I am writing this entry only eleven minutes into 2008 (although most of my west coast friends won’t have joined me for another few hours). Happy new year, all!
My big resolution for this year came to me when catching up with one of my friends in Toronto. She made me realize just how important good friends are to me, and there have been a number of people in my life that continuously make efforts to involve me in their activities… this year I resolve to be a better friend to them, and work proactively so I’m more often the one calling them up instead of the other way round.
I’ve been staying on Sanibel Island with my parents and brother for the past week and change. It’s been gorgeous here and it’s good spending time with my family, but the entire island is engineered around couples over 40 and their kids under 12, so there isn’t much to do other than eat, sleep, swim and bike.
I’ll be getting back to work on Friday. I expect it to be somewhat awkward coming back from a three-week vacation to a job I’ve only just started in. At least I got some work done over the holiday, although not as much as I’d like.
A former coworker indoctrinated me into the cult of Emergen-C sometime around August this past year. She swears the stuff has made her invincible toward the common cold, and while I’ve always remained sceptical about such things, the flu was definitely making its rounds in the workplace and I figured anything that might help was worth a shot. (I’ve always taken vitamin C pills daily in the past, which has never noticeably improved my ability to dodge colds, and Emergen-C is basically vitamin C “plus”, so I had no reason to expect any difference.) So I started drinking the stuff every day at work and I have to admit I’ve been the unlikely evader of at least three different rounds of illness. Then I stopped taking it for about a week while I was on holiday (although I still took This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.