The Big To-Do List

Tuesday 6th January, 2009.

I thought of some other things I need to do this next year, so I am adding them to my overall overwhelmedness of the big to-do. A bit of Lancashire humour there - a "big to-do" is a huge kerfuffle, which explains nothing but is apropos.
So, I need to get my immigration stuff sorted - it is six months since the wedding that is too much procrastination - it does not matter that I hatey, hatey hate all that kind off stuff, some things you just can not put off. This is actually way easier than some on my more esoteric goals like being nicer and stop telling fibs. What else, I want to keep in touch with my friends and family more consistently - hey, I can just tell them to follow my blog - joke. I want to have a good hard think about my spirituality, and then I expect to tiptoe quietly away, as usual. I want to climb Coniston Old Man, because it kicked my bottom last time I tried. I want to know more about particle physics ( can't really say why). I want to assess my charitable giving - anything will be an improvement on the occassional $20 to St. Judes and the odd dollar to the annoying singing-man on the subway. Some kind of service, somewhere, sometimes - ah well, best not to get bogged down in details - the inkling of the idea is there. Make some new friends. Join some kind of group. Go to some of the medieval events in Manhattan that I keep getting notifications about, plan to go to, and then come up with some excuse not to be able to make it this time. Oh and to wear make-up more often and keep my brows under an inch thick.

Progress Report:
Diet: well we are following Dr Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" diet. So far things going quite well. Weight has been lost. I weighed 177lbs between Christmas and New Year when I weighed myself, and now I weigh 166lbs. So many veggies - I need a double-wide of chiller space in my fridge.
Wii exercise - 1hr: Yoga is getting better: I think I am becoming more stable (yeah right!)
Fags and Booze: None.
TV: none - well except for a couple of episodes of "The IT Crowd", which I HAD to watch because it had just arrived as a Christmas pressie from my brother.
Arguments: A few - it is just that unlucky combo of the extremely irritable and the extremely irritating.
Stuff done I want to do: Some knitting (about 20 more lines, yeah), waltzing with hubbikins 10 mins, 10mins plinking on the keyboard, wrote long e-mail to my Mum, my mother-in-law and my BFF Rachel (can nearly 40-year-olds have BFF's? - 29 years is a lot of BFFing). And, of course, I have started a blog, with which to share my self-centered inanity with the world. Much cheaper than therapy, and for free I can imagine complete strangers nodding sagely and going "h-hmm" every few minutes while I blather on.

Some sad news today - my Mum called me and her cat had to be put down. She was fifteen and a crazy little sweetheart. I remember when we first got her and she was so tiny and wouldn't eat, so I feed her with a little pipette, while she was wrapped in a towel so she didn't claw my eyes out. We called her Titch, but she grew up big, feisty and very funny. Oh dear, I'm misting up. Blow nose, take a swig of tea - back on track.

Just had to run out and post Hubby's mother's flash-drive back to her, which Hubby had mistakenly picked up at Christmas, had looked for twice since and swore it was not here, and which I found within ten seconds of a frantic request to please check once again. And thus the color of life keeps us amused - which is me trying to be more pleasant - what I really want to say involves expletives and the word "strangle".

Tomorrow I tackle the immigration paperwork (ptwah! ptwah!).