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the best things about 2005 so far...

leftover party food
-stinky cheeses and poppyseed crackers
-curried potato/black eyed pea/kale soup with crispy bacon and herbed sour cream and cornbread
-chocolate chip brownie cookies
-veggie pesto quessadillas
-hummus and more hummus
-a bottle each of wine, gin, and champagne
-chocoate bundt cake

post party clean house

funny messages left on the old typewriter

the hustler dvd from netflix we forgot to watch last year

initiating sex

playing with the dogs in the house till they're giddy

thinking saturday was sunday and having today and tomorrow off still

listening to my cd's with russell in his room

discovering charlie trotter on pbs yesterday

feeling like i might have friends around

being in a good mood so far

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the best things about 2004...

taking lots of pictures

making good food

settling into our very own house

visiting my old town for the first time in seven years

getting a regular paycheck and unexpected christmas bonus

a new year's eve of cooking and spending time with the nice people that came over for our first party in our new house

finding out that i underestimate some people and deciding that they are the one's to have around

spending our eighth new year's eve together

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the best news i forgot to post!

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russell's boss bought me a plane ticket!
we are going to los angeles for a week in february!
he'll have to do work stuff in malibu part of the time but we'll get to stay there for free!

this is the only trip we'll have ever taken not involving family.
lovely.

what should we put on our list of things to do?

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