Monday, February 21, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Chalk one up!
We're keeping score in my apartment.
Intellect and Romance VS Brute Force and Cynicism.
It's based on this, and the fact that Roomie is obsessed with Dr. Who. So far Intellect and Romance is up by two. Final score/photo to come.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Soo last week I announced that "February is the new January". I decided that this month is going to be the month where I start to get my life in order. I listed all of the plans I've made (plays, dinner dates, the opera) and all of the recipes I was going to start cooking, and all of the books I was going to read, and I woke up and did yoga and stretches every single morning of the week. I put effort into making my apartment neat and clean and vowed to keep it that way. February - unlike January when everybody says they're going to change their life/routine but never does it - is to be the month of getting my shit together.
Of course, that was last week.
Today, Day 1 of Week 2 of the awesome month of February, I slept in. I half-assed my stretches and did no yoga. I was tired and unenthusiastic at work. My pristine apartment looks like a war zone; as if at some point during the weekend a veritable team of sugar-high pre-teens ransacked the place leaving no counter space unsoiled, no dish un-dirtied, no item of clothing in its proper place. I ordered Thai take-out for dinner coupled with a tart taken home from work for dessert. I was too exhausted to do anything other than sit in the bath and drink tea. My body feels like it's been stuffed with cotton and my thoughts/brain resemble my apartment. [Have I expounded on the theory that the state of my bedroom always matches my mental state? Perhaps not, and perhaps here is not the time nor place to do so, but let me tell you that this is a true fact.]
Suffice it to say that I'm back in January mode. The 'it's 10 days into January and somehow I'm still eating turkey leftovers and my (over-acheiving) New Years Resolution has already been broken and I haven't seen the sun in days (weeks?!) and it's snowing again and it will never be spring ever and the only logical way to spend my spare time is in my pajamas' January mode.
True, I did go out a fair bit this weekend - being social, as per my 'Feb is Jan' referendum - but I think the real reason for my slovenly state is that changing one's routine is tiring. How do people do it???! Is it true that the only way to get out of a negative routine is to take it "One Day At A Time" ?! [Did I just use an AA reference?? Sorry if that is inappropriate.] These people who always get everything done - they must have a secret. Is there some sort of vegetable I should be eating? or perhaps I should actually be taking my daily B12? Or do I just have to suck it up, put in the work, and start by loading the dishwasher after doing stretches AND yoga tomorrow morning?
Ugh.
Of course, that was last week.
Today, Day 1 of Week 2 of the awesome month of February, I slept in. I half-assed my stretches and did no yoga. I was tired and unenthusiastic at work. My pristine apartment looks like a war zone; as if at some point during the weekend a veritable team of sugar-high pre-teens ransacked the place leaving no counter space unsoiled, no dish un-dirtied, no item of clothing in its proper place. I ordered Thai take-out for dinner coupled with a tart taken home from work for dessert. I was too exhausted to do anything other than sit in the bath and drink tea. My body feels like it's been stuffed with cotton and my thoughts/brain resemble my apartment. [Have I expounded on the theory that the state of my bedroom always matches my mental state? Perhaps not, and perhaps here is not the time nor place to do so, but let me tell you that this is a true fact.]
Suffice it to say that I'm back in January mode. The 'it's 10 days into January and somehow I'm still eating turkey leftovers and my (over-acheiving) New Years Resolution has already been broken and I haven't seen the sun in days (weeks?!) and it's snowing again and it will never be spring ever and the only logical way to spend my spare time is in my pajamas' January mode.
True, I did go out a fair bit this weekend - being social, as per my 'Feb is Jan' referendum - but I think the real reason for my slovenly state is that changing one's routine is tiring. How do people do it???! Is it true that the only way to get out of a negative routine is to take it "One Day At A Time" ?! [Did I just use an AA reference?? Sorry if that is inappropriate.] These people who always get everything done - they must have a secret. Is there some sort of vegetable I should be eating? or perhaps I should actually be taking my daily B12? Or do I just have to suck it up, put in the work, and start by loading the dishwasher after doing stretches AND yoga tomorrow morning?
Ugh.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Ahh Monday...
I think I'd have a much easier time getting dressed in the morning if my closet looked more like this:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Confession:
This is a rather common occurrence in my apartment.
