Driving home from a friend’s place in Willow Grove this morning, I ran into some traffic on North Broad. There were 2 cars stopped in front of me, while the other lane kept moving fine. The car directly in front of me managed to change lanes and go around and I was able to see what the holdup was. Some bum was stumbling around the middle of the street in front of this car. That car was finally able to get around and now the bum was directly in front of me. I still couldn’t move around so we got to watch as the bum’s bare ass suddenly came into view. Jocelyne yelled out “Oh my God, that bum is going to shit.” Sure enough, the bum popped a squat in the middle of the street, right in front of my car. Turns out it was a woman, and she only pissed. She finally pulled her pants back up, and stumbled around some more in front of me, before going enough towards the middle of the street that I could get past her. Michael insists that she was strutting around now looking all smug at what she just did. I can’t believe I saw this happen.

I’ve never been that into New Year’s resolutions, or even New Year’s for that matter. In fact, I slept through this year’s holiday since I was sick. I was more annoyed at missing the parties my friends were having than missing the ball drop / countdown / holiday thing. Any way I’ve decided that now is as good a time as any to start my main goal (or resolution, whatever you want to call it):

I want to be more healthy.
1. Take vitamins. I’ve had a cold for like a month now and it’s really annoying. It should be simple to remember to take this stuff everyday, but I’m lazy and so far haven’t done it.
2. Eat better. More fruits and veggies, anything so my diet is not completely pasta. I’ve been cooking more already so this one should be easy.
3. Exercise. The schedule I’ll have this coming term gives me more than enough time to go to the gym most days. I’m also considering a yoga or belly dancing class.
4. Sleep. I feel like I’m sleep deprived a lot, which might also contribute to my getting sick easily.

This stuff shouldn’t be hard to do, it’s all a matter of making myself do it enough so it becomes routine and overcomes the laziness.

I watched my cousin and her fiancé run in the Philadelphia Marathon this morning. It was really cool to be down there seeing everyone come in. I knew what their approximate times would be so I went to the finish line in front of the Art Museum about half an hour before that, just in case. He came in at 03:45:39, and she came in at 04:56:42. I was thinking it’d be cool to run that too.. and then I remembered it’s 26 miles. It would take me forever to do a 5k at this point. Maybe I’ll start running again. Except it’s winter now so I probably won’t because I lose all motivation to get out of my bed when it’s cold.

I took my film camera with me since I have a telephoto lens for it. I hadn’t used it in years. But then I got so excited when they came in that I was cheering and probably didn’t take good pictures. It’ll probably be a long time before I find out. I have no idea when I’m going to finish the roll of film. I’ll have to make an effort to bring it home for Thanksgiving or something. It was cool though because a lot of people finished holding hands with whatever group they were part of, or their kids came out and ran the last bit with them. There were a couple of guys who came in with some seriously bleeding nipples though. It was painful to even look at.

Congrats Ben and Jeanne!

For the 3rd year in a row, I will be finishing my costume the day I wear it to a party. But that’s because I didn’t start until last night. Oops. I’m almost done, maybe 2 hours left, but I needed a break. I got up early to do my hair in pin curls since that takes all day to dry. As soon as I’m done, I have to clean my apartment, and I still have to go get food and drinks for tonight’s party, which won’t be until later, after I can take my hair down. Hopefully I can wave it and get it to look like Gene Tierney / Ingrid Bergman.

Funeral #4 this year for my family is on Friday. Before this year, I’d only ever been to 2 funerals. This sucks.

Going camping this weekend with my family at Elk Neck State Park in Maryland. It’s a nice place and they have a hike out to a lighthouse.

I’m enjoying being able to take a literature course since it lets me read. I never have time to read except for school stuff, which is usually tech textbooks.

I need to go get some allspice. I’m going to make apple butter in my crockpot to bring camping. I had some Duffield’s peach butter last weekend and it was sooo good.

My grandmother gave me a crockpot cookbook and it has all sorts of cool desserts and stuff in it, not something I ever associated with crockpots before. I always just thought of pot roast, stew, or corned beef.

I got my iPod from Google yesterday, along with a messenger bag, and I decided to keep it. The box was just sitting there and I really wanted to open it so I cracked. I’ll give my old mp3 player to my little sister. The new one is a 30gb video one.

Apparently big families are trendy right now. I don’t see how that makes any sense. Having kids isn’t a trend. You can’t get rid of them when it’s not trendy any more. And this article considers “big” to be anything more than 2. I don’t consider my family with 4 kids big, I consider it normal. I always felt bad for my friends with only 1 or no siblings because they had no one to play with. My mom came from 4 kids, my dad from 5. Both of my parents’ dads came from 3 kids, and my mom’s mom came from 4. My dad’s mom came from 7 though, and most of them had lots of kids. Two had 6, one 8, and one 9. I can’t imagine having less than 4 when I do eventually have kids. Big families seem much more fun and weird than little ones.

I got home from San Diego on Saturday night around 10:30 and then went out to a bar and diner with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while, getting home at like 4:30. So between that and the time change, I am awake right now and have been all night. I have a bunch of work to catch up on still. San Diego was fun though. We didn’t get much chance to leave the conference but I did go out with my cousin Sarah in Pacific Beach on Friday night. Her fiance and some of his friends hung out too, and a friend of mine rode down from LA to hang out. I want to go back when I actually have some time to do stuff. Their wedding is next October so I’ll at least be back then.

Lisa had her baby early Saturday morning. She is so pretty. :)

I was able to finish her baby blanket in time to go visit the hospital. I did not finish my present for the shower on Sunday though. It should only take another day or two if nothing else interferes. Julia didn’t finish hers either though so I’m safe.