Well, at least it's Friday
2009 did not begin with a bang but rather with an ache. A headache that is. From the 31st through the 1st I was waylaid by a killer headache. I’m wondering now if a weather front was moving through. I popped Tylenol all day and drank lots of liquids to no avail. It didn’t stop me from enjoying being on vacation. It just prevented me from doing anything useful. (Besides reading, of course.)
I am not looking upon that as any sort of omen. I’m getting my ducks in a row and that is important to me. The new year is an arbitrary date for starting afresh. But I like the idea of starting at a beginning of something.
I didn’t sleep last night. My body behaved like it was a Sunday evening. There are only 4 of us in the office today, so I don’t know why I was so uptight. But I managed to get my act together on time. I don’t know if it mattered that I knew what I was going to wear. I don’t have such an extensive wardrobe right now that it takes me hours to decide. For me, one of the big changes will be forcing myself to dress on a weekend. If I don’t have to go out, I tend not to get out of my PJs. Yesterday, I did shower in the hopes that I was going to get out of the house. I eventually got dressed because I wanted to do a garbage run.
I cooked a great dinner last night. Last week I made this shrimp and feta cheese recipe that had been in a recent Fitness magazine. It was outstanding. So I made it again. I was planning on making it for New Year’s Eve dinner but I couldn’t get up the energy.
I’ve been low-enough energy recently that I’m wondering if my iron count is low. My multivitamin has 100% of the recommended daily allowance but I’m going to step up using soybeans as a snack. I get bloodwork done in another 2 months so I’ll wait until then. I’ve just noticed that I’m surprisingly lethargic lately with no good cause.
Despite my desire to stop spending money, I bought a ski parka, gloves and long underwear at Lands End on Wednesday. I still need ski goggles and snowpants. I need a couple of bathing suits for Florida, new workout gear and new sneakers. We’ll see if I can accomplish all of that this weekend. Theoretically, that should be it for shopping until Spring when I will, once again, need a lot of new clothes.
I want to buy a laptop this year, an expense I cannot really afford nor justify. I was thinking about my tax refund but I just don’t know. On the other hand, if I can get a really good deal… Although I really, really want an Apple, I’m not going there. More money than I have and I don’t want to have to buy new software. I just paged through the Dell options. Even inexpensively, it’s still going to be more than I have to spend. I can always bring my business laptop home but I don’t want to do that. I may look on Craigslist or Ebay. Plenty of people are getting rid of older models. I don’t need mine to do too much - MS Word and surfing the web. It would be nice to have a DVD player. I tend to get hung up wanting something new.
In college, my first year, I bought all my text books new. What a waste. After that, I bought everything but my lit books used. And I should have bought used lit books! What a moron, I was. I haven’t outgrown that tendency. I don’t like used clothes (except from my mother who had (and has) much better fashion taste than I ever will. I made a call to this used computer warehouse. I’m going to check it out. I get seduced by the new stuff but for my purposes, old stuff is probably better. I just want to have a laptop that I can move into whatever room I’m in and be able to look something up or write or whatever without having to go into my office. I’m spending so much time in front of the fireplace this winter that it would be nice not to have to change rooms. While my place isn’t large, the kitchen/dining/living room area is much, much warmer than the master bedroom or the office.
To start off the New Year on a positive note, I read a book.
#1, Legacy by Jeanne Stein. From my Goodreads review: I really like this series. This is the 4th book. Anna is still struggling, not with being a vampire, she's accepted that. But she hasn't accepted that she has to give up her family. She loves them. Which is why she's very suspicious when her family receives a windfall that will take them far away from her. Little did she realize how suspicious she should be. This wasn't as good as the previous novels but I couldn't have started the new year with a more enjoyable book. They are light (but not fluffy or humorous) and I look forward to the next one4 stars. Arwen_0926 - you have my copies of the rest of the series. You need this one as well?
In movies that I forgot to mention, I watched Lorenzo’s Oil with Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. An amazing movie. For many reasons. I wasn’t bothered by the idea of human guinea pigs. In fact, I think that’s a big problem with our drug trials now. If your only options are dying immediately or later, I think human drug trials are warranted. What bothered me were the lengths that they took to keep their son alive. Since I do not believe he ever became verbal again, it’s not possible to ask him if he would have preferred to die rather than endure the seizures and other medical problems. On the other hand, what they did was so unbelievable that it amazes me that there hasn’t been more progress. If doctors ever really move to the next step, regrowing myelin, it will be a cure for MS, among other things.
I also finally finished Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning. While I like both actors and I wasn't distressed by the level of violence, I was bothered more by the general sadness. It was a depressing movie and it took me a while to get through it for that reason. I don't mind sad movies but this was an invasive sadness about a style of life that I do not want to relate to.
