• rocky, 1976
• stand by me, 1986
• confessions of a superhero, 2007
• the visitor, 2007
• hanky panky, 1982
• a single man, 2009

• a common pornography, kevin sampsell
• i saw you...: comics inspired by real-life missed connections, julia wertz
• embroideries, marjane satrapi

• paranormal activity, 2007
• smart people, 2008
• paper clips, 2004
• my sister's keeper, 2009
• frenzy, 1972
• who's afraid of virginia woolf?, 1966
• gas food lodging, 1992
• the usual suspects, 1995
• masters of horror: fair haired child, 2006
• precious, 2009

• the best little whorehouse in texas, 1982
• sweet charity, 1969
• the big lebowski, 1998
• the road, 2009

sad

• an education, 2008
• the apartment, 1960
• last tango in paris, 1972
• blow up, 1966

• falling down, 1993
• i've loved you so long, 2008
• secretary, 2002
• blue, 1993
• grey gardens, 2009
• gangs of new york, 2002
• say it isn't so, 2001

• wanting to punch tom in the glasses on the way to washington
• vegetarian e @ los portales
• a lot of rain driving to the show, nothing but white
• a very hot + steamy summer night after the rain
• first view of the white house with obama in there
• ahh, tori!
• much better seats than last time; 16 rows back to the right
• highlights:
• space dog -- "is she still pissing in the river now?"
• icicle
• gold dust -- "pulling me u...

• (500) days of summer, 2009
• lars and the real girl, 2007
• stranger than paradise, 1954
• talk to her, 2002
• the royal tenenbaums, 2001
• pink flamingos, 1972
• room 314, 2006
• midnight express, 1978
• waitress, 2007
• moonstruck, 1987
• bella, 2006
• grey gardens, 1975

• very young girls, 2007
• persepolis, 2007
• night on earth, 1991

• hamilton tavern for burgers
• the parkside for sunday brunch
• crabs on the water somewhere
• crabcakes at koco's pub

• the squid and the whale, 2005
• midnight cowboy, 1969
• 12 angry men, 1957
• the jane austen book club, 2007
• the lives of others, 2007
• run, fat boy, run, 2007

• anvil! the story of anvil, 2008
• blue velvet, 1986
• i like to kill flies, 2004
• paper moon, 1973
• yellow submarine, 1968
• rolling stones: rock and roll circus, 1968
• 49 up, 2005
• 42 up, 1998
• doubt, 2008
• 35 up, 1991
• dark days, 2000
• crimes and misdemeanors, 1989
• last chance harvey, 2008
• the postman always rings twice, 1946

• Whatever Works (2009)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
• Cassandra's Dream (2007)
• Scoop (2006)
• Match Point (2005)
• Melinda and Melinda (2004)
• Anything Else (2003)
• Hollywood Ending (2002)
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
• Small Time Crooks (2000)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• Celebrity (1998)
• Deconstructing Harry (1997)
• Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
• Don't Drink the Water (1994)
• Bullets Over Br...

• transsiberian, 2008
• night of the living dead, 1968
• manhattan murder mystery, 1993
• vicky cristina barcelona, 2008
• in bruges, 2008
• help!, 1965
• somersault, 2004
• his girl friday, 1940
• crazy love, 2007
• 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, 2007
• changeling, 2008
• slumdog millionaire, 2008
• stop making sense, 1984
• rachel getting married, 2008
• capote, 2005

• golden west cafe
• dominion ice cream
• the helmand
• chameleon cafe
• liquid earth
• clementine
• cafe hon
• joe squared
• suzie's soba
• mekong delta cafe
• the parkside

• ricochet, faith no more

• gone baby gone, 2007
• sunshine cleaning, 2008
• moscow, belgium, 2008
• born into brothels, 2004

• modest mouse, philly, march 14
• of montreal, baltimore, april 14 (argh)
• dinosaur jr + mike watt, lancaster, may 1
• the national, philly, may 29
• x, nyc, may 30
• the decemberists, philly, june 6
• ted leo and the pharmacists, baltimore, june 8
• ed vedder + liam finn, baltimore, june 14
• ed vedder + liam finn, baltimore, june 15
• meat puppets + stone temple pilots, baltimore, july 19
• tori amos, dc, august 1
• tori amos, ...

