O-blog-atory... part 2

Oh my goodness, where has the time gone?
I know that I made a vow to blog regularly again, but I guess I completely forgot to set a deadline by which to get this done every week. Darn!

In my defense though, I can honestly say that I had no time to blog the last week and a half (two weeks) anyway because my last day off was actually the last day I blogged. So there. Today was the first day I had off in the last two weeks (I think). The days seem to run together so much sometimes that I can’t remember sometimes… If I recall correctly, the only day I had off last week was only a partial day. So, it didn’t really count as a day off.

So, the last two weeks have been pretty uneventful. I’ve just been working every night, sleeping every day. And somewhere in there, I have found time to eat… go grocery shopping, do laundry, get my car inspected, and start a new skin care regimen.
It seems that in my older years, I have started to develop fine lines and wrinkles. So, I decided to start using Oil of Olay about two weeks ago. I now realize that Oil of Olay makes me break out. Ugh. BUT I will say that I have begun to see it’s immediate effects on the fine lines. So, now I am torn. Which is the worse of two evils? And if any of you feel compelled to recommend ProActive, let me just tell you that that makes me break out in the most HORRIBLE way. Oh my gosh!

But I digress… let us not dwell on my skin woes… life is too short…

The reason I have been working every day for the past two weeks is so that I could have an entire week off. I had to balance out my work hours.

On my first day off, I decided to do nothing that would require me to leave the house. That is reserved for tomorrow. So, today I turned down three dinner invitations and a potential blind date so that I could sit at home all day in my pajamas and watch TV. It really was a much-needed day off. It is the end of the evening, and I am finally starting to feel rested.
Earlier in the evening, I decided to cook dinner, and for the first time in what seems like forever, the Mexican rice I made actually came out good. Not crunchy at all this time.

And since I had no time to make pumpkin bread over the holidays (the way I wanted to), I finally made some today. Only this time, I decided to cut out more sugar than I usually do. It seems that this sugar phobia of mine is getting a bit out of hand. Instead of 3 cups of sugar, I only added one and a half cups. It didn’t really come out bad… but I started thinking that that butter-cream frosting recipe from that cake decorating class might come in handy in times like these. Thank goodness for whipped cream! I just put some heaping dollops of that on my serving of bread, and voila! Instant yummy-ness!

Of course, all this food was just a healthy reminder that I really should be working out regularly. I intended to start last week, but that didn’t happen. You know, I’ve read that if you want to start working out that you should get a workout buddy. A workout buddy is supposed to hold you accountable and make sure you set goals and reach them. My workout buddy seems to have disappeared on me though. But that’s a different story.

I also decided to try and update my myspace profile again… talk about a pain…

The last productive thing I finally did this evening was try to clean out my e-mail inbox. Am I the only one who has trouble getting this done? I had over 300 unread e-mails. I think I am just going to create a new e-mail address…
And that’s my blog for this evening… gotta get ready for tomorrow… I have plans to leave the house and run around town the next few days…(you can read about all that next week—if I don’t get the urge to share sooner…)

Not to mention I also have some other writing to get done… the kind that doesn’t get posted here… this was just to keep y’all updated, and to hold myself accountable…

Talk to y’all later…

Thanks for reading…