List #340: Christmas Break Highlights

List #340: Christmas Break Highlights 2009/10

1. Chad's B'day and Italian Nachos
2. Bentleyville/Park Point Lights (UNICORNS ARE MAGIC!) and Lake Avenue Cafe
3. Moose steaks, and hot-tubs.
4. SNOW and shoveling
5. Deciding that my parents split up because neither of them had 4-wheel drive vehicles of their own (which makes me able to be at peace with the situation)
6. "Point of Disgust"
7. Getting Clobberd by Ned's Girlfriend in bowling
8. Viv show
9. Trio at Blackwater, Sound Inc. @ the Powerhouse, Pot Bellied Stallions @ Billy's for New Year
10. Playing Ukulele with Brian's grand-daughter at Lake Vermillion
11. the cowbell girl
12. Watching Toy Story
13. New sheets
14. Discovering "Questionable Content" and "Goblins"
15. Lunch at the Hacienda
16. Heroclix at Dragonport (and at Grandpa's)
17. Watching the Winter Classic at Grandpa's and the meat-eating day
18. Making Morning Sunshine (though in the afternoon)
19. No one really fought, or fell through ceilings
20. Playing with toys, my old journal, etc.
21. Being in Minnesota in general
22. Taking Profile Pictures
23. Jamming with Ted "Mr. Phatman" Harwood.
24. Seeing a lot of family (and Will)
25. Working Out with Grandpa


2 minor Points of Disgust
1. Not able to x-c ski
2. Not getting to skate

List #339: 9 Realizations of 2009

List #339: 9 Realizations of 2009

1. Writing Lists is fun
2. Podcasts are great to listen to while driving
3. Despite what some people thought. I'm really freaking good at Camp Counseling
4. Really good old friends are like riding a bicycle
5. Being 30 isn't that much different from being 29, except when it is
6. Web-comics can be very addictive
7. I'm proud of my Northern European heritages
8. My motivation/confidence cycles rarely match up with my "ability/time to make use of motivation/confidence" cycles, but when they do...
9. I've lived in Maryland almost 5 years longer than I expected to

List #335: Top and Bottom 9 events of 2009

List #335: Top and Bottom 9 events of 2009(in no order)

Top 9:
1. Brother and Sister road trips
2. Time spent with my Grandpa at Pike Lake
3. Volunteering at Camp Alexander
4. GCS Varsity Field Hockey Successes
5. Reading "The Name of the Wind"
6. Visiting the Hogan family
7. Visits to Lake Vermillion
8. Dad's music at the Blackwater
9. Running a 5k

Bottom 9:
1. Camp Miller events
2. Camp Miller events for people other than me
2. A second accidental catalyst event
3. Fender Bending
4. A possible somewhat minor physical ailment
5. 0 dates with girls (my own fault)
6. The timing of the Superbowl
7. Brett Farve joins the Vikings
8. Computer Virus that killed my computer (reanimated with Linux)
9. GCS JV field hockey record