• eat bertha's mussels
• i brake for boiled peanuts
• what if doing the hokey pokey is what it's all about?
• johnny cash is a friend of mine
• save the ta-tas (not so much odd, as it is funny and for a good cause)

• australia
• austria
• belgium
• canada
• fiji*
• germany
• netherlands
• new zealand*
• us of a

denotes airport only*

too short

• moving out of home for the first time
• a lot of cryin' this year
• livin' in baltimore
• freshly married to thomas
• struggling living so far away from my family
• happy for no more sad airport goodbyes from tom
• i officially have some new lovely people to call family - mike, wanda and leigh
• met talula for the first time and four weeks later took her home on my shoulder
• spent the largest part of the year watching c...

• after having started and stopped, i started uni again - the last time to study social work
• met (at least in person), kissed, giggled and fell in love with thomas the year before
• traveled to and spent a crazy week and a half in nyc at the dirty riverside inn
• got engaged
• laurel became a bosom buddy a couple of years back and the crazy you am i rock adventures continued
• started to feel crazy protective of...

• living at princeton ave
• ear piercing - lots of ‘em
• silverchair
• stalking silverchair
• inseparable from katy, emma and linden
• blackbox
• ‘borrowing’ dad’s cigarettes
• realising i do not enjoy beer
• hanging out at gardo carpark
• arguing with mum and dad
• sitting at the biketrack after school
• pearl jam - the year of no code
• hair dying in linden‘s bathroom- an assortment of colours - Jif is magic!
• converses and ...

• playing ‘office organisation’ with jamie and emily
• playing tents in the family room
• sleeping in the hallway on christmas eve during the day - hoping to fall asleep so that christmas would come sooner
• roller skating on sunday afternoons with whatever friend I invited that week
• mcdonalds on sunday nights
• playing pinball at the rink
• all night skates - sleeping on the office floor
• deciding that when I gr...

• living at joslin street
• hanging with jamie
• setting up a shop outside our house
• making pom poms with jamie and trying to sell them (stacey, up the street never did come back with the money)
• playing library
• crying and begging mum to take me home with her when she would leave to go home from volunteering at my primary school canteen
• dad drying me off after having a bath - particularly drying my hair by put...

• laurel's nutty stir-fry
• emily's curry lentil soup
• avocado and shiitake mushroom sushi
• mum's rocky road slice

1. your soft skin, are you secretly moisturizing?
2. you smell good, even when you don't you still do
3. you put up with my ritualistic bedtime listening habits
4. you take care of me when i break bones
5. your arse in jeans, you should consider wearing them more often
6. you look pretty cute when you're slumbering
7. your serious tone when talking in your sleep
8. you never raise your voice at me, even when i do at you
9. your sid...

• chocolatier, decadence by design
• diner dash
• burger island
• cake mania
• cake mania 2
• pat rack
• scrabulous / wordscraper
• dynomite
• mystery case files
• pizza frenzy
• go-go gourmet
• go-go gourmet: chef of the year
• dream day wedding (yea, i shudder while typing this)
• chocolatier
• burger shop
• turbo pizza
• turbo subs

• where you from?
• you're from england aren't you?
• where in england you from?
• are you from london?
• i like your accent, it's like that man that got killed
• you from ireland?
• where you from? (i say "i'm australian") yeah my family's from ireland
• i like your new york accent
• i recognise your south kansas accent?

• the butterfly effect
• apocalypse now
• eraserhead
• .. so many more i cannot think of

not nearly complete...

get yer bearings

• canal boat ride
• sandeman's new amsterdam tour

explore

• vondelpark
• knsm eiland
• the jordaan
• browse in the nine lanes for vintage goodness
• chill in noordermarkt, a lively square w/ weekly flea markets and lots of bars / cafes

in the mornin'

• anne frank house
• van gogh muesum
• the resistance museum

on a clear day

• climb to the top of westerkerk for views

in the arvo

• catch a flick at ...

• the diary of a young girl: the definitive edition, anne frank
• harry potter and the chamber of secrets, j. k. rowling
• harry potter and the sorcerer's stone, j. k. rowling
• white oleander, janet fitch

• random guy on elevator this morning asks where i'm from and then proceeds to tell me that his favourite tv show is australian: prisoner!
• i made a dash to the elevator when i see the door open but i press the down button instead of the up and the door closes. the people inside when they saw me dashing attempted to keep the door open too. i miss the elevator but because i'm lazy decide i'll just wait...