Also, I'm too tired right now to get up and go to bed. True story.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Okay so all of last year I kept track of the books I read in the margin of this blog. Here is the list:
It is not as long as I might have hoped however does average out to a book a month which is quite satisfactory. Actually, reading a minimum of one book a month might be a good goal for the coming year... hmmmm. I got a marvelous amount of books for Christmas so I've got plenty of delicious reads to sink my teeth into.
Of course if I had a swoon-worthy library such as this in my house, I'd likely be reading day in, day out. How cosy does that white chair look?!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked WItch of the West - Gregory
Maquire
A Technique For Producing Ideas - James Webb Young
All My Friends Are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
What Colour is your Parachute - Richard N. Bolles
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammet
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Too Much Happiness - Alice Munro
Strengths Finder 2.0 - Tim Rath
It is not as long as I might have hoped however does average out to a book a month which is quite satisfactory. Actually, reading a minimum of one book a month might be a good goal for the coming year... hmmmm. I got a marvelous amount of books for Christmas so I've got plenty of delicious reads to sink my teeth into.
Of course if I had a swoon-worthy library such as this in my house, I'd likely be reading day in, day out. How cosy does that white chair look?!
Have you read any good books lately?
photo via Apartment Therapy
Radical dude!
Did I ever post these? I'm doing a little New Years purging of the files on my computer and I saw these amazingly cool photos of waves that my father sent me in an email way back in the summer. There is an actual person who takes these! I don't know how, and unfortunately I can't remember who but I just think they are spectacular. (And on a snowy January day, why not post some photos of sun and waves?)
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Oh right, it's winter.
....of course the self-imposed hibernation of yesterday makes me feel compelled to leave the house today, which is kind of tricky because outside it looks like this:
Time to bundle up!
Sick Days are AWESOME.
So I took yesterday off work.
Tuesday night I got a dreadfully sore throat, Wednesday added a headache to the mix, and I decided that to fend off whichever illness was trying to take hold of me (Strep? MONO? I was imagining the worst) I'd better take a day to let my immune system do its thing.
Not wanting to bug my coworker to take my shift last minute I worked on Thursday (and was rather miserable) and then went home and didn't leave my house for what's now going on 42 hours.
Yesterday I woke up, sat in bed, went back to sleep, got up to take some vitamins and make some hot water with lemon and honey - a concoction which I firmly believe in during times of illness and which I drank constantly throughout the day - and do a crossword puzzle, went back to bed, went back to sleep, got up to eat some soup, read some blogs and magazine articles, went back to bed, went back to sleep, got up watched some bad tv, had some tea and a long hot bath, read a magazine, went back to bed and went back to sleep.
Tuesday night I got a dreadfully sore throat, Wednesday added a headache to the mix, and I decided that to fend off whichever illness was trying to take hold of me (Strep? MONO? I was imagining the worst) I'd better take a day to let my immune system do its thing.
Not wanting to bug my coworker to take my shift last minute I worked on Thursday (and was rather miserable) and then went home and didn't leave my house for what's now going on 42 hours.
Yesterday I woke up, sat in bed, went back to sleep, got up to take some vitamins and make some hot water with lemon and honey - a concoction which I firmly believe in during times of illness and which I drank constantly throughout the day - and do a crossword puzzle, went back to bed, went back to sleep, got up to eat some soup, read some blogs and magazine articles, went back to bed, went back to sleep, got up watched some bad tv, had some tea and a long hot bath, read a magazine, went back to bed and went back to sleep.
IT WAS AWESOME.
So this morning I awoke at the oh-so-reasonable hour of 8am feeling rested, refreshed, and 100% better. Huzaah! Take THAT winter cold! Victory is mine! I will never again try and 'work through' a cold. That is a silly notion that won't cure anything. I don't care where you work, surely you are not so important that your employer can't spare you for 1 day. Hell, even if you're not suffering from a cold giving yourself permission to do absolutely NOTHING for one whole day can only be beneficial in today's 'Go! Go! Go!' society. Take it from me, Sick Days are AWESOME.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Auld Lang Syne
Ah finally, a New Year's wrap-up with my kind of sentimentality: http://jezebel.com/5721528/fuck-you-2010
Saturday, January 1, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope everyone is happily recovering from their New Years' Eve celebrations. I am happily - if slowly - doing the same.
Cheers to 2010, what a year it was. And here's to the New Year, oh what adventures 2011 is sure to bring...
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