Hello, February!

    

 Today continues the trend of our winter feeling much more like spring, what with the rainy days and clear sunshine and 60 degree weather. We have not had any snow that actually stuck this year and last year we had it by Thanksgiving. In fact, yesterday was Groundhog's Day and I'm figuring that Punxsutawney Phil was feeling like, "Are you serious? You brought me out here for this?! It's already spring." As it turns out, he did see his shadow, but I'm beginning to think that we are reading into that wrong. I am starting off the month with some planning. I finally finished assembling my desk and chair so that should make all the planning that much easier.

     I am planning a budget... Hopefully a trip to Paris (hey, it could happen!), my course work for the next 4 weeks, my meals, my blogs, my novel re-writes, my Valentine card list, something for Mardi Gras, a love song playlist, and my book, music, movie must experience lists.

     I wish I was going to Gigantour but the closest show is in Chicago and I didn't have anyone rallying me into making the road-trip. I wish they were playing a show closer. I feel like Nashville's getting skipped by everyone so far this year. I need to move.

     If I were to move right now it would be to Las Vegas. I'm thinking about it...I really am. I'm sick of the cold, I'm sick of tornadoes, I'm sick of living someplace where self-proclaimed rednecks rule the world...but most of all, I'm sick of living in a music market that artists skip whenever they play a limited tour. I can't keep flying all over the country just to see bands play, I need them to come to me...at least within a four hour drive...anyway, I'm ready to take on a grown-up town, not nested under the wing of The Church a.k.a. The Christian Right. So, I'm planning and plotting about how to make the rest of this year amazing. I will try to keep this updated. Thanks for reading.
~Ciao, K

2012 Day #2: Reflecting on the new year...

I decided to do a retrospect of the new year so far...

     After the indulgence that was New Year's Eve 2011...I began the new year yesterday with a clean slate and full of great expectations & good intentions. I had a fairly indulgent breakfast with eggnog panettone french toast, bacon & eggs, however I did offset it with fresh fruit and a southern traditional new year's dish of black-eyed-peas and collard greens  and I went jogging out on my favorite trail. I did some cleaning/organizing, and I did some loafing around and goofing off. In other words, it was a well balanced day. I even blogged, did a writing exercise for fun, read, and had a day well spent.

   

The only down side is the cold I managed to pick up somewhere along the way. This morning, after a satisfying breakfast of baby quiches, fruit and a caramel macchiato, I began a downward spiral which started with sneezing, morphing quickly into a runny nose, which is causing a furious sore throat. Booo! Feeling under the weather has put a cramp in my plans to make today productive.
 
  Now I only managed to confirm my spring enrollment and finish some blogs...oh and begin watching the new BBC Sherlock...which is quite awesome, I must say, for bookish anglophiles like myself. It's a very modern adaptation, but the two leads are nerdishly charming in that British way. I'm going to have to get back to that now as I am losing the energy required to type or even sit in front of a computer screen.

 Happy New Year 2012!
Cheers (and sniffles)!

I want this! I NEED this!!!