This highlights list marks my 5th year of attempting to sum up a year’s worth of life, and with that fact you’d think I’d be able to streamline this process, but no. Once again, I’m still thinking about these things even though we’ve already begun the new year. Should I take notes along the way so that I don’t just remember what happened in December? Hmmmm… It’s a thought.
Favorite Restaurant (or where we frequented most): Sadly, we slowed way down on our restaurant going activities this year. After Corbin was born an infant and a toddler really took the fun out of it for a while. Ok, I guess that’s not totally true. We just got lazy and exhausted so take-out seemed to work out much better on a lot of occasions. So, I think I’ll have to put in a subcategory here: Favorite Take-out (I’ll get to that later).
Restaurants, hmm, I guess I’ll venture to say Zayda Buddy’s since they are kid friendly and have interesting comfort food, not to mention a great bloody mary and tater tot Tuesday. What’s not to love? I think we went there a lot in 2010. Hint to thyself, the place that might make our list for 2011 is Zeeks Pizza. Your kids can get LOUD in there and no one notices and it’s a laid back place with serviceable pizza and a few decent beers on tap.
For take-out I’d have to go with the Lunchbox Laboratory, which just closed to move down to South Lake Union. It wasn’t something we could do all the time but it was definitely fun to indulge on their awesome burgers and shakes once in a while. It’s a real bummer that they are moving.
Top Album (not necessarily made in 2010 but what I listened to most frequently): We listened to a lot more music this year, which makes this category a tougher one to narrow down. I’ll go with The XX though. I listened to their first album consistently all year. It was especially good for calming music before bedtime.
Top 3 Books I read in 2010: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson (sorry, lumping that together).
Best Coffee Shop: El Diablo on Queen Anne. This place has been my go-to for coffee and morning naps for Corbin since Jonah began preschool. I’m scared that my days of lingering here are numbered because Corbin is on the move now. He doesn’t seem to like letting his mama sit sipping coffee while he hangs out. They have great mochas made with Mexican chocolate, one of the coffee dudes there is hilarious and a true foam artist and the atmosphere is totally comfy and quirky.
Favorite Movie: We still aren’t doing great on seeing movies, something we are going to change this year. That being said, I did get the chance to see the new Harry Potter (Deathly Hallows 1) and I thought it was really well done. I guess with that adaptation they had little opportunity to really Disney-wash it out since the book really contains no happy-go-lucky spirit but I thought the color palette was good and spot on for the mood of the story at this point.
Best thing about 2010: Obviously, the arrival of my baby boy, the baby bear, the boy who doesn’t sleep, the boy who is going to cause me a million little heart attacks in 2011.