• film i saw in a theatre: wendy and lucy
• film i watched on telly: pride and prejudice
• band seen live: liam finn --- so long ago, sad sad sad
• meal: sushi
• drink: coke zero
• phone call from: tom
• phone call to: tom
• email to: tom
• email from: facebook?
• purchase: sushi nori, seasame oil and daffodils
• kiss: tom
• photo shot: talula
• song heard: 'maggie mae'
• album listened to in its entirety: tommy
• book finished: white olean...

pros

• end of dread
• thursday and friday evenings @ home chillin' with t&t
• my weekend would once again begin at 5:00pm friday evening as opposed to 11:00pm, 12:00am or 1:00am saturday
• less exhausted, at least hopefully
• less mentally exhausted, god i hope so
• the mere idea that i may never again pick up a phone to a suicidal / homicidal person, this probably sounds incredibly selfish.. but these calls have b...

1. gmail
2. listography
3. etsy
4. facebook
5. apartment therapy
6. design*sponge
7. emusic
8. netflix
9. allmusic
10. imdb

from: moxie

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own ve...

• 28 years as a daughter
• 28 years as a cousin
• 28 years as a grand-daughter
• 28 years as a niece
• 28 years as an australian
• 26 years as a sister to a brother
• 22 years as a sister to a sister
• 16 years as a world traveler
• 16 years as a music lover
• 14 years as a rock show go-er
• 13 years as a vegetarian
• 12 years as an email writer (very important)
• 9 years in love
• 4 years as a social worker
• 4 years as a 'other' of anothe...

• dear zachary, 2008
• m, 1931
• snatch, 2000
• 28 up, 1985
• the last picture show, 1971
• say anything, 1989
• raging bull, 1980
• and the band played on, 1993
• two lovers, 2008
• milk, 2008
• the bicycle thief, 1948
• kramer vs. kramer, 1979
• wendy and lucy, 2008

• exile in guyville -- liz phair
• i love rock n' roll -- joan jett and the blackhearts
• everyone who pretended to like me is gone - the walkmen
• the new romance -- pretty girls make graves
• good health -- pretty girls make graves
• biggest bluest hi-fi -- camera obscura
• either/or -- elliott smith
• four thousand seven hundred and sixty-six seconds: a short cut to teenage fanclub -- teenage fanclub
• the stand ins -- ...

• owls
• any type of emergency plumbing situation
• any type of living thing in my dog's mouth
• huge bodies of water
• huge bodies of water between me and people i love
• huge and deep bodies of water and the idea that there are things alive and not so alive in them
• getting lost in the car
• poor visibility while in the car
• people sounding their horns at me, while i'm in or out of a car
• old houses that creak, not unlik...

1. her passionate love for cheese
2. her squeaky gate yawns
3. her upside bicycle moves
4. her stubbornness
5. the way she cocks her head when she hears an unusual sound
6. her long long whiskers
7. her dreaming sounds... these kill me!
8. her human-like sighs
9. her wet ear kisses
10. the fact that the top of her head smells like avocado, from an unfortunate avocado fall in 2007

• retouch paint
• paint pattern on cream soda?
• art on wall; va beach poster, postcard, cathedral photo, ny bridge
• shelves on left wall
• table for telly
• talula on right wall?
• change curtains?
• tall lamp?
• cool cushions

• scrambled tofu w/ shiitake mushrooms and avocado
• netflix (how did i ever live without you?)
• nov 13, 2009
• makin' sushi
• cardigan, coat and mittens outside
• films made in the seventies
• saturday noon revival at the charles
• daydreamin' about prints on my walls
• talula snuzzlin'
• vintage kitchen goods
• the riff in 'brown sugar'
• keith richards circa 1969
• shoveling snow

• 30 rock
• season 1
• season 2
• season 3
• season 4
• season 5
• a country practice
• season 1
• season 2
• season 3
• season 4
• season 5
• season 6
• season 7
• season 8
• season 9
• season 10
• season 11
• season 12
• season 13
• cheers
• season 1
• season 2
• season 3
• season 4
• season 5
• season 6
• season 7
• season 8
• season 9
• season 10
• season 11
• daria
• season 1
• season 2
• season 3
• season 4
• season 5
• dead like me
• degrassi high
• degrassi jr high
• family ties
• season 1
• season 2
• season 3
• season 4
• se...

• the adult living in assisted living that believes his care provider has changed his medication
• the recent hiv diagnosis
• the suicidal mother
• with homicidal tendencies towards her 2 children
• the homeless 19 year old
• with a one year old sleeping in the woods
• that was threatened when she wouldn't get in a stranger's car tonight
• that doesn't know where she is
• no shelter ANYWHERE, especially for families
• being p...

