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The boy and I are in the midst of our annual purge, which actually means that we are making more of a mess than anything, but things are getting organized and cleared out, which I love.  I took the BGF on a tour this evening of all that we had accomplished in the last two days.  The requisite ooo’s and ahh’s were had.  I feel better.  I also got my New Year’s Cards ordered, which should be here and addressed and out by next week.

Now, I need to get my butt in gear to get this semester off to the right start and get all the school stuff organized.  School is going to start before I know it.  Next Thursday in fact.  Doesn’t seem at all possible, particularly when I still have Christmas presents to get out to my family.  Handmade gifts will start much earlier this year, for sure.

But, before I forge on with all that “important” stuff, I took a few moments a few days ago and created our 2008 Year in Review playlist.  I explained a little of this concept here, but the basic run down is that every year I create one master playlist that encapsulates this last year for us musically.  This year, I thought that I would share it with everyone.

The list of songs are below, but you can get to the playlist on iTunes, the way we buy music, here.  This iMix isn’t the complete list because the way that iTunes allows those mixes to be made, but all the songs are below with their own individual link in case anyone is interested.

This year was actually a little light, mostly likely because of the writer’s strike, coming in at 58 songs.  And, they are listed here in the order that I added them to the list, so in no order in particular.  Happy Listening!

• New Soul | Yael Naim
• Falling In Love At a Coffee Shop | Landon Pigg
• Mahna, Mahna | Cake
• Strangers In the Night | Cake
• Polite Dance Song | The Bird And The Bee
• Sweeter Than This | Katie Herzig
• From My Heart to Yours | Laura Izibor
• Where I Stood | Missy Higgins
• Psycho | Puddle of Mudd
• Big Blow |  Alpha Rev
• I Found a Reason | Cat Power
• Tell Her This | Del Amitri
• Giving Up |  Ingrid Michaelson
• Sleep Through the Static |  Jack Johnson
• Details In the Fabric (feat. James Morrison) |  Jason Mraz
• In My Arms |  Jon Foreman
• Breathe In Breathe Out |  Mat Kearney
• Shake It | Metro Station
• Float On | Modest Mouse
• Ice Cream | Muscles
• Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games (aka: The Outback Song) | Of Montreal
• Buildings & Mountains | Republic Tigers
• La Breeze | Simian
• Don’t You Evah | Spoon
• Walkie Talkie Man |  Steriogram
• Shut Up and Let Me Go |  The Ting Tings
• Hideaway | The Weepies
• All Good Things |  The Weepies
• Just Blue | The Weepies
• Takes So Long | The Weepies
• All Good (Original) | Zeroleen
• Piano Song |  Meiko
• Calabria 2008 | Enur (feat. MIMS & Natasja)
• Bartender Song (aka Sittin’ at a Bar) | Rehab
• Modern Guilt |  Beck
• Modern Nature | Sondre Lerche
• How Lucky We Are | Meiko
• Boys With Girlfriends | Meiko
• Disturbia | Rihanna
• You’re a Wolf | Sea Wolf
• Be OK | Ingrid Michaelson
• American Boy |  Studio All-Stars
• And Then You | Greg Laswell
• Hurt |  Johnny Cash
• Bonfire Blondes | Beck
• Herculean The Good, The Bad & The Queen
• Strange & Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell On You) |  Aqualung
• Ha Ha | Emiliana Torrini
• Youthless | Beck
• The Longer I Run | Peter Bradley Adams
• Altogether Now | Patrick & Eugene
• You and I | Ingrid Michaelson
• Mr. Hurricane | Beast
• It’s a New Day | will.i.am
• Art | Tanya Davis
• Ordinary Day | Emilie Mover
• Walcott | Vampire Weekend
• Days Go On | Greg Laswell