I’ve been meaning to do this for a little while. I figure 2010 was a huge year, so it took me a whole month to review it. That seems fair to me. Remind me if I forgot anything.

Linda, considering how much of November I remember (damn that rhymes), I might be persuaded to do the blogging thing again.

January

• Packed
• Fought with Bear about packing
• Bought boxes and tape for packing.
• Paperwork. God I remember a ton of paperwork getting ready for closing.
• Dealt with both Bear’s and my anxiety about moving and buying the house
• Got Bear into a Whole Foods for the first time ever.
• Stalked our house many many many times.
• This was also the beginning of the hellish anxiety over Bear coming up with things he wants to change about the house and how much I can’t stand hearing about the unending lists of potential changes
• Dealt with the anxiety about our loan going through the underwriting and approval and god knows what else because it took forever.
• The joy of knowing we were cleared to close: i.e. we were gonna get our house!
• TA’d one of my advisor’s classes.

February

• We closed!
• Packing became furious and concentrated
• We cleaned the new house
• We moved
• We cleaned the old apartment
• We lived on minimal computer/tv time.
• Our house was cold and unfamiliar and new.
• We unpacked, a little more leisurely than we had packed at the beginning of the month
• We lit a fire in our new fireplace
• We smoked out our living room lighting that fire and the very few that we lit after that
• We bought a bunch of plants to make our home more homey
• We changed out our car from a Ford to a Toyota because we hated not having cargo space
• We had our first snowstorm at our house
• I climbed into our attic
• We started to get sick of Chipotle
• TA’d one of my advisor’s classes.

March

• Momma and Annie came to visit
• Got a firepit for the patio
• Used firepit to have smores
• The storm from hell dumped a bunch of water in our basement
• We spent many nights and days pushing, sucking and pumping water out of our basement
• We stained/treated our deck while they visited
• We learned how to change out a toilet
• We figured out how our water pipes were run
• We painted the white part of our green bathroom
• We got the bulk of the unpacking done
• We had a rare 90 degree day
• The house started to feel like home
• AJ visited
• The star magnolia started to bloom
• The spring bulbs came up (hyacinths, daffodils)
• Cooper visited for the first time
• We learned we had two dead trees on our property
• TA’d one of my advisor’s classes.

April

• http://www.themansguidetolove.com/
• We learned about burning permits/permission
• We loved the birds
• I spent some time fighting weeds
• Bear’s birthday gift was cleaned baseboard radiator fins
• A little bird made her nest off our deck
• Something ate the baby chicks in the nest
• Spent a lot of time pimping out our old apartment

May

• Cooper brought his family over to visit us
• Linda gets nicknamed
• Mr and Mrs Right threw a “get to meet the new neighbors” for us
• I got new glasses and got contacts
• The peonies started to bloom
• Cooper cut down a lot of the yard in our yard until it looked like a yard instead of a jungle
• Bear put together a planter box for me

June

• Mr Bestie and Mrs Cranberry got married, twice
• Bear and I got new clothes for the weekend of wedding stuff
• Bear stressed about the weekend of wedding stuff
• Bear stressed about my mom coming to stay for a month
• I stressed
• Bear got some work news
• My mom came to stay for a month

July

• My father came to visit
• Bear got my mom HOOKED on Animal Crossing
• My mom sliced open her finger
• I found out where the hospital is by my house
• I found the shortest route to said hospital too
• My mom got eight? stitches in her hand
• I showed my mom how to comb fiber
• Bear had job continuity issues
• We planted the extra tomato plants
• I got about 16 migraines
• We had money issues
• We had people getting pissed at us (me) issues.
• We rented a tiller
• We used a tiller
• BEAR used a tiller
• My mother left after staying for a month
• I got a new spinning wheel
• I felt a lot better

August

• My tomato plants became blighted
• I finished and mailed the way way way overdue legwarmers for Pippi and Lucy. Although Lucy and The General might be wearing them.
• Some leaves on our trees start turning colors
• We replaced our boiler and converted to propane.
• We played SC2
• We paid someone to remove the oil boiler
• We regretted it.

September

• We started off the month with visiting my family in HOU
• I had lunch with Bear and his old work peeps! It was awesome.
• I spun a lot
• I got these NASTY caterpillars that ate through my tomatoes
• I gave up on my garden
• We fed Mr and Mrs Right tbone steaks
• We fed Left ackee and saltfish and then about 5 months later found out that she thought she was eating eggs.
• We had weird sleep this month and I can’t remember anything else about it.
• Hopefully we saved money

October

• Bear and I started visiting Mr and Mrs Right about once a week for a coke (Bear) and a chat
• We raked leaves. Because there were MASSES of them.
• Bear surprised me and paid someone to come take care of the nasty nasty mess on our basement floor
• Bear and I had the ickies.
• I napped a lot
• Bear and I worked our tuchuses off at work
• My mom had surgery
• Brain went and visited her for me.

November

• We raked 50 BILLION more leaves.
• Hypothetical BABY ASP!
• I blogged every FREAKING day except Sunday because I love Linda THAT much.
• Mr and Mrs Right came over and saved our tuchuses with their Kubota right before Thanksgiving
• During Thanksgiving break my aunt and uncle came to visit
• We cooked them turkey
• I drove to the middle of nowhere to get farm raised turkey
• I spent hours on the internet finding farm raised turkey
• I failed to get a heritage turkey
• I was chastised for not finding the Fkajofwijefoiwje heritage turkey
• Apparently I should have gotten on the list 50 years ahead of time for this akofwjieofnoviwe heritage turkey
• Thanksgiving was awesome despite the lack of kjowinefoiwefn heritage turkey
• We put up leaf guards on our gutters
• My awesome uncle cleaned our our gutters
• My awesome uncle replaced a rotted board on our deck
• My awesome aunt and uncle made ramps for the doors in the basement so now you don’t have to step up/down 2 feet
• I gots me some new shoes
• Bear and I watched Sherlock and White Collar in extreme fashion
• the fall foliage was GORGEOUS
• Gilligan and I started a love affair with Ira Glass. She started it
• Brain said my brain was greasy
• Apparently I remember a ton of shit when I blog every day.
• Bear used his grill to cook stuff in a pot.
• We moved the TV and the couches and the internet and the wiring for the house bc my aunt and uncle are AWESOME

December

• I was a little blue after my family left
• We turned on the Christmas lights at the front of our house
• I had some awesome days working from home. Productive and comforting days
• I started a new project at work
• I read The Help by Katherine Stockett
• Bear got me grownup luggage
• I spent some time figuring out Christmas gifts for family members
• I spent some time fighting with family members about gifts for other family members
• Mrs Right took Bear and I to the airport at 430 in the morning!
• I went home and had a great time connecting to my family as a whole
• I saw Bear’s mom and his brother
• Bear had a decadent break with his mom and brother
• We got a huge snowstorm at the house while we were gone.
• Mr Right used his snowblower and went out there and made it look like we were home.
• We really do love our neighbors.