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plonqI am using my Christmas icon as a final act of defiance against the fact that my vacation officially ended today. Fortunately I logged into my work computer remotely a few times while I was away, so I did not walk into the nightmare I might otherwise have encountered for my first day back. A couple hours of time on my vacation saved me a couple days of headache - I think it was a fair trade.
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atara's family over Christmas, the rest of my time can be largely summed up with the letters W, O and W. I also cleared several years worth of clutter off of my computer desk, which took the better part of a day. A lot of what was piled on the desk was junk, but I had a pretty strong sentimental attachment to some of it (like the last hand-written note I got from Dad before he died, etc.). I would include a photograph so that you could all marvel at the unclutteredness of my desk now, but without a before picture to compare against, it would lose much of its impact.
I did not make any resolutions for the new year. When the subject of resolutions came up in our guild chat the other day, I casually mentioned, "My sole resolution this year is to make no resolutions this year." I don't know if I can keep that resolution or not, but I figured that I may as well get failure out of the way early and then move on. Alas, the self-defeating nature of my resolution was lost on the others who were logged in at the time.
I was pretty good about tracking my nutrition over Christmas, but our eating routine got so screwed up around New Year's Eve that I gave up tracking until I got onto a more normal schedule. Today I am jumping back on the rails and returning to my regime of regular daily walks. In the end I don't think I back-slid too badly over the holiday, and I think I'm on a good pace to lose another belt size by spring.
I am both relieved, but a bit sad to be done with my "Picture a Day" project. I did not sign up for a new one this year, which means I'll have to start coming up with actual LJ entries again. I did really well with the picture project up until near the end.
The first day that I missed was actually in early December. After nailing it 100% for the year, I got distracted and forgot completely about my daily picture until the next day. Coming so close and then failing in the final stretch took all the wind out of my sails. I did a half-assed job of keeping it going through Christmas but sometime around the 27th or 28th of the month I just stopped. It wasn't a conscious effort to drop the project, but my enthusiasm was gone and I just let it slide; I forgot one day, and then never managed to catch up the next day until the year was over. I'll just mark this off as another of my unfinished projects and move forward.
I'm a little disappointed in myself is all.
I would like to say that I did lots of constructive and useful things while I was off work, and while I managed to get away to the US to visit
atara's family over Christmas, the rest of my time can be largely summed up with the letters W, O and W. I also cleared several years worth of clutter off of my computer desk, which took the better part of a day. A lot of what was piled on the desk was junk, but I had a pretty strong sentimental attachment to some of it (like the last hand-written note I got from Dad before he died, etc.). I would include a photograph so that you could all marvel at the unclutteredness of my desk now, but without a before picture to compare against, it would lose much of its impact.I did not make any resolutions for the new year. When the subject of resolutions came up in our guild chat the other day, I casually mentioned, "My sole resolution this year is to make no resolutions this year." I don't know if I can keep that resolution or not, but I figured that I may as well get failure out of the way early and then move on. Alas, the self-defeating nature of my resolution was lost on the others who were logged in at the time.
I was pretty good about tracking my nutrition over Christmas, but our eating routine got so screwed up around New Year's Eve that I gave up tracking until I got onto a more normal schedule. Today I am jumping back on the rails and returning to my regime of regular daily walks. In the end I don't think I back-slid too badly over the holiday, and I think I'm on a good pace to lose another belt size by spring.
I am both relieved, but a bit sad to be done with my "Picture a Day" project. I did not sign up for a new one this year, which means I'll have to start coming up with actual LJ entries again. I did really well with the picture project up until near the end.
The first day that I missed was actually in early December. After nailing it 100% for the year, I got distracted and forgot completely about my daily picture until the next day. Coming so close and then failing in the final stretch took all the wind out of my sails. I did a half-assed job of keeping it going through Christmas but sometime around the 27th or 28th of the month I just stopped. It wasn't a conscious effort to drop the project, but my enthusiasm was gone and I just let it slide; I forgot one day, and then never managed to catch up the next day until the year was over. I'll just mark this off as another of my unfinished projects and move forward.
I'm a little disappointed in myself is all.
