Oh fondue, how I love thee. Let me count the NOM NOM NOM NOM!!

Alright, since I started this list in the middle of 2008 I gave myself twice this year that I should go. The first time was earlier this year, and the second was yesterday with our dear friends Katie and Cool J.

In 2009 and 2010 I must go three times. In 2011 (since its only three months) I will go once.

In preparation for our next time double dating, we donated $10 to a charity affiliated with the Melting Pot, and now have a $10 coupon for our next visit!

C'mon, food!

Ok, I'm surprised at myself for not getting on top of trying new cuisines. I work in Manhattan, it can't be that hard. So to just get some ideas in my head, here is a list of the 10 cuisines I want to attempt. It doesn't have to be these, but it'll help me focus:

Thai
Korean
Afghani
Portugese
Etheopian
Scottish
Turkish
Filipino
Cajun
Greek

This plant stuff...

Dan's family went yet again to this list and picked out that I want to continue growing my herb garden and so I was bought a lovely little kit with 5 different herbs. The ones that I've got growing so far: Parsley, Basil, and chives. The basil I pick often enough to start drying my own and using in recipes. The other stuff grows but needs help.

This also goes for the orchids. The flowers don't last long, but the plants themselves are fine. I think I need more sunlight. There are only a couple spots in the house that get any light at all, and we can't even keep the blinds open because we're the 1st floor on a semi-busy street. I'm going to invest in UV lamps and put them up all around so I can diversify my plant locations and help them flourish some more.

The gift of butterlfies

Yay! Kaite, Joe, Dan, and I exchanged presents yesterday, and (even though its still in the mail) Katie says that she's gotten me a butterfly growing kit! How awesome is that!?

When it arrives it'll have instructions for when to send away for the cocoons (that'll probably in late february or early march) and then they'll send me them in the mail. When spring rolls around I'll put them in the house climate and they'll hatch and all, yay! Then I can feed them flowers and oranges and let them go in a nice woodsy area!

I can't wait!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Man, who knew sending out Christmas cards was such a process? Ah well, I kinda had fun doing it, and y'know I always love when I get cards, so hopefully it has the same effect when my friends/family get mine in the mail.

Most of the people I sent them to I do get to see once in a while, but the ones to friends who live far away I included little gifts as well! I suppose that counts towards my goal at sending a gift each month!

Community Service

I'm going to claim 3 hours of community service.

I accepted a letter from this program the post office does where underprivileged children write letters to santa, and they give them to people to get what the children asked for in the letters. I did this for two boys.

Now shopping is one thing.

Shopping in Toys R Us in fuckin' Time Square like 8 days before Christmas. That's work. I'm not even counting how much money I spent on them. I mean it was still nice to see the inside of this store. The infamous toys R us with a ferris wheel that spins inside through the top two floors, and an animatronic T-Rex. I was more pleasantly surprised by a the sight on the third floor when you get to the top of the escalator. A life sized Mac Truck falling on you, but its being suspended in mid air by Superman. Ah, it made my whole week. Quite uplifting in the midst of screaming babies, crying children, a couple thousand frustrated new yorkers and/or tourists standing in line.

One Movie a Month

Crap, did I not see a movie in November? I suck.

Well I saw one this month. It was a spur of the moment decision cuz Dan and I were already out for lunch and the theater was right there. We couldn't decide between the Day The Earth Stood Still or Twilight. Let's see... 16 year old romance, or aliens incarnating in human form to save the planet earth from our species... well I've kinda been there done that on both accounts. But Twilight added vampires into the mix so we went to that one.

I'm also always interested to see how writers and directors do when making books into movies. I think they did a very decent job. They totally put off their first kiss to a much later part in the story which nearly KILLED ME. Twilight books are notorious for cutting out when there's SUPPOSED to be action. So when I thought they were skipping it... Otherwise, it really wasn't bad at all. I mean, VERY teen romance but had some good action. I wasn't entirely impressed with the cinematography. But omg I'm a sucker for Jacob.

(SPOILER ALERT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED)

I'm interested to see the whole werewolf aspect of it, but I'm afraid they're gonna make the effects kind of corny. Dunno. ... omg jacob is such a little cutie I wanna pinch his cheeks and throw him an emo bone!