List the places you'd like to visit

Japan
All the states-especially Hawaii.
CANADA!!!
Germany (again)
The Netherlands
England

Four Stars this year

These are a list of the books I gave four stars to in 2010.

Four:
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets


Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average



Norwegian Wood



Pizzeria Kamikaze



The Bedwetter CD: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee



Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird



The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)



Half Empty



Hey Nostradamus!



I Know I Am, But What Are You?



In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks




The Lonely Polygamist



Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

What books have made you cry?

Only two that I can recall:
Time Traveler's Wife
Mockingjay

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Winter

Goals

These are my goals for next year. I tried to make them specific and measureable, but so many are beyond my control; although most are not.
1. Run my first race.
2. Get my mile under ten minutes regularly.
Seriously, I had been slacking on this, but I really need to step it up.
3.Get my MLS.
Working on it.
4. Go to that fondue place.
Wanted to go, but it is sort of romantical, so I can hold off on it.
5. Get Mac into some sort of Activity.
This goal is not really specific or measurable, but it really depends on what there is in my area. I would love to get him into herding, but would really like to get out of the house with him once a week.
6. Meet more people.
7. Read three books in a month.
Actually pretty close to this now, though I haven't sat down and counted.
8. Get my crosswords under ten mintues regularly.
Practice Practice Practice
9. Get back into competitive scrabble.
10. Have a real party (possibly Christmas party).e
11. Some sort of advancement in my current position at work.
This may be sort of hard right now with the economy being what it is.
12. Seriously unclutter the kitchen.
Possibly buy actual grown up dishes instead of the plastic, scratched weird ones from Target.

Texas State Fair

My dog, Mac

October in Pictures.

I am ready for our robot overlords!


















I FINALLY got to go to the State Fair of Texas! It was a lot of fun and the weather was perfect.












































































Fried Guacamole...with ranch. This is when the day turned into a dare.


















This was a "diving show" put on by McDonalds. It looked like it was put together five minutes before curtain.



















Fried Snickers, this wasn't too bad. I had fried Coke too, but did not get a picture.



















Just when I was sick of the kitsch, we went in to the soccer matches. FCD won against the Revs. 1-0. It was a good match.















Let the crowding in begin for Mexico.















Octoberfest on Fry Street.

















Watching party USMNT vs. Honduras at Pizza Hut Park. Very cool. They weren't showing it anywhere in DFW and the FCD front office made this happen for soccer fans in the area. The club was too packed, so they showed it on the screens in the stadium. It was fun to watch it out in the misty night, but Greg and I went inside for the second half.





































Pub Quiz. I have an abnormally large head.



















You know it is a good tailgate when there is a dog wearing a jersey!


















This guy (forget his name right now, sorry) should lead EVERY FCD games supporter's section into the stadium (as long as it is not done during the national anthem).






































Last home game against the Rapids in FCD's push for the playoffs.















Recession?















FC Dallas wins! I am getting a little sick of seeing this sign as I leave the park!! :)





















I just thought this was funny that we have an "engage" "disengage" lever at work. It's very Star Trek.





















This is the worst/best book in our collection.





















Hmm.















Watching party for FCD/Seattle. Packed.








































Molly. There were a lot of good costumes at this party. Mine was not one of them, and I did not get any pictures. :( Cher and Dion from Clueless, Darkwing Duck and a Spice Girl were some of the highlights.