I'd trade in my plot of land for a plane to anywhere.

Happy New Year! I owe an update, I know. I've just been having so much fun!

I still have to post a couple of more answers to your questions, a recap of my 52 Books in 2009 project, and MORE. Yes, there's more. I won't do a recap besides the books, because I'm pretty sure everyone knows how great the year 2009 was for this girl. Also, I've never been one for resolutions; I'm just ready to dive right into whatever 2010 has in store for me! And more importantly, what I have in store for it.

For now I wanted to check in and say that the past four days have been unbelievably fun, what with Curbside-r and lovely bestie Christy in town!! She's been visiting from Austin, Texas and it's so fun to have her back for a few days! We've been carousing with the other good people here in New York (including other superfun visitors like Jesse's friend Colin and Sean's friend Jess!), and rang in the new year with board games and Rock Band. I also decided to forgo any sequins or glitter and wear the loudest pants I owned in the 2000s:

(photo courtesy of the husband, watching my surely spectacular performance on Rock Band vox)

As you can see, bright, tight pants are probably a thing that I should keep to my past. I would share more pictures, but there was no time for photos with all the fun going on.

It's been unbelievably cold in New York, but that hasn't prevented us from going out to a couple of bowling alleys, shopping, and getting manicures (I'm sporting a dark gray, I love it). We've also spent plenty of time indoors with (you guessed it!) Rock Band, but also watching movies like I Love You Man, 500 Days of Summer (Christy obvs needed a recap on my Top Films of 2009) and two films I knew she had to see, given her love of traveling and mysterious strangers - Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. And then she gave me a tour of YouTube's finest Taylor Kitsch interviews. Tonight is her last night and I'm going to be ultra-bummed to say bye. Luckily, a trip to Austin seems to be in the cards this year...

Also, I'd just like to say that Jesse and I were the final two teams in our Fantasy Football League and went head to head this past weekend in the "Superbowl." And Jesse won. I came in second, which I am A-OK with mainly because my main fb-squeeze Chris Johnson broke 2,000 rushing yards this weekend and then had a (I quote) "CJ2K" party to celebrate. How I wish I could have been there! However, I was most likely drumming my wrists out to "Sunday Morning."

Must be what's best for me.

So much to discuss.

FIRST: TODAY DRAGONETTE'S ALBUM GALORE IS RELEASED DIGITALLY! Remember how I told you how awesome Martina is as a frontwoman? How rockin' their live shows are? How I may or may not dance around to this album every morning and every night in front of my mirror???

From I Surrender's MySpace:

The wait is now over, and the day is finally here GALORE is available for download in the U.S.! Head on over to iTunes, Amazon, etc. to get your copy today!

The release date for the physical copy of GALORE (October 28th) is so close already, you can almost touch it. If you prefer a physical copy of the album, we have a fun pre-order up at the I Surrender merch store that comes with a free Dragonette t-shirt.

So buy it now, of course!

SECOND! WE ADOPTED KITTEHS! They are arriving tonight at 7PM. On Saturday, Jesse, Erica and I got in touch with Brooklyn's Empty Cages Collective and applied for two kittens. The representative was extremely nice, and really just wanted to know that we were going to give the kittens a good home - which, of course, we are! He seemed much more interested in this issue than judging us (the last rep did not like Jesse's tattoos enough to look him in the face when she spoke). Today we found out that we got approved and I'm SO EXCITED! (Obvs, stay tuned for pictures later!)

THIRD! And most exciting - CHRISTY IS IN TOWN TONIGHT! As you may remember, my bestie (& Curbside member) Christy left us desolate here in Manhattan a few months ago when she moved to Austin, Texas...nary a glance back in our sadness. JK. Christy is here and I'm meeting up with her straight after work! I was going to go to tonight's always-amazing Trainwreck (free booze, awesome jams - what's not to like??), but since the glorious roommate Erica actually has to DJ that (she's way cooler than me) and Jesse has to fly down to Florida tonight to play a Motion City Soundtrack show with Lupe Fiasco (okay, Fianz is way cooler than me, too), I am kitten lady for the animals' first evening at home. Which makes sense, given my ever-accumulating amounts of non-coolness. But at least I get to catch up with Christy before her and the girls hit up the party - if you're in New York, you'll wanna be there tonight!

And finally, I finished Twilight last night. Reactions to come soon. And kitteh pictures.