10 on Tuesday: Things I am Looking Forward to in 2010

This week, 10 on Tuesday is all about looking ahead...and listing 10 things you are looking forward to this year. Here's my list:

1. Movies: Leap Year, Youth in Revolt, Legion, Percy Jackson…Lightning Thief, Alice in Wonderland, The Losers, Kick Ass, IRON MAN 2, Letters to Juliet, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – There are currently 26 movies I am anticipating already this year…
2. Buying a house – We are very excited and really hope things works out so that we can buy our first house in May or June this year.
3. Music: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has a new album coming out in March! Arcade Fire, Cake and Garbage all potentially have albums coming out! Yay for music!
4. Building a business – I started an online shop in late 2009, but 2010 will be the year to develop and grow and actually sell something!
5. Books: 2 books from Chloe Neill and just so many others I can’t even list.
6. More hiking: We went hiking about 8 times last summer and I’m looking forward to doubling that this year
7. The economy picking up again – Aren’t we all looking forward to this?
8. Comics: Daredevil leads The Hand, The Siege, The Blackest Night; all kinds of great storylines coming to a conclusion and many new ones to look forward to in comics this year.
9. Chuck comes back to TV!
10. True Blood Season 3!

What are you looking forward to this year?

10 on Tuesday: New Years Resolutions

10 on Tuesday this week is to list your 2010 resolutions. I don't normally have 10 resolutions but I do have some goals that I want to focus on this year and they are:

1. Spend less money on things I don’t need
2. Exercise more often
3. Finish what I start
4. Stop procrastinating
5. Complain less
6. Take a photo every day
7. Get rid of 1/5 of my belongings
8. Don’t accrue any library fines
9. Read 60 or more books (managed 53 last year)
10. Read more non-fiction (at least 10 this year)

Do you have any resolutions?

10 on Tuesday: Thankful

This week, 10 on Tuesday suggests we list 10 things we are thankful for. These are the first 10 things that popped into my mind and I felt really good after writing this!

1. My partner – He untangles my tangles and carries the heavy stuff and hugs me just when I need it
2. My best friend – She’s known me for 15 years and hasn’t run away scared yet. That is dedication!
3. My family – They entertain me with their drama and they love me unconditionally
4. Living in Canada (no explanation necessary)
5. My job – It is challenging and offers a lot of learning opportunities even though I complain about it sometimes…okay, often
6. My Macs (G5 upstairs Mac Mini downstairs) – No silly Windows problems for me!
7. My iPhone – Can you tell I’m a Mac person? I really have no idea how I lived without this little gadget all my life
8. Libraries – I can get almost any book delivered to a library near me and take at least 3 weeks to read it!
9. All the nature parks around southern Ontario – they are beautiful and I love nature!
10. My camera! – I’ve always been a visually stimulated person yet my camera has helped me pay attention to the beauty around me more

So, what are you thankful for?

10 Things I Wish I Knew How To Do

10 on Tuesday today is all about things we wish we knew how to do. Here are my ten:

1. Play guitar
2. Speak Italian
3. Make pizza dough from scratch
4. Speak Japanese
5. Play piano
6. Meditate
7. Develop web pages
8. Knit something other than a scarf
9. Use Photoshop to its full functionality
10. Speak Spanish

Hopefully I actually knock a couple of these off my list soon.

What things do you want to learn?

Ten Favourite Movie/Song Remakes

While this week's 10 on Tuesday was to list either your 10 favourite movies or songs or a combination of both: totalling 10, I just could not trim it down enough. So, here are my 10 favourite movie remakes AND my 10 favourite song remakes. These are in no particular order; that would take too much consideration and I'm sure I could spend days coming up with more, but I wanna post this now

Movies:
1. The Departed; 2006 (Original: Internal Affairs; 2002) – Movie
2. Scarface; 1983 (Original: Scarface; 1932) - Movie
3. Ocean’s Eleven; 2001 (Original: Ocean’s Eleven 1960) - Movie
4. Heat; 1995 (Original: L.A. Takedown; 1989)
5. The Italian Job; 2003 (Original: The Italian Job; 1969)
6. The Thomas Crown Affair; 1999 (Original: The Thomas Crown Affair; 1968)
7. Little Shop of Horrors: 1986 (Original: The Little Shop of Horrors; 1960)
8. Cape Fear; 1991 (Original: Cape Fear; 1962)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers; 1978 (Original: Invasion of the Body Snatchers; 1956)
10. Casino Royale; 2006 (Original: Casino Royale; 1967)

Songs:
1. Hurt – Johnny Cash (Original by NIN)
2. I Will Survive – Cake (Original by Gloria Gaynor)
3. The Mann Who Sold the World – Nirvana (David Bowie)
4. All Along the Watchtower – Jimmy Hendrix (Original by Bob Dylan)
5. Because the Night – 10,000 Maniacs (Original by Patti Smith)
6. Heroes – The Wallflowers (Original by David Bowie)
7. Love Hurts – Nazareth (Original by the Everly Brothers)
8. Mony Mony – Billy Idol (Original by Tommy James)
9. Nothing Compares 2 You – Sinead O’Connore (Original by Prince)
10. Twist and Shout – the Beatles (Original by Top Notes)

10 on Tuesday: Bad Habits I Can't Break

1. Multitasking
2. Throwing my clothes on the floor instead of putting them in a hamper
3. Procrastinating
4. Being messy
5. Watching too much television
6. Saving too many files to my desktop
7. Not folding clothes and putting them away as soon as they come from the dryer
8. Slouching
9. Hitting snooze for an hour in the mornings
10. Not answering my phone or door unless I know who it is

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