Happy New Year!

So, here I am on vacation.  I am going to have NYE dinner at my favorite restaurant in the whole world (Daisy is in agony right now because it is also one of her favorite restaurants and being the sweetie I am I shall taunt her with stories of spinach dip! and ribs! and hand cut french fries! and champagne! and caramel dessert!).  Then I am off to a low-key evening with friends and bubbly.  All in all, a pretty great NYE - well, there are a few notable things missing (ahem, New Years kiss) but I am satisfied.

Anyway, instead of making vague resolutions about being a better person for the new year, I have set goals.  Goals that I will achieve and not drop by March.  Goals that I am already working on, in fact.  So here they are, in no particular order:

* maintain my weight loss from the very successful Eddie & AH Weight Loss Challenge!  We put ourselves on diets this holiday season, and though we haven't had our "official" weigh-in yet, we have both done very, very well and are almost down to our goal weights!  Now all I have to do is stay there . . .

* run my first marathon.  Possibly even 2!

* learn how to play the guitar.  It fits in well with my overall plan to meet and woo Ryan Adams.  Swoon.   

* play at least one sport (so far I am signed up for one definitely, yay!)

* pass the bar - yuck, yuck, and more yuck, but it has to be on the list.

So there they are.  I hope everyone has a fabulous NYE - Murphy and I will be back soon!

Vacation

Murphy and I are on vacation.  Someplace warm and sunny.  But without Bears games on television.  So it isn't "all" good.  But mostly . . .

Aaaaaahh.

That is a sigh of relief "aaaaah" not a panicky, stressed out "aaahhh".

Papers done: 3
Papers to go: 1

Procrastination is phenomenal.

Things that are AWESOME.

* Having 3 finals due this week. Being done with zero of the 3.

* Breaking a molar on a tiny piece of not-all-that-hard chocolate. Not having time to get the molar fixed due to aforementioned 3 finals.

* Having a hacking cough. Only way to relieve said cough is to take cold medicine which makes you woozy and unable to write coherently, thus distracting from the 3 finals, but not distracting from the broken tooth.

* Walking your dog and cleaning up his poop in the midst of all of these things.

I may have to rethink my definition of awesome . . .

The Bippie

AH: I am such a hippie.
Eddie: You are not.
AH: I am so. I use organic clove-flavored toothpaste and eat organic veggies and cage-free eggs and meat from non-abused cows and . . .
Eddie: Okay, okay. But you don't want to *date* a hippie.
AH: Of course I do. They are scruffy and adorable and will put up with my weird organic creations and oddly flavored toothpaste and my excellent taste in jam bands.
Eddie: But hippies are smelly and have no motivation in life. And they have yucky hair.
AH: No, no. I am talking about *Boulder hippies*. Cute, scruffy, want to go climb a mountain with the puppy and then have a fair trade coffee and a sprouted-grain english muffin type of hippies.
Eddie: I see. So these are not *real* hippies.
AH: Of course they are. But they are from Boulder. Like me! I am generally well-kempt, have a future career in mind, like to go hiking (for one day only!!! camping is dirty), and have great clothes, shoes, and purses (um, he won't have purses).
** pause **
Eddie & AH simultaneously: Aha!!! A Bippie!!!

** dating applications currently being accepted from Chicago-area Bippies - um, must like dogs and not be emotionally unavailable freaks, as previously mentioned **

Your Second Wednesday Song of the Day**

I've been a long time gone now * Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
But I've always found my way somehow * By taking the long way
Taking the long way around * Taking the long way * Taking the long way around

I met the queen of whatever * Drank with the Irish and smoked with the hippies
Moved with the shakers * Wouldn't kiss all the asses that they told me to
No I, I could never follow * No I, I could never follow

It's been two long years now * Since the top of the world came crashing down * And I'm getting it back on the road now * But I'm taking the long way * Taking the long way around * I'm taking the long way * Taking the long way around* The long * The long way around

Well, I fought with a stranger and I met myself * I opened my mouth and I heard myself * It can get pretty lonely when you show yourself * Guess I could have made it easier on myself
But I, I could never follow * No I, I could never follow

Well, I never seem to do it like anybody else * Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down * If you ever want to find me I can still be found * Taking the long way * Taking the long way around * Taking the long way * Taking the long way around - Dixie Chicks

** What do you mean it isn't Wednesday??? Damned finals schedule has me all mixed up. Oh and yes, this song actually does remind me of me - those who know me well know that I never do things the exact way I am supposed to, but they love me for it. Erm , at least I think they do.

A Haiku for Eddie

Met a cute greenie
Too bad he lives in L.A.
That is not so close

Good v. Evil

Good things about today:
* waking up after a night of martinis and realizing you have pad thai in your fridge.

Bad things about today:
* Army v. Navy. Really??? This is my hangover football???