It's up to me now. I'm Mr. Manager.

Here are my eleven goals/joke goals for 2011, not including getting a job, which is a very important joke goal (I'm still not sure if my mom reads my blog). Also, this blog is going to be at elisabethwrites.blogspot.com for now. My old domain name is expiring and I'm not planning on renewing it. I might even export the thing back to Wordpress if it ever starts looking easy to use.

1. Read more about the 11th president of the US, James K. Polk and learn anything about the 11th Vice President George Mifflin Dallas. Most of the latter will be watching a TV show about a paper company founded by a distant relative, Dallas.
2. Meet Alton Brown or Tony Blair who are both cute and would both be excellent at selling grape juice. I watched The Deal, The Queen and The Special Relationship. Michael Sheen playing Tony Blair while looking like Liz Lemon's ex-fiancé Wesley Snipes is about as close as I'm going to get to Tony Blair.
3. Play a game of mini golf at Peter Pan Mini Golf in Austin. 
4. I'm going to Washington D.C. in July. My goals for that trip: visit Colonial Williamsburg (and be disappointed and angry), visit the NMNH or NMAH and  take a tour of the White House and meet President Obama's dog.Revision needed. Instead of D.C. I will be going to visit a city outside of the US. More on that later.
5. Break in new hiking boots by revisiting the McKinney Falls State Park and trying to stop calling it the McKinley Falls State Park. And to stop asking the rangers what William McKinley had to do with Texas. Half done. I will never stop asking what William McKinley has to do with Texas.
6. Win a game of Scrabble or Scramble on Facebook.
7. Visit the LBJ ranch and Texas White House. Done. More on this later. I guess one of my goals should be to blog more.
8. In December I watched Tron Legacy and I loved it. My favorite parts were the dialogue and Michael Sheen's character.  In 2011 I will finally watch the original Tron. A terrible movie, but man how handsome was Jeff Bridges? How handsome is Jeff Bridges?
9. Revisit the (Good) Bush Library before August so I can look at dresses worn by former FLOTUS and former White House Press Secretary Allison Janney. Ditto what I said for number 7.
10. Commit to memory something eloquent and impressive to recite at fancy parties like the Gettysburg address or an episode of Arrested Development.
11. Get invited to any fancy parties.

Books read in 2011

1. Medium Raw: a Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain
2. Fortune and Glory - Brian Bendis
3. Americana and other poems - John Updike
4. Life with Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
5. Spoken from the Heart - Laura Bush
6. Outliers: the Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
7. Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff
8. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
9. Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
11. Decision Points - George W. Bush
12. Travels with Charley in Search of America - John Steinbeck
13. Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal - Lance Armstrong
14. The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
15. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
16. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
17. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
18. The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
19. Kapitoil - Teddy Wayne
20. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella
21. Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure - Matthew Algeo
22. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness - Reinhard Kleist
23. Being Martha - Lloyd Allen
24. The Devil Wears Prada - Laura Weisberger
25. How Did You Get this Number? - Sloane Crosley
26. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - Randy Frost
27. Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner
28. I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
29. The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
30. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
31. Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
32. My Fair Lazy - Jen Lancaster 
33. Julie and Julia - Julie Powell 
34. Nanny Returns - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 
35. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell 
36. Kennedy Weddings: a Family Album - Jay Mulvaney 
37. Cleaving - Julie Powell 
38. The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
39. Me Talk Pretty Some Day - David Sedaris 
40. Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris 
41. When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris 
42. A Christmas Story - Jean Sheperd
43. Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
44. The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
45. The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance - Elna Baker
46. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell
47. Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love and Language - Deborah Fallows
48. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nixon by Gerald Gardner
49. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
50. Bossypants - Tina Fey
51. Earth: The Book - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
52. Eat, Shop Austin - Kate Wellman
53. Love is a Mixtape - Rob Sheffield
54. This is a Book - Demetri Martin
55. The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History - Devereaux Cannon
56. What You Should Know About the American Flag - Earl Williams
57. I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley
58. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell