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January 01, 2007
How Does It Look?
From where I sit, 2007 looks okay so far.
I don't have a hangover, so that's good. I had a split of red wine with "dinner" last night.* It's only about 2 glasses' worth, but that amount has been known to make me feel vile the next day. I didn't even get tiddly last night, though. It was just enough to make me relaxed and warm and, to be embarrasingly honest here, sleepy. We were in bed by 11:30, Dave was asleep by 11:40, and I held out until a little past 11:50. The entire household was out cold by midnight. The irony is that I can't usually get to sleep before about 12:30am.
So 2007 begins, and with it, all of the things I told myself I could wait until the New Year to do:
✔ Finish the syllabus for Sex and Culture. (And add a book to the Bookstore order list. They're not going to be happy, but I just discovered Self-Made Man while I was in Boise and only read it over the last three days. I couldn't order it before I knew about it, and it's the perfect book for my class. So I'll order it first thing tomorrow.)
✔ Clean my home office
✔ Visit the dentist
✔ Move the stuff from my office in the Psych Dept (which wasn't really my office) to my office in the Theatre Dept. Which is also not really my office, but at least this time I'm the person they hired to do the job and not just a substitute.
✔ Get my UI student spouse card renewed/checked so I can purchase my student spouse gym membership and start working out at the Rec Center again. (Can't do that until tomorrow, though.)
✔ Clean the rest of the house. I've actually been doing this last in fits and starts, which has seemed to work for me. Rather than making myself do the whole thing at once, knowing that's the awful fate which awaits me, I'll pick a room and clean it pretty thoroughly. Once that's done, I'm done. It means I'm doing some cleaning that hasn't been done for quite a while, as the various cleaners we've hired (need another one, please!) don't always dust under the couch. And they certainly didn't sort through my clutter and clean off tables. That wasn't their job, and I hadn't had time for that sort of thing for longer than I care to admit.
✔ Oh and maybe take some pictures in the Arboretum since I completely forgot yesterday was Sunday.
*Dinner is in quotes because we decided to have an end of the year junk food blowout. I'm so glad I had a bagel sandwich (multigrain with turkey, a tomato and some Irish cheddar, mmmmm!!) before the festivities began. The menu included:
Cheetos
Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips
Round organic tortilla chips
Organic Salsa
Ranch Dip made with Tillamook Light Sour Cream
Peanut M&M's
Oreos
Meat & cheese tray containing: Hickory Farms Beef Stick, Wheat Thins, Ritz Crackers, Edam, Irish Cheddar and Swiss cheese plate
Really, when I think about it, it's surprising I don't feel worse, based on the above menu.
Posted by sally at January 1, 2007 10:32 AM
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