New Year's Resolutions

This is really the first year that I make up New Year's Resolutions. Usually, I do birthday resolutions but I decided that no one can ever have too many goals :)

1- Blog more and with a more positive beat
2- Be more outgoing (this is a failed birthday resolution)
3- Engage in more meaningful conversations (as opposed to bitching about work -- with everyone)
4- Be more carefree and stress less -- don't sweat the small stuff!
5- Be more creative with make-up and jewelry -- the more you practice, the better you get!
6- Stay on budget (should be EXTREMELY tough given that I will have almost no income soon)
7- Get a new job (part- or full-time, as long as it's something to supplement my current income)
8- Set monthly goals ;)

This post will be edited as I begin to think of more resolutions :)

Sick/Malade

I went to bed Christmas Eve morning knowing that I had to be up in a few hours to go to a friend's Christmas party. I woke up Christmas Eve evening to a pounding headache and congested nose. Lovely.

This morning (or... *blushes*) afternoon when I woke up -- it was worse! I took drowsy medicine last night and have been chugging OJ and eating oranges and grapes like a crazy person but to no relief. I just came home from having spent what is slowly amounting to the worst Christmas ever sniffling about my aunt's house and talking like a sick person.

How was this the worst Christmas ever? Well. I have no living room in which to put up a tree, no Christmas decorations, no energy to clean my kitchen in order to bake goodies....... Plus I'm sick. It's worth mentioning, I suppose, that I never get sick. Perhaps once or twice every two years (the last time I was sick was October 2008) and this time it just had to land on Christmas. Usually I'm a jolly old Saint Nick (uh, Sainte-Nicole?) but this year...? Bah humbug! ;)