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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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You don't kill spiders? Well...if you lived in Idaho you probably would kill the HOBO spiders we have here. I have a photo of them up on Facebook, but if you google them....UGHHH. I can't deny that one of the biggest reasons we chose a third-floor apartment is to be rid of them. They are aggressive (I was chased by one once, not kidding!) and poisonous. Damn you, Idaho!

And Kanye. Ugh. Initally, all the stupid things he did and said were kind of funny, in a "Oh Kayne, you ignorant, silly jackass kind of way. But now, it's just annoying. Among other things.

Kyle is ADORABLE. Love his face. I think I asked it on flickr, but is his hair getting redder? It looks so!

OMG he is so cute with that pig I DIE.

My husband takes spiders outside as well, but so far as I know he doesn't name them. As far as I know . . .

I was a little disappointed in the True Blood finale as well . . . if they'd wanted a real cliffhanger they should've kept Eggs alive. He was starting to FREAK me OUT. The good thing is, though, MARYANN IS NO MORE. We can return to our regularly scheduled hot vampire action next season. (I hope.)

My mom doesn't kill spiders either, she escorts them out the door. She says spiders are good for killing mosquitoes! I don't have tV or MTV so I didn't see what happened with Kayne! And I've never heard of a douchenozzle! too funny! After seeing some of the first season of True Blood I realized that they are all about the cliff hangers, I bet it is excruciating to wait week to week. I've really been accustomed to moving right to the next episode with all of my netflix watching.

Most pictures show a tinge of red, but it's not as noticeable in person. Honestly -- and I hate to admit this because no one wants that boy's hair to be red more than me -- I think it's lightening up and turning blondish. OH HOW I HOPE I'M WRONG.

WE don't kill spiders at our house and then i just have to call the bug man and get the whole place sprayed to hell and back because they're taking over.

Personally, I think the person thing about kids is the best part. Some people are into the baby stuff, but me, I like the individuality that starts shining through as they get older.

I think Kanye is the first person to "jump the shark" as a person, not a television show.

This post made me realize that I don't know when any of my shows premiere. I think I have some work to do.

Mike and Aaron, they'd be friends.

"God, Fred is in a mood today." HILARIOUS. And just the sort of random thing I'd hear from my husband, so you have my sympathies and understanding.

Your little guy and his pig? Adorable.

I HATE spiders. More than snakes, moths, or any other critter really. Jumping ones? OMG I WOULD DIE.

Ooooh and now the Jay Leno bit with Kanye lastnight on his new show? Totally did not expect THAT reaction. Kanye? Tears?

You know, I think he's genuinely sorry, and I can appreciate a sincere
apology. I kind of felt like Jay was pushing a little too hard. Yeah, the
guy's a douche and did a really douchey thing, but why'd you have to go and
ask him what his mom would have thought, Jay. WTF?

Your husband sounds like my husband: Completely insane when it comes to the catch-and-release thing. Because often times he forgets the whole RELEASE PART.

As a side note, have you read David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames? You simply must read the essay "April in Paris." For serious. This is totally pertinent, and essential.

Man, I wish I had read about Dr. Doolittle before he left work!!!

Kyle IS enjoying that pig!

i'm fully in favor of killing spiders. no naming them, no holding their hands (hands??) and walking them across the room to a more comfortable chair...just SMOOSHING them & then flushing them down the toilet.

also? what @amieable said above: "I think Kanye is the first person to "jump the shark" as a person, not a television show." HILARIOUS!

Love the baby with that pig...cute!! I say all the time that my girls (5 1/2 months) are becoming such little PEOPLE; it's amazing.

I wanted to cry for Taylor Swift. She looked like she really couldn't understand what just happened. My husband said that as a new father to little girls, he couldn't imagine how mad her dad must have felt watching that happen. Awww...

"Fred is in a mood"? AHA HA HA HA HA!!!

Oh, also! Occasionally we have a "Fred" at our house---a spider whose co-existence in my household I will allow. Recently we had one living behind Paul's homemade telescope, which is the size of an adult male, and I mean the telescope not the spider, and GEEZ I just gave myself the heebies thinking of a spider the size of an adult male. Anyway, that telescope isn't going anywhere, and the spider was one of those pretty ones that look like Charlotte, and she was always in the same place whenever I checked, so I allowed her to stay and eat bugs for us. But then this morning, there was an egg sac. Well SCREW THAT. I relocated Charlotte and her egg sac to under the trees outside.

My god, how I loathe the jumping spiders. I am not brave enough to kill or relocate them, so I vacuum them up. I like to think they all make friends there in the vacuum bag...

A spider in the kitchen! Yuck!! Hope you found him and "got rid of him"..though I surely would've killed him immediately.

"God, Fred is in a mood today."
My favorite line from this blog. Seriously thats good stuff

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