hello everyone! we know the holidays can be a busy time and you might not have time to write a regular update. last year this was a success so we wanted to bring it back and earlier this year.

*if you have from now until december 31st to update, you may choose the following survey. you must pick at least 15 questions for it to count as an update!

*you can use the survey if you passed for your previous update. we will also allow it for a first update!


1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

4. Did anyone close to you die?

5. What countries did you visit?

6. What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013?

7. What dates from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

9. What was your biggest failure?

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

11. What was the best thing you bought?

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

14. Where did most of your money go?

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

16. What song will always remind you of 2014?

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
b) thinner or fatter?
c) richer or poorer?

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

21. Did you fall in love in 2013?

22. How many one-night stands?

23. What was your favorite TV program?

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

25. What was the best book you read?

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

27. What did you want and get?

28. What did you want and not get?

29. What was your favorite film of this year?

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2014?

33. What kept you sane?

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

35. What political issue stirred you the most?

36. Who did you miss?

37. Who was the best new person you met?

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2014:

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

40. Share a picture of you from the beginning of the year and from the end:

41. What do you enjoy the most about this time/season of the year?

42. Describe how this season of the year impacts your work?

43. Favorite holiday memory as a child.

44. What's the most important thing about the holidays to you?