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Playback
If you’re looking for a trippy five minutes, have iPhoto play back the last four months of your life in random order, each photo getting no longer than three seconds on your screen.
Cut to: playing with Pano at our old apartment,
plated dishes at culinary school, white coated new cook friends, a freshly beheaded lobster’s twitchy death,
snow,
Halloween party prep,
our long Christmas drive,
more snow,
new glasses, apartment hunting in no fewer than five hundred places, Jane Krakowski as a child actor,
photos of some things we sold, some things I cooked, funny things in stores,
holiday parties, the Cracker Barrel, the Mississippi River at night, a bad milkshake,
photos of photos,
a wall I painted over,
all the holes I filled (come on, I’m talking SPACKLE),
tons of random hold-your-arm-out photos,
an apartment we almost committed to in a moment of pure insanity… Definitely looks like it’ll be ready on time, right?
and finally, our perfect new home.
It’s been a long four months, but I’m feeling pretty good.
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Some Things I’d Like To Do Next Year*
1. Have a “rockin” New Year’s Eve.
2. Redesign this website to welcome an excellent new year of work and fun.
3. Make the move to Brooklyn and get back on the bike.
4. Have regular lunches with friends. Write letters to ones too far away for lunch.
5. Stand on the field during an NFL game.
6. Read a new book every week.
7. Make time (and budget) for overnight getaways and roadtrips more often.
8. Apple picking. (Pumpkins too! Also, visit the cranberry bog.)
9. Go see Alaska. Play with polar bears.
10. Live in Italy for a month or two.
11. Feel happy that every room in our home is decorated just how we like it.
12. Purge and organize our paper better.
13. Scan everything important enough to cry over if it were suddenly gone.
14. Make sure our insurance policy is what it should be.
15. Better backup system for photos and precious word docs.
16. Take better care of my teeth: DAILY FLOSSING, I’m looking at you.
17. Purge all our stuff again — consider a garage sale if not Goodwill.
18. Set up Wright Standard letterpress/ design/ print shop.
19. Finish and sell the Unauthorized Bride. Expand the brand and do it again.
20. Create a great work studio for all the things we do: writing, businessing, film, and making things of all kinds.
21. Sign up for a farm produce box, set a standing order with Fresh Direct, and organize my kitchen, especially pots and pans.
22. …so I can create fresher, better, more delicious meals every day.
23. See the South Pole.
24. Make movies.
25. Host Christmas. (Okay, for now, I’d just like to be a part of a stress-free, drama-free, fun holiday.)
26. Build a really awesome closet and organize all our wearables in exquisitely useful formation.
27. Get into healthier patterns: don’t squint so long at this screen; take walking breaks; learn to relax my damn muscles; practice breathing and measure lung capacity daily.
28. Go sailing. And more importantly, learn to sail.
29. Start our taxes in February.
30. Get a massage.
31. Organize my photos and add lost gems to portfolio.
32. Make some beautiful things.
33. Set up Eric with some helicopter lessons.
34. Go back to Rwanda.
35. Surf in Hawaii.
36. Take some kind of dance lessons.
37. Learn how to play the piano (for the third time).
38. Practice Italian daily.
39. Meet friendly New Zealanders (preferably in New Zealand).
40. Give my time to some people who could use the help.*Okay, I’m cheating you a little, 2010. This really starts …now.