i'm not the sun

Recap on the NYR:

• I have been doing more blogging... but it's mostly been here. A new blog I started to help my grandparents start exercising. I hope that I can get them involved!
• As for exercising, I've been doing Tae Kwon Do, so I think it is fair to say that I am following through on that resolution. I plan on starting swimming again soon (I'm looking at you Wednesday!). I figure that if I exercise more, that maybe I can convince my grandparents to do so as well.
• Travelling: thus far I have been to - Wasaga Beach, Toronto (for Winterlicious), Chicago, and KW. This weekend I am visiting Guelph - admittedly not really an adventure for the purposes of "travelling", I'm still going to count it. Still to come: Boston, Ireland, Boulder, Montreal, NYC, and others?
• Reading: I've been reading the news, does that count? I bought new books... and have been reading a crap load of articles... not the same I know!
• Baking: making dinner with a friend tomorrow. I tried making risotto this year, made a pot roast in the slow cooker, and a few other things.
• Photo-taking: iPhone photos don't count, so I've been failing this one.
• Saving: I paid off $1000 on my line of credit, but that won't last forever. So only a partial pass.
• Spending: I feel like I've spent a little less.
• Sighing: I no longer sigh in my sleep.
• Procrastinating: I'm failing as I type this... working, working, I swear...

resolutions were meant to be broken

i said i would blog more, and procrastinate less. it seems like i am failing these things. more when i have the energy...

starting a new year revolution

more:

• blogging
• baking
• photo-taking
• traveling
• reading
• saving
• exercising (tae kwon do!)

less:

• sighing
• spending
• procrastinating?

exciting times! happy new year!

nothing good happens after 2am

marshall of himym is correct on this one. i shouldn't be allowed to make decisions in the middle of the night. i screwed up. i booked my ticket to nyc on a weekend when i'm already out of town. stupid.

anyways, i saw black swan tonight with a friend. it's a very intense and beautiful movie. there are very few spoken words, but you can feel everything. it's very dark. i highly recommend it.

while out we decided to start a cooking club, and it's my task to think of a witty name. i'm pretty excited about the upcoming semester. i'm exciting about living life. speaking of cooking, i have some brownies to bake!

if you doubt that i'll be there don't despair, don't you dare

i'm a little bit impulsive, and i guess i force the others around me to be a little more spontaneous at times than they might ordinarily be, but for the most part none of them seem to hold this against me (or at least not openly). as a result, i find that i have plans to be in nyc in february. to say that i love new york would be an understatement. but before you categorize me as a sex-in-the-city-fanatic or shopaholic, you should know that i am neither. i have only ever seen the SitC movies, and i spend almost all of my money on travelling, food, jewelry, and music (seriously, i have no discernible talent for putting together outfits, i take "function over fashion" pretty seriously - winter requires a winter coat, and waterproof boots, not stilettos).

in other news: i'm baking matcha shortbread cookies at the moment, one of my friends from school found a new direction in her research and decided to stick it out for the long run (which is great news, i was already mourning her loss 1.5 years in advance, because she is quite fantastic), and i have fallen in love with s. carey's "in the dirt" (in case you hadn't guessed by this post title). anyways, back to cookies!

i feel better and better and worse and then better

i'm finally free of school work, which means that i finally have a bit of spare time, though it has hardly felt that way. i think i have spent the majority of my new free time watching bones and baking. so much baking!

today the sky cracked in half

a snowstorm quietly passed through town today. despite hating wading through slush, and being frozen, i actually like it when it snows. the whole world slows down, and everything looks so peaceful with a fuzzy white dusting.