December 2011
24 posts
Movies watched for the first time in 2011
It was an ambition of mine to be less like the kind of person who never knows what movie you’re talking about, and more like the kind of person who has a vague memory of maybe seeing that film you’re talking about once. So, I decided at the beginning of the year to kind of track every new movie I saw. I’m sure I’ve missed some along the way and I still have never seen too...
WatchI took this sneaky video of Rachelle figuring out how to play Feist on the piano that one really nice night in December. You know that one that was so nice? In it you can hear me squeak along (sorry). I just want to say, I hope 2012 is full of more winter piano nights. They are some of my favorite memories. Even in my old Woodstock house when R would come visit and play around on Matt’s...
“We’re gonna press on, and we’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest...”
Cystic Fibrosis Walk
(Me and my brother Jon at my high school graduation)
I’ve never done anything like this before, but yesterday I registered for the Great Strides walk for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in March, and I am about to begin fundraising. I know that there are a lot of charities and organizations vying for your dollar this time of year, but this is an organization that is close to my heart. It will be...
“Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your...”
– ― Swamplandia!
“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would...”
– ― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
Christmas to do list:
Finish writing and mail the Christmas cards. Last I counted there were 44 of them. 1 going to Iceland!!
Bake cookies. LOTS of cookies!
Stone Mountain Christmas with mom this weekend.
Someone has to watch the following movies with me over hot chocolate and or egg(soy)nog:
Christmas Vacation A Christmas Story Meet Me in St. Louis The Royal Tenebaums
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another call for Christmas cards!
leave your address in my ask box! or send me an email!
