Wednesday, December 16, 2009

All I want for Christmas

Around Christmas time you exchange gift ideas, desires, things you need - lists essentially - of things you'd like to receive, and that's very convenient.

However, after being somewhat dissatisfied with my own list of items, I couldn't quite figure out what was missing from it that was leading me to believe it wasn't complete. It took a few days of thinking, but to be honest, all I want for christmas is the experience of opening a gift, and it being something unexpected, insightful and something that would make me smile, without having the item under the wrapping paper been hand picked by me.

I want that feeling.

Maybe I'll add that to my list.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Whatever

I want to write every day, I do. I miss the creativity, the sense of archiving my life, and just the free flowing of thoughts. But you see, when I used to write a lot, I was unemployed, and now, I have limited time to do many things. Like, I can either write, or watch the episode of the office from this week. or write, or relax and watch a movie before bed. It's always difficult to pick writing, because I don't have an audience anymore, and since it's been so long, it's hard to care.

I'd like to make it a new years resolution, or something different, a challenge, to write everyday in January, even if it's just a sentence. I will make a point to write everyday, and see if that has any effect on my habits.

Tonight I went to Michelle's work christmas party, and ate sun-dried tomato pesto with arugula and goat cheese bruschetta, roast salmon with cherry tomatoes, potato mash and carrots, and brownies and gelato for dessert.

It was also my only day off during the week, for three weeks now I've worked six days, and it's getting really old. My lack of free time is really stressing me out, my lack of free time is preventing me from planning christmas, christmas gifts, as well as unpacking and organizing my new home, planning future improvements and plans, and so much more.

I've been watching a movie almost every night as a way to cope with my stress and depression, and it does help, as I find comfort there, but now I've almost run out of movies, so that's disappointing.

I've been longing for a programming project but have yet to come up with any compelling ideas to get me going. I had one but I'm not sure it will develop into anything. I probably don't have the time for it anyway. Ah well...

I think I'll go watch a movie, then go to bed, so I can get up early and bike to work so I can start my new set of six days in a row.