| So I saw him again, this time at the Wayzata True Value hardware store. This time he was wearing his KARE-11 garb. He must be stalking me... or he lives in Wayzata. One or the other. |
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| I just saw Alan Costantini at Lunds. He didn't look approachable as he was wearing big, black sunglasses in the store. I think it would suck being famous, even if it is only Alan Costantini famous. |
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| Maybe I should do another race this year??
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| Okay, so this isn't
totally done yet, but I was working on it earlier today and I can't
think anymore. I just wanted to get it posted on 12/31.
I'll edit it later. 
Best of 2005 and Other Lists
Skills/fun stuff I learned: yoga, knitting, screen printing, sudoku
Hobby of the year: screen printing
Christmas gift I received: PhotoShop Elements
Christmas gift I gave: “bling” bracelet to my sister Gina
Best item I bought for myself: satsuma-scented home fragrance oil (the most intoxicating orange smell you can imagine)
Concert/Live music: The Hopefuls with Dan and Matt Wilson; Trampled by Turtles
Concert Moment: Rufus and Ben singing Careless Whisper in Kansas City
[Music
Disclaimer- I got a LOT of CDs this year, so many I haven’t even
listened to them all. I am working on it, so I might be missing
some really good albums or songs on my lists that I’d otherwise
consider.]
2005 CDs:
Air - Talkie Walkie; Ed Harcourt - Strangers;
Sigur Ros - Takk; Hot Hot Heat - Elevator; MIA
- Arular; Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2005 CD of the year: MIA - Arular
Old CDs I haven’t heard until this year (or just listened to a lot this year):
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow; Rufus Wainwright - Want
Two; Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-Englar; Rilo
Kiley - More Adventurous; Sufjan Stevens - Seven
Swans; Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Songs:
Venus - Air; Cherry Blossom Girl - Air; all of
Takk - Sigur Ros; Fire Fire - MIA; Bucky Done
Gun - MIA; Amazon - MIA; 10 Dollar - MIA;
Song of the year: _______________
Old Songs:
Give Judy My Notice - Ben Folds; Landed - Ben
Folds; all of Want Two except the last two songs - Rufus
Wainwright;
Old Song of the Year: Memphis Skyline - Rufus Wainwright
CDs I don’t have but would like to get: Devendra Banhart; Jeff Hanson; Inara George
Netflix rental:
Motorcycle Diaries; Hotel Rwanda; Ray; The Office
(BBC version); Six Feet Under (seasons 1 and 2); Sex and
the City (entire show);
Movie seen in a theater: The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory; Chronicles of Narnia; Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire;
Movie of the Year: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire;
Documentary: Amazing Grace (Jeff Buckley)
New TV Show: The Office (American version)
Old TV on DVD: Scrubs
Restaurants: Cossetta’s (Chicken Milano= yum!!)
Food I would eat forever if given the opportunity: chocolate frosting (off a spoon, has to be cold/refrigerated)
Beverage: guanabana drink
Websites: pitchforkmedia.com; craftster.org; thisamericanlife.org
Magazines: Ready Made; The Week
Magazine of the year: The Week
Books I read (that I can remember): Memoirs
of a Geisha - Arthur Golden; Giovanni’s Room - James
Baldwin; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK
Rowling; I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb;
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy; How We Are Hungry - Dave
Eggers; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David
Sedaris; Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Book of the year: How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
Regrets (I’m willing to blog about): missing
Sufjan Stevens at First Ave (because the concert started 2 hours
late); seeing The Aristocrats (puke); being a hermit for
the last several months of 2005, but trying to redeem myself at the
end
Achieved goals: learned to screen print; continued running
Achieved goal of the year: made running over my lunch break a habit
Nicest thing I did for someone else: cleaned out my parent’s entire storage room and organized it all
Goals for 2006: improve
my balance and flexibility; try to play more sports, like tennis,
skiing, and ice skating; take a vacation, either in the U.S. or
abroad; volunteer; play my trumpet in church; work on
jazz improvisation
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| Accomplishment of the day: finished reading Anna Karenina
Also... Trampled by Turtles is a dumb band name, but a darn good band.
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