what i am thankful for in 2009

-Empire State of Mind
-Lady Gaga
-The Office wedding episode
-that I didn't throw up during Avatar
-Google Reader
-Not getting swine flu
-that there are free shows to go to every night of the week in NYC (much love to whiplash, punch up your life, big terrific, kabin, and assssscat)
-OBAMA (Even if he's not everything he promised us, i'm still grateful for him)
-tina fey (my own personal obama)
-that I am still not sick of Fidelity or Paper Planes
-Caracas, Veniero's, Minka, and Momofuku Milk Bar
-having my own apartment
-that this is still around:

-Where the Wild Things Are
-Modern Family
-rekindling the yowser bond
-that I can still wear a tiara twice a year (AT LEAST)
-my amazing mom, family, and the best friends a girl could have (from harvard, hunter, comedy and beyond)

What a year! Congrats, guys-- We did it!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2K10!

Reflecting on the '00s

It's weird to me that blogs and magazines are looking back on the last ten years as a decade because for me, the last ten years are pretty much my entire life. I mean, I don't think I was much of a real person until I was 13. But here are my favorite memories from the last ten years:

Best TV of the '00s: Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The OC, The West Wing, 30 Rock

Best movies of the '00s: Wet Hot American Summer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko (Yeah, okay, so I have the movie taste of a college dorm room... Sue me.)

Best books of the '00s: Empire Falls by Richard Russo, The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, Atonement by Ian McEwan, He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

Worst people of the '00s: George W. Bush, Tyra Banks

Least favorite fashion statements of the '00s: Uggs, Crocs, Croc Uggs, tights as pants, leggings as pants, bare legs as pants

Best songs of the '00s: Fidelity by Regina Spektor, Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars, Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie, Paper Planes by M.I.A

Best inventions of the '00s: Facebook, Google Reader, iPhones

Best online videos of the '00s: cat wall, Brenda Dickson, money money, Old Greg

My personal greatest accomplishments of the '00s: Getting into Hunter, graduating high school, getting into Harvard, writing a thesis, leading CityStep, graduating college, getting employed, going after the things I wanted HARD (foolishly hard most of the time)

My favorite memories of the '00s: birthday lunches with mom, Yura, Starbucks club, my 16th birthday party, discovering the UCB theater, Grease, prom, sweet 16s, sitting on our rock, FemSex, CityStep, Children of Eden, F Unit, DK3 New Years-es, starting Laughterbirth, first kisses, Club Med, springtimes, Brick, Fete, Tasti, iced coffee and bubble tea

Who I was at the beginning of the '00s: a gooey mess of an 8th grader covered in tears and insecurity, who regularly went home to play Neopets, obsess over fake MTV band 2gether and read Buffy fan fiction

Who I am at the end of the '00s: a college graduate, an Associate Manager, still kind of a gooey mess

Holiday movies!

My favorite holiday movies in no particular order:
Elf
Scrooged
A Muppet Christmas Carol
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original one, not the Jim Carrey one)

Anyone want to have a movie snuggle session? I have Elf tivo-ed and all three muppet christmas specials on vhs (courtesy of kara :))