1.01.2010

the turning over of the year




we had a quiet new year's eve to ourselves.
some food. a drink or two. a little eddie izzard.
a few hours to sprawl out to ourselves and remember the past year together.
it was a good end to a good year.





a few notes in review of the past 365 days:
-the use of the word favorite shouldn't be taken too literally.

favorite song of the year - all for the best by thom yorke {listen here}

favorite crazy moment of the year - francis ford coppola singing to me.

favorite inspirational moment - working through meisner with my friends and teacher who i miss very much.

favorite tough moment of the year - losing my job.

other favorite tough moment of the year - agreeing with my ex that we weren't meant to be.

favorite single week of the year - well, it was more like 10 days and it was the week of weeding i spent on the farm in chelan.

favorite book/s i read this year {complete list of books below} - eat pray love by elizabeth gilbert, housekeeping by robinson & the perks of being a wallflower by chobsky.

places i traveled {geeze, i have to travel more} - ashland, oregon; portland, oregon; eugene, oregon; chelan, washington

for the sake of documenting...the books i've read this year {with the help of months of unemployment albeit busybusybusy unemployment}:
  • her fearful symmetry - niffenegger
  • the sookie stackhouse series {1-8 so far} - harris
  • wildwood dancing - marillier
  • water for elephants - gruen
  • eat pray love - gilbert
  • strong poison - sayers
  • extremely loud and incredibly close - foer
  • einstein's dreams - lightman
  • after dark - murakami
  • olive kitteridge - strout
  • housekeeping - robinson
  • heroes of the valley - stroud
  • chalice - mckinley
  • the outlaws of sherwood - mckinley
  • the dragon who liked to spit fire - varga
  • the arrival - shuan tan
  • proof - auburn
  • hedda gabler - ibsen
  • sunshine - mckinley
  • deerskin - mckinley
  • the blue sword - mckinley
  • the hero & the crown - mckinley
  • on beauty - smith
  • franny & zooey - salinger
  • miss julie - strindberg
  • hello & goodbye - fugard
  • the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian - alexie
  • the elegance of the hedgehog - barbery
  • the perks of being a wallflower - chbosky
a selection of the movies i saw in the past year:
  • the seven year itch
  • the fantastic mr. fox
  • eddie izzard: circle & glorious
  • dr. strangelove
  • shawshank redemption
  • the age of stupid
  • a bug's life
  • district 9 {which i kind of wish i hadn't seen as i spent so much of the movie averting my eyes or holding back tears}
  • ponyo
  • city of lost children
  • coraline
  • howl's moving castle
  • who's afraid of virginia wolf
  • the international
  • kung fu hustle
  • vicky christina barelona
  • up
  • ......................................................
  • seattle international film festival:
  • tetro
  • shorts fest opening night encore
  • carmo, hit the road {murilo pasta}
  • ......................................................
  • inside man
  • iron man
  • secretary
  • sunshine cleaning
  • slumdog millionaire



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