I went to the gym tonight. I wasn't in the mood and my workout reflected that, though I did do more than 5 miles on the bike, so it wasn't a total loss. Naturally, it started snowing as I was leaving and it's an attractive shade of white outside. At least it's pretty.
I am not looking upon that as any sort of omen. I’m getting my ducks in a row and that is important to me. The new year is an arbitrary date for starting afresh. But I like the idea of starting at a beginning of something.
I didn’t sleep last night. My body behaved like it was a Sunday evening. There are only 4 of us in the office today, so I don’t know why I was so uptight. But I managed to get my act together on time. I don’t know if it mattered that I knew what I was going to wear. I don’t have such an extensive wardrobe right now that it takes me hours to decide. For me, one of the big changes will be forcing myself to dress on a weekend. If I don’t have to go out, I tend not to get out of my PJs. Yesterday, I did shower in the hopes that I was going to get out of the house. I eventually got dressed because I wanted to do a garbage run.
I cooked a great dinner last night. Last week I made this shrimp and feta cheese recipe that had been in a recent Fitness magazine. It was outstanding. So I made it again. I was planning on making it for New Year’s Eve dinner but I couldn’t get up the energy.
I’ve been low-enough energy recently that I’m wondering if my iron count is low. My multivitamin has 100% of the recommended daily allowance but I’m going to step up using soybeans as a snack. I get bloodwork done in another 2 months so I’ll wait until then. I’ve just noticed that I’m surprisingly lethargic lately with no good cause.
Despite my desire to stop spending money, I bought a ski parka, gloves and long underwear at Lands End on Wednesday. I still need ski goggles and snowpants. I need a couple of bathing suits for Florida, new workout gear and new sneakers. We’ll see if I can accomplish all of that this weekend. Theoretically, that should be it for shopping until Spring when I will, once again, need a lot of new clothes.
I want to buy a laptop this year, an expense I cannot really afford nor justify. I was thinking about my tax refund but I just don’t know. On the other hand, if I can get a really good deal… Although I really, really want an Apple, I’m not going there. More money than I have and I don’t want to have to buy new software. I just paged through the Dell options. Even inexpensively, it’s still going to be more than I have to spend. I can always bring my business laptop home but I don’t want to do that. I may look on Craigslist or Ebay. Plenty of people are getting rid of older models. I don’t need mine to do too much - MS Word and surfing the web. It would be nice to have a DVD player. I tend to get hung up wanting something new.
In college, my first year, I bought all my text books new. What a waste. After that, I bought everything but my lit books used. And I should have bought used lit books! What a moron, I was. I haven’t outgrown that tendency. I don’t like used clothes (except from my mother who had (and has) much better fashion taste than I ever will. I made a call to this used computer warehouse. I’m going to check it out. I get seduced by the new stuff but for my purposes, old stuff is probably better. I just want to have a laptop that I can move into whatever room I’m in and be able to look something up or write or whatever without having to go into my office. I’m spending so much time in front of the fireplace this winter that it would be nice not to have to change rooms. While my place isn’t large, the kitchen/dining/living room area is much, much warmer than the master bedroom or the office.
To start off the New Year on a positive note, I read a book.
#1, Legacy by Jeanne Stein. From my Goodreads review: I really like this series. This is the 4th book. Anna is still struggling, not with being a vampire, she's accepted that. But she hasn't accepted that she has to give up her family. She loves them. Which is why she's very suspicious when her family receives a windfall that will take them far away from her. Little did she realize how suspicious she should be. This wasn't as good as the previous novels but I couldn't have started the new year with a more enjoyable book. They are light (but not fluffy or humorous) and I look forward to the next one4 stars. Arwen_0926 - you have my copies of the rest of the series. You need this one as well?
In movies that I forgot to mention, I watched Lorenzo’s Oil with Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. An amazing movie. For many reasons. I wasn’t bothered by the idea of human guinea pigs. In fact, I think that’s a big problem with our drug trials now. If your only options are dying immediately or later, I think human drug trials are warranted. What bothered me were the lengths that they took to keep their son alive. Since I do not believe he ever became verbal again, it’s not possible to ask him if he would have preferred to die rather than endure the seizures and other medical problems. On the other hand, what they did was so unbelievable that it amazes me that there hasn’t been more progress. If doctors ever really move to the next step, regrowing myelin, it will be a cure for MS, among other things.
I also finally finished Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning. While I like both actors and I wasn't distressed by the level of violence, I was bothered more by the general sadness. It was a depressing movie and it took me a while to get through it for that reason. I don't mind sad movies but this was an invasive sadness about a style of life that I do not want to relate to.
I went to the gym tonight. I wasn't in the mood and my workout reflected that, though I did do more than 5 miles on the bike, so it wasn't a total loss. Naturally, it started snowing as I was leaving and it's an attractive shade of white outside. At least it's pretty.