10 on Thurs.day* - Learning

*This is supposed to be 10 on Tues.day as explained by my Aunt Jan here.
I'll do better getting it up on Tuesday from this point on.
All you out there, feel free to join in too!!
Next week's is going to be especially fun.

10 Things I'd Like to Learn How to Do...

1. How to identify Vivaldi's pieces by sound.
   Remember the awesome dinner concerts in Salzburg CZ & parents?
   
2. How to figure out the day of the week for any date, past, present or future.
   
3. How to make Kettle Corn.
   (Thanks Liz for the tips! Sarah/Brendo where's that YouTube video?)
4. How to get better at writing thank you notes.
5. How to make my hair look good on the non-wash days.
   5b. Furthermore, how to make my hair hold a curl.
6. How to make crepes as delicious as Zack's Tahitian friend Amira.
   (Family, remember those at beach week? Is canned butter the key?)
7. How to pick the right baking sheet.
   What is the precise impact a cookie sheet will have on the cookies baked? Which is best? Airbake? Silicone? Baking sheets with rimmed edges? Gold plated?
8. How to ballroom dance correctly.
   Maybe this will be another thing I add to my "retirement activities" list. Have you see the movie Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dance & Charm School? Based in Pasadena actually. Love it.
   
9. How to make my light switches work.
   There are two. I've tested every single plug in the room as well as the overhead chandelier to see if the switches actually control anything. They do not. They are purely decoration at this point. Ridic.
10. How to correctly decipher matters of the heart.

I would like to add a couple more because when I originally made my list I thought the prompt was "10 Things You'd Like to Learn" so the items I listed didn't quite fit the "how-to" model, but are still relevant to me.

More Things I Would Like to Learn...

1. Revolutionary War history.
   I've read John Adams and 1776 but I wish I really understood the whole timeline better.
   
2. Succession of French kings.
   I've learned it once but can never remember. Watching The Other Boleyn Girl, and reading the other books in the series, make me wish I had it down better in my head.
   
3. How airline pricing models work.
   Tickets range so drastically, how do they figure?
   
4. Where to find the best Mexican food in DC.
   Someone please help me...
   
5. Why In n Out burgers are so good.
   Scott remember that recipe you found? Meat, lettuce, tomato, sauce, bun. Hah
6. How, specifically, my life would be better without cookies.
7. Whether my social security card was sold to an illegal immigrant last year when stolen.
   Which reminds me I need to tell you my stories from the VITA lab this year.. All sorts of people using all sorts of Social Security numbers that are not theirs. Makes me so frustrated!!!
   
8. Why the water in Arlington smells so terribly of chlorine and what can be done to fix it.

10 on Thurs.day* - Where to Go

*This is supposed to be 10 on Tues.day as explained by my Aunt Jan here. I'll do better getting it up on Tuesday from this point on.

10 Places I Would Take Someone Visiting Arlington.*

*Great care was taken to leave all food establishments out... That could be a whole list of its own.

1. Picnic at Gravelly point - This is a park along the Potomac and the Mt Vernon Trail near the Reagan National Airport. You can sprawl out on the grass and watch the huge underbelly of a plane as it takes off right over you. Seriously awesome.
2. Capital building - It's huge and beautiful and the new visitor's center is worth seeing.
   
3. CNN - Special shout out to Jill Chappell, guest booker extraordinaire!
   
4. My apartment. I really love it. Here's a sneak peak...
   
   
   I love the darker blue in the kitchen. And yeah, sorry, this picture has less of the apartment and more of the dress I've been meaning to show Annee for some time now.. I do love the blue striped floor mat. And I need to remember to take that silly floor lamp back upstairs to Jill.
   
   
   
5. Mt Vernon. The grounds are beautiful. The old house is absolutely inspiring.
   
6. Ford Theatre. It's so neat to be exactly where Lincoln's assassination went down. That may sound morbid, but once you're there you'll know what I mean.
   
7. The White House. It's not nearly as big as it would be if built today. Which makes me appreciate our country's history and tradition even more.
   
   
8. Lincoln Memorial. Given.
9. King Street in Old Town Alexandria. Particularly the end near the river. Lovely evening stroll.
10. Georgetown wandering. The campus and the commercial part.
    

Honorable mention goes to Lucketts Antique Store out past Leesburg, VA, The Bureau of Printing and Engraving, as well as The Spy Museum.