¿improductivo?

¿Que? In English please. You know I don't speak Spanish.

And crap like this, my friends, is why I am so unproductive. Or is it not unproductive?



Ugh, do I start laundry at 11:13 PM or just say eff-it again? These are the decisions I face in my day to day life.

If I don't have time to post tomorrow, this is me, taking a bow, for 2008. Thank you, thank you, it's been freaking great. I hate to admit it, but getting over that not-before-specifically-mentioned-but-I-kinda-knew-it-was-there-all-along quarter-life crisis sucked! Ooo, I even learned how to use dashes. I still must be loopy tired. Time to make like a tree and get outta here...

(It's "leave"! "Make like a tree and leave" you idiot!)

Well crap.

I feel like I should have been more tired than I actually felt yesterday... not falling asleep until 4:30 AM due to the shifted hours of the nine-day vaca. But I made it. I got to bed at a reasonable 12:30 AM last night, and... woke up before my alarm went off?! This really, really confuses me. I know I went through a few good REM cycles as I had a semi-effed-up dream where I actually tried to toss and turn to see if I was dreaming or awake, and I actually thought I was awake. I did this again in the dream, this time waking up with an "oh shit, phew" kind of feeling. Strange...

So yesterday I was talking to M about my vacation of what-I-would-call guilty-pleasure vacation (mostly the no exercise thing) and with herself in a similar after-vacation/New Year's-weekend-is-coming-up situation, she suggested I should just say eff-it and wait until the new year. Great, one of the most ambitious people I have ever met in terms of working out has given me advice to indulge in a little more fun. I have to admit, it's probably going to happen with my tentative weekend schedule: New Year's Eve party at friend's downtown on Wednesday, hockey championship celebratory beer bash on Friday (something I pretty much have to go to if I want to stay on that team, great, just great), and good friend's birthday downtown on Saturday. IMO, I should either A) succumb to the minimal amount of peer pressure, stay in on New Year's and Saturday, and only attend the hockey thing, or B) DO EVERYTHING.

I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen. January 4th through, oh, let's say 15th, are ALL now committed to exercise. You know, if I choose B)...

Funfunfunfunfun

Nine days of doing whatever the hell I wanted to do are coming to a close. No workouts, a lot of food, friends, fun stuff... whew. I'll have to do what I can in this short week to get back on track...

I actually missed out on meeting up with some people that I had intended to meet up with, but no worries as I'll make plans with them in the upcoming weeks.

I've actually been inspired by a book I read over break to possibly come up with another more private weblog. I'll think about it some more later, but for now, enough typing and back to enjoying my last few hours of break!

I'm saying screw it for once

It's been a fun-filled week, with a LOT of food and zero exercise besides hockey. Right now I'm debating a workout vs. elliptical, but hell, it's my vacation and for once I'm going to say screw it. And I'm not going to feel guilty. I'm not going to feel guilty. Ugh, I'll keep telling myself that. Okay so I'll feel guilty, but oh well, I'll have a great time doing it!

On another note, I have never had a Crown and Coke before Tuesday night. Oops. A new top favorite drink. On another note, I have never had a shot of Patron Silver (from a freezer) before Tuesday night. Oops, I did it again. A new top favorite shot.

On another, note, X-mas was satisfying. Good food, tolerable company (kidding...), presents.

To the... weekend?! Time off rules.

Predicament

Okay, I'm going to have a good 1-2 days of loafing at the parents' house for Xmas, and I'm going to cook something. But what? Perhaps eggs Benedict. Perhaps more than one item. Probably something salty. Twice baked potatoes? Damn it. This lack of decision-making seems to be my biggest problem at the moment. Damn it :)

General revelry

It's how I'd describe the very welcome vacation I'm currently in the middle of enjoying. I don't even know if that last sentence makes sense, and I suppose I don't really care. Some (possibly f-ed up) part of me even actually likes this anger-inducing cold. Thus far I've had a good "in" night, a great holiday party, a hockey champioinship, great food, plans made for the next few weekends, all without much of a worry about anything.

Let the revelry continue.

Almost there

What a busy and, okay, satisfying week. Busy due to extended work hours and the usual workout/shopping/laundry/chores weekday routine.... there hasn't been anything I would call free time. Satisfying because I don't think I've ever had such good sleep during a work week to date... probably averaging eight hours a night, which does wonders. I suppose the extra few hours of sleep per night is cutting into free time I'd usually have.... okay enough rambling.

One more day, well, half-day as tomorrow brings the annual company holiday party in the latter half of the day. After that... nine, nine beautiful days off in a row. It's going to be great. Almost there.

YouTube craze

I'll admit that I do find amusement in the many random YouTube clips I am shown (and find...). It make me wonder what what kind of entertainment will be at a person's fingertips in 10, 20, 50 years.