• consistently -- i'm consistent at this one
• occasion -- how many c's and how many s's? it changes all the time for me
• independent -- know how to spell it, but ALWAYS put in an extra 'e' and 'p' when i type it too quick
• complimentary -- always forget that bloody 'a'
• soldier -- my mind wants to spell it solider
• familiar -- should be but isn't
• just about every name of every psych med ever made
• embarrass --ev...

1. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." -- 2000
2. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." -- 2004
3. "I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in...

1. she's spunky
2. she has a good ear to bend
3. she's blunt
4. she's kind
5. she has excellent tastes in music, art, film
6. she's generous
7. she makes good food!
8. she makes me laugh
9. she can laugh at herself
10. she stands up for those things she believes in

• in clean sheets
• listening to coast to coast am
• listening to mr darcy
• totally buggered from a hard day's work
• in big hotel beds with good linen and cnn on the telly (don't ask me why cnn, i don't know, but it's what i want to watch when in a hotel)
• a talula head on my pillow
• falling asleep knowing you can sleep-in in the morn
• listening to scarlet's walk
• with a full belly after a really good meal
• to a thunde...

• woke up at a decent hour, at least for a saturday
• helped krupa move apartments
• watched annie hall again and 21 up
• created this list
• grocery shopped
• made sushi
• watched alice doesn't live here anymore
• walked beautiful 'lula in the beautiful snow
• made scrambled tofu, and it was GOOD
• saw revolutionary road with krupa
• wished little sister happy birthday
• played yahtzee w/ tom
• started watching united states of tara ...

an ongoing list i'm sure...

• the person at subway that has to make a call to see if his woman wants cheese of her sandwich
• those oval bumper stickers that just have the initials of a place, drive my crazy! partly because i can never figure out what it stands for
• old people that think that they can push in a line because they're old
• entitled people
• when people use the word 'addicting' -- it sounds soooo ...

• aviator bomber
• convertible mittens
• smokes
• ipod owl bag, containing:
• ipod
• headphones
• charger
• car charger
• many cords
• wallet, containing:
• coins and a couple of dollar notes
• many receipts
• deodorant
• work keys, pass, id
• lint roller, more commonly used for talula hair
• plastic ruler, no idea why
• sunglasses
• 2 lighters
• keychain given as a gift from work
• pill case
• 1 tampon
• 1 pad, minus plastic wrapper
• concealer
• lip gloss
• lip balm
• 2 ...

1. Crocodile Dundee
2. Babe
3. Happy Feet
4. Moulin Rouge
5. Crocodile Dundee II
6. Strictly Ballroom
7. The Dish
8. The Man from Snowy River
9. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
10. Muriel’s Wedding
11. Young Einstein
12. Lantana
13. Gallipoli
14. The Wog Boy
15. The Piano ♥
16. Mad Max 2
17. Green Card (Aust/France)
18. The Castle
19. Shine ♥
20. Phar Lap
21. Looking for Alibrandi
22. Crackerjack
23. The Man Who Sued God
24. Ned Kelly (Aust/UK)
25. Kenny ♥
26. Babe: Pig in the City
27. Crocodile...

• pride and prejudice (bbc)
• brides of christ
• bangkok hilton

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. the Extra...

• ledger diptych print: 8.5 x 11
• gimme shelter print: 8 x 10
• dog and cat portrait print: 11 x 8.5
• snow birds: 3.75 x 6
• book owl: 5 x 8
• birdie gocco: 5 x 7
• rained on birdie gocco: 5 x 7
• giraffe and girlfriend gocco: 5 x 7
• cherry heads gocco: 4.25 x 5.5
• pair of trees gocco: 4.25 x 5.5
• swamp lovin' gocco: 5 x 7 - frame bought needs some hangin'
• special delivery card: 4 x 6
• favourite person lino card: 4.3 X 5.5
• bonj...

• yield
• no code
• vitalogy
• vs.
• ten
• pearl jam
• binaural
• riot act

one and two fluctuate ALOT

• operation: declutter
• see two or three things i know about her
• watch netflix movies
• finish book
• finish bag
• walk lula x 2
• makes list x 2
• fold those damn clothes
• wash those damn other clothes
• finish budget
• trim fringe
• write letters
• call mumma
• make food for party
• attend holiday party

• film i saw in a theatre: back to the future
• film i watched on telly: little miss sunshine
• band seen live: liam finn
• meal: salad w/ ranch
• drink: pineapple, orange, banana (pob)
• phone call from: emily
• phone call to: tom
• email to: emily
• email from: uo
• purchase: chai latte
• kiss: tom
• photo shot: streets of vienna
• song heard: 'i'm too sexy', as sung by tom
• album listened to in its entirety: the beekeeper
• book finishe...

