Lists, braids, and creation
Friday, December 31st, 2010Viv got her hair done did…
And then she and Abbe danced to some Doris Day…
And then Abbe worked on designs for some bridesmaid dresses…
OK, so I’m not even going to put numeric pressure by committing to listing a top 10 of anything. Here are my Top X of 2010 lists…
Top TV Shows for 2010
- Family Guy
- Breaking Bad
- Archer
- Conan
- The Office
Top Sports Happenings of 2010 (from a Philly perspective)
- Flyers Reach Stanley Cup Finals – Richie’s amazing goal, Lappy sacrificing his face, Leighton coming out of nowhere, coming back from being down 3-0 against the Bruins. That team was the definition of heart.
- Doc’s World Series No-No – only a walk away from a perfect game
- Doc’s Perfect Game
- Cliff Lee Returns
- Desean’s Return to Bury the Giants
- Flyers Make Playoffs on Last Game of the Year – in a shootout no less
- Phils Get Oswalt
- McNabb is Traded
- Dom Brown’s Debut
Top iPhone Apps I Found This Year
- RunKeeper Pro – this was invaluable for mine and Abbe’s training for the Disney Marathon
- GuitarToolkit – tuner, metronome, alternative tunings – pricey, but amazing
- Angry Birds
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Ocarina – the world view is amazing
- Rage HD – it’s so short, but so damn awesome
- wunderlist – I love lists
- Hipstamatic
- LibraryBooks – I am on a first name basis with all of my local librarians
- FTPOnTheGo – turns me into Superman for my clients with last minute changes
- Dragon Dictation – when you try this app is one of those times that you feel like flying cars might not be that far off
Top Things That Happened in My Life This Year
- Raising Nearly $6K for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- Running 20 miles for the first time
- My kids meeting Abbe’s family
- Vivienne’s Dance Recital
- My son playing ice hockey and soccer
- All of my clients, guitar and piano students
- I won new countertops!
- Dropping 30 pounds during marathon training
- My son making Honor Roll, Student of the Week
- Making peace with a family member and an old friend
- Birth of Mia Caruso
– kids liked it, but it wasn’t a favorite. I liked the message about following your passion and good things will come.
– the kids love David, he’s a misbehaving sweet kid dealing with the excitement of the approaching holiday
– both kids LOVED this book. beautiful artwork and lots of laughs.
– this was good, beautiful illustrations and a good lesson for love between siblings.
– Viv enjoyed this one, very sweet.
– Olivia is another Viv favorite, she enjoyed this one a lot.
– kids both enjoyed this rhyming story of friendship and overcoming fear of the dark.
– this German film details the exploits of a group of revolutionaries that break into wealthy homes and instead of stealing, rearrange and stack their belongings with left-behind anti-materialist messages. A romance develops and then an interesting twist comes with a botched break-in. Very good movie, perhaps could have been better if it ventured into the can of political worms that the story opened, but not bad.
– this was a very good Elephant and Piggie book, kids laughed a lot.
– the artwork in this book is good, but the dialogue was not effective – I wonder if this was originally written in another language or something. The kids did enjoy the book.
– this book was very funny and a great commentary on today’s society with the technology references, BUT and this is a big but… the story uses the word “jackass”. Now, it’s done in a non-vulgar way, but the tongue-and-cheek joke to just the mommys and daddys is not lost on the kids. Read it to yourself first parents, and then decide on reading it to your kids. I did read this book to my kids and used this as a lesson for what that word means and how we do not use that word in school or use it to call names. Also, the message about how great books are even in today’s world of blogs, laptops, and iPhones was not lost on my kiddos.
– Viv, of coursed loved this story – Van was so-so on it. It’s funny and I love any story involving an outsider being included.
