well, 2021 was...a year. some wonderful and exciting things did indeed happen, and i knocked off nearly half of the items on last year's to-do list (including: book an international trip, make a new friend, go to a concert, see a movie in a movie theater, dine in a restaurant, and renew my passport) but i know i'm not really alone in feeling like it was essentially a slightly less shitty 2020. right? i'm not going to say too much about this coming year, lest i jinx it, but i did take a look back at the last 12 months and come up with some hopefully-achievable things for 2022. let's go!
things i did in 2021:
- had my first book published (and had my first book signing!)
- finally wrote a humor essay about my high school senior trip, one of the most traumatic experiences of my life (one of the like, two things i wrote this year, period)
- went to the berkshires for the first time...and the second time
- roasted a whole fish
- procured a guitar and am currently working on mastering A and D chords :)
22 things to do in 2022:
1. visit portugal
2. meet a band i like
3. sing karaoke
4. visit a friend in a different state
5. host a celebratory dinner party (carried over from last year)
6. take a road trip
7. learn to play 5 songs on guitar
8. make croissants
9. find one of the records on my vinyl wishlist out in the wild and buy it (the list includes MC5, the stooges, and crosby, stills, and nash)
10. take one day off work for no reason other than to relax and recharge
11. see a live play/musical
12. finish the new york times crossword every day for a week
13. stay at the maker hotel
14. go roller skating (preferably at chez vous)
15. get published on the new yorker's daily shouts
16. take a tennis lesson
17. order a cocktail that involves fire
18. start writing my second book
19. hang out on someone's boat
20. go to a tacky, old-school carnival
21. reach out to my high school best friend, whom i haven't talked to in 9 years
22. watch a classic movie i've never seen before
and now, for some best of 2021 lists...
favorite books:
we run the tides by vendela vida
this time next year by sophie cousens
alone in the kitchen with an eggplant by jenni ferrari-adler
our stop by laura jane williams
somebody's daughter by ashley c. ford
the storyteller: tales of life and music by dave grohl
favorite movies (that i watched, not necessarily that came out in 2021):
brittany runs a marathon
plan b
the sound of metal
the peanut butter falcon
in the heights
roadrunner
favorite tv shows/specials:
a teacher
pretend it's a city
bo burnham: inside
ginny & georgia
cruel summer
clickbait
favorite albums, in no particular order: (if you missed my more-comprehensive annual favorite songs list, check it out here.)
indigo de souza - any shape you take
greta van fleet - the battle at garden's gate
snow ellet - suburban indie rock star (EP)
bendigo fletcher - fits of laughter
loose buttons - what's on outside
valley maker - when the day leaves
pom pom squad - death of a cheerleader
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