I stayed home from work sick today - waking up with a fever/aching back and head is never fun, and I really didn't feel like dealing with that on top of staring at a computer screen all day. After Chris left for work I passed out on the bed (for 2 hours, amidst waking up several times to the cats fighting each other relentlessly) and finally awoke to stumble out to the living room and "indulge" in the world's most crappy television shows, slipping in and out of consciousness until the early afternoon.
I then awoke to a door opening, people stomping boots outside and scraping shovels. The Laurel Village crew had come to clean off our porch (for the 3rd time this winter?), and the cats were terrified. Later, well after the crew left and I mumbled thanks for not tracking too much snow in the apartment, I found Mishkin huddled in the corner of the tub. I had to lure Mao out from under the bed with crunchy treats, too.
Beyond today, though, the week hasn't been all bad. My birthday was yesterday, and I turned a whopping 25. As Chris's mom was nice enough to point out, I'm now officially a quarter of a century old. I don't feel it, but when I think about it and where I am in my life, I can honestly say I'm happy. Even with some of the ambiguity that's going on in my life right now, I can say I'm proud of where I am, who I spend my time with, and what I spend my time doing. Always good for a 25th birthday. :)
My parents got me this, which took up a good 3 days' time after I received it. They also got me a beautiful ring from Tiffany & Co. (!), with a great engraving that speaks to them being proud of me at this stage in my life, too. Also excellent. Chris made me a fantastic breakfast of pancakes and a freshly brewed latte, which was delicious. He also made blueberry muffins for a late-night treat. I bought myself a new purse from Marshalls, as well as another Lego set. It's weird; this Lego addition didn't really start until fairly recently, when the 3-in-1 Creator sets started making appearances in big box stores. Since then I've mostly built from the instructions, but I think once I get a better organization of my sets/pieces, I might be able to start playing around with my own designs.
Since I had to work yesterday (I took off Monday to have a long weekend, instead), I took a trip down to the Macy's cafeteria and grabbed an absolutely delicious cupcake before the afternoon set in. Sugar rush! We still have some German chocolate cake in the cupboard, so maybe we'll make that this weekend into more cupcakes to share.
The weirdest thing about my cupcake run was the response from everyone else at work. Not only were most people not willing to walk there, but some cited our earlier conversation about New Years' Resolutions as the reason. Now, I'm all for sticking to resolutions. I didn't say they had to buy anything, but it would have been nice if they would have at least shown a mild interest in spending the 10 minutes walking there with me. Also, so many were adamant that they can never eat "that kind of stuff," and that to me is just complete bullshit. If you can't fucking celebrate at least once as part of your goddamn diet, then you might as well slit your own wrists. It just made me so angry - why bother dieting to no avail to look good a beach when you're not happy with your life when it's over? No point. Plus...I couldn't live without chocolate. Just that simple. And I don't think you need to give all that up and diet all the time to be happy with yourself or your body. I think you can have both.
Other than that we've been doing some more cooking, with this week's dish a homemade slow cooker chicken noodle soup. Slow cookers are, quite possibly, one of the best decisions for easy dish prep for leftovers for the week. If you don't have one, get one. Now.
We've been pretty good about our sit-up regimen each night, and except for a few days late, we've also been doing Zumba Fitness. I'm also thinking about picking up Just Dance 2, since I've read and heard rave reviews about it.
I've got a very sweet Mao kitten on my lap now, and she thinks the laptop is hers, so I guess this post is over. God I wish I was a cat sometimes. But then I wouldn't be able to do any Lego construction, so....
Tradeoffs. :)
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