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Got up extremely late today - I slept till noon. I think my body was trying to get rid of the last dredges of this cold and succeeded rather well.

Re-sanded with the body scrub I got at the spa last weekend. The secret to make the stuff work is to use it on dry skin - using it in the shower doesn't do much as it washes off as soon as you put it on.

I was also a good person today - I exercised (dumbells and aerobic), sat in front of my light and even got some Real Sunlight(TM) by reading the new Neil Gaiman in front of a window. Gaiman scores again - the only fiction that I find so involving that I literally can't put it down.

I am trying to put things away - D. and I have a big problem with letting magazines and mail stack up all over the coffee and dinner tables and I'm tired of the clutter. Just wish I had more shelf space.

D. went out to get lunch and noticed a few snowflakes flying around. Sort of depressing news to me - I loved snow as a kid, but the adult reality of having to drive in it has totally ruined it for me. Of course, D. and my cold weather-loving cat Spice were all smiles and bouncing all over the house.

I have developed a nice blister on one hand from working on the stays (yeah, them again). I'm hand sewing the binding around the edges so I won't tear up the machine by accidentally sewing through a bone and it is hell on the hands. I can only do this for a couple of hours before it becomes really painful, on both skin and joints.

What's good for healing? I've got this blister and a couple of inadvertent cat scratches that refuse to heal.

Anyway - quiet day. I figure it is fruitless to try and start anything until next week.

tentative new years resolutions

To be changed/edited/added to/ignored as necessary (no particular order):

• Eat better. Difficult because I am really starting to hate to cook, at least on weekdays after I've been at work all day. When I ask D. to cook, he orders out - sometimes healthy, but often not.
  
• Get into better shape. Continue fencing, keep doing stretches/footwork at home, get next size up dumbells because I WILL have toned arms by summer, dammit!
  
• Do some minor traveling this year, hopefully with D., but if he can't, at least a weekend trip or two myself. Costume College beckons.
  
• Work on that damned social bugbear (i.e., not being good at being social). I don't know what that entails. This fact is very indicative of my (lack of) expectation of actual results. But I have to try because I'm also not good at being a hermit.
  
• Develop stick-to-it-tiveness. Finish scanning the old photos already instead of surfing aimlessly through apparently unimportant websites or mailing list minutiae (or better yet, scan *while* surfing aimlessly). Savor that huge stack of books, and don't stop halfway through because of "no time".
  
• Speaking of time - budget it better.
  
• Find some outlet for these directionless creative impulses. Sew more, make more jewelry, take up welding, something.
  
• Yearly standard that I actually have been able to stick to - try new stuff.