A New Year, a cold one.

I'm ushering in 2011 with a cold. I was in Mexico on the beach eating popsicles with my family, only to come home to empty Iowa City with a cold. So it is movies and tea and bed for me. But with boredom come lists, more lists, and new years resolutions. Here are a few:

In 2009, my NY resolution was to bake all my own bread. With the exception of when Sara Black came to visit me and I freaked and bought a loaf, I succeeded.

PT and I also decided on a no pants 09, and we succeeded until February break, both failing on the same day and showing up to a meeting in matching outfits, without planning.

In 2010, my NY resolution was to make beans from dry instead of canned. I succeeded except when I had the Intermedia department over for a meeting and wanted to make hummus last minute.

In 2011, I resolve to a) make yogurt from scratch, b) read more books, watch less trashy TV on the internet, c) have more dinner parties (to that end, I'm taking the beet festival and Johnny Appleseed Bday party to heart and doing Iron Chef style dinner parties every month)

Do you resolve anything?

And a list.

I traveled to:
Philadelphia (a lot)
Spain (Murcia, Madrid, Cartagena)
Italy (Venice, Padua, Rome)
Switzerland (was that this year, yes?)
Portland, OR
Seattle
Western Mexico
and MO, KS, NM, AZ, CA, NV, WY, NE
three new states, three new countries, some art, and some other junk along the way.