Ok, ok

8 things I'm looking forward to

• My wedding in October
• My honeymoon in November (Vieques, PR)
• My trip to SF in August
• My trip to VT in two weeks!
  
• Baking more chocolate chip cookies this afternoon
• Mother's Day 5k (after working Saturday night!)
• My eight-day stretch of days off starting Wednesday
• Summer

8 things I did yesterday

• Fell out of my shoes on the way home from dinner (technically this happened Friday, but it's too priceless not to mention-- I have hideous painful scraped knees to show for it)
• Watched Minnie Cat bounce off the window screen
• Finished one of Vickie's extremely belated birthday gifts-- I promise I'll have them in the mail before the end of April!
• Ate a very bad veggie burger at Gritty's while sitting out on the patio-- spring is finally here!
• Bought a second pair of matchstick jeans and an adorable skirt at J.Crew in Freeport
• Read about the different moral underpinnings of liberals and conservatives
• Walked around Wolf's Neck Woods-- for about 15 minutes. It is not quite mini skirt weather, it turns out.
  
• Watched three episodes of MI5 on Netflix

8 things I wish I could do

• Apply mascara without smudging it into my eyelid every g-d time
  
• Sew
• Get rid of 50% of my material possessions
  
• Decide whether or not I want kids
• Be frugal consistently
• Stop complaining
• Spend a year travelling
• Write a novel

8 things I can do well

• Bake
• Cook
• Knit
• Form opinions
• Choose gifts
• Catheterize female patients
• Make scathing remarks
• Give directions

8 shows I watch (mostly on DVD/internets)

• The Biggest Loser-- don't judge me
• The Amazing Race
• MI5 (Matthew Macfadyen is dreamy)
• The Wire
• Six Feet Under
• Deadwood
• The Daily Show
• anything involving makeovers sucks me right in-- good thing I don't have cable

8 favorite places I've been

• Bay Area
• Rome
• Paris
• Montreal
  
• Portland, OR
  
• The old IA building at Thornton Academy
• Pratt House and Sewall House, Williams College
• Ok, Maine. Whatever.
  

8 things I covet

• A.P.C.
• J.Crew ballet flats
• NYRB Classics
• Cheez-its
• Dark chocolate
• Independent wealth
• Wine
• The European lifestyle