I didn't know I had a vagina until I cried like a little girl.
That's what Bren greeted me with when he called to thank me for the gourmet hot sauce I sent him for xmas.
New Year's Eve was spent at Big Jones where I ate mostly delightful southern food. I say mostly because the aperitif was a bacon and bean cappuccino and the Carolina gold risotto could've used more pepper. The Truth North Cherry Cokes, however, were made of awesome.
I don't feel like doing some end of year meme but 2009 was the year where I threw caution to the wind. Most notably, my trip to India and Europe and buying this condo. I still look back at my time in India and shake my head because I did crazy things like walking around barefoot in temples, eating food from roadside stands, constantly sharing food with strangers and eating it with my bare right hand, riding in a auto rickshaw at night, staying on a houseboat in monsoon season despite the mosquitoes, eating seafood out of a water system that's also used for bathing, getting a full-body massage in a hut from a village woman who didn't speak a word of English and wandering around side streets by myself with no guide. Definitely more crazy than what I did in Europe, but still, I traveled to Budapest and Munich and Paris alone, traveling by rail and learning the Metro in Paris and I rode a bike all along the Seine and went to Pigalle in the middle of the night where I was either propositioned by a prostitute or mistaken for one because my French is horrible.
Anyway, 2009 was kind of also my last hurrah. I own property now and I'm going to be getting a special-needs dog (I hope!) so the time of spending hundreds of dollars at Williams-Sonoma and even more on amazon.com and taking off on crazy vacations is over with. 2010 is the year of living frugally, paying off my debt and saving money. Boring? Yes. But my life will be infinitely less stressful without debt hanging over my head.
In that spirit, I'm getting rid of my website. If there's something you read on there that isn't on paragraph then I would suggest saving it or e-mailing me for a copy. I'm also getting rid of the extras on my cable package and all the blog subscriptions on my kindle. Plus, I've already downgraded my cell phone plan. So, yes, responsibility for the win?
New Year's Eve was spent at Big Jones where I ate mostly delightful southern food. I say mostly because the aperitif was a bacon and bean cappuccino and the Carolina gold risotto could've used more pepper. The Truth North Cherry Cokes, however, were made of awesome.
I don't feel like doing some end of year meme but 2009 was the year where I threw caution to the wind. Most notably, my trip to India and Europe and buying this condo. I still look back at my time in India and shake my head because I did crazy things like walking around barefoot in temples, eating food from roadside stands, constantly sharing food with strangers and eating it with my bare right hand, riding in a auto rickshaw at night, staying on a houseboat in monsoon season despite the mosquitoes, eating seafood out of a water system that's also used for bathing, getting a full-body massage in a hut from a village woman who didn't speak a word of English and wandering around side streets by myself with no guide. Definitely more crazy than what I did in Europe, but still, I traveled to Budapest and Munich and Paris alone, traveling by rail and learning the Metro in Paris and I rode a bike all along the Seine and went to Pigalle in the middle of the night where I was either propositioned by a prostitute or mistaken for one because my French is horrible.
Anyway, 2009 was kind of also my last hurrah. I own property now and I'm going to be getting a special-needs dog (I hope!) so the time of spending hundreds of dollars at Williams-Sonoma and even more on amazon.com and taking off on crazy vacations is over with. 2010 is the year of living frugally, paying off my debt and saving money. Boring? Yes. But my life will be infinitely less stressful without debt hanging over my head.
In that spirit, I'm getting rid of my website. If there's something you read on there that isn't on paragraph then I would suggest saving it or e-mailing me for a copy. I'm also getting rid of the extras on my cable package and all the blog subscriptions on my kindle. Plus, I've already downgraded my cell phone plan. So, yes, responsibility for the win?