Today's To-Do List

1. Finish the tile project I am working on with Karen.
2. Have lunch with Nancy.
3. Cruise the new section of Chinook Mall (they just opened an "Anthropologie"....)
4. Run with Brandee and Maureen.
5. Hang laundry on line (spring-time - gotta dry those sheets outside!!)
6. Watch the Flames win (or lose, as the case may be).
7. Finish the gusset on my sock.
8. STRETCH after running.

This is not a typical day - because I usually work on Wednesdays at the school library. But it is spring break - which gives me a rare day to do what I want (Well, except for nag remind the boys about their chores. Because they really like that.)

Favourite foods

I like lots of different food - and I go in and out of love with some - but today's favourites are:
1. Really good chocolate
2. Home-made pasta (lucky I have a husband that makes it)
3. Prime rib - done rare.
4. Anything with lemon in it.
5. Home-made cookies - as long as they don't have raisins in them (yuck!)
6. Oddly enough - butter tarts -with lots of raisins. I know. It doesn't make sense.
7. Caesar salad with home-made croutons and lots of garlic - with a grilled chicken breast tossed in.
8. Gelato - especially lemon and grapefruit
9. Home-made cupcakes - with a touch of icing on them.

Love coffee and red wine - but they aren't really foods per se.

Vacations to take

Vacations I have taken - and would take again (I know - it's a sub-list of the list)
1. New York City - so much to do, so much to see....
2. Anywhere in Nova Scotia
3. Boston
4. Vancouver - never get tired of it - OK, except for the rain, I never get tired of it.
5. Seattle (and I get to go again in June!!)
6. Rib Lake - this is the family cottage - off the grid and out of the big city.
7. Montreal
8. Florence, Italy
9. London, England
10. Scotland (anywhere)
11. Mexico

Ones I want to take:
1. Chicago
2. Rhode Island (it has some sort of appeal for me)
3. Ireland
4. Greece (the islands)
5. France
6. Holland

Things I've learned

1. Time is never wasted when you are reading.

2. Picking the baby up when she is crying really is important.

3. There is no substitute for being with your kids - even when they say they don't need you.

4. The food police won't get you if you serve cereal for dinner occasionally.

5. Sometime people who say they are Christian - really aren't.

6. Stuff lasts if you buy quality instead of quantity.

7. Good quality chocolate really is better for you.

8. There is no such thing as too much wool or too many books.

9. Spending time in a service job (like waitressing or clerking)gives you better perspective when you are the one being served.

10. People don't always want to hear the truth - even when they say they do.

11. Saying no (especially when you want to say yes) is hard.

12. Staying best friends is not always realistic.

Books I want to read this year

1. All of my book club books (because sometimes I don't) and they are:
Wolf Hall (Got it started, found it...tough)
2. Let the great world spin (halfway through)
3. The help (LOVED IT)
4. The Lacuna - not yet
5. River thieves - forgettable
6. The little book - again half way through
7. Piano teacher - half way through
8. Red leaves - just started
9. The slap - May, so not yet
10. Bishop's man - not yet
11. The given day - not yet
And these are just the books to the end of June 2011. We pick the next year's in late June, so there will be more!
12. Long song
13. Moby Duck
14. Little Bee
15. Faithful place
16. Brooklyn
17. Dark Fire
18. All the Newbery and Caldecott winners (children's lit). The Caldecott are easy - they are picture books - but it is SUCH fun.

And the many more books by my bed, too many to note.

Gotta go read, but before I do, I love this post (it was also on the 30 days of lists blog).

List 25

Things I'd rather being doing right now

1. Reading
2. Knitting
3. Sleeping
4. Having dinner out
5. Leaving for a week away somewhere warm and sunny

Although I spent most of day reading at work because it is year end and so I have nothing to do until everything rolls over - so having cleaned my desk, I finished several books. I think it would be frowned on if I was knitting at work. Or sleeping.

I make lists for....

March 24 (Hey - I am finally caught up!!)

1. Groceries
2. Errands
3. Yarn and things I want to knit (Thank Ravelry for that!!)
4. Races I want to run (that's a new one this year).
5. Books to read next
6. Book club books - I am the unofficial organizer of the yearly list - which is kind of ironic, given that I am not particularly organized.....