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Jan. 2nd, 2015 11:10 amHappy New Year, my preciouses -- I hope you all had a wonderful and safe NYE, full of joy, good booze, great company, and/or lots of sleep. ;) Whatever floats your boat is OK by me.
Our evening was very low key and I didn't even make it to 11 this year. There was a local party down in the meadow, complete with a huge bonfire and a roasted whole pig, but I didn't have enough of the country in me to brave the cold. :( Husband went down with a pot of chili that I made and brought me back a plate (the burned pieces of the pig were delicious! The juicy parts? Ugh. I hate meat that tastes like meat). We did have some champagne and made some very nice toasts (the girls -- Seija and her mountain pal Ally had sparkling cider), and for me, that's all I needed to feel complete.
After Ally left and we had decided to let Seija stay up until midnight if she could make it, we all played video games and watched movies. It was so delightful! I got tired pretty early on and hit the sack at more or less a normal time; I think the days of me staying up until oh-dark-hundred on NYE are over which, to be honest, is utterly fine by me.
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I was a little worried that we weren't going to make it up here. It snowed on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning when we headed up, there were a few places where the truck slipped and had trouble getting up the hill. We saw a truck that had had slid off into a ditch and that was very disconcerting to me, but Paul was comfortable driving up here. I figure that if a guy from northern WI felt it was safe, it was safe.
We are going to need a set of 17" tires and chains (the truck has 20" tires and you can't use chains on 20" tires with the Ram 1500) before we come back up -- I'm so not looking forward to the cost of that. Hopefully, we can pick up a set of rims/tires off Craigslist vs. having to buy new. FINGERS CROSSED.
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We have today and tomorrow here at the cabin and then it's home on Sunday. I am hopeful that this coming week won't be too stressful -- my skin can't take it -- but I'm just going to approach things one day at a time. Really, that's all any of us can do.
I am going to try to go to the gym 3x this week and get back on the C25K program -- maybe doing that in the afternoon. I tend to get more done if I get the "difficult" stuff out of the way first, the stuff I don't have to do. Like writing, cleaning, exercise, etc. I try to give myself rewards for accomplishing the "difficult" stuff (e.g. reading for an uninterrupted, blissful hour or watching _Real Housewives of...._) and that sometimes helps. But sometimes it doesn't.
I'll admit to being nervous about "running" again -- I do not want to hurt my foot again. Paul said it's most likely that I laced too tightly, so I'll keep that in mind next week. Additionally, I think I need to warm up a LOT more; the problem is, that if I get up to do it at 5, I find myself cutting stretching/warm-up so that I don't have to rush to get ready for work.
I may give up "Supernatural" in the mornings and start listening to the zombie survival podcast "We're Alive" (if you haven't heard it, give it a go! It's free and really, really well done!). That way I don't have to pause between mascara coats to watch my Dean and Sammy. <3 Love the boys!
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I'm going to work on tidying up, then write a bit, then read a bit. We're expecting a huge delivery of stuff up here today (it was supposed to be here on Wednesday, but due to the roads, it got delayed), including a new Kindle Fire. Now that I've figured out how to make Kindle Unlimited work for me, I'm OK with supplementing my book reading with fake e-books.
I've read 3 books up here so far this vacation and have a good little selection to choose from for the next few weeks. One "resolution" I have is to be more faithful with my Goodreads updates and reviews. I find myself needing information about books I've read and Goodreads tends to be the best location to keep all the book 411 I gather.
I may even start working on my summer reading list, which is truly one of my favorite parts of the end of term vacation. =D
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I have also decided to severely limit my exposure to and on Facebook in 2015. There's something decidedly off-putting about the whole thing and I've given a lot of thought about what it says about our society (and ourselves) with how much we are compelled to put out for the world to view and how we make ourselves feel as we compare our lives to the lives -- or at least what parts are shared -- of others. It really all came to a head when a friend posted about 10 times in one day about *everything* they were doing. Plus, it's painful to realize that the things you find important in the world are things totally ignored by most people.
