Happy New Year's Eve!

We partied like rock stars. And I think it's possible that we'll all be fast asleep by 11:45.

Poor Places

Don't Know Why

As overplayed as it was/is I can't help loving this song.

Chinese Translation

Do You Realize

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize

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Change is Hard

Lost Cause

White Winter Hymnal

Crazy

Gnarls Barkley lyrics

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PowerOutage in Firth,NE!

Such Great Heights

Eric has invited me to do a top ten best songs of the decade list with him. And so I begin here with my list. My list is in no particular order. It was hard enough to come up with just ten. (Below is the original version of the song which I also think is awesome. I almost couldn't decide which one to put up. So I put them both. This is not cheating. Eric.)

#39

Baking cookies with my sister.

#38

Present wrapping parties.

#37

Snowball fights.

#36

Oatmeal.

#35

My grandmother's 1950s Mary and the angels mobile.

They have internet on the moon!

Octopus's Garden

This octopus seems to be getting a lot of attention from the scientific community for figuring out how to use coconut shells to make shelter. But I really think if I was an octopus I would have thought of that a long time ago.

Per Jessie's Request...

I'm lacking inspiration today. I guess you get what you pay for when it comes to guest bloggers.

Lazy Sunday

Although I did manage some human contact today in the form of a visit to the Siegel residence, mostly I did work and played Tecmo Bowl which, despite making Bo Jackson impossible to tackle and giving Lawrence Taylor the ability to block every single kick, remains an alltime classic.

Heisman Schmeisman

Even Jessie knew who the most outstanding college football player of 2009 was, and it wasn't Mark Ingram. Bah.

Guestblogging

***Eric is guestblogging this week for Jessie, who is out of town. Jessie's countdown (well, countup) will resume with the 35th thing Jessie likes about winter on Thursday evening***

My new year's resolution for 2010 is to do more performance art at work. It's important to have goals.

This type of scale might be hard to pull off though...

#34

Eric. That's sort of cheating because I like him even when the weather isn't cold. But he's a good thing about cold weather days. He's warm.

AND he'll be your guest blogger for the next week while I'm away. Enjoy!

#33

Gooey Grilled Cheese

#32

Finally figuring out what it is I want for Christmas.

#31

The dog when he goes nuts in a fresh snowfall. And then, like me, he totally gets over it and wants to be inside again.

#30

The way that our neighborhood goes to town with decking the halls.

#29

That the good to bad movie ratio is higher in the fall and winter than in the summer (after all the dumb blockbusters are out of the way). "Fantastic Mr. Fox" made me happy on so many levels. Wes Anderson, INCREDIBLE stop-action, good writing, great characters, awesome music. I was mesmerized.

#28

Hot Cocoa. Truck loads of it. For an alternative to Swiss Miss try half 2% milk, half rice milk, unsweetened cocoa, and agave nectar.

#27

Friends who feel the pain of winter with me. (And who make me scarves and deliver them just in time for the first flake sighting.)

#26

Advent calendars. I haven't had one of these since I was a kid but I found this one at Cristkindlemarket and had to get it. Opening all those little window shutters and packages to see what's inside...it's just as fun as I remember.

#25

Putting up the Christmas Tree with my light arranging, ornament hanging maestro.

#24

Christmas Cards! (Anne these are majorly cute. Very creative!)

#23

Puzzles. There's no excuse in the world to ever do these when the weather is nice outside. But when it's cold, start a (fake) fire, turn on some 1950s satellite radio, and lose your self in a 1000 piece hypnosis.

#22

The Christmas tree at Daley Plaza. Even though this year, relatively speaking, it's a bit of a Charlie Brown tree. Lean times in the Windy City.

#21

Christkindlmarket!

#20

Keeping awake after turkey by teaching little ones to love the wii.

#19

Sarah H. coming to town to make a turkey with us!

#18

Putting George in his Christmas outfit

#17

Gifts that show up on the front porch from Allstate. Spouses aren't invited to the holiday party this year. Chocolate is way better than corporate chit-chat. At least they know that.

#16

How stark can be a thing of beauty.

#15

The full and content afterglow from a yummy early thanksgiving dinner. I don't have a picture of that for you. Sorry.

#14

Nutmeg.

#13

'Excellent television' marathons during drizzly days.

#12

Full permission to wear crazy fleecy things.

#12

Mashed sweet potatoes.

#11

That the absence of foliage makes deer both become more visible and blend in more. It's trippy.

#10

Fires in the fireplace.

#9

Football.

(Now, what I really mean here is that I like the (non-blaring) sound of football playing in the distance while I do something else like make cookies or decoupage a candle holder. It's a wonderful homey fall sound that I grew up with. Now that I am grown up and married to a man who loves actually watching the games more than even eating reese's peanut butter cups, I am learning to like the sound from front and center and am even starting to understand what the sound means.) (Oh! And, Go Huskers!)

#8

Sweaters.

#7

Steaming hot coffee. (Don't tell tea, but my love for coffee runs deeper.)

#6

The sun's hue.

#5

Hot tea.

#4

Little feathered friends with big appetites.

#3

The smell of dried leaves.

#2

Indian summers.

#1

I'm kind of burnt out on this blog. And the cooling of the weather puts me in a real funk (though today was beautiful in Chicago). Thanks to some inspiration from LK...her reminder of my love for lists, especially as defense mechanisms, I will take the next while to use this piece of cyberspace as a place to list the things I like about cold weather/this time of year. This is obviously just a way to kid myself.

#1 Co Co Wheats!

Co Co wheats, Co Co wheats can't be beat.
It's the creamy hot cereal with the co co treat.
To be big and strong, have lots of fun,
Eat Co Co Wheats everyone!

(Ask for yummy Co Co Wheats today!)

Here's a song from the cd that I can't turn off. I take it with me from the car to the house and from the house back to the car again. I can't part with it. It's Monsters of Folk. M. ward is in this band. Yep. I'm so predictable.

El Sacapuntas

Current favorite Spanish vocab word.

Birdhouse in My Soul

Guess how many leaves we've raked up in the last 40 hours.  Hella many!