New Year

Happy Birthday to me (and several other friends & family members)! A New Year started for me last Saturday. Although I was not ready to turn 36, I did have a great day and really fun party at Herkimer & moto-i with about 30 of my closest friends. Since I have been too busy doing new things, I still haven't blogged about New to Most moto-i which I've declared my favorite bar and been to 3 times since it recently opened. I love the location, atmosphere, drinks. The food could and hopefully will improve over time. How cool that sake is being made at Lake & Lyndale.

I think I'll leave the New Year resolutions for January 1st and only resolve right now to keep up the New to Me project. Over the past month of not blogging, I've at least kept a list of New that I'll post here. Every time I'm trying to pick a place to go, it is difficult to decide if I want to take the opportunity to add to my New project and risk a bad experience or choose somewhere that I know I like. Questioning my choices is exactly the point of the project of course, so I'm going to keep with it in this New Year.

1. AFH MN's first design/build installation: Twin Cities Homeless Locker Project

2. Cannot believe I've never been here but no need to go back: Country Bar

3. Worth checking out: India at MIA

4. Kinda crowded: The Mad Ripple at Grumpy's NE

5. Kinda creepy Halloween open studio night at Casket Arts

6. The excellent Jolie Holland at Cedar

7. Surprisingly good exhibition: Tetsumi Kudo at Walker

8. Yum! New dining hall at Grinnell

9. Grateful to Mary for telling me about Pieta Brown at M-Shop

10. Good thing I was there to carry a few trophies: LHYC banquet

11. Election celebration and Lucinda Williams at 1st Ave

12. Good happy hour if a bit too bright: Pagoda

13. Band was really good, smoke was too much: XYZ Affair 

14. MN Opera: The Abduction from the Seraglio

15. Go see the whittled ladder at MAEP at MIA

16. So dark: 007

17. So cold: Raku at Hemingway's studio

18. Will be back again to Los Andes restaurant

19. Worth the free admission (really, very funny): Brave New Workshop

20. Blake school play: Much Ado About Nothing