Best of 2011: Year in Review

2011 will be remembered for:

• ringing in the year with dominos, good friends, and a cozy fire. 
• my birthday dinner at a table for 20+. the overwhelming gratitude and love i had looking down the long table of people who were gathering to celebrate me!
• a beautiful day touring and playing in the out-of-bound terrain with a few of my favorite boys.
• the hardest choice: to stay in my ski town community with a great job & lovely friends or move to the homeland for an incredible job opportunity and to be near family & friends. 
• a lovely weekend reunion with my five.
• completing my final ski season in steamboat with 42 days on the slopes. one final hazy run down mt. werner with an airblown kiss to the town. 
• lots of quality time with my parents.
• a 31 mile commute on interstate 89.
• brett's arrival and quick adjustment to vermont.
• the most delicious sungold tomatoes growing by the dozen in our own garden!
• reunions with old friends-- vassar, camp quints, half marathon camp crew in woodstock.
• adjusting to a new job, work setting, coworkers, responsibilities. 
• sweet summer sails on dreama.
• three glorious trips to cape cod. two holidays and one steamy july day of dunking in the salt water.
• a road trip to indiana for a leeper wedding.
• the addition of lupita. my incredible love for her!
• my first two business trips: dallas and nyc.
• so much rain. in all of the months of the year.
• a lapse in yoga practice.
• living in the same town as my oldest friend after 9 years apart.
• irene and the tremendous damage that the storm did to the state of vermont.

Best Books I read in 2011:

• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• Run by Ann Patchett
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Best Movies I saw in 2011:

• Inception
• The King's Speech

Best Music I was introduced to in 2011:

• Adele
• The Head and the Heart
• Bon Iver

And looking ahead to 2012:

• some fun in the snow.
• a new office space with giant windows!
• a trip out to steamboat to see our old gang & celebrate the love of meg & monte.
• the wedding of two of my very favorite people in july.
• continuing to grow our social circle in vermont.
• a renewed yoga practice.
• enjoying the many culinary delights of vermont.

(see: 2010, 2009)