Five Good Things: Cold Feet Edition
1. Resolution #1 for 2011 was “stop eating sandwiches for dinner four times a week like a lazyass” so I broke out all my cookbooks, bought expensive salad dressing and sun-dried tomatoes, and got to work making PW’s chicken pot pie and Ina’s vegetarian lasagna and chili with actual ground beef in it instead of eleven cans of beans and some red sauce. Two nights ago I made bread pudding. On New Years I made turkey roulade. I want to show you pictures of these things, but I can’t because I dropped my camera and now it won’t turn on. Other things I have dropped lately include: one MacBook (unharmed), one large Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee cup refilled with ice water, one tray of meatballs. We ate the meatballs anyway, though the floor was kind of questionably clean. Resolution #2 for 2011 is: buy a mop.
2. Jackie’s birthday party is this weekend in NYC and we are going ’cause we like her. I asked her what I should wear and she said: “Well, I will be wearing black harem pants like on Gossip Girl.” My sister, ladies and gentlemen.
3. Resolution #3 for 2011 was to read more on my commute instead of spending an hour every morning staring vaguely out the subway window at the wall of the tunnel. This week: Stephen King’s On Writing, and oh man I love that guy. He’s so weirdly wise. Also, did you know that he used to work in an industrial laundromat and also in a mill? Because I did not know those things.
4. Wednesday was a snow day and I spent it in a blue sweater with toggles drinking coffee and watching Friday Night Lights with Tom, who likes Lyla the best but has a soft spot for Riggins. Neither of us really like Street. Both of us really like coffee.
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Happy weekend. I cannot stop smiling.
January 14, 2011 @ 6:25 pm
….left out of the blog again!!!!
I walked all the way to Southie…what more does a boy have to do?
Anyway, despite just being saddened at the lack of myself in said blog, I wanted to say that I’ve read, “On Writing” and it is fantastic. It is actually one of my mom’s favorite books and really helped her transition from her writing strictly for newspapers and branching out into magazines and other places. Enjoy it. My personal favorite was his story about buying the writer’s desk.
(I’ll make this blog one way or the other Cotugno…even if it’s in the comments section)
January 14, 2011 @ 7:06 pm
Will and I just started watching Friday Night Lights, and he also loves Lyla, but in a real life I-love-Minka-Kelly kind of way, which was sort of distressing to me, probably because she looks like a somewhat accessible girl-next-door type that he might meet at a bar. I made a stupid and immature comment about my boobs being bigger than hers, and he looked at me as if I’d clearly missed the point. One good thing that has come out of it, though, is he loves to imitate Coach Taylor when he takes Saracen out on the field late at night and asks him how much he wants it, and then I have to yell “I want it!” really loud in the middle of the street. Now that I’m writing it, it sounds kind of sexual, but I didn’t mean it that way at all.
ANYway, I miss you, and can’t wait to see you next month!
January 14, 2011 @ 10:39 pm
Clear Eyes! Full Hearts!