Tea of the year. I can taste my favorite tea right now. What's yours?

I should have read all the prompts before agreeing to do this I think. What kind of person do these prompts lead us to try to be? Tea? I think it was that curiously strong tea that comes out of my French press. For sure.

Word or phrase. A word that encapsulates your year. " ( Read more... )

What's the best change you made to the place you live?We got it ready for selling. This included replacing (though we had no choice about it) the windows, replacing the washer/drier (cause they broke), replacing the garbage disposal and the faucet, replacing the microwave, re-painting the white walls, replacing all 39 kinds of different light bulbs ( Read more... )

What new food are you in love with that you didn't even know existed earlier this year?I started this year off strong on an Indian food cooking kick. I read a couple books, spent several weekends learning new dishes, and enjoyed some really tasty stuff. And then my kick ended, probably because the super quick early learning curve transitioned ( Read more... )

The best place. A coffee shop? A pub? A retreat center? A cubicle? A nook?


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What's rocking your world?

According to last.fm, I listened to Phoenix the most in the last 12 months. Yeah, who didn't. I love them. I guess they rocked my world. Here's my top 20 based on listening frequency:

1. Phoenix
2. Architecture in Helsinki
3. Bon Iver
4. R.E.M. (really?)
5. Animal Collective

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?I'm all about this. Setting up my own office space above Vain was a BIG step in this direction. Having a place to work in solitude has done amazing things to my productivity and sense of motivation ( Read more... )

That gem of a blog you can't believe you didn't know about until this year.A sort of disappointing year in blogs, wasn't it? I've moved away from being obsessed with particular people to being obsessed with certain blog topics. Like blogs on cognitive behavioral psychology. Or blogs by authors of books I like to read. Or blogs about pregnancy or ( Read more... )

Was there a conference or workshop you attended that was especially beneficial? Where was it? What did you learn?Let's see, did I go to any conferences this year? Not unless you count that one that I felt obligated to go to because I was newly self-employed and sort of thinking about stretching my networking skills and trying to ignore the fact ( Read more... )

Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?Uh oh. This is a tough one. So many fun nights this year. Was it New Year's Eve at LoFi? My bingo birthday? Katie's Bathazar birthday? Kellianne's dance birthday? Ingo's Zombie birthday? Any of the weddings? Our ( Read more... )

What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?


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