2013 Happy List
2013 has been a difficult year in several ways, but in other ways, it's also been one of the best years ever. I feel like reminiscing on this New Year's Eve, but I'll spare your flists and put it under a cut. This year, I ...
Saw Hugh Laurie perform the blues on the Queen Mary.
Hung out out with arynwy and Mr. A at least four times.
Saw Wicked.
Discovered Pieology.
Hiked in Newport Beach, Palos Verdes, and Point Lobos.
Went to the Getty Center with Ev.
Did a Very Big Help for a coworker who was at the airport but left his meds in his desk.
Went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Tried a lot of new recipes.
Learned some Arabic rhythms on the doumbek drum.
Turned 40.
Volunteered at The Rocky Horror Show and danced "The Time Warp" a few dozen times.
Joined the 21st Century by getting an iPod and a Kindle.
Wrote a silly limerick.
Discovered Geographer, Better than Ezra, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Saw a therapist for the first time in my adult life.
Met gmonkey42 and anonymous_plume.
Saw elise_wanderer in The Guardsman.
Saw Kubrick, Caravaggio, and cocks at LACMA, then walked to the Grove for dinner.
Ended the year weighing less than I did when I started it.
Made bread for the first time in my life.
Discovered British punk music.
Saw Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man's Land.
Used oil paints for the first time in my life.
Made my former boss, JD, laugh out loud.
Discovered BPAL.
Got better at playing the guitar.
Went to my first hafla.
Attended a Sherlock Holmes convention.
Heard the word "benign" from a doctor.
Saw Alabama Shakes in concert.
Saw A Midsummer Night's Dream in a park at dusk.
Discovered and laughed my ass off at Welcome to Night Vale.
Happy New Year, everyone. <3
Saw Hugh Laurie perform the blues on the Queen Mary.
Hung out out with arynwy and Mr. A at least four times.
Saw Wicked.
Discovered Pieology.
Hiked in Newport Beach, Palos Verdes, and Point Lobos.
Went to the Getty Center with Ev.
Did a Very Big Help for a coworker who was at the airport but left his meds in his desk.
Went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Tried a lot of new recipes.
Learned some Arabic rhythms on the doumbek drum.
Turned 40.
Volunteered at The Rocky Horror Show and danced "The Time Warp" a few dozen times.
Joined the 21st Century by getting an iPod and a Kindle.
Wrote a silly limerick.
Discovered Geographer, Better than Ezra, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.
Saw a therapist for the first time in my adult life.
Met gmonkey42 and anonymous_plume.
Saw elise_wanderer in The Guardsman.
Saw Kubrick, Caravaggio, and cocks at LACMA, then walked to the Grove for dinner.
Ended the year weighing less than I did when I started it.
Made bread for the first time in my life.
Discovered British punk music.
Saw Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man's Land.
Used oil paints for the first time in my life.
Made my former boss, JD, laugh out loud.
Discovered BPAL.
Got better at playing the guitar.
Went to my first hafla.
Attended a Sherlock Holmes convention.
Heard the word "benign" from a doctor.
Saw Alabama Shakes in concert.
Saw A Midsummer Night's Dream in a park at dusk.
Discovered and laughed my ass off at Welcome to Night Vale.
Happy New Year, everyone. <3