Wednesday, December 21, 2005

#16--December's beer

Last night I finally got to try chocolate stout. Brewery: Bear Brew, Orono, Maine.

As beer goes, it was good. Smooth, a little sweet, with the bitter-ish aftertaste that reminds you that you're drinking real beer. I couldn't really taste the chocolate though, which I was a little disappointed with. That didn't make it a bad beer, just not what I was expecting.

I think next month I'm going to try to track down a lambic of some sort.

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#26--List of DVDs I haven't watched

If you care about my DVD collection and what I've watched and what I haven't, click on the link. (PS...In my disc count I'm only including the actual movie, not special features if they're on a separate disc. For multi-disc sets, if I haven't completed watching the set, the discs are listed out...italics mean I'm watching that disc--I mean, for TV shows or whatever, I'm usually not going to watch the entire disc at once.)

Status: 139 discs total/98 discs watched/0 discs in progress

Air Force One
Airplane!
Tori Amos--Welcome to Sunny Florida
Aladdin
Anne of Green Gables
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Barenaked Ladies--Barelaked Nadies
Beatles Anthology
Beauty and the Beast
Lewis Black Unleashed
Chasing Amy
Cinderella
Circle of Friends
Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
Cowboy Up: The Story of the 2003 Red Sox
Dawson's Creek Season 1
Dawson's Creek Series Finale
Dirty Dancing
Dogma
Faith Rewarded: The Story of the 2004 Red Sox
Family Guy Volume 1
Family Guy Volume 2
Family Guy Volume 3
Family Guy--Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Felicity Season 1
Felicity Season 2 (1 2 3 4 5 6)
Felicity Season 3
Felicity Season 4 (1 2 3 4 5 6)
Forrest Gump
Frasier Season 1
Good Eats Target Exclusive vol. 2 (1 2 3)
Gone With The Wind
Grease
A Hard Day's Night
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hello Kitty's Paradise (1 2 3 4)
Heathers
Legally Blonde
Lion King
Live Aid
Live 8 (1 2 3 4)
Mary Poppins
Sarah McLachlan--Mirrorball
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Mona Lisa Smile
Mr. Deeds
Muppet Show Season 1
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Never Been Kissed
October Sky
Pollyanna
Pretty Woman
Raising Helen
The Rock
SNL: 25 Years of Music (1 2 3 4 5)
Sex and the City Season 1
Sex and the City Season 2
Sex and the City Season 3
Sex and the City Season 4
Sex and the City Season 5
Sex and the City Season 6 part 1
Sex and the City Season 6 part 2
Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park
Sister Act
The Sound of Music
Star Trek: First Contact
Steel Magnolias
Still We Belive: The Red Sox Movie
Sweet Dreams
The Whole Nine Yards
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz

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Saturday, December 03, 2005

The List!

I've organized the list into categories. Click the link for the list.

Academic
  1. Finish classwork
  2. Do a masters project
  3. Teach at least one class
  4. Pass comprehensive exams
  5. Start completing assignments prior to the evening before they're due
  6. Publish at least two papers, one with first authorship
  7. Present at an academic conference
  8. Attend graduate women's cohort in 2006 (and 2007 if there is one)
  9. Continue to raise GPA
  10. Begin writing dissertation
Cooking/food
  1. Get a really good set of cookware
  2. Conquer piecrust
  3. Develop a set of at least 5 meals that I can cook well, without a recipe
  4. Use all the small appliances I have, or get rid of the ones I don't
  5. Become knowledgeable about wine
  6. Try a new beer every month
  7. Cook Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner
  8. Learn to make sushi
  9. Cook real food 2x/week
  10. Invent a drink
  11. Try two new cuisines
  12. Try uni (sea urchin)
  13. Successfully grow a kitchen herb garden
Entertainment
  1. Go to a Barenaked Ladies concert
  2. Go to a Bon Jovi concert
  3. Watch every DVD I own (including every disc of multi-disc sets)
  4. Attend any play Tracy is in
  5. Continue with Disney DVD collection
  6. See a Red Sox game in a ballpark besides Fenway
  7. See another Red Sox game in Fenway
  8. See a Yankees game in Fenway
  9. Listen to all MP3s on computer
  10. Watch a foreign film
  11. Watch all the Star Trek movies
  12. Watch all the Harry Potter movies on the same day (just want to make a note of this one: As of the writing of this list, the first 3 are out on video and GOF is in theaters. However, by the end of the 1001 days OOTP should be out at least in theaters, so if I complete this item prior to that I reserve the right to recomplete this item...or not. Whatever I decide. It's my list, dammit.)
  13. Bowl a game over 100
  14. Over 150
  15. Watch DVRed items within two weeks or delete them unwatched
Financial
  1. Pay off credit cards
  2. Stop taking out student loans
  3. Stop spending money on unnecessary things
  4. Have a yard sale
  5. Buy a car
  6. Save $20/week
  7. Get renters insurance
  8. Buy stock (even if it's one share)
Health
  1. Lose at least 70 pounds
  2. Begin a 3x/week workout program
  3. Figure out a better birth control method for me (perhaps IUD)
  4. Learn how to cook vegetables in tasty ways
  5. Start drinking more tea
  6. Take up yoga
  7. Cut back on soda
  8. Fix bicycle and ride 1x/week during the summer
  9. Get on a regular sleep schedule
  10. Eat vegetarian for a week
  11. Get a professional massage
  12. Floss every day for a month
Knitting
  1. Knit a sock a month
  2. Learn Fair Isle and Intarsia
  3. Keep stash at same number or lower
  4. Complete 3 projects before buying yarn for another (ongoing, not just once)
  5. Knit a lace shawl with actual laceweight yarn
  6. Design and knit a sweater for myself
  7. Design a pattern with an eye to Knitty.com
  8. Take a spinning class
  9. Knit a sweater for someone else (adult-sized)
  10. Knit a pair of gloves
Mental/geek
  1. Start doing hard sudokus and crosswords, rather than medium or easy
  2. Read 10 biographies or memoirs
  3. Participate in NaNoWriMo
  4. Brush up my Spanish knowledge
  5. Write at least two freeware/open source programs
  6. Get in the habit of updating my portage tree at least 1x/week
  7. Read the Lord of the Rings series (including the Hobbit)
  8. Buy a T-shirt from a webcomic I read (QC is the most likely)
  9. Buy a Firefox T-shirt
  10. Learn a programming language outside of class
Organization/simple living
  1. Either read every book I have or get rid of those I haven't read
  2. Purge clothing once a season until all I have left is what I actually wear
  3. Organize kitchen and get rid of all expired/never-gonna-eat food
  4. Purge makeup collection
  5. Spend a weekend Clean Sweep-style
  6. Find a storage system that actually works for me
  7. Learn to fold a fitted sheet properly
  8. Put together a filing system
Personal/interpersonal
  1. Get engaged
  2. Get in the habit of making the bed every day
  3. Get drivers license
  4. Take at least one decent-length trip
  5. Meet at least 2 Livejournal friends
  6. Make and send a mix CD to each of 5 Livejournal friends
  7. Spend a weekend in Boston
  8. Begin a paper journal and write in it at least weekly
  9. Get through the advanced sheet at swing class
  10. Get into the habit of vacuuming entire apartment once/2 weeks
  11. Have a decadent day of beauty
  12. Swim (or at least wade) in the ocean--which involves going to a place where the ocean is a lot warmer than in Maine
  13. Throw a surprise party for someone
  14. Go to McDonald's in formal dress
  15. Call mother at least every 2 weeks


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