Play this one with sound, and make sure you're in a place that allows some racket (if at work, stick in the headphones)... it's a mad cat

Fear of... what?!

Last night I was DD. My two friends in the car, for some reason, starting talking about cotton. And by cotton I mean like cotton balls, q-tips, anything with bare cotton on it. They got to discussing how much they hate it and how they can't stand it. Funny guys, I thought, as I suspected they were putting me on. But they continued on with a serious tone, even going to say that people at their work taunt them by putting cotton balls on their keyboards to freak them out. They were serious... they actually have a real fear of cotton! I looked up the term for cotton phobia: Bambakophobia. Never would have imagined such a thing.

My internet search also produced a video of Maury Povich practically taunting a woman with bambakophobia... wow

Burnt out :( ?

I'm crying right now

The tears are-a-comin' and

I can't make them stop




(Cutting onions sucks)

:)

Haiku!

Lazy weekend forecast, etc.

No plans for this weekend other than Sunday hockey (and a stupid meeting in the middle of Sunday afternoon at the hockey rink for team managers, yeah that fits right into my schedule... :P ).

If there's outdoor ice, I'll probably dink around.

Someone reminded of bleu cheese burgers this week, and it, well, stayed in my head, so I bought stuff to make 'em. Good ones too, fresh and organic ingredients from Whole Foods.

Maybe I'll do some shopping... (for others!). The damn mall can be a $ trap for myself.

Have a book to tide me over for a few days as well... "The Nasty Bits" by Anthony Bourdain, yeah, that chef/author you see on the Travel channel. His knowledge of food really reminds me that I really do just cook for fun... I don't recognize and can't even pronounce half of the foods he mentions. It does make me want to eat good food though.

Okay, I try not to discuss the "w" word on here, but I can't help myself. Basically I have found out that my job function will be changing, and I will likely have increased responsibility and opportunity. I'm eager to see what the changes bring.

Off to the elliptical for now. (I hope nobody's on it, damn it...)

In the midst of holiday season

Holiday parties, hors d'oeurves galore, ugly sweaters, old friends, new friends... all part of the December experience. I find it amusing whenever someone asks how they made the dish they brought to the party... the response almost always seems to include "it's easy to make" in some way or another. Just one time I want to hear someone say "oh and this was hard to make too". A random thought.

Another thing -- I hate hate hate how Minnesotans forget how to drive every damned winter. It's sooo frustrating.

Another thing -- I really hope the outdoor ice rinks around me open up soon.

One more thing -- it will be nice to have another 9 days off in just over a week. So so nice.

'Tis the season...

... for the holiday parties to commence. Today I make food for a b-day party, tomorrow is an Xmas party that requires bringing hors d'oeurves, a gift for exchange, and dress is semi-formal... so grown-up! And Sunday I'll have a full day of rest with no hockey. There's no way this weekend disappoints.

Don't have much else to say. I'm pretty happy right now :)

This one's for me

I've decided on a New Year's resolution for 2009. It's definitely a personal challenge for self-improvement. And I'm keeping this one somewhat private. If one were to ask me personally what this is, I may tell you, and if I do, it will probably surprise you if you've known me for some time. I'm going to do it.

Thankful for rest and fun

Piano -- got to mess around on the parents' piano and play some of the old songs I still have memorized.

Rock Band -- I can't stress how much fun this game is with a group of people. Secretly, my favorite part to play is vocals. Whoops, not so secret anymore...

Cooked a simple snack for relatives -- french fried onions. Amazingly simple. And addictive. They were gone quite fast, which made me happy. Here's how simple: take onions (I prefer yellow for the sweetness), cut into thin slices (your preference), use a salt shaker to generously (sea) salt between layers as you re-stack the onion, let it sit there for around 10 minutes and it will "sweat" (suck out the onion liquid), then separate each ring and put into bag of flour and shake to coat (kind of tedious, but separating each ring is important, if you don't they'll stay stuck together and the end product isn't as good), pan fry in a few cm of oil (medium heat, ~350 degrees F) until light/golden brown (only takes a minute or two, drain on paper towel, and enjoy. (Then plan workout regimen to burn off newly acquired poundage).

Watched Cable Guy with family. Less awkward than it would have been 10 years ago, but still a little bit awkward.

Watched "Fred Claus" starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti. I want my 90 minutes back.

Hockey. Undefeated season, championship looking possible. It's ours to screw up.

It's been a good few weeks, nine days off, three days on, four days off. It's crazy to think that I'll have this same sequence in a few weeks with Xmas week and the new year holiday(s) off.

I also think my blog frequency is proportional to my mood, where higher blog frequency correlates with better mood. I've blogged a lot lately.