Mrs. Incredible HANDS DOWN!!

10 Best Books I Read (For the First Time) This Year

1. The Figaro Plays (The Barber of Seville/The Marriage of Figaro/The Guilt of a Mother) - Beaumarchais
2. A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L'Engle
3. The Robot Trilogy (The Caves of Steel/The Naked Sun/The Robots of Dawn) - Isaac Asimov
4. Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas - Kristi Brown-Montesano
5. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The Inner Voice - Renee Fleming
7. Marrying Mozart - Stephanie Cowell
8. So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld
9.  What Not To Wear - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
10. Penelope - Marilyn Kaye

10 Best Movies/Videos I Saw (For the First Time) This Year

1. Star Trek Voyager
2. Wall-E
3. Mansfield Park
4. La Fille du Regiment - Royal Opera House 2008
5. I Dream of Jeannie
6. Northanger Abbey
7. Finding Neverland
8. Shrek the Third
9. A Wrinkle in Time - miniseries
10. Trollflojten
Bonus: Beethoven Lives Upstairs (55 minutes of educational bliss!)

I miss Katy.  We have so much fun together!  We do kickline to Carmen on Hempstead Turnpike and eat pretzels and suffer through classes.  They're nothing better than that. :)

I miss her A LOT and I can't wait for school to start just so that I can see her again.

Impossible.

If you want to find God, just look for His face.
~Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus

Okay...because THAT's so not cliche!

Instead, I shall answer the 10 things I'm thankful to not have anymore.  :D  Interested?  Whatever, I'm doing it anyway.

1. Math class!
2. Thucydides (Don't read it! It's torture smashed between two flimsy book covers.)
3. Perpetual headaches (Thank God!)
4. Love handles :)  My pre-teenish love handles slowly became hips.  (Note: no, this is not a recent occurrence but I am still happy for it.)
5. An old, junky computer
6. A closet-sized room
7. Writer's block (for the moment...)
8. A propensity for spacing out while driving (you didn't hear that...)
9. El Guappo (don't ask)
10. Crazy hair  I forgot; I still have that!
10. Middle school (shudder)

Well, how's that for being thankful?  It's nice to look back and think, "Hey, I don't have to deal with that anymore!  Hurray!"

That was refreshing.  Now, it's time for dinner! (Ironically!)

I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy New Year! (The latter's a bit early, but what the heck.  They've got neon pink Christmas trees up at Kohl's.  I can say Happy New Year if I want.)

I just couldn't resist this one because I had it happen to me just the other day.

I was in music theory; this kid leans over my shoulder and looks at my homework.  He says, "Wow.  Your counterpoint is genius!"

It gets better.  I get the homework back two days later.  I got a 100 on it.  He says, "Wow.  You're like a counterpoint goddess."

hehe  Musicians and their pickup lines...