Besties
Blog find of the year:
Penelope Trunk, to whom I’ve linked multiple times here, wrote posts that consistently stuck with me for their bravery and insight. The first few times I read her, I thought she was just blogging about networking and Gen Y and blah blah blah. But I was wrong.
Challenge:
Returning to work full-time probably should have been my biggest challenge. Instead, the challenge happened in the six months before I found work, when I struggled to define myself back in Portland, in a new home, without a job. I’m still working in settling in, to the house, to the new life, and to the confirmation of my suspicions that I’m not stay-at-home-mom material.
Album of the year:
Most of the music I downloaded this year was straight from So You Think You Can Dance. But the one artist that I love more than any other from 2009 is P!nk and her Funhouse album.
New food:
Horseradish cheddar cheese, especially grilled on sourdough bread.
Tea of the year:
Thanks to a highly-placed network of international people of mystery, I was reunited with my favorite tea: Messmer brand Apple Gingko Green tea. Sigh.
Shop:
Sephora. I bought a bunch of new makeup this year. I’m actually wearing foundation and eye shadow on a regular basis now. I know you’re riveted by this information.
I guess it would be blasphemy for me to admit that I don’t know what Sephora is? Everyone talks about it, so I’m guessing it’s a makeup place?
And horseradish cheddar cheese sounds DIVINE. Delicious.