Today I have made lunch, done two loads of laundry, prepped eggplant and started roasting eggplant for tonight's eggplant Parmesan dinner, helped Pete figure out where I wanted two pictures hung up, and have started clearing the library table. I still need to rework and buff a couple different versions of my resume, finish making the eggplant Parmesan, and maybe take a stab at writing something. Oh, and the Infamous BlueJay is coming over tonight.

Why do I feel like I haven't gotten anything done?

I am home! I had a mai tai!

Now Sherlock is downloading.

mmm eggplant parmesan

I am roasting a chicken and root vegetables and had a fit because we don't have an actual roasting pan big enough to fit all the veggies and the chicken! So I had to put some of the veg on a half-sheet. It's fine but I hate not having the right tools!

I got my hair cut slightly today and my hairdresser put it in some hippy braids (because 2012 is Year of the Hairdo for me and she was showing me options). It looks kind of ridic but also kind of cute.

I am still slightly hung over from lots of red wine with lady friends last night. Consumed with amazing Chinese food. I bought a bottle of white to go with the roast chicken tonight but I think I"m going to just stick with water.

Matt,

I screamed with laughter when Michelle mentioned that her husband was out buying doggie sunglasses!

I just could have DIED. Free to be you and me and all that, but I don't know how many men shop for doggie sunglasses (or women for that matter - I am certainly not the type to get any pet of mine sunglasses), but I would venture a guess that 99.999999% of men who buy doggie sunglasses aged 50s-60s are not heterosexual.

I let my apartment get really bad, I think I was dealing with some seasonal stuff I wasn't expecting. And now I'm feeling more energetic but I'm moving at a snails pace. A slow snail.I've got most of my yarn organized, most of the dishes done, and some things put into the storage area. I keep telling myself any kind of forward momentum is better than sliding back.

I keep telling myself any kind of forward momentum is better than sliding back.

It's true!!

I don't know why I can never figure out meat thermometers. I never trust them or trust myself to figure out where to stick them.

Wow, interesting football game with Pittsburgh and Denver.

Also, Atlanta lost. I am gloating.

mmm eggplant parmesan

It's not the traditional version, because coating something in egg & flour, then pan-frying it? Not something I can indulge in right now. So instead it will be roasted eggplant, spinach, tomato sauce, and cheese.

I keep telling myself any kind of forward momentum is better than sliding back.

Very true!

I just found a pile of mail from November. Thankfully, no overdue bills, but yeash. I get so bad about mail around the holidays.

I'd like my swim times back. I'm sure part of it was the Ick, but damnit, I want my 55/56 pace back.

I'm back in Pennsylvania now, and I'm freezing. This house is so ridiculously drafty. I've got insulated curtains on the big window, which helps a lot, but there's still cold coming in.