so this is the new year

I have been struck by several different plagues:

• an actual plague that knocked me off my feet and cause me to have to call out of work two days in a row
• a second actual plague that interefered with my Christmas vacay with my family. I had Christmas Eve lunch with them, and then I basically didn't get out of bed from 6:30AM Christmas morning until Friday the 30th. It was awesome.
• the plague of laziness. I get this plague a lot.

Here is the only picture of my with my family from the entire nine days I was there:

In other news, I will actually be writing again, but I've been thinking a lot about what I want to write. I tend to get caught up in doing link-ups, reviews, recipes and things that a lot of other blogs do. Well, I've fallen off the new recipe wagon and link-ups have seemed like entirely too much work as of late. The reviews I will have a series of -- for the products in my latest Influenster VoxBox -- starting soon, but after that I think I'm going to back off of the 'follow all the blogs!' mentality and focus on me and what I'm doing. And what I want to do. And music, because I'm a musician.

I will also post what I got for Christmas, because I want to. So there.

And I'm going back to the gym tonight, even if it kills me. Which it might, since I can't walk to and from home without coughing like a TB patient.

Being sick for two weeks allowed me to drop five pounds nice and easy, but now that my calorie intake has come up again and my weight loss has evened out, I have to tone it up and figure out my calorie intake to maintain this weight. This weight: 131(!) which is very, very close to what I graduated college at. I'm back in a size 4, comfortably, which is exactly where I wanted to be. I'm actually under my goal weight, so I'm going to focus on getting buff for the next time I wear a bathing suit. I bought myself some jeans that fit. I'm happy with how my body is looking in my clothes.

I also think I may have a blog sale for some of my nicer clothes that are now too big or just don't quite fit the way I want them to. So be on the lookout!

New year, new things. That's a saying, right?

i'm a tiger, baby

Doing some "window" shopping on ModCloth and remembering I never buy anything from there because A) I'm cheap and B) everything I love everyone else loves, too, so it's always sold out.

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Le sigh.

BIG NEWS: My booboo got a job. He's working as a web builder for a company that builds websites for small car sales companies. Didn't you always wonder why they all looked the same ;)

It's a 9-12 month contract position and then, hopefully, he'll get offered a position to stay on. Or he'll be established enough to not need a 9-5 and just keep doing the graphic and web design thing, so we can blow this popsicle stand and continue on our journey.

I got some news last week about schemes that I'm excited about, but I don't know if they'll actually work out.  So I just sit here daydreaming, in the meantime. #imsomysterious

I'm feeling a little under the weather. I think it's just a cold, so I'm slamming the Zicam every three hours. That seems to be helping, but my body is FREAKINGOUT about having a virus (as a sidenote: this isn't terribly uncommon for me -- I've had reactions/allergies to viruses before that included hives, fainting, etc.) I haven't had any kind of virus in, like, seven months, so I think that's why this one is hitting me so hard. I feel vaguely okay, but my stomach is all wonky, and I can tell my sinuses are tender, even though there isn't really anything in them yet. Whatevs. I'm lying low until I feel all better.

Relatedly, Zicam is the bomb.

we can work it out

Yesterday was not a good day. My stomach hasn't been feeling great since Wednesday, but honestly, I was proud of myself for even staying at work all day yesterday. The whole day I was in kind of a haze, and my body never indicated that it was hungry -- I just realized at some point that me wanting to fall asleep in on my desk was probably an indicator that I should eat. I got home and had some pasta for dinner before passing out at about 7:30/8:00pm in my clothes, woke up about 10:30 long enough to get ready for bed, and passed out again. I woke up at about 5:40am feeling much, much better.

So I don't have any pictures of outfits or delicious dinners, because I've done nothing but sit and stare into space and/or sleep for the past 48 hours. Ugh.

In any case, I'm really glad it's the weekend soon because that means a) I get to sleep in tomorrow and b) we get a dresser soon! We contacted someone of Craigslist who actually hadn't sold theirs yet, so we get to pick it up either tonight or tomorrow. We are probably a little TOO excited about getting a dresser, but we've been without one for so long, it's become a far-off luxury. Oh, to have a dresser again...the joys.
-C