted. Don’t be greedy.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2015?
All I can think of is that most recently, it’s puffy coats.

32. What kept you sane?
Running, yoga, podcasts.

33. What political issue stirred you the most?
There are too many shootings in this country and I don’t know how to solve it, but it needs solving because what the fuck is going on?

34. Who did you miss?
My mom and dad. They came to almost every improv show and I loved seeing their faces front row center every Wednesday.

35. Who was the best new person you met?
My bosses; my old cubicle-neighbor, who has turned into a real friend; and improv people.

36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2015.
Just say yes–adventure is a good thing! Be loyal to your family–ride or die.

37. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“Gimme one reason to stay here and I’ll turn right back around…” (LG and I have been listening to a lot of Tracy Chapman.)