Jan

1. My perfect Banana Republic black pants
2. My super-comfy but not-too-casual generic black jeans
3. My ideally-fitted-and-shaped white Gap t-shirt
4. My dressy-but-stylish black/white Kasper suit
5. My envy-provoking orange/pink/jeweled J Jill sandals
6. My embroidered denim capris (also J Jill)
7. My brightly-colored and still-fabulous-after-10-years Mohair sweater
8. My Karen Neuburger softer-than-soft PJs
9. My trendy-but-tasteful blue/brown fully-lined blazer (again, J Jill – detecting a theme?
10. My Target bras – seriously. They fit perfectly, are VERY comfortable, and if you have to throw them out after a few months, well, you only spent $10 on them!

  

Jan

1. You are allowed – even encouraged, and sometimes even *required* – to sleep 12 hours a day.
2. You get a whole new wardrobe every single season.
3. You get to have fantabulous birthday parties with a theme of your chosing *every* year!!!
4. It’s okay (or at least understandable) to lay down in the floor and just throw a fit when you feel like it.
5. One word: BUBBLES
6. It’s okay to talk to yourself – even when your self responds!
7. You don’t have to have a job.
8. You get to try gymnastics, soccer, music lessons, art – pretty much anything you can sucker your parents into!
9. You don’t have the weird hangups of adults
10. You still have the tendency to forgive and forget rather than hold a grudge.

  

Jan

This week’s challenge is to think about how things would be if I DIDN’T feel the need to do everything perfectly. How great for me! As a perfectionist, I often have FANTASTIC plans – that I never follow through on because perfection takes time!

Here’s Tanika’s challenge this week:
Try this: The artist soul thrives on adventure.
Many adventures require that we muster the courage to be a beginner. That bicycle trip to France requires that I haul out my bike and start riding. That black-and-white photography course says “Get out the camera; shoot a few rolls.” Yoga for beginners requires that i stretch myself physically and mentally. Attendance at an open mic invites me to bring a poem. Life is filled with adventure if we are openhearted. [LOVE THAT!]
List five things you would love to do, if you didn’t have to do them perfectly.

Here’s my off-the-top-of-my-head list:
1. If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I’d try playing the cello.
2. If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I’d try making homemade bread.
3. If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I’d try singing.
4. If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I’d try sewing.
5. If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I’d try sailing.

  

Jan

We love TV at my house, though we do TV TiVo-style. Here are our current must-see shows:

1. American Idol
2. Prison Break
3. Lost
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Sopranos
6. Weeds
7. Related
8. Deadwood
9. West Wing
10. My Name is Earl

By the way, we REALLY miss Sex and the City (the whole reason we ever subscribed to HBO to begin with! , and Six Feet Under!!!

Okay, time to go pick up my kids, then watch some TV! %-)

  

Jan

1. LOBSTER – this should be multiple numbers, really, since it’s far and away the favorite…
2. Marinated steaks – cooked to perfection every week on Shabbat by my loving husband. Divine!
3. Shrimp Neuberg – not very healthy but very, VERY yummy
4. Tagalong Girl Scout cookies – I’m an addict!
5. *Good* General Tso’s Chicken
6. A nice, greasy cheeseburger
7. A genuine New-York style cheesecake
8. Perfectly prepared latkes (with sour cream and applesauce, of course)
9. Green Bean Casserole – cream of mushroom soup and fried onions, the perfect vehicle for a vegetable! %-)
10. Hash Brown Casserole – so good, it’s almost disgusting. Almost.

  

Jan

1. I will not keep up with this list every single week.
2. Apple will release a new line of computers.
3. Apple will release a phone/PDA/iPod device which will become the next Wonder of the Modern World, and possible the most perfect electronic device invented to date.
4. We will not go bankrupt (despite my husband’s predictions! %-).
5. The Titans will have a winning season this fall (please, please, please)
6. Tubby Smith will be fired at the end of this basketball season, and Kentucky Wildcat basketball will be MUCH better off.
7. I will buy more scrapbook supplies than I need.
8. “W” will find a way to expand his war, no matter what the costs or how little justification there is.
9. One of my New Year’s resolutions next year will involve getting more organized, just like this year! %-)
10. I will FINALLY finish painting the kids’ playroom.