December 15 – Five Minutes
Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.
Author: Patti Digh
This is a goodun! Brain dump ahoy!
- Orangette's blueberry oatmeal pancakes
- pootling around San Francisco Bay in the fog with our friends Greg and Jill on their little boat
- my friend Jenny getting engaged
- post-Zumba highs
- growing potatoes, parsnips and pea shoots
- absolutely gutwrenching finale of Wallander Season 1 (the Swedish one) (yep I'm slow to catch on)
- cackling with Rhi when we went to a very posh restaurant for lunch and the very posh old bloke at the next table said gravely to his companion, "You know I've had to downsize to seven bedrooms because of this bloody recession"
- zygocactus in crazy full bloom
- wee brother's wry one-liners on Facebook
- Halloween guilt when the three little girls next door came trick-or-treating and I'd totally forgotten to buy any sweeties
- taking belated sweeties next door the following evening and getting stuck there for over an hour while they read me stories and told me their best jokes. From the three-year-old: Why does the snowman like toys? Because he likes them.
- finally getting back home to find Gareth had cooked my birthday dinner!
- brilliant chat with Cilla in Edinburgh just after the Christmas lights went on
- making stupid poems out of Love Hearts candy @ Girl Geeks workshop
- seaweed fishing with G
- Chilean miner watch
- sunburn and sheep with giant heads at the Highland Show
- kettlebell lesson with Gillian
- homebrew bloody homebrew
- accidentally stumbling into via Margutta 51, where Gregory Peck lived in Roman Holiday
- foods of italy
- Andre Aggassi's autobiography
- sushi lesson from my friend K
- snow snow snow
- TIME'S UP, BABY!
- that was actually ten minutes
- okay now i have further cheated by spending 20 minutes adding links and finding photies to illustrate. Shame job!
Crumbs, even in ten minutes that’s rather better than I could do. In a few seconds admittedly – I had a wonderful new hip, we finished building our garden wall, our dog died – which last isn’t what I want to mark 2010 by, but cannot help.
Oh, and I spent a happy hour all by myself building a snowman, being glad that I wasn’t afraid of falling over as I was last year.
oh Z, sorry to hear about your dog! its so devastating to lose a beloved hound.
so cool about the solo snowman though
Oh what a wonderful year! It’s ace, isn’t it, when you stop to think about things? What might have looked generally bleak becomes a nice series of, well, solid life events when you spent 5-ish minutes pondering.
breaking the rules…I love it!
Have a great weekend!
Yay!!!!!