Fish Sticks and Green Jello

Happy New Year!

How did I celebrate this one? Talked on the phone with my friend at midnight. Tried out my Babyliss hot roller set earlier in the evening. Took a fat nap and ate a turkey burger.

Thrill a minute! :)

At least it was a safe, healthy and alcohol free NYE for me. First one in YEARS.

Labels: holidays

So I said I would keep up on my blogging and I mean it! I thought I'd put an update here for everyone wondering if I'd dropped off again. Tonight is the company Xmas party which I can't go to. Why, because I've been out sick all week from work. I knew I would be out sick this week since I had scheduled to have something done and it required me to be home to recover. It's been a sore, painful week but I'm recovering. Hopefully Monday I won't be hobbling around too much at work. I have to fly out to Virginia on Wednesday as well so flying like this should be delightful. I should be considerably better by then I hope. I'll still be sore though, that's how planes are.

In preparation for the plane flight I picked up a medium sized expandable pillow from REI along with a lightweight travel blanket in 'tree frog' green and a black wheeled tote bag. I can't be carrying things across an airport so rolling whatever I need to take with me on the plane around will be a huge help.

I missed another Xmas party on Friday as well so I've only made it to one this year which was Shawn and Libby's. I'll be in Virginia for 9 days visting my family and continuing to use the time to recover and lay low. New Year's Eve will be low key for me this year for health reasons and the New Year will hopefully be a good one.

So in terms of an update... not to be too vague but the thing I mentioned in my last big blog post that I was working on for the last month fell through. Really disappointing to say the least and a huge time suck. I hope that the work I did on that wasn't all in vain. I felt like I put a lot into it and I hope that it somehow pays off for me in the future. I'm still depressed about it to say the least but it's for the best I'm sure. The physical thing I posted about... that's going on right now and I'm getting better, yay! Things at work have been hectic while I've been gone I heard and I feel badly that I'm not there working on things but I will be next week for part of it at least. The holidays are a tough time. The year is coming to an end and I feel a bit blue and worried about life and the future right now. I hope that this next year is better than the last. I say this every year and sometimes it is better but in different ways. Maybe I'm hoping that something really spectacular will happen. Who knows. I do plan on working hard, taking classes, working out and other things so we'll see how that all goes for me.

I was invited to do New Orleans in February again with the gang and Jeremy and I had said we'd go. I'm starting to think I may not though for financial reasons. It wouldn't require me missing any work really but I just don't feel like putting out that kind of money right now and I don't know if I'm up to doing New Orleans, eating, drinking and spending money so soon after xmas. Probably not. Maybe next trip. I used to dream about going to New Orleans all the time. Two trips later and I'm kind of blah on the whole thing. I'm just not in that frame of mind I guess.

Okay back to laying on the couch or propped up on pillows in bed reading a book.

Movies I watched this week while out sick:
* King Kong (the new one): Nicely done but just too long, I found myself skipping ahead in parts. Plus I hate it when King Kong dies and for some reason Naomi Watts annoyed me in this.
* Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest: Nice special effects, amusing and entertaining for dvd fare but it seemed long as well (maybe it was just me being sick this week who knows) and of course it just leads right into the third movie with no resolution, yay marketing.
* Poseidon: The original was way better. This was pretty lightweight Hollywood action fare. It was pretty cheesy in terms of realism and they changed the ending. All in all it wasn't as stressful or hectic as the first one at all. Blah.
* Freedomland: This was pretty lame too. It was on tv so I just tuned in. It was totally obvious how the story was going to pan out and I'm not sure I cared really.
* Syriana: I started watching this late but it was really good. It was also long and really complex. At times I wasn't exactly sure what was happening so I'd have to backtrack and re-watch some scenes but it was a good film. George Clooney was really good in it. The torture scenes were pretty scary.

Here's a photo of Jeremy and I from Shawn and Libby's xmas party.

Labels: friends, holidays, movies, travel

This year I spent T-Day over at Jason, Kari and Sabine's place. They're all living up in Sabine's flat off of Clement. There were a ton of folks there and as usual Kari made the most awesome Turkey ever. We also had asparagus, mashed potatoes, garlic mashed potatoes, fried sweet potates, rolls, ham, pumpkin cheesecake, pie, jello, tofurkey, buttered/brown sugared baby carrots, stuffing and more? I can't recall. It was great though.

Here are a couple of pics from the ocassion. This was just a group of us, not counting the 10 (or so) other people in the front room. You can see tons more of the same photos in my flickr album too.


Back Row: Jeremy, Me, Kari, Kaiser (jason and kari's dog), Nate
Front Row: Sabine



Back Row: Toby (my dog), Me, Jeremy, Kari, Jason, Kaiser (jason and kari's dog)
Front Row: Chloe (jason and kari's dog)

Labels: friends, holidays