Those of you who have read this blog for some time know that I make very specific New Year's resolutions for myself. It's a trick I learned from Jordan, and serves as a handy excercise not only in the planning of years, but also in coaxing from one's time the sort of life one wishes to live. I've been a little reticent to return to mine (full list here) this year, for various reasons. But it is autumn.
Which means it will be winter.
Which means this year must soon be put to bed. So. A list.
(Amandas are very good with lists.)
Yet Untended, 2009 Resolutions
1. Run fastly one 10k, maybe a half marathon but that might be pushing it: Ate apple-cider doughnuts instead. Drank a lot of coffee.
2. Make squash risotto: Soon. I have been waiting for fall.
3.Make wishes: Check. Will continue to do so.
4.Interact with chickens: Do the peacocks at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine count? Also, I learned how to flip eggs. In a pan. Eggs come from chickens.
5.Buy Uggs: Have decided Uggs are foul and icky.
6. Wallpaper something: This is not the year for wallpapering, it seems.
7.Go places. Do things:
-------A.)Move to New York.
-------B.) Go to Paris. Eat delicious things.
2. Make squash risotto: Soon. I have been waiting for fall.
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6. Wallpaper something: This is not the year for wallpapering, it seems.
7.
-------A.)
-------B.) Go to Paris. Eat delicious things.
{Image, me}
5 maids a-milking:
Squash is foul and icky. Perhaps this is the crux of my problem with autumn? Perhaps if I learnt to like squash suddenly autumn wouldn't make me want to cry?
You are checking off giant things. Who cares if you have interacted with chickens if you have interacted with peacocks? xo
Iloveyou. You see, you had to move to New York in order to realize that Uggs are foul and icky, that peacocks at the Cathedral of the Divine indeed count as chickens (nay, one-up chickens), etc.
I say you are rocking your resolutions.
I just finished making a butternut squash risotto this very minute. Ooh, it is delicious.
And I'm so glad you ditched the Uggs. Clearly some resolutions are made to be broken.
Uggs are icky and so is squash. Garys and Jennifers make many lists also. Kudos to Amanda for crossing off so much on her list!
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