25 Things I Learned How to Do in 2010

In my ongoing effort to impress you with my skills, I picked up a few new ones last year. I now know how to:

1. Find my way around Austin
2. Use an espresso machine
3. Drive a stick shift (almost… I need to practice a bit more)
4. Prepare Texas queso
5. Identify three new wines based on their smell, taste, and appearance (vermentino, picpoul blank, tannat)
6. Fold an origami tree ornament
7. Properly use the phrase "y'all" (including the plural and possessive forms)
8. Cook with bison
9. Put together an event
10. Ferment my own kombucha
11. Make a shower curtain out of deflated birthday balloons
12. Register a new LLC
13. Play the bass (ditto the stick shift)
14. Make my own gourmet soap
15. Texas Two Step to Motown music
16. Polish silver
17. Use Quickbooks
18. Grow outdoor plants indoors
19. Bake gluten-free muffins
20. Make a cake stand out of mismatched plates and tea cups
21. Turn a dowdy skirt into a few dowdy snoods
22. Meditate
23. Fit backline onto a tiny stage
24. Say the word "sin" in French
25. Ask for help