Industry

I'm proud of myself. Though I've been a real slacker assed lazybones of late, I took the time to return my library books after work tonight. I even did some stop-gap marketing (just need to be tided over till pay day) on my way home. The fact that the coming week is going to be busy forced my hand. C returns to town on Monday (she was here this past week for a day and a half) for three more interviews, I have a post-project happy hour with some coworkers on Tuesday night, and Thursday I shop for an outfit or two for a business trip the following week. I'm off on Friday, but it's going to be a day of errands related to school and to the aforementioned trip.

On other fronts, I've been assigned a new project at work. I've had the luxury of trying to wrap my mind around what it will mean for most of this week.

Tonight, I did some streamlining (removed programs I never use from my computer) and faced the music (got a free credit report online--it was as abysmal as I suspected, though probably better than it was before I got serious about fixing my financial problems).

Now I need to go to bed. Sculpt is tomorrow!

Closing out the week

I left the office at about 10 mintues before noon. My salon appointment was at 12:30 and I needed to hit my bank (a few doors down from my stylist's place) to get quarters for laundry first, so I was pushing it (but I made it on time). In the spirit of "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail" I made myself two pb & j sandwiches last night for lunch. because they didn't need to be refrigerated or heated up, I could just leave them in my bag to eat while sitting under the dryer. Easy on the wallet, fairly easy on the waistline too.

After a couple of hours my hair was relaxed and cut (see above), and I was ready to jet home to check work e-mail to make sure nothing catastrophic--or at the very least, inconvenient--happened while I was away. A few response e-mails later and I headed to the library to return most of the books and books-on-cd I'd checked out. I renewed two selections online this morning.

I skipped the gym this morning because I didn't want to have to deal with sweating but not being able to wash my hair (because of hair appointment), but I still woke up at 6, paid some bills online (including paying off one of my smaller credit cards, which I made it a goal to do within the first quarter of the new year), made a deposit to savings, and then headed in to work.

After coming home from the bibliotechque, I set about doing that laundry. Dinner was lightly breaded tilapia filets with cannellini beans & spinach with garlic and red onion on the side. I also tried out my new stove top espresso maker (Giada has one just like it!).

Starting to get sleepy and 5 am comes early, so I'm signing off for now. Tomorrow I resume my gym schedule, office stuff, and my place in the "Key Lime Murder" mystery. It's this campy series about a baker in a small town in Minnesota. Every installment features some new intrigue surrounding a particular dessert and some interloper's demise.

first of the year

if today is anything to go by, 2008 will be a year of tremendous industriousness. call me superstitious (or prone to cliches, more like), but I believe that the way you "bring in" the new year brings much to bear on how you will spend the year. So far: the gym for about an hour and a half workout, taking down and putting away the Christmas tree, tidying up from the small NYE fete, and laundry.

Now I need to finish up a letter to a friend and start reading David Bach's Smart Women Finish Rich. By mid-March I want to have lost this last ten pounds and to have completely paid off one of my credit cards.

In the spirit of "keeping it real," i have to admit to coming home from the gym and eating four cookies and the rest of the potato chips from last night. So there. 2008 will not be a year of asetisicm :).