1. cloud on my tounge
2. pretty good year
3. god
4. the waitress
5. baker baker
6. bells for her
7. cornflake girl
8. space dog
9. yes, anastasia
10. past the mission
11. icicle
12. the wrong band

subject to change, i'm not 100% happy with this.

1. precious things
2. little earthquakes
3. leather
4. china
5. happy phantom
6. silent all these years
7. tear in your hand
8. me and a gun
9. crucify
10. mother
11. winter
12. girl

• i heart huckabees, 2004
• klute, 1971
• manhattan, 1979
• harold and maude, 1971
• the deer hunter , 1978
• revolutionary road, 2008
• alice doesn't live here anymore, 1974
• 21 up, 1977
• diner, 1982
• arranged , 2007
• 7 up / 7 plus seven, 1964
• the dark knight, 2008
• 2 or 3 things i know about her , 1967
• man on wire , 2008

• animal slippers
• beans and rice
• beer and fishing
• boiled beans and chicken
• cold tea
• compilation tapes
• crappy records
• custard trays?
• fresh packs of luckys
• ginger wine and lemonade
• juice cups
• late night AM talk back?
• mini coke and prawns
• mushroom slice
• pizza
• plastic sporks
• potato from kentucky
• red wine
• salsa? just gets spilt
• six packs
• smoking buds
• whiskey, eggs and bacon

• potential for a european jaunt in april? bruges; brussels; luxembourg; amsterdam?
• major emily time! nov?-jan? much hanging, sight-seeing, food gobbling, more hanging, couple of weeks off work?
• possible seattle trip w/ em and tom; must beat jamie to seattle!
• dollywood! with em and tom
• day / weekend trips to nyc, philly, amish country w/ em
• christmas in ol' baltimore; emily can cook!

• celebrating australia's midnight, at my 8am - in the shower
• managin' to talk to all the family before their midnight
• an insanely windy day
• really good indian fare including really good halwa
• europe '09 daydreamin'
• eating freddos in bed
• ushanka posing
• dick clark marvelling, ryan seacrest loathing
• polaroid fun
• hearing fireworks / gunfire, but unable to see fireworks

• searching for used no code lp's and finding they cost between $80-$130
• reading valley of the dolls and thinking 32 ain't so old

• woman shopper at supermarket placing the coupons she clipped next to the item the coupon was for so a random stranger could use 'em
• a solitary big ol' outdoor heater outside city cafe next to the ashtray, nice!
• neighbour / postperson putting all our newspapers on our porch while we were away four days (might have to be scratched if this person turns out to be responsible for thieving the etsy packag...

1. spark
2. northern lad
3. raspberry swirl
4. pandora's aquarium
5. she's your cocaine
6. liquid diamonds
7. i i e e e
8. black dove
9. hotel
10. jackie's strength
11. playboy mommy
12. cruel

• molly
• marilla
• annie
• enid
• lizzy / lizzie
• janie
• jemima
• benny
• aubrey
• audrey
• gilbert

• smoking
• rubbing eyes
• waking up late
• going to bed too late
• arrive late
• lateness in regard to gifts, letters, emails
• indecisiveness in general
• poor follow-through

• the nickname: mobtown
• many small independent theatres
• lots of art museums
• it has it's own accent
• good number of vegetarian restaurants
• cool crafty community
• proximity to nyc
• proximity to philly
• proximity to amish country
• proximity to dc
• it has an international airport
• our neighborhood
• a lot of outdoor festivals
• city paper and urbanite
• charles theatre (and the fact that they spell theatre the way they do)

• little babies - dig me out, sleater-kinney
• my iron lung - the bends, radiohead
• corduroy - vitalogy, pearl jam
• porch - ten, pearl jam
• rearviewmirror - vs, pearl jam
• mother revolution - the beekeeper, tori amos
• she's your cocaine - choirgirl hotel, tori amos
• don't make me come to vegas - scarlet's walk, tori amos
• crash - deliverance, you am i

• mta bus greeting from my house
• a familiar voice on the phone - non work related
• the sounds of new york streets from high above
• the sound my cell phone makes when you turn the speaker on or off
• talula's tail when she's wagging, hitting anything that's in her way
• talula's little pop-offs - sounds gross i know but they're gorgeous
• of silence, haha