Yes, I realize I’ve already wished you a Happy 2009, but only because I was bursting at the seams with excitement about my vacation. A year and five days ago, I made a series of lists for you, and as I have been mentally writing this post, it occurred to me it’s another series of lists. This is only Reasonably So’s second January (I assure you it is the second of many), but I would like to insitute an annual post reflecting on the year immediately past. I’m not one for making resolutions, so let’s just call this an idea. Many people make lists right around now, and, like all the other lemmings, I wanted to throw my two cents in. Shall we?
List I: Selected books I read (and appreciated) in 2008
List II: A bountiful holiday receiving season
List III: My personal soundtrack to ’08 (musical selections)
List IV: Five blogs worth reading (other than this one)
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List I: Selected books I read (and appreciated) in 2008
1. The Man Who Ate Everything – Jeffery Steingarten
2. Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany — Bill Buford
3. It Must Have Been Something I Ate — Jeffery Steingarten
4. Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris
5. The Laramie Project — Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project (I have been in this play, studied it for three classes, included it in my thesis, and every time I read it the meaning shifts and its value only grows.)
List II: A bountiful holiday receiving season
It will be another delicious year in my kitchen, that’s for sure. I will also look awesome and have plenty of enjoyable magazine reading. Some of the highlights:
Cuisinart 14-Cup Food Processor
Pizza Cutter (This is not the exact one I got, but it’s the same idea)
Bread by Ursula Ferrigno and Eric Treuille
A beautiful mug for tea from Lurearts
1-Year magazine subscriptions to: Real Simple, Domino, and Gourmet
An awesome down jacket
The beautiful Frye Harness Boot (in Tan) was a Christmas gift to myself
Under Armour ColdGear Frosty Tight
Cozy PJ Pants from my high school
A beautiful scarf from Thailand
List III: My personal soundtrack to ’08 (musical selections)
Note: These are not all albums from 2008, nor are they in order of importance. They are just the musical accompaniment to my year.
Bon Iver — For Emma, Forever Ago
Kanye West — 808s & Heartbreak and Graduation
Justin Timberlake — FutureSex/LoveSounds
Department of Eagles — In Ear Park
List IV: Five blogs worth reading (other than this one)
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There’s one more thing I wanted to share, but doesn’t fit on a list. This is a video of a cover song Bon Iver performed from when we went to see them in December:
That’s all for now, and thanks for sticking with me in ’09. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, jokes, etc. You can email me here: emily [at] reasonablyso [dot] com.
