Well, my uncle died yesterday.

( cut for personal musings )

Okay so, I have completely failed on my New Years Resolution regarding exercise! I am largely whatever on that because honestly I don't really do New Years Resolutions, but it did get me at least think about why I'm apparently so determined to avoid my gym.

( Anyone wanting to read my navel gazing has to be a masochist. )

Lately I've been trying to get the hang of salads. I grew up having salad as the designated side with dinner every night, and there's something about that that makes it come off as really, deeply and sincerely, boring to me. All I ever had, and all I ever did when I took over the family cooking was lettuce + random dressing. BORING. And making ( Read more... )

Work: I wasted the whole goddamn year with only headaches to show for it. But I have a job in this economy so I can't bitch too much. Next ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I want to punch my neighbors ( Read more... )

It's going to be 107 degrees where I am today. I have no air conditioner, and will be in a small semi-enclosed space all day. Shoot me now.

In other news, I was reading this article, and man, it surprised me just how closely this matched my experience. The only thing that this didn't include that I would've expected was that in my experience ( Read more... )

You know, you'd think after weeks of packing my breakfast and lunch in the morning, I'd stop gagging at even handling food that soon after waking up. Seriously, I will never understand how people can even eat less than an hour after waking up. It's been 2 and a half hours since I woke up and I'm just starting to be able to contemplate eating ( Read more... )

I was planning on writing a long, ranty post on attitudes towards any form of caring about your health that doesn't involve self-sacrifice in America, including sleep, but I'm too braindead due to not passing out until after 4 in the morning due to insomnia to want to. This strikes me as about as funny somehow. I guess it could be the hour or so ( Read more... )

This morning, I managed to get my lunch/breakfast/dinner packed, exercise, and still leave for work an hour early so that I can also leave work an hour early tonight. I may feel too proud of myself for this ( Read more... )