Stuff in which I look pretty good
· A-line skirts
· Cap sleeves
· Boat neck
· V-neck
· Long wide-leg pants
· Mary janes
· Black leather slip on shoes
· Fitted-waist dresses
· Empire-waist dresses, oddly
· Dangly earrings
· Little silver necklaces and bracelets
· Shelf bra camis
· Scarves in my hair
Stuff I never wear
· Capris or anything “cropped”
· Crew neck shirts
· Button down shirts except for this one red linen short sleeved one that looks pretty good
· Mini skirts of any description
· High heels
· Anything in white, unless it’s like a black and white skirt or something. Never white by itself or with any other color but black.
· Non-knitted hats
Places I have plans to go to in 2005
· Monterey, CA
· Sunnyvale, CA
· Trujillo, Peru
· San Diego, CA
· New York, probably
· Miami, I assume, for Thanksgiving and Christmas
Things I’m eating a lot lately
· Zucchini
· Strawberries
· Corn
· FAGE Total 0% yogurt with honey, my very favorite thing ever in the world
· Veggie samosas from Trader Joe’s
· Chocolate soy pudding
· Chocolate Velamints
Things I’m planning to cook in the near future
· Something to do with the in-season Walla Walla Sweet onion
· Italian cheesecake
· Italian rice cake
· Persian rice salad with apricots and pistachios
· Summer minestrone
· Many, many things to do with goat cheese
· My beloved lemon-anise seed biscotti, which I have not made in twelve months at least and which are also my excuse for owning a microplane grater
Stuff I need to do in the new house this weekend
· Move the boxes of books to the other side of the living room
· Move the green couch to where the books were
· Unpack the boxes of books
· Put all the books that will fit into the living room bookshelves
· Drag one of the other bookshelves up to my room and put the rest of the books in there
· Reorganize the entire kitchen while John and Treasa are gone for the weekend, won’t they be surprised
Tribal Style Bellydance Moves At Which I Am Pretty Good
· Bicycle shimmy, aw yeah
· Pestle
· Belly rolls
· Double maya
· The combination of the thing where you pretend you’re holding a mirror and then you do the lope afterward
· Turkish shimmy
Tribal Style Bellydance Moves At Which I Am Not So Good
· Arabic hip-twist
· That flamenco-style thing where you travel across the room doing an Arabic with your arms up and then you switch legs and kick your skirt up, if you’re wearing a skirt
· Any sort of turn at all, especially on a sticky floor
· Layback
· Snake arms. How embarrassing is that. Snake arms, the move that pretty much defines bellydance. It’s real simple: you put one arm up and one arm down, at the same time. I just can’t do it. I have been practicing snake arms at least once a week for the past three years, and I have yet to get it right. No, that’s not true. I almost got it right a couple of weeks ago and my teacher was so excited that she screamed “THAT’S IT!!!” across the room.
Dream Jobs
· Field invertebrate zoologist
· Therapist in tons-of-money-making private practice with very flexible hours and very easy clients
· Person who gets to travel abroad for a living
· Person who gets to paid to write this journal. Or really, anything at all.
· Person who gets paid to hang out
**Cupcake Royale flavors I have tried recently and enjoyed very much **
· Lavendar/Chocolate (with real lavender on top)
· Orange/Chocolate (with real orange hard candy on top)
· Pink/Chocolate (with real sprinkles on top)
· Chocolate/Yellow (with nothing on top)
· Mint/Chocolate (with I think some real chocolate sprinkles on top)
Things that make a cup of hot chocolate really good
· Being made by and consumed at Dilettante, perhaps with a nice coconut macaroon.
· Being made by me in my kitchen with that awesome Mexican hot chocolate mix from Trader Joe’s that they no longer carry much to my continued disappointment. Man, if that didn’t teach me to stockpile, nothing would.
**Reasons, so far, that I like living in Ballard for almost a whole week now**
· Mrs Roboto lives there
· Gael lives there
· The abovementioned Cupcake Royale
· That one time I went to The Tractor was pretty fun
· My bus stop is right in front of a cookie store
· Norwegian Day, which I missed this year but plan to catch next year
· The white pizza at theHi-Life is pretty great
· The new green-design library
· Archie McPhee, duh
Speaking of Archie McPhee, some stuff I really like from there
· Eyelash-mite shirt
· Bacon gift wrap, which I think would make a very nice framed print for several people I know
· Spanish conversation hearts
· Cocktail squids
· Pirate umbrella hat
· Sanitary hood with air hose
Stuff I really like at the Seattle Aquarium
· Octopus
· Cuttlefish
· Otter
· Seabird exhibit
· Gigantic halibut
· Gigantic flounder with two eyes on one side of the head
· Salmon ladder
Foreign countries in which I would like to spend some extended time
· England
· Costa Rica
· Ecuador (well, the Galapagos Islands)
· Tunisia
· Kenya
Movies I like with muppets in them
· Labyrinth·
Star Wars (Yoda counts, right?)
· Marquis…ohhh, just kidding! I hated that movie! All fifteen hours of it! Still bitter! Hated! But it did have muppets in it and I’m having a hard time thinking of more movies with muppets in them.
· The Princess Bride because I’ll count the ROUS
· The Muppet Movie
Reasons I am writing an entry comprised solely of lists
· Certainly not because of anything to do with McSweeney’s. It’s just a coincidence. Although I do like that pirate store.
· I’m thinking about a lot of stuff right now that I can’t quite articulate so it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to write about it
· A lot of what I’m thinking about has to do with doing work in the new house and doing work on the old house and really, how much time can you spend writing about unpacking boxes and putting things in the basement and putting pictures on the walls? Besides, I feel like you all just went through this with me last year. Moving sucks but it’s nice to live with friends, the end.
· Mostly I just like lists!