Life is too short to read bad books, drink bad wine, and worry about inconsequential nonsense. These are my words to live by.
Our evening was very low key and I didn't even make it to 11 this year. There was a local party down in the meadow, complete with a huge bonfire and a roasted whole pig, but I didn't have enough of the country in me to brave the cold. :( Husband went down with a pot of chili that I made and brought me back a plate (the burned pieces of the pig were delicious! The juicy parts? Ugh. I hate meat that tastes like meat). We did have some champagne and made some very nice toasts (the girls -- Seija and her mountain pal Ally had sparkling cider), and for me, that's all I needed to feel complete.
After Ally left and we had decided to let Seija stay up until midnight if she could make it, we all played video games and watched movies. It was so delightful! I got tired pretty early on and hit the sack at more or less a normal time; I think the days of me staying up until oh-dark-hundred on NYE are over which, to be honest, is utterly fine by me.
*
I was a little worried that we weren't going to make it up here. It snowed on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning when we headed up, there were a few places where the truck slipped and had trouble getting up the hill. We saw a truck that had had slid off into a ditch and that was very disconcerting to me, but Paul was comfortable driving up here. I figure that if a guy from northern WI felt it was safe, it was safe.
We are going to need a set of 17" tires and chains (the truck has 20" tires and you can't use chains on 20" tires with the Ram 1500) before we come back up -- I'm so not looking forward to the cost of that. Hopefully, we can pick up a set of rims/tires off Craigslist vs. having to buy new. FINGERS CROSSED.
*
We have today and tomorrow here at the cabin and then it's home on Sunday. I am hopeful that this coming week won't be too stressful -- my skin can't take it -- but I'm just going to approach things one day at a time. Really, that's all any of us can do.
I am going to try to go to the gym 3x this week and get back on the C25K program -- maybe doing that in the afternoon. I tend to get more done if I get the "difficult" stuff out of the way first, the stuff I don't have to do. Like writing, cleaning, exercise, etc. I try to give myself rewards for accomplishing the "difficult" stuff (e.g. reading for an uninterrupted, blissful hour or watching _Real Housewives of...._) and that sometimes helps. But sometimes it doesn't.
I'll admit to being nervous about "running" again -- I do not want to hurt my foot again. Paul said it's most likely that I laced too tightly, so I'll keep that in mind next week. Additionally, I think I need to warm up a LOT more; the problem is, that if I get up to do it at 5, I find myself cutting stretching/warm-up so that I don't have to rush to get ready for work.
I may give up "Supernatural" in the mornings and start listening to the zombie survival podcast "We're Alive" (if you haven't heard it, give it a go! It's free and really, really well done!). That way I don't have to pause between mascara coats to watch my Dean and Sammy. <3 Love the boys!
*
I'm going to work on tidying up, then write a bit, then read a bit. We're expecting a huge delivery of stuff up here today (it was supposed to be here on Wednesday, but due to the roads, it got delayed), including a new Kindle Fire. Now that I've figured out how to make Kindle Unlimited work for me, I'm OK with supplementing my book reading with fake e-books.
I've read 3 books up here so far this vacation and have a good little selection to choose from for the next few weeks. One "resolution" I have is to be more faithful with my Goodreads updates and reviews. I find myself needing information about books I've read and Goodreads tends to be the best location to keep all the book 411 I gather.
I may even start working on my summer reading list, which is truly one of my favorite parts of the end of term vacation. =D
*
I have also decided to severely limit my exposure to and on Facebook in 2015. There's something decidedly off-putting about the whole thing and I've given a lot of thought about what it says about our society (and ourselves) with how much we are compelled to put out for the world to view and how we make ourselves feel as we compare our lives to the lives -- or at least what parts are shared -- of others. It really all came to a head when a friend posted about 10 times in one day about *everything* they were doing. Plus, it's painful to realize that the things you find important in the world are things totally ignored by most people.
Life is too short to read bad books, drink bad wine, and worry about inconsequential nonsense. These are my words to live by.
