I can look back on 2007 and feel a mixture of sadness and joy, as with all years worth living, I suppose. A few things that stick out for me:
January: Lots of grading, going out with friends, and grad school work. A pretty nice balance, all in all.
February: Mr. Done broke [...]
Archive for December, 2007
In which I don a yogatard
Posted in balance, changes, fitness, frustration, happiness, health, journey, karma, life, new beginnings, self-improvement, weight loss, yoga on December 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday BFF and I went to the yoga studio to take our first yoga class. We had decided months ago that for Christmas, we’d give each other the $40 for 30 deal at this studio. For $40, we can take as many yoga classes as we’d like to. We get to try [...]
A Quiet Night at Home
Posted in South Beach Diet, balance, break, bummin' around, cooking, cozy, family, fitness, happiness, health, home, journey, life, nesting, organization, relief, vacations, weight loss on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Just the type of night I needed.
I woke up this morning and worked out, then went grocery shopping, came home and had coffee and read the paper. After that I started doing a deep cleaning of the house. Everything was neat and organized, but I hadn’t mopped the floor or vacuumed in so long, so [...]
A Swingin’ Good Time
Posted in break, excitement, friends, fun times, happiness, holiday season, holidays, journey, life, tagged fun, girls' night out, happiness, joy, merriment, swing dancing, wine on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Friday night CBCB, BeachGirl, and I had planned to go ice skating and soak in a little holiday spirit by looking at the displays at Christmas in the Park. I had written an email a month ago to all of our teacher-friends asking if they wanted to join us for the holiday fun and [...]
Released
Posted in break, journey, life, life's adventures, pain, relief, school year, suicide, vacations, tagged good cry, hopeful, release, sanity, vacation on December 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This week was my last week before getting 2 weeks off for Winter Break aka Christmas Vacation. As with any greatly anticipated vacation/break, this week had to be the longest one ever. Besides the normal, everyday teaching trials, this week I had a student tell me he was addicted to heroin. Fun [...]
What a fine mess I’ve gotten myself into
Posted in family, home, life on December 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of my worst fears was realized today, and I wasn’t even home to know it. Actually, had I been home, it wouldn’t have happened.
You see, my parents decided to drop by my house to bring one of my Christmas gifts. Sweet. Kind. Thoughtful. What a fun surprise, right? [...]
Tacky Christmas Sweater Party Leads to a New Crush
Posted in South Beach Diet, crush, dating, excitement, friends, fun times, happiness, holiday season, holidays, karma, life, life list, life's adventures, men, new guys, parties, weekends on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
CTLB invited a few of us to go to a Tacky Christmas Sweater Party that her friend was throwing. It sounded like a great reason to have a good time, and a nice way to celebrate the end of a long week.
Not owning any tacky sweaters, especially tacky Christmas sweaters, I scoured a nearby [...]
$500 poorer
Posted in appliances, big purchase, excitement, family, frustration, home, laundry, life, life's adventures, mishaps, nesting, weekends on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Or, $491, to be exact. I’ve never had less fun spending so much money…except maybe when I’ve paid taxes.
Today I bought a dryer. After heading down to the sketchy laundromat near my house last weekend, I realized how dependent I’ve become on doing my laundry at home. So, today I bit the bullet and went [...]
Gotta love the pom-poms
Posted in bummin' around, cozy, life, new discoveries, shopping, weekends on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I saw these Ugg crochet boots , I thought they looked like the cutest, coziest bumming-around-the-house slippers ever. Then I looked up the price. $100. Yikes! I don’t have money to spend like that on some cute slippers, no matter how warm and fuzzy they make my feet feel.
Then [...]
What a great day!
Posted in excitement, friends, fun times, grad school, gratitude, happiness, holiday season, holidays, journey, karma, life, life's adventures, perspective, presents, relief, school year, thankful on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was one of the best days I’ve had in a long time.
First of all, even though it was a Monday, I woke up with plenty of time to get ready and start my day. This seems to be an essential factor in whether or not I start off in a good mood. [...]
One more day
Posted in balance, break, excitement, friends, grad school, gratitude, journey, life, organization, perspective, school year, vacations on December 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow CTLB and I have our grad school final exhibition presentation for the semester, and 8:30 pm cannot come quickly enough.
This semester’s focus was on budget, legal, and HR. Fun stuff, right? Actually, I learned quite a bit and found most of it really interesting.
Even the budget info, which I thought I would [...]
This is gonna work, I can just feel it
Posted in South Beach Diet, changes, excitement, family, friends, fun times, gratitude, health, journey, life, life list, new beginnings, plans, self-improvement, thankful, weight loss on December 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today was my first week weigh in day. I wrote about it at length on my weight loss blog, so I won’t re-do the whole post now. I’d love for you to go over and read the adventures of the South Beach Trio.
I stuck to the South Beach Diet program very strictly this [...]
The heat is on!
Posted in death, freezing, fun times, life, life's adventures, men, mishaps on December 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today the guy came to fix the heater. Well, let me back up a bit…
The other night my 70-something-year-old neighbor and I went down into the basement to see whether or not my pilot light was lit. It was, barely. I turned on the heater and nothing happened. The flame [...]
It’s COLD in here!
Posted in freezing, life on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I live in Northern California, so for those of you on the East Coast, forgive this native Californian for saying that 40-50 degree weather is cold. I know, I know, it’s not cold until it’s -38 degrees outside.
But this last week it has been really cold. The evenings get down to past 40 degrees and [...]
New Food Lifestyle, New Blog
Posted in South Beach Diet, balance, blog, changes, food, friends, health, journey, life, life list, life's adventures, new beginnings, self-improvement, weight loss, writing on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written quite a bit on this blog about my struggles with weight and the plans I’ve made to make significant strides to improve it, but now that I’ve made the decision to begin SBD with BeachGirl and CBCB, I figured that I’d make a new blog to focus on those efforts.
Since the three of [...]
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