December 2009
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Top 11 Movies of the Decade
Here is a list of my top 11 movies of the decade (who says I have to do Top 10?). I thought about it long and hard, so I’m not changing anything. I’m no movie expert, but watching movies is one of my favorite hobbies so I feel I have the right to post.
In no particular order:
1. No Country for Old Men
Best adapted screenplay. Best casting (seriously, I had never heard of Javier...
Carl Jung
jaimepage:
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
(This is the stuff of new year’s resolutions.)
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Christmas Meal
At Thanksgiving, I asked my mom if I could help cook Christmas dinner. I think it took her by surprise, but she agreed.
Her first assignment for the day was a ham, cheese and chives scone for breakfast. We used some awful Rachel Ray recipe that didn’t have a cook time and called for ingredients but never said what to do with them, so we did some improvising. The scones turned out okay, but...
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Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: Social Web Moment
December 27 Social web moment. Did you meet someone you used to only know from her blog? Did you discover Twitter?
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I had a few of these this year. Meeting Paige Worthy for the first time thanks a...
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Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: Project
December 21 Project. What did you start this year that you’re proud of?
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As I’ve stated many times this year, I’m a packrat. I get it from my parents who have a three car garage filled with boxes of junk and old furniture instead of cars. This year I made an effort to...
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Articles and Photographs
Well, it feels good to finally get some recognition for my work. Especially when there were several times this summer I wanted to tweet, “is anyone out there listening?”
Crain’s Chicago Business called a few weeks ago to interview me about social media and non-profits. I, of course, got nervous and talked way too much and when I didn’t hear anything about it I assumed she...
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Twenty-Five
Well, I turned twenty-five this Saturday.
It was a pretty good day. I went to brunch at Sola with Courtney and her mom, and I’ve been wanting to go there for a long time. The food and blood orange mimosas were delicious, of course. After that, I went home and watched KU basketball and followed the breaking news about our new football hire, Turner Gill. I watched a Hitchcock movie, talked to...
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Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: On Challenge
December 9 Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
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I remember seeing the number...
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Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: Moment of Peace
December 8: Moment of peace. An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there? —————————————————————————-
My entry for this one covers not quite a moment of solitude, but...
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Best of 2009 Blog Challenge: Best Trip
So in order to not totally hate on 2009 and also not have a completely bad attitude, I’m going to participate in the Best of 2009 Blog Challenge. I think this will get me to start writing more frequently and also maybe appreciate more of 2009 than I do currently.
Since I’m starting late and don’t really have anything to write for the Dec. 7th entry, I’m going to go back...
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Last week of 24
This is my post from December 12, 2008 (via another blog):
i don’t remember much from year 23. it went from: bargle. going out every night. my cousin’s death. jana’s murder. gas prices being $3.50 a gallon. economy dying. friends growing apart. no clue what i want to be when i grow up. to: friends growing closer. the entire six feet under series in one month. courtney returning....
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Bye Mangino!
Like most KU football fans, I started off this season making plans with my boyfriend to travel to our bowl game.
Now, I’m ending the season looking forward to having a new coach.
For the past few weeks, reports have slowly come out about verbal abuse on Mangino’s part towards players and assistants. There have been a lot of people defending Mangino, calling the players...