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Things I want to do in 2010


  • 1. Throw a mimosa brunch for my friends. (Photos here.)
    2. Edited: Spend a night in College Station with Mike.
    3. Take a few steps in the right direction of starting an organization that provides resources, encouragement and support to new moms.
    4. Put together a book of memories I've been meaning to make for a special someone.
    5. Run a 5K (Austin's Zooma Relay), then a 10K, then a half-marathon.
    6. Host a holiday ornament exchange and cookie decorating party.
    7. Make great strides in being the kind of friend who remembers and acknowledges birthdays better.
    8. Edited: Introduce Kyle to family he hasn't gotten to meet yet. (my grandma; Mike's grandparents)
    9. Own a great pair of investment jeans.
    10. Take a vacation, no matter to where or when, with just my husband. We've earned it.
    11. Read at least 20 books. (1. The Help 2. The Brightest Star in the Sky 3. Her Fearful Symmetry 4. This is Where I Leave You 5. Little Bee 6. Living Dead in Dallas 7. One Day 8. The Hunger Games)
    12. Write all my addresses into my file box.
    13. Buy nightstands for our bedroom.
    14. Let only good, genuine things motivate me more often.
    15. Throw Kyle a kick-ass birthday party (making the invitations and a banner by hand) (Also made: a crown and his thank-you cards.)
    16. Make fitness and health a priority.
    17. Buy a pretty dress and wear it out on the town, with my husband on my arm. (I bought this dress from Modcloth and can be seen wearing it here.)
    18. Continue creating awesome, fun and inspiring content on Style Lush. (With the help of the incredible writers.) Also, host a Style Lush edited: happy hour at BlogHer 2010.
    19. Make a dentist appointment.
    20. Make crab cakes, chicken masala and cinnamon buns (from scratch).
    21. Look fabulous at my 10-year high school reunion.
    22. Buy some art for our walls.
    23. Take Kyle to an A&M football game.
    24. Learn to drive a stick.
    25. Watch The Wire.
    Added:
    26. Make (with my own hands) an advent calendar for Christmas 2010.
    27. Start planning a 2011 family reunion.
    28. Buy a wall map and fill it with map pins.
    29. Spend time volunteering at Jonathan's Place.
    30. Finish my blogroll.
    31. Go to the movies alone. ("It's Complicated")
    32. Make Kyle's baby blanket (from his old clothes.)
    33. Stick to a budget better than years past.
    34. Learn to properly pronounce the word Worcestershire
    35. See all the nominees for Best Picture (Oscars): 1. Avatar 2. The Blind Side 3. District 9 4. An Education 5. The Hurt Locker 6. Inglorious Basterds 7. Precious 8. A Serious Man 9. Up 10. Up in the Air
    36. Discover a new artist/band once a month. (January: Eric Hutchinson
    February: Denison Witmer
    March: Tristan Prettyman
    April: Patrick Park
    May: Boyce Avenue
    June: The New Amsterdams
    July: Leona Naess
    August: Mumford & Sons)
    37. Eat at 10 new restaurants this year. (1. Brio, 2. Jack's Porch 3. La Duni 4. Classic Cafe 5. Manuel's 6. South Congress Cafe 7. Wild Sushi 8. MoMo's 9. Gerhard's 10. Taverna 11. Craft 12. Cowtown Sushi 13. Mercer Kitchen 14. Les Halles 15. All Star Sandwich Bar 16. La Peep 17. Farina's Winery 18. Ten 01 19. The Farm Cafe 20. Fenouil 21. The Field 22. C Level 23. Cafe Coyote 24. Casellula 25. Mercury Chophouse 26. Hully & Mo)
    38. Get a bikini wax.
    39. Enroll and finish a boot camp class, through our local rec.
    40. Take Kyle to the Fort Worth zoo.
    41. Read one classic book and watch one classic movie.
    42. Take a cooking class at Central Market (Sushi Class, June 30, 2010)
    43. Go to a concert. (Greenday)
    44. Take Kyle to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens.
    45. Make 10 items from Food Network shows I watch. (1. Caesar spaghetti from 30 Minute Meals 2. Grilled cheese sandwich with red onion jam from What Would Brian Boitano Make? 3. Florentine mac and cheese with chicken meatballs from 30 Minute Meals 4. Corn and Mascarpone Mini Lasagnas from Giada at Home. 5. Braised Paprkia Chicken from Ask Aida 6. Pizzagna from 30 Minute Meals 7. Pork Milanese with Creamy Lemon Caper Sauce from Everyday Italian)
    46. Take a dance class.
    47. Visit one new state. (Massachusetts)
    48. Count to ten more often before speaking when frustrated/upset/angry.
    49. Go a month without: meat, alcohol and shopping (March)
    50. Learn some calligraphy.
    51. Run 25 miles (total) in one month. (June)
    52. Go 5 days without checking my personal email.
    53. Start a recipe collection.
    54. Learn how to poach an egg.
    55. Make one new friend in the neighborhood.
    56. Host a play date at our house.
    57. Make the perfect Bloody Mary.
    58. Participate in DFW's Restaurant Week. (Mercury Chophouse)

