Well, there goes that resolution

One thing on my long list of new year’s resolutions was to blog more. As we can all see, that didn’t happen. In fact, I sort of regressed into the unblogosphere (better known as real life) without putting pen to paper anywhere, even my journal.

Well, that stops now!

In an effort to catch all -13 of my readers up, here are some new and exciting things I’m doing/have happened/in my perspective on things:

-I joined a popular weight loss program that had ads on TV every 5.6 seconds and rhymes with Bait Botchers. So far, I’ve lost 7lbs and I’m supremely happy with the way it’s going. I’m addicted to the app I downloaded onto my phone and am constantly searching foods and recipes. It’s not painful and that is what I think the key to success will be.

-I’m trying to live life without any regrets and I’ve realised I regret not telling people what I think more. I’m a pretty outgoing person but there are times in non-Boy-related disagreements, I try to be too PC or agreeable. In one situation, I thought that would save it from spiralling out of control. It didn’t. I have now realised that it more has to do with the person you’re dealing with and how they can take honesty or situations. Life’s too short, so if someone else can’t handle you, your opinions or how you handle things (if you’re a normal functioning member of society, I mean. I’m not talking about criminals or the clinically insane), well, eff ‘em. That way you can keep the good in your inner circle and the negative far, far away.

-I’m trying to say yes more to social situations. I focused on some of the wrong people over the past couple of years and pulled away from others, so in an effort to regain connections with those I can relate with more and are good people, I’m trying to get out there as much as possible. It’s like dating but with friendships. And it’s been great. I had been ignoring way too many good people for it to be legal.

-Along with eating better, I’ve also vowed to shop less. That one is harder. I try to stay away from websites as well as shops. So far so good but this long-weekend was filled with aimlessly clicking emails with deals. No purchases yet. But it’s so hard! I found two cute sweaters at Gap, a nice dress at Old Navy and three pairs of discounted boots at Aldo. There was more but I’m limiting what I’m admitting to because well, it’s really unhealthy how much time I spent window shopping on my computer.

That’s a good run-down of some stuff. Let’s hope my resolution will keep in this month. You see, that’s why I make a long list of them – you’re more likely to have at least one of them stick.

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....

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!

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.

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.

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. :)

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.