Tagged by Ivy

As many of you know, I usually don't do tags...because at this point I can barely find the time to upload my pictures, much less anything else. For those of you who don't already know, my husband works fulltime at a TV news station (by necessity - his insurance is what pays for Q's many surgeries) and is simultaneously studying for his MBA at DU's Daniels Business School. This means that he is pretty much a seven-day-a-week guy, and I am (at least for this first year) a seven-day-a-week mommy. Oh, and we don't use daycare, so that's 24/7, really.
But I'm making an exception to my "tag" rule today because I'm miserably laid up with cramps and can't do anything constructive. Daddy has taken the Q out shopping with friends this afternoon, and I am crumpled in a painful little knot in front of the computer screen (these are the only times I ever find myself regretting that we don't have TV). Besides which, Ivy asked so nicely...so here I go (and ONCE AGAIN my profound apologies to those whose tags I have not had time to complete in the past...really, I would do them all if I had the time!)

8 Favorite TV shows
(Disclaimer: We don’t have cable. We do, however, download and watch a few favorites once a month or so from the internet...)

- MadMen
- Dexter
- Battlestar Galactica
- House
- The Office
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

(That’s all I’ve got)

(Oh....wait, guilty admission: during my long and ugly bout with parasites, I developed an unhealthy attachment to GossipGirl. Eeesh.)

8 Things I look forward to:

- time in the studio
- our daughter learning to talk
- my mum’s visits
- my daily run with Q in the jogging stroller
- morning espresso
- M’s spaghetti nights
- Our first camping trip to the desert with Q
- Seeing our SIL, BIL and the kiddos over the holidays

8 things on my wish list

- a good, regular babysitter so I can start taking commissions again
- a new (used) car for my husband
- a better future for our nation
- snow on Christmas
- a less-cluttered studio (as if!)
- good health for our family
- smooth and easy surgeries for our daughter (this one should really be first on my list)
- a new lens for my camera (since I seem to have broken yet another one. Sigh. Those are the perils of carrying your camera in your diaper bag...with the juice, and always having a baby in one arm.)

8 Things I did yesterday

- made a hand-bound book for a friend's Christmas present
- suffered from ridiculously bad PMS
- felt so sick that I couldn’t go to the Christmas fair with my husband and daughter
- started (just barely!) on our Christmas cards (....maybe by NEXT Christmas!!)
- watched the heavy snow fall in the moonlight
- slogged through my overloaded photoshop and downloaded the last month’s photos onto CDs
- Sang Kimya Dawson's “You are my little panda bear” repeatedly to our daughter
- spoke to my mum, who just had a brilliantly successful gallery opening in Arizona

8 Favorite Restaurants
(disclaimer: my husband is a former chef, so we eat well every day of the year. Good restaurants, while we certainly enjoy them, are just icing on the cake.)

- Tae Bao in north Denver for the best hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese food in town (their lemongrass shrimp teeters at the very top of my favorite-food-in-the-world list)
- Sato in Vail for Sushi and Asian fusion (spicy garlic edamame = awesome!)
- Snooze in Denver (for fanciful breakfast fare and vintage-slash-hipster decor)
- Sushi Hai on Highlands Square
- Indulge in Denver (for real, straight-from-Normandy French cooking)
- Asian bakery at the Far East Center for Banh Mi sandwiches (if you have never had a banh mi sandwich...go find yourself one! It's pretty much the best flavor ever invented.)
- Brickyard Barbecue for burnt tips and ends
- Spicy Basil on Broadway for spicy basil shrimp or green curry