Tuesday 27 December 2011

One eye open

The theme of the past couple of blog posts has been me lying down. Well, it's *really* been the holidays but they start off with me being sleepy, lazy or full. This one is no different.

My face is smushed into my pillow, one of my eyes covered by fluffy-goodness. I actually set an alarm today since I'm meeting someone for lunch. Alarms over the holidays are unneeded. Especially when they're this early to allow for me to be a sloth.

There's a storm a brewing tonight. Luckily, I made no plans so I may just stay in with my mom and mull wine. Before that, I'd really like to get some boxing week shopping in.

Cross your fingers for me that I get a deal! :) Now to get up so I can use both eyes....

Sunday 25 December 2011

Food coma

I think this year has topped all recent Christmases in the amount of food put in my belly. Which means I've found some way to be horizontal since guests left my mom's place at 9ish.

When I was younger it was worse, since sometimes we would have so many people over we would have to make it buffet-style so everyone would fit. It was a ridiculous amount of tasty treats and everything was so good you just couldn't say no. And there were multiple desserts. Not two or three - we're talking seven. And it would mostly be gone by the end of it.

Now that holidays are less zoo-like, food has been scaled back and I've found a way to stay upright. Not this time. Nope. Wine and turkey means yum-tastic sleepiness. Cheesecake means I need to be rolled everywhere.

So once everyone left, this was my view (below) and I stayed that way until I got upstairs to my old bedroom. Need to sleep this off.

And no doubt breakfast will be leftovers. Ah, the magical holiday season! Merry Christmas!

Sunday 18 December 2011

Merriment = Love and exhaustion

I has been on a pretty good run on this thing until the ultimate time-sucker came into play: Christmas. Don't, get me wrong I LOVE (it needed to be capitalized) the holiday to the point where I'm a Christmas nerd. The carols, the decorations, the good will towards men and the general festiveness of it all turns me into a Christmas Nerd, which is amazing.

But throw in everything I have to do along with it means I'm updating this page from my bed.

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Ok, so I had to stoping updating this post from bed (hence the "...") because I realised I had to meet someone to give her a gift and would be late. So let's continue.

Great news! I got all my Christmas shopping done! Last gift done - woot! I'm now celebrating by watching On Demand TV shows and teared up a bit at an episode of Parks and Recreation from a few weeks ago. Good times!

So to end off this hodge-podge of a post, Christmas festiveness via Instagram.

Sunday 20 November 2011

Can't sleep, clowns'll eat me

While the reason why I'm lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, blinking isn't an extremely scary clown bed like Bart Simpson, I feel his pain. I have nothing to do tomorrow that's urgent so it's not like I have to be up at a specific hour, but I would have liked to have a good night's sleep.

The Boy is out of town visiting his family so I have the nice, big bed to myself. And even though I miss the warmth of a man next to me, I Love (yes, capital L) starfishing. You know, when you're in bed and just spread your arms and legs out to the point where you look like a starfish. It's so amazing and freeing.

And it's really frustrating that I can't enjoy it.

The reason I'm not in the wonderful land of sleep? I checked my work phone before going to bed and realized I have to tie up some loose ends tomorrow (today, really but it still feels like Saturday) for a things happening on Monday and while it won't take much time on my end, I wanted a dessert utopia of a weekend devoid of work.

I also have a few things stressing me out, but they are things I can't change - for the time being anyways - so I am trying my darndest to just stop thinking about them. Easier said than done for an expert, world class worrier such as myself but I'm going to try and see where that strategy will take me.

For now, I'm wide awake and will probably just watch some TV until I can get sleepy again. And I hope that won't be at nine o'clock at night.

UPDATE: I just bought a pair of boots online. Yeah. I need to sleep before I max out my credit card.

Friday 11 November 2011

What if....

I've always wondered what my life would be like if I had chosen a different career path. Or even the same career path but a different specialization (so I guess a parallel trail).

There are just so many questions: Would I like it as much? Would I be farther along? Would I make more money? Have less debt? Would I have similar friends? More of them? Less? Would I still be in my home town? Paris?  Be a home-owner? Have a dog?  Have an iguana? Be married? Completely against relationships?

There are more but I figured I'd limit it to 14. (I care about the people). It's the stuff I think about when I'm having a jogging pants and sushi Friday night after a long and busy week.

I really shouldn't complain about where I am right now, but this seems to be the year of reflection for me. I guess I've taken to evaluating my life bit by bit and figuring out where to tweak it. Mostly because I've realised one really important thing this year: life is too short to not have stuff in it that you really want.

Like sushi and jogging pants on a Friday night. :)

Monday 7 November 2011

Daylight saving what now?

That extra hour of sleep is amazing. Or at least the thought of it is. This weekend, not so much.

After going out with the Boy to celebrate his oldness, he went to sleep and I plopped myself on the couch thinking I'll catch an episode of Storage Wars (which I'm mildly obsessed with now) and head to bed. Not so much. After an hour of konking out on the couch, I dragged myself to bed but just couldn't sleep.

