Quite a nice weekend, all considered. Saturday night S and I went out to Alto Vineyards to sip some wine and listen to some music. The first made the fact that it was slightly too chilly outside for the second bearable. Ran into quite a few people that we knew. Does this mean I've been living here too long, or just long enough? I know I'll miss that sense of community whenever I leave, whether that's this winter or next summer.

Sunday I put up a few of my craft projects for sale on Etsy, and went to the store to get the materials for some scarves that I want to start working on. Couldn't resist buying some new yarn either.

To jump start my brain this week I'm going to use a meme I got from Ashlee's site.

7 Things I Plan To Do:

1. Buy a better bicycle, and start riding it for at least 10 mile rides on a regular basis. (This will probably have to wait until after the winter.)
   
2. Go to Italy on my next vacation.
3. Hurry up with that Italy vacation, because in winter of 2006 I want to go with my parents to Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia.
4. Grow my hair till it's long enough for Locks of Love.
5. Find boyfriend who recognizes that I'm the most special snowflake of winter. Cause I totally am. Heh.
   
6. Learn to drive stick.
7. Teach myself to play guitar.
   

7 Things I Can Do:

1. Make kick-ass Halloween costumes.
2. Recite the prologue to The Canterbury Tales in proper Middle English.
3. Strip and refinish a piece of furniture.
4. Bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy. And also a blueberry-rhubarb one.
   
5. Kiss really well. (Or so I've been told.) ;)
6. Know if I'm facing uptown, downtown, east, or west when I come out of any given subway stop. (Offer void in Brooklyn.)
   
7. Make you laugh.
   

7 Things I Can't Do:

1. Eat a habanero pepper.
2. Watch someone shoot up drugs in a movie. (See #2 below.)
3. Make that taxi-calling whistle.
4. Spit with enough aim to hit something, like an old-time movie cowboy could.
5. Fake liking someone when I don't.
6. A headstand.
7. Dunk a basketball.
   

7 Things That Scare Me:

1. Cockroaches/waterbugs. Especially the ones that fly!! (And ask me sometime about why I'll never ever ever wear big, fluffy bunny slippers again.)
2. Needles. (Like for shots or drawing blood. Not for sewing.)
3. Getting out of my car and going into my house alone in the dark when I've just seen a scary movie and there are weird noises coming from the neighbors'.
4. Smallpox.
5. That Metallica video where the guy can't speak or write and is trying to communicate "please kill me" through blinking. Shudder.
   
6. Heights. More precisely, the idea of falling or jumping from them.
   
7. Anyone talking in that Skeksis voice from The Dark Crystal.
   

7 Random Facts About Me:

1. By the time I was 21 days old I had already travelled from Alaska to Saudi Arabia.
2. I have one tattoo, so far.
3. I want to kiss someone while lying on a blanket looking up at the stars.
4. I've never ridden a motorcycle, broken a bone, or been stung by a bee.
5. I built this city on rock n' roll.
6. My name anagrams to spell "moldy on all".
7. I still want to be a special guest star on the Muppet Show when I grow up.
   

7 Things I Say The Most:

1. Awesome!
2. It's totally _____.
   
3. Yay!
4. Eeeeexcellent.
5. Cool.
6. I don't know if you're interested in _____, but if you are give me a call.
7. Ha!