Spent the morning in bed fixing what I had so royally screwed up last night. Goal #21 is all that I’m missing. Anyone?

Putting my Slingbox Christmas present to use. Watching Sunday morning football on Sunday night. It’s like having a time machine.

Love locks placed at the gates of Piazzale Michelangelo. With the new year upon us, I figured I’d clean house and unlock a goal or two.

P.S. Best completion rate ever.

#6 Done. I’ve had two wrecks or fender benders in two years. This year?… Nothing.

#8. Had plenty of opportunities, but the pillow always wins.

#10-#14. I love excess. I will try to love it less this year.

#21. Don’t need it.

#24. As hard as it is to believe. We did it.

#25. Piss off.

#26. Nope.

#33. Keep missing this one.

#36. Done. I may not be writing scripts, but I write every day.

#41. My back hurts.

#44. Neglecting this one.

#50. Some great opportunities missed.

#51. Sad to have missed this one. Haven’t been North of San Fran in over ten years.

#52. Pathetic

#55. Nope. Will they make a run in the playoffs?

#56. Need to.

#58. Surprised to fail at this three years running.

#63. A simple pleasure not realized.

#64. Who Cares.

#68. Ski vacation will happen in 2013.

#70. Should’ve been easy

#82. I can’t give up craps to play such a boring game.

#84. The fact that Devin and Brittany are already entitled to everything takes away from the urgency.

#87. We so hoped for a clear night in Alaska, but never got one.

#88. Next year.

#97. Maybe a chili cook off in the South.

Where will we be five years from now? If not bankrupt, we’ll definitely be out of Burbank. With that said, we’ve identified five places (neighborhoods, schmeighborhoods) we’d like to move to.

#1. Florence. We’ve fallen in love. I can only hope I’m not tied to the US in five years as I pretty much demand I live abroad in this lifetime.

#2. Studio City. We loved the Valley. We’d love it even more if we could live in the hills close enough to the freeway.

#3. Silver Lake. Close to work. Plenty of restaurants and bars. In the hills.

#4. Nashville or Charleston. Work plus lifestyle.

#5 Anywhere else in Europe

Mother/Daughter wrestling on the Ponte Vecchio bridge.

If you didn’t know us, you’d think we were only mildly impressed, but Brit and I show our true joy with barely there smiles. We are on cloud nine.

I’m not sure how it happened, but I have challenged Sonia’s shoe collection in recent years. My buddy Matt would call me half a fruit, but it is what it is. The majority of my collection is made up of Gucci. So, it’s only fitting that I’d buy a pair in Firenze where the brand was founded in 1921. But it couldn’t be any shoe. Instead we visited the Gucci Museum where I chose a one of a kind, museum edition shoe.

Today we learned that hot chocolate in Italy is actually hot melted chocolate.

View from the Piazzale Michelangelo.

The Four Seasons in Florence is hands down the best hotel we have ever stayed at.

My favorite tie was one bought for me by my Aunt Ona that depicted Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Today we went to the Uffizi Museum in Florence where we viewed the original.

Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore

Basilica di Santa Croce

Galileo’s Tomb

Michelangelo’s Tomb

Finished up, A Bitter Brew, the rise and fall of Anheuser Busch.

Off to Florence.

17 and champagne at dinner. When in Rome.

The three of us enjoyed the tasting menu at Anico Arco on one of the seven hills overlooking Rome. Delicioso.

Santa Maria della Vittoria

Bridge over the Tiber River

The Capitol

The Pantheon

Piazza Navona

Trastevere

We visited the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain before the Jet Lag set it. We’ll hit the ground running in the morning.

Hawaii is the natural choice for our Christmas vacation, but #85 made me think outside of the box. Just being out here in the crisp air made me realize there is no “best time” to travel abroad.

Just passing through.

Sorry Hemingway, we’ll be back soon enough.

Being prepared is no less painful, so this goal will not return in 2013.

Brittany got an early Christmas present today when she was accepted by her top choice, the University of Seattle.

Brittany and her cousin having fun with their grandpa.

Vallartas is a grocery store that caters to the latin population in California. We love their selection of meats, so we like to shop here when we’re able to convince Sonia to cook dinner. The lines always move because no one’s basket is ever overflowing with food, which is why we chose a random Vallartas to spread some Christmas cheer. We wanted to anonymously pay for people’s groceries, but the manager didn’t know how to handle it and thought he may somehow get in trouble. So, instead we had to buy a handful of $100 gift cards and pass them out to random families. Even that took some convincing as we were met with skepticism. But in the end, the smiles came and Christmas dinner will taste a little better.

A good unconventional romantic comedy.

Brittany got her first early admission acceptance letter today from the University of San Francisco and she did it without the aid of soccer.

Brittany was named top 45 seniors to watch by the Los Angeles Daily News.

Office party for all of the sewers at Basically Me.

Meh.

Having two girls in the house is hard on my boy.

Finally left Vegas with more money than we came with. Close to even for the year.

Enjoyed dinner at three michelin star awardee Peter Gagnaire’s restaurant, Twist.

Last Vegas Weekend of the Year.

Nothing is official until signing day, but Brittany has decided to commit to the University of California, Riverside. Her High School soccer coach probably jumped the gun with the announcement on the website because things can change between now and February.

Aggressive may not be the right word, but the creation of our 401k is the third pillar in our retirement plan.

X-mas cards are on their way. Hopefully they’ll never be as awkward as these.

Sonia endured three years of torture for this moment.