I not only began thinking about what I needed to do the next day but I started to reflect on my entire year - ups and downs and everything. That is not the nice, relaxing beach that I like to picture myself on as I settle into bed.

So despite a really fun weekend spent with friends, the Boy and myself (me time matters, too!), I was ZONKED come Sunday. So tired that I went to bed at nine last night! Now, um, not so much.

My body really needs to get on the sleeping regularly boat because if not, I'll be trying to find Storage Wars marathon to get lost in.

Saturday 5 November 2011

Testing 1, 2, 3

This is post to test the wonderful Blogger app. I'm hoping this will work! C'mon technology, do your thing!

Hope you all are enjoying the weekend!

Cheers!

Saturday 29 October 2011

Salteens, wet hair and a dirty stove

If I could impart any piece of advice to anyone, it wouldn't be about money or career or even cookies (although some are far superior than others). Nope, if I could say just one thing it would be this:

Don't wait a month to clean your stove-top.

I'm now waiting for some sort of spray scrubbing thing to do it's thing so I don't have to use a sponge for another 20 minutes. This is just part of what has been a glamorous Saturday so far.

I've been sitting with semi-wet hair because I was too lazy to blow-dry the whole thing, so I can ultimately use my hair straightener. I also gave myself a (much-needed) pedicure. Let's not forget eating cheese and crackers. Hold on to your hats kids the day may very well continue like this! Woot!

Actually, I have to perform a covert birthday-related operation later, since the Boy's big day is in exactly a week and I have yet to get him anything. Go me! I just don't want to be running around everywhere trying to find him things after work. I have an idea, but given we've given each other budgets this year it may be hard. If only the gift Gods could give me an idea that is both personal and under $50!

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Oh, well I guess since they haven't, I'm on my own!

Now, back to the stove.

Wednesday 26 October 2011

It's beginning to feel a lot like winter

Tonight is one of those nights where all you want to do is slap on some jogging pants, drink some hot chocolate and curl up on the couch. It's cold, wet and did I mention cold? The crisp chill of winter is in the air and I'm just not ready for it.

After tying up some loose ends for work, I trekked out in the ick weather to meet a friend for coffee. We had a great chat, but I couldn't help by think how this year went by so fast! Most of the people I know say the year has zipped right by and but it doesn't hit you until it hits you. Alright, that sounds a little nutso but it makes sense in my head. Logically, I know that it's almost November but it's as though the calendar just slapped me in the face.

Plus side: Christmas is coming! I'm almost unhealthily obsessed with the holiday. The lights, music and just warmth of the season just puts me in an uber-positive mood. The Boy even bought me my first Christmas ornament of the season. (Feel free to judge!)


I love him! He's so cute and makes me giggle.

Anyways, I hope that we get a third-wind of summer or at least an extension of fall-proper until mid-December. I refuse to bust out the winter jacket until then!

Sunday 23 October 2011

A little perspectlive from the 90s

One time in high school, after a friend got mad at me because her bestie asked me to be her lab partner instead of her, I was feeling a little down. We had a motivational speaker come to our school a few days later and it really made me feel better, along with everyone else who was required to see him in third period. So much so, that we all stuck around after his speech to thank him. Afterwards, a "friend" I confided in about the lab partner issue told me if I acted as fun and giggly as I did after that motivational speech, I would have no problems finding new friends or keeping old ones. In hindsight, that person wasn't really my friend and turned out to be mad at me because I wasn't HER lab partner (gotta love high school, right?) but it got me down again.

Fast-forward to now, way too many years removed from high school for things like this to matter. I was also recently given tips on how to make friends. Obviously, I now know that true friends don't do that. I also know that life is too short to even care about what other people think. I'm usually good about letting things roll off my back but sometimes it's just a little harder.

It's funny though, I randomly thought about this incident from back in the day, which made be think about the recent situation, not the other way around. I guess that shows that I didn't care as much as I thought I did. Definitely a good thing.

It's also awesome that this silliness has made me realize something in my old age (oh, yes, I'm getting there folks): It truly is about the quality of friends, not the quantity. And in an odd and twisted way, actually realizing it (not just thinking about it) kinda makes me want to shout out "THANK YOU!" to all that made me believe it this year - either through being amazing friends or, um, "other".

This isn't just a silver lining, folks, it's a gold pair of shoes!

Saturday 22 October 2011

A fresh start

I've had a lot of bad luck with blogs in the past. A case of near-stalking, a misunderstanding, meeting a sociopath and well, let's just say there have been enough situations to fill the pages of a novel one day. In hindsight, these will be either great stories or things I'll forget because either the players or situations were so insignificant but right now, even a few years removed, I continue to shake my head.

So I'm starting fresh here! This will be a place to talk about what I want without any of the past silliness (fingers crossed!). Plus it coincides with my new outlook on life - more positive! It's something I should have adopted a long time ago! I've always tried to be happy-go-lucky but I would let the bad stuff drag me down, internally anyways. 

Being thirty-ish is as good a time as any to make this kind of change! And heck, why not do little writing along the way! Let the good times roll....