These are albums I purchased or was gifted in 2006 which either did or did not come out in 2006:
That’s what I remember, anyway. I’ll keep better track in 2007. As for movies…I paid waaaay too much attention to those. I categorized my movie watching by TV, DVD, and theater viewings. I never missed adding a movie to the list. They’re all accounted for in 2006, because in 2005 I didn’t keep good enough track and I vowed to keep better track. The numbers for 2006: See the entire list of viewed movies in 2006 here. View the list of movies I saw from Netflix and in the theater in 2005 here (6 in the theater, 126 from Netflix). Hay, Allie, Ripley, Georgie-girl, and I hope that you had a semi- to über-fantastic 2006 and that 2007 finds you and yours happy, healthy, wise, and able to keep on blogging. And, in tribute to two most excellent bloggers, Helen and Maven, I wish you: Peace! Ta-Dah ~ Scissor Sisters
The Sweet Escape ~ Gwen Stefani
Colorblind ~ Robert Randolph & The Family Band
So Far So Good (Live) ~ Paul Thorn
What’s Left of Me ~ Nick Lachey
Loose ~ Nelly Furtado
Ben Broussard ~ Ben Broussard
Let It Die ~ Feist
Demon Days ~ Gorillaz
Gold ~ ABBA
Very Best of ~ Lisa Loeb
Kelis Was Here ~ Kelis
Gordon ~ Barenaked Ladies
FutureSex/LoveSounds ~ Justin Timberlake
The Road to Escondito ~ JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
The Dutchess ~ Fergie
Danity Kane ~ Danity Kane
Alright Still ~ Lily Allen
Walk the Line ~ Walk the Line soundtrack
Magic Potion ~ The Black Keys
Late Registration ~ Kanye West
Back to Me ~ Kathleen Edwards
Vertically Challenged ~ Lady Sovereign
Oh No ~ OK Go
More Shine ~ Si*Sé
Eye of the Telescope ~ KT Tunstall
The One ~ Frankie J
A Little More Personal (Raw) ~ Lindsay Lohan
Aaliyah ~ Aaliyah
The Best of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band ~ Manfred Mann
In Between Dreams ~ Jack Johnson
Good News For People Who Love Bad News ~ Modest Mouse
Colour the Small Ones ~ SiaSeen in the theater: 8
Seen on DVD: 143
Seen on TV: 100
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Grand total: 251
Archive | December 2006
A fantastic postsecret idea
Based on this postsecret:
…a reader emailed Frank with the following idea:
- —–Email Message—–
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:09 AM
This postcard just gave me an idea:
I am going to buy a pinata and invite my friends to put their secrets in anonymously. Then we can blindfold each other,beat the shit out of it, watch our secrets rain down, and read them like candy. (I will email you some pictures).
The only friend I trust to do this with, besides Hay, is B. So, when we finally meet in person I think it’s time to beat up a piñata. I do understand that if it’s not my secret then its hers, and vice versa, but I feel closer to B than I have any girlfriend I’ve ever had in my life.
A year of random
Your meme, should you choose to accept it, is to dig into your blog archives and post the first sentence of the first post of each of the twelve months of 2006. Joanne and P’nut did this meme, but I need to switch it up a tad and preface by saying that I don’t always have a sentence in the first post of the month so instead I am telling you the post title and the first sentence if one exists. Here goes:
January: Georgie snoozes in the new year with Bear on the kitty chair
February: This begs the question: ~ Where do bad boys go?
March: Birdies and Poppies love Regina King ~ We do!
April: Happy fish day! ~ In our 8th grade French class Madame told us all about poisson d’avril*, the tradition of affixing fish (pictures) to people’s backs as an April Fool’s day prank.
May: Ewwwwwwww! / What A Difference A Day Makes ~ That’s what an Oxy pad took off my face last night after it was outside in the dirt all day.
June: Life, the universe, everything, and …um… work. ~ At Avi’s suggestion I am now in an air conditioned environment, no longer melting.
July: Murphy’s (gd c-word* of a whoo-ore) law. ~ Your boiler will wait until Saturday afternoon of a holiday weekend to let you know about a soot build-up problem that has been around for quite some time now but is finally getting around to emitting black plumes of smoke out the outtake valve.
August: Bonne chance et merci pour tous les poissons! ~ Taking my first of two practice tests for exam 1 (of 2) today. Wish me luck! Or, wish me to fail, that works too.
September: Pink fan* ~ I’ve actually been feverishly refreshing my blog and reading my Yahoo mail for comments on the post below this one.
October: R and R ~ I’ve been a little stressed lately, so I was pretty psyched to have a weekend of fun.
November: Halloween countdown ~ Number of minutes Poppy left work early to greet trick-or-treaters: 120
December: Do me a favor… ~ Bring your hands up to your face, palms toward your nose, and sniff them.
Oh, I love my mind. It entertains me to no end.
In case you want to read the full original post just click on the name of any month.
Don’t laugh at me…too hard.
I was just at my brother’s house for Christmas gathering and I hurt myself. Playing Wii bowling. For reals, yo. So sad. But, a little hilarious.
I also got the following books:
For some reason I didn’t have to explain why I wanted a post-apocalyptic book about zombies, but did have to explain the back cover of Amy’s book:
My explanation: “She’s just weird. I love her.”
ACW, in case you were wondering, I did ask for WWZ for Christmas because of you.
MTV tr3s
Does anyone else consider this promotional commercial one ginormous stereotype, or just me?
Stormy weather
We were going to travel to Hay’s parents’ house for a holiday get-together today but there is a snowstorm outside. I ventured out to put some outgoing mail in the mailbox and I almost needed a rescue crew.
Critters
Today I was sifting through 3 months’ worth of holiday catalogs and stumbled upon one for The Swiss Colony. Inside this catalog were several selections containing chocolate raccoons.
Yes. You heard me. Raccoons. Made of chocolate.
Here’s the Santa’s Helpers variety:
And the Forest Friends Log variety:
I would really love to receive chocolate raccoons in the mail. But, not real raccoons dipped in chocolate. That’s just wrong.
It’s kinda sorta good for you.
Today I converted my entire maternal family to turkey pepperoni:
My cousin insists she did not notice the difference. The differences I noticed: the pepperoni is smoother, more translucent, and spicier.
On a cheese plate:
On a pizza:
Unveiling
B sent me Christmas presents:
She warned me about the <3F<3U<3C<3K gift, but I forgot all about it, so I got a big chuckle when I opened it up. It’s displayed prominently on my home desk, at least until Ripley scoots across the desk for some air time and knocks it down, but I’ll pick it back up.
Thank you, B!!!!!! xoxoxoxo