things i love thursday

.making a VERY pretty multi-color layer cake.
.falling asleep and waking up next to #5.
.blasting justin bieber while baking.
.when everyone leaves the party happy.
.laughing until my stomach hurts.
.hot calpis.
.ani difranco.
.new potted plants.
.it *seems* warmer, spring is coming.

things i love thursday

.amazingly supportive (new!) girl friends.
.making lists.
.then checking things off those lists.
.slowly but surely clean sweeping my apartment.
.fruit roll ups.
.cheeseburgers.
.lunch break naps in front of a space heater.
.good ol' american drugs.
.catching up (skype and otherwise) with good friends.

things i love thursday

.encouraging meetings.
.new projects (though daunting).
.japanese bath tubs - deep and hot.
.planning my 30th birthday party!!!!.
.scheming to surprise #5 big time.
.snow!!!.
.the smell of winter.
.getting a seat on my morning commute.
.new pants.

twenty for 2012 recap

here goes nothing (literally!):


1. make my brother and his fiancée a quilt for their wedding
not yet.

2. make something with the fabric swap fabric
not this one either.

3. learn to cook fish
or this one.

4. climb mt fuji with my parents
i climbed twice, but not with my parents. :(

5. travel somewhere (ANYWHERE) by plane
i went to china in december for a work meeting. slid by on this one by chance.

6. restart selling on etsy (goal of 36 sold items over the year)
i used my sewing machine all of 3 times in 2012. sad sad sad.

7. learn to make something other than soup/chili in the crock pot
didn't do this either.

8. organize recipes from online into a notebook or file of sorts
nope.

9. buy and actually use a real (and functional) address book
not yet!

10. transfer my music from my old computer to my new one (but clean out beforehand!)
i thought i'd lost my power cord to my old computer, but then found it. still didn't do this though.

11. reread letters to a young poet and 6 other books
did i even read ONE whole book? :(

12. throw away papers and other "things" i no longer need (be ruthless!)
hmmm

13. clean out my clothes (be as ruthless as possible)
didn't happen in 2012 but MUST happen in 2013.

14. do (make?) something for my mom's 60th birthday
i think i called her. bad daughter.

15. do fourth of july (aka picnic party)
didn't do anything. worked on the 4th. :/

16. go to the beach (and do it before obon, when the jellyfish come out)
I ACTUALLY DID THIS!!

17. do halloween (aka pumpkin carving party)
YES.

18. do thanksgiving
YES and it was a HUGE success.

19. send out new year's cards (on time, if possible)
did not happen, MUCH to my dismay. :(:(:(

20. call/facetime my parents on a regular basis and always tell them i love them.
i think i was "better" about this in 2012 then 2011 at least.



and THAT, my friends, is what we call a FAIL.

yep, pretty much just flat-lined.



BUT! i had a great year in the places not on this list. i got out of a relationship that wasn't going anywhere good, i took time to be alone, be me and free and happy again. i worked hard, trained some new people at work, felt confident and comfortable in what i was doing and put out good numbers/results.

i spent a summer with girl friends, a gaggle of gay guy friends, made a ton of new friends, and loved it all. the fall was just as full. i carved pumpkins twice, hosted thanksgiving for 12 people and no one left hungry (or sober, probably!), put up my christmas tree and had a christmas cookie decorating party that left me with dozens of delicious cookies. i also went on some dates with some nice-but-just-not-for-me guys and then found one really great guy.


predictions for 2013? work will be intense, stressful, frustrating, busy, challenging and, with any luck, rewarding when it's all said and done. but #5 makes me feel fairly certain 2013 will be full of happy, content, challenging, adventurous, goofy grin-filled days, too.

i don't even know if i'm making an official "2013 list." there are a couple dozen things on my mental to-do list, but they may or may not eventually make it into an actual blog post. we'll see...

three for Five

it almost slipped off his tongue weeks ago. i heard it, but let him pretend it wasn't what it was. he had been scared of how he didn't even think; it just came (half way) out.

if you are going to say anything at all, you must say how you feel with no expectations. the feeling may be accepted, rejected, returned, or ignored. but that's not for you to decide. i don't know why he was holding out, but i was in no way uncertain about his feelings or intentions.

the romantic in me wanted to be second, but it's been on the tip of my tongue all week. he said, 'we've been playing a game of chicken, haven't we?' i teased that he already let it slip anyway, and we laughed about his awkward cover up of the 'i love you' that got finished this morning.

things i love thursday

thursday, saturday, same thing. ;)



.tear jerker chic flicks.
.priority bag check - they come out first.
.getting home and to my "normal" routine.
.homemade ginger and honey drinks.
.throat coat tea.
.swedish fish candy canes.
.cooking for #5.
.clean sweeping my first floor (upstairs is next).
.wearing #5's sweatshirt around the house.

things i love thursday

last of 2012:



.eating christmas dinner (shabu shabu, ha!) with #5.
.melon soda.
.getting the easy train to narita.
.window seats on the airplane.
.sleeping close to entire flights.
.buying things for #5.
.outdoor hot tub after snowboarding.
.blue skies.
.voxer.



first of 2013:



.getting good photos with my family.
.insanely dry air = great hair days.
.my snowpants.
.beating my brother in old school miss pac man.
.dance parties with my brothers' SOs.
.when my dad laughs uncontrollably.
.cruise runs (usually green or blue runs!).
.realizing i'm in pretty good shape.
.being able to pay for the tab.