happy shopping

So despite my plan to lay about all day before my New Years festivities begin, I ended up going to the mall with a girlfriend this afternoon.

Lately I’ve been feeling stressed out about a lot of things, but I find when I am out at the mall, I don’t really have to buy anything, just the fact that I am there (and knowing that I can if I wanted to), I feel loads better. Although then there is the temptation to buy clothes and other such fun things. Much temptation.

I did try my hardest to resist – one of my resolutions for the new year I think should be to put away more money each month instead of spending it on frivolous things - but I ended up buying clothes anyway. Gotta love those End of Year sales.

And I was able to pick up the $50 that I won off my Christmas lottery ticket so I suppose it kind of cancels out the new shirts that I bought.

Well, I’d better be off to start cleaning up now. Again, have a happy New Years!

my stress-free new years

Today is the last day of the new year and my plan is to veg out and do absolutely nothing until my friends come over tonight. I’ve done enough “work” this past week that I can almost feel the stress I do during the work week - baking cookies for about a billion people, preparing for the many, many, courses of Christmas dinner (not to mention dessert), going out, making apperances at family functions, and the big Christmas dinner itself. And then were the many trips to the gym, in the days to follow. Hard work, these holidays.

I’m almost looking forward to going back to work. Wait no, no I’m not. Now I’m ready for a real holiday. Like maybe a cruise or trip down to Dominican or something. Or like sitting on my couch all day doing absolutely nothing. I’d better make the most of it!

At any rate, have a happy, stress-free New Years all!

merry christmas!

Hope that everyone is having a safe, relaxing day filled with fun and family. And food. Lots and lots of food. We had a fantastic breakfast this morning; Mom has made it a tradition for the past few years to make what she calls ’breakfast strudels’. It’s scrambled egg, bacon (turkey bacon for our family though), and I think some green onion and other little tidbits for flavour wrapped up inside a phyllo pastry. Deelish. 

I also helped her put together what we had hoped would be a new Christmas breakfast tradition, Champagne and orange juice parfaits. Next time I think we will have to up the fruit and juice to alcohol ratio – they were a little too strong for most. We were all spooning away at our glasses for most of the morning while we opened gifts and watched the Little Brother rip open his many toys and videogames.

Now I’m starting to get hungry again… I know I am definitely looking forward to dinner (and dessert – need to eat up the rest of those cookies, and I made a carrot cake with tons of icing, yum) tonight! Merry Christmas!

it’s official

Winter is here in O-Town!

For some time now I have not been able to go to work without turning on the heat in my car, and the cute little blazer I’d been using as a jacket just won’t cut it anymore. Of course it’s getting colder, that much I knew from the day the locks on my car doors would not open, no matter how hard I tried. And of course almost every day for the past two weeks you would hear weather people warning of heavy snow in the GTA (“Oh, look out Toronto! 20cm is on it’s way – better get out those snowblowers!”), but morning after morning, you could hardly see the tiny film of snow on your car or on the ground. And now that I think about it, it was probably just frost anyway.

But this morning there was snow on the ground, and a LOT of it.

I was planning on going to the gym, but I have since decided to just stay inside and write, perhaps with some hot chocolate, until someone else wakes up and offers to help me remove snow from the driveway so that at least I will be able to go Monday morning before work. If it doesn’t snow again, that is… Yaaay winter!

didn’t quite make it…

I came around a little less than 10,000 words short of my month’s goal for nanowrimo. I’m not disappointed though (well not too much), I think this is the most I have written since I started working on this novel!

It was hard at first, but whenever I was having trouble, I would just tell myself “I’ll just write 500 words and I’ll take a break”. And I’d end up with almost 2000. It was difficult of course, but somehow I managed to write 43,598 words that way. Yay me

Note to self: Self, take a well-deserved break for December, then you can go back to setting those monthly goals for that novel of yours.

Oh, and work on those school applications that you’ve been putting off to write fiction, damnit… Actually I think that should be your December goal. Get all the essays and such out of the way so the paperwork can be sent off before the new year, you lazy git!