I can’t believe it’s been since the beginning of the year since I’ve sat down to write here. To ease myself back into the groove, here are some good things about 2010 so far:

Valentine’s Day card from a favorite boy.

I very much enjoy getting regular cards from Candi/Jack because even though they are far away, and we don’t catch up as often as we’d like, they’re always close to my heart.

Vampire Weekend – Contra.

I’ve listened to this album about 10 times and haven’t found a single thing wrong with it yet. It’s upbeat, but not sugary. Very nice to listen to while working. I even looked into going to a concert of theirs, but all the options were far far away and/or sold out. WOE

The XXI Olympics.

Speed skating and Figure skating and Cross-boarding. I love it! I love the warm mushy feelings and the general goodwill and all the sappy stories too.

200 Crochet Blocks by Jan Eaton.

Crocheting is easier for me than knitting, and much less demanding than an actual sewing project – and most of these blocks take no more than an hour – which is about all the time I can sit still on the couch before passing out cold with the crochet needle midair.

I’m not feeling ready to head back to work tomorrow at all. Although perhaps it sounds asinine, I somehow thought that with the new year I would magically feel pumped and motivated about returning. But alas, I do not.

Mostly I feel trepidation. I’m fairly sure there will be very little easing back into the flow, as we eased into the holidays with a slow taper. I think we’ll start tomorrow with a full plate.

I’m trying to have excitement and anticipation and thoughts that this is the turn-around year, but my damn realism is kicking my ass.

My only resolution for the year was to be my best version of myself (gah, corny, I know), but I think if I can just manage to stop sabotaging myself, this year might turn out alright.

I rang in the New Year exactly as I wanted – game night with friends, moderately tipsy, kissed my husband at midnight, was home and in bed before 12:30. Today I slept in late, shopped for groceries, dyed my hair (chocolate cherry feria ), watched the criminal minds marathon, installed 5 expansion packs (got a nice lot of them on ebay for cheap) for the sims2 (which i still prefer to sims3). Now it’s getting late and I’m watching Bones and sitting here under my blankie with the heater pointed at me.

Overall I’m okay that today was low key and didn’t include anything particular different. I’d like to think that 2010 is going to be similar, but better in it’s own due time and in ways that I can’t see yet.