Best Thing To Say A Lot: Blammo

Best Place To Visit: California. I liked it so much I went twice this past year. Yeesh.

Best Pasta Shape: penne rigate (hollow AND they have ridges for extra sauciness)

Hottest Man: Joaquin Phoenix (dethrones Gabriel Byrne for the first time in years because a) look at him, and b) the way he says, “Liar.” during the preview for “Walk The Line”, which I did not see because I am a lazy, goodfornothing poser fan.))

Hottest Woman: Heidi Klum

Most Favorite Photo I Took: my feet in the ocean.

Best Blog: Oh, My Stars and Garters by Joolie. (After you go there, please come back and finish reading my post, okay?)

Best TV Show I’ve Watched In Years Previous: Tie: “America’s Next Top Model” and “Law and Order”

Best TV Show I Started Watching in ‘05: “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”

Most Vexing Grocery Store: Enchanted Forest Safeway, Ellicott City, MD

Most Frequently Patronized Grocery Store: Enchanted Forest Safeway, Ellicott City, MD

Most Laugh-Making Photo Ever: Tie: Jason vs. beets, and Larry Bear

Most Underrated Jelly Belly Flavor: pink grapefruit

Most Of One Of Yesterday’s Hours Was Spent Making This:

Most Amazing Thing I Said Yesterday: “Where the hell is my big sauté pan? Oh wait. It’s under James Blake*.”

* The name of our houseplant.

Most Fun Fact I’ve Read Today: The North American 9-banded armadillo tends to jump straight in the air when surprised.

Most Fun You Can Have With $8 At cafepress.com: a thong, designed by me. Make sure you look at the back view.

Most Recently Purchased Album: Bloc Party, “Silent Alarm” (per the advice of The Morning News Top Ten Albums of 2005 article by Andrew Womack. Andy, if you’re reading this, I’m not sure if I like it yet. Of the albums you listed, it sounded most like one I would learn to enjoy. I need to listen to it more. It is definitely not what I would normally pop into the CD player, which is a good thing, and it sounds like one of those albums that I would warm up to pretty quickly (for me) and really start to love, which is an even better thing.)

Most Unlike A Best-Of-2005 Best of 2005 list: this one.

Scandal That Most Quickly Lost Its Shimmer Of The Interesting: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. (Nice try, though.)

Most Irritating Fact About My Dreamself: she is a cocktease. Always, yes always, stops before anything really good happens. She kisses passionately for what seems like ages, then suddenly she has to go fishing with her dead grandfather or rearrange an entire grocery store based on color gradation. She has had two chances this week with two equally humpy gentlemen. Of my acquaintance, even. No need to be all shy and weird, Dream Kristin, I know those boys! And yet, each time she let me down. Dream Kristin should know that it has been a while for Awake Kristin, and that this whole blueballing thing has got to go. For both our sakes.

Song Of The Year (Even Though It Did Not Come Out This Year): “Deceptacon” dfa remix – Le Tigre

Best Reason To Get Out Of Bed In The Morning: bagels and cream cheese.

Sexiest Female Body Part: spine dimples

Sexiest Male Body Part: upper back/shoulders

Best Time To Send A Text Message: while outside on the balcony smoking a cigarette by yourself.

Worst Time To Send A Text Message: on the ramp from Rt. 29 onto Rt. 175, when you have to decelerate pretty fast and there’s a really small merge area with equal numbers of people trying to get onto and off of the highway. (*cough*)

Biggest Waste Of Time Character In “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971): Mike Teevee. Boooooooooo-ring.

Most fun holiday in 2005 (I’m glad I have to qualify that in what is supposed to be a best of 2005 list, ugh.): Father’s Day. Exploding confetti, Coronas, margaritas and guacamole. We have a winner.

Most underrated condiment: Worcestershire sauce. Contains anchovies and comes in fun paper wrapping and everything. Nice.

Highest Ranking Person, Place Or Thing On My “Please Get Out Of My Face” List: Tie: Howard Stern and jewelry commercials

Stupidest Thing That People Keep Talking About Therefore Making The Stupid Thing More Desirable Since Any Publicity Is Good Publicity: celebrity and demi-celebrity skinniness.

Most Consistently Hilarious Thing On the WWW That I Read This Year: Something Awful’s Fashion SWAT by Zach “Geist Editor” Parsons and Dr. Thorpe.

Most Huggable Not-So-Secret Online Crush of 2005: Tie: Todd Levin and Sarah “Update” Brown.

Most Revolting Food Combination Realized So Far This Year: Kraft Light Done Right Three Cheese Ranch, Soy Sauce, Swiss Miss French Vanilla Hot Cocoa Mix and Altoids. They’re all on my desk right now.

Most Simultaneously Appealing and Appalling Thing: Tie: hairless cats and Kip Winger.

I can’t promise I’ll be posting before the new year, but I’m not saying I absolutely won’t. Maybe some Flickr photos? Maybe. Keep your eye on the photo at the top left. If it’s not a Christmas tree, that means new pictures!

Shake your new year baby rattles for me.

Kristin T.