Quick update
Holiday adventures were many & sundry, to mixed enjoyment. The holidays are tough for me for many reasons, to be discussed at a later date. I received plenty of indications people care about me, and that was good.
New Year's: Stayed home to eat hot-pot and learn Mah-Jong from my roommate with a mutual friend, with some interference & advice from his mom (who is apparently really good). It was low-key, high-food, and high happiness.
This year's resolutions:
Today: Finally checked my mail, after nearly 2 weeks away & about. In the mailbag were 3 books I've been looking forward to: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, MCA Hogarth's The Worth of a Shell, and Minister Faust's From the Notebooks of Dr Brain. I read the introduction to From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain and had to convince myself to put it down so I could 1) go to bed tonight, and 2) finish the 3 other books I'm half or almost done with.
Tomorrow:
- Meeting up with my probably-alcoholic friend who's moving away and trying to get a government job. We may have some come-to-Jesus moments.
- A trip to JoAnn Fabrics for some sale items to make a Snuggie for a friend who wants one and a bathrobe for me. Yay warmth!
- Working on some sewing projects, and probably banging out that Snuggie (pdf pattern here). Because let's face it: It's just a blanket with tube sleeves. It'll take an hour max.
New Year's: Stayed home to eat hot-pot and learn Mah-Jong from my roommate with a mutual friend, with some interference & advice from his mom (who is apparently really good). It was low-key, high-food, and high happiness.
This year's resolutions:
- Work hard at grad school, goal being to defend by December (defense being different from graduation proper due to arcane university rules governed by otherwise forgotten ancient gods. Determination of graduation schedules involves ritual sacrifice of small fuzzy animals, freshmen, and transfer students)
- Read a bit. Especially seeing as I have all these (new!) books
- Try to be more physically active, by some combination of exercise bike, walking to the parking lot, and WiiFit. WiiFit will never say I am not fat (it's goal for me is 125 lbs. Ha!), but I would love to at least halt the expansion, preferably turning around the trend to a slow weight loss. Because buying new pants sucks.
- Work on some sewing & knitting, preferably finishing more than 2 small or already in-progress projects. I have at least 4 active but paused projects: pants, petticoat, sweater, and socks. This goal includes gathering materials for a real-life construction of this dress.
Today: Finally checked my mail, after nearly 2 weeks away & about. In the mailbag were 3 books I've been looking forward to: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, MCA Hogarth's The Worth of a Shell, and Minister Faust's From the Notebooks of Dr Brain. I read the introduction to From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain and had to convince myself to put it down so I could 1) go to bed tonight, and 2) finish the 3 other books I'm half or almost done with.
Tomorrow:
- Meeting up with my probably-alcoholic friend who's moving away and trying to get a government job. We may have some come-to-Jesus moments.
- A trip to JoAnn Fabrics for some sale items to make a Snuggie for a friend who wants one and a bathrobe for me. Yay warmth!
- Working on some sewing projects, and probably banging out that Snuggie (pdf pattern here). Because let's face it: It's just a blanket with tube sleeves. It'll take an hour max.