a very heartfelt thanks goes to
Jessica for saying my few and far between blog posts should award any kind of 'versatile' recognition.
The Versatile Blogger Award goes to blogs that are newly discovered and offer some fun or inspiring ideas.
The Rules
1. Thank the person that nominated you with a link back to them.
2. Tell everyone seven things about yourself.
3. Pass the award on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know they've received the award.
all weekend i was thinking of what my response will be. a business as usual post? reflections about india? something holiday themed and overloaded with more pictures? the longer i have to think about it, the more time my inspirations escape me and i just never get around to sitting down and plugging one out. but fortunately for this Dec. 20, my lunch date fell through and i'm here at home with some spare time to share some things about myself.
This weekend David went snowboarding and i finally had the extra time i've been asking for to get some things striked from my to-do list. Of course when i do get quiet unscheduled time all i want to do is sit around and watch movies and paint my nails. I'm THE laziest person on the planet. When i'm home alone i'm in the judgement free zone, i can get away with anything, and discover new things:
1. home uniform: mismatched socks, crumbling mud mask, inside out shirt (to hide the spilled cereal milk)
2. painted my nails a lovely nude shade which excuses me from cleaning for at least 2-4 hrs while they dry completely
3. oh my god. the most productive thing i did was clean out the hallway medicine cabinet. i seriously need to let go of things. three full unopened bottles of vitamin C that expired in 2005, a lot of percoset from 2007, old perfume that smells like rubbing alcohol, $30 lady vitamins that expired in 2009 and smell nastay, homemade soap bars that smell like nothing, lotion and body mist from Bath & Body (i haven't shopped there in ten years), sunscreen from 2001, and tons and tons and tons of olllllllllld make up. and even though it's obvious this stuff is old and i haven't used any of it since moving in with Dave 3.5 years ago, it's hard to throw it away because my hard earned college dollars bought everything in the trash bag and i threw away $250+ worth of expired / half used stuff. yikes. and you know one of my weaknesses? everytime i go out of town i buy travel sized everything, and then use half of it, or bring home the little shampoos from the hotel, and then i have hundreds of half used tiny products that i'll never use because i always go buy new ones and don't want to use the old ones. i've seen plenty of 'hoarders' episodes to know this is how the disease starts so i chucked them all in the trash. (as hoarders often do, i "justified" keeping the vicks vapor rub - exp. 1998 - because it looks like it's still potent -- eventhough i've never seen either of us use it, "we might need it someday.")
4. blasted
SBTRKT (my new fave) and some Dean Martin Christmas tunes.
5. polished the furniture for upwards of 1.5 hrs only because I could watch "Home Alone 2" at the same time.
5.5. folded laundry (left over from India 3 weeks ago) for 1.5 hrs only because I could watch "Dirty Jobs" at the same time.
6. around 1:30pm I made myself a breakfast burrito and some coffee using the last 12 coffee beans and some milk that "expired" three days earlier. it left an odd taste in my mouth, but i drank the whole cup (this is a sign i'm turning into my mother).
7. read 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang' in the bathtub. (Can't say much about it so far, but it was a guilty pleasure purchase while i was in the Chicago airport. i needed something to foil my third world adventures)
7.5. mmmmmm ate Dion's for dinner. soooooo good. took the dogs to a friend's house to watch the lobo game. came home and put my home uniform back on.
8. drank some Shiners and left over wine while watching 'Up All Night' episodes. Decided i was going to sleep on the couch because the leather is warmer than an empty bed. Got some blankets and put the heater on a timer, had a restless sleep.
9. the next morning D called to ask why i'd called at 2:49 am and that his phone ring woke everyone up. I denied it but then later looked at my call log and see that in a fit of sleep talking, i actually placed two calls at 2:49 am. first call was to David, second call was to Dion's. I don't know that I've ever laughed at myself all alone, embarrassed for myself, at myself. I have absolutely no memory of making calls but do remember waking up and wondering why my phone was on the floor instead of the coffee table. In true girlfriend fashion I found a way to put it back on David and asked him why he didn't answer my call? it could've been an emergency! why else would i call at 2:49 am?! he said 'because i knew you were drunk / sleep dialing'. liar.
10. is it too early for new year's resolutions? well if it isn't obvious already, my goal is to drink less before bed. in all honesty our wine habit has gotten out of hand. it's safe to say we spend more money on wine than we do on groceries. a whole bottle every night. and if we're out, we go to the store. don't get me wrong, we don't "need" it, it's just that we both work our butts off at two ^*(&!@#!$@#$ jobs and at the end of the night we like to unwind with some netflix, wine, bruschetta, fancy cheese, or a steamed artichoke. sound snobby? we've graduated from beer, quesadillas, and chips and salsa to a more sophisticated pallet. but we all know that eating and drinking late at night = big butts, so my goal is to sip our way through 3 bottles a week, instead of 7, and to take it easy on the snacks, then we'll go from there.
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| this was an especially big snack night for us (i swear it's not always this much food)...I think it was a Tuesday, and neither of us had eaten lunch or dinner. |
see, look? i wrote a whole blog post! the main reason being that my house is already clean and i don't feel guilty writing for an hour. now, if only my xmas shopping was finished...