    Post-additions
    58. Take Kyle to Sea World
    59. Eat dinner in a restaurant alone.
    60. Attend Comic-Con

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Would like you to know

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Kyle would like you to know his hand is the most delicious thing he's ever tasted. Or he's teething. Or he's just a regular baby. Basically, Kyle wants to confuse the hell out of you until you throw your hands up in despair. Then he'd like you to know you can't possibly stay frustrated with him. BECAUSE HE'S TOO MUNCHABLE FOR GRUDGES!

I would like my husband to know I need an iPhone. This BlackBerry crap ain't cutting it anymore. I may look better fuzzy and in poor lighting, but my boy doesn't.

And Molly would like you to know she was sitting just across the room when this photo was taken and no one even bothered to ask her if she'd like to be in the frame. No one even bothered to look in her direction. Not even the one who screams a lot. (Not sure who she's referring to. We all scream a lot in this family.)

I would like you to know we're about to head out to Wal-Mart, which would kill my soul if the Wal-Mart in our new town wasn't pretty OK. I KNOW. THAT'S CRAZY TALK. But, the lighting doesn't make me want to hurt myself and everyone seems to keep their shirt and shoes on.

Finally, we'd all like you to have a really great weekend, soaked in wine and sleep and reality television. We would like our weekend to be soaked in the same things.

See you Monday! Or on Twitter! Or at Wal-Mart!

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You two make the best photo ever (even though Molly was left out of it). Hope you had fun at Wal-Mart and I'll see you tomorrow. Kyle certainly is munchable!

Posted by: Mom | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 04:16 PM

I accidentally went to WalMart the other day and bought Brie - it was $3.84! Who ever heard of such a thing! Such a bargain!

Posted by: Rhi | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 08:34 PM

Dude, you don't EVEN WANT TO KNOW what I've seen at that Wal-Mart.

Just wait til Race Week. It gets WAY more interesting then.

Posted by: A'Dell | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 09:36 PM

I live by one of the scare wal-marts. When I was shopping on the fourth of July I can't even count the number of people shopping with no shoes on.

Posted by: Bobbi Janay | Friday, July 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM

I want an iPhone too, but my company pays for my phone, and it's not an iPhone, and DH can't understand the need for a second phone, so I'm not getting one.

Posted by: Rachel | Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 07:33 AM

I fricking hate walmart but it's where I grocery shop- I mean really, who can afford NOT to? Sadly, I trade my soul so I can afford fancy hand bags rather than organic produce. What?

Posted by: Christina | Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 05:19 PM

We made a wal-mart trip tonight too! The prices are just so much cheaper, even though it is just a terrible trashy place. Gotta go to the grocery store again tomorrow to get meat & produce, b/c you certainly can't but that at wal-mart.

Posted by: natalie | Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 11:34 PM

The iPhone looks like fun for sure, but I super heart my BlackBerry. And some of the photos I've taken with it have turned out pretty well!

Posted by: Jess | Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM

I would like Mike to know that you NEED an iPhone and I won't take no for an answer. We can share cute iPhone cases! It's like sharing shoes, only smaller.

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