Quinquin




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  1. 1. make love stay
    1 entry . 16 cheers
    7 people
  2. 2. get a green card
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    79 people
  3. 3. get a visa for Germany
    1 person
  4. 4. improve my German
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    484 people
  5. 5. embroider a growth chart
    1 cheer
    1 person
  6. 6. empty my inbox
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    8 people
  7. 7. downsize
    1 entry
    24 people
  8. 8. host Couchsurfers more often
    3 entries . 11 cheers
    3 people
  9. 9. Reduce my ecological footprint
    378 people
  10. 10. Raise chickens
    2 cheers
    174 people
  11. 11. grow an herb garden
    4 cheers
    670 people
  12. 12. learn to make stained glass
    1 cheer
    141 people
  13. 13. write more letters
    11 cheers
    1,522 people
  14. 14. overcome my aversion to phones
    6 cheers
    121 people
  15. 15. return phone calls
    1 cheer
    69 people
  16. 16. learn to identify mushrooms
    1 entry
    1 person
  17. 17. set a personal record for speed in using up a tube of toothpaste
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    2 people
  18. 18. put all of my opera recordings onto my iPod
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. visit Alaska via the Inside Passage
    8 cheers
    1 person
  20. 20. visit all 50 states
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    7,112 people
  21. 21. send more care packages to my friends
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    7 people
  22. 22. learn to play the cello
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    760 people
  23. 23. resist consumerism
    12 cheers
    47 people
  24. 24. listen to all 24 hours of 9 Beet Stretch
    1 person
  25. 25. let myself cry more
    14 cheers
    2 people
  26. 26. learn the constellations
    7 cheers
    565 people
  27. 27. see Tom Waits perform live
    8 cheers
    65 people
  28. 28. get a pair of inline skates
    3 cheers
    2 people
  29. 29. learn to play the concertina
    1 entry
    12 people
  30. 30. try knitting a cable pattern
    4 cheers
    52 people
  31. 31. learn to crochet
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1,003 people
  32. 32. create a sourdough starter
    3 cheers
    11 people
  33. 33. make sourdough bread
    3 cheers
    24 people
  34. 34. try new things
    5 entries . 4 cheers
    342 people
  35. 35. go to pastry school
    1 cheer
    11 people
  36. 36. take a roadtrip across Canada
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    3 people
  37. 37. learn to make Senfgurken
    1 entry
    1 person
  38. 38. read 15 books in 2009
    4 entries
    7 people
  39. 39. Do 100 sit-ups daily for 100 consecutive days
    1 cheer
    209 people
  40. 40. Visit 50 of the world heritage sites
    81 people
Recent entries
get a green card
Underway 2 weeks ago

We completed the Green Card application for my husband. It was a very thick and thorough stack of forms and documents and affidavits and certificates and photos. And nearly $1400 in cashier’s checks. We mailed it out on Oct 1st.

On Oct 13th we received confirmation letters from USCIS indicating that they had received our packet, cashed our checks, and the application was now being processed. I appreciated the acknowledgment and communication. What a relief to know it’s actually underway and moving forward.

Now we just wait for more news, for the call for the next step.



watch 50 movies in 2009 (read all 12 entries…)
Untitled 2 weeks ago

48. Ice Age – What a great, simple movie, with beautifully rendered glacial vistas, some realism, elegance, a swelling but not hyper-literal musical score.. and it was dotted with great throwbacks to the goofy Warner Brothers cartoons with Wile E. Coyote chasing after the unattainable and taking great plunges over cliffs and leaving coyote-shaped holes in the rockface. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I wept a little. It had good balance.

49. Ice Age 2NOOOOOOO!!! This was too much. Too many subplots. Too many ridiculous near-disasters. Is there really a cliff, a waterfall, a volcano, a cliff, a falling ice shelf, a melting ice sheet… at EVERY frickin’ turn?? Way too many ridiculous invented conflicts underscored by popcorn disaster music. Not enough death or realism. And too many new and obnoxious characters. Boooo.

50. Ice Age 3 – Very low marks for “going there” and including dinosaurs in the same era as the mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and humans. Reasonable marks for articulating the surprise and incredulity of the mammals upon encountering aforementioned dinos (“I thought they were extinct!”), and for creating a parallel (but thermo-dynamically ridiculous) world for this to occur. Happy face for being slightly more focused than Ice Age 2, and for taking the poor Pleistocenic squirrel to even greater heights before ultimately dropping him.



watch 50 movies in 2009 (read all 12 entries…)
Untitled 3 weeks ago

46. Lars and the Real Girl

47. Zombieland—at the movie theater!



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