Not much has been going on in my life over the past few weeks. I’ve been working for my dad, mainly. I went to Tennessee for a week to see my sister. That’s about it. While I was there, it snowed! Not a lot but still. I live in Texas so snow is rare for us. So this was cool!:

Anyway. Life’s kind of boring. I’ve been working at my dad’s office, like I mentioned. I don’t have muhc time to do much of anything else. By the time I get home, it’s 7 so I plop in front of the TV and watch my shows. By the time they end, it’s shower time and I go to bed. Really boring. :-( I’ve been reading a lot though which is good. I’ve already read 6 books this month and I’m on my 7th. They’re not the longest or more critically acclaimed books ever but they’re books nonetheless. They entertain me and I’m glad for that. :) My goal is to read at least 26 books by December 31 – and I think I can easily do that.

Kelly Clarkson’s new song ‘My Life Would Suck Without You‘ is fabulous. Of course, I like anything she does. I liked My December a lot more than a lot of people probably did. I can’t wait until her new album is out. She could probably do chants, throat sing, or anything and I’d still buy her albums. lolz. I can’t wait until HER album comes out either. Two weeks until the single, ‘Boy Like Me‘, is available on iTunes. Yay! :-D

I finally finished and submitted my applications for grad school yesterday. I submitted my Texas A&M apps before Christmas, since that’s my first choice. I submitted the rest yesterday. I’m hoping something works out. If not, I’ll go the Sam Houston either in the summer or fall. I don’t really want to go there because I got accepted within a month of my applying there. It sounds too good to be true, in my opinion. Oh well, I just need to go back to school somewhere. I feel like I’m spinning my wheels and I really want to go back, as hard as that is to believe.

I woke up at 9:40 this morning. It felt really nice to sleep that long. I usually don’t allow myself to sleep that long so it was nice to wake up, look at my watch, and see how late it was. :) And it’s not like there’s a lot going on today anyway. I’m probably just going to lounge around the house watching TV and reading. Ah, bliss!

So tonight my brother, sis-in-law, and the gang of kids came in. Yesterday was Coen’s 4th birthday and we wanted to celebrate with him. We went to Outback.

Anyway we get in there and a few minutes after we’re seated, through the madness of 3 kids trying to decide who sits where, I notice a guy near us sitting at a booth by himself. I normally feel bad for people who eat alone but I didn’t know his situation – maybe he had a date, didn’t have any friends, had to eat quickly – so I couldn’t judge.

Anyway, he keep staring at us, and I think mainly me (this is me being vain and probably a bit too self-centered for my own good – who knows what he was really looking at). I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because we’re so loud and obnoxious or there’s this nice looking girl (uh, me?) at a table with a bunch of kids and their parents can’t stop arguing. IDK, he was nice looking, around my age – possibly older – and by himself. Maybe he was single? And I still don’t think I’m that attractive but I’m not an old hag…yet. So there’s that possibility.

So I had that glimmer of hope he was actually checking me out instead of trying to figure out exactly how insane my family can get at the dinner table. (I have this new philosophy for 2009 – be more open to things. It’s worked pretty well so far.) So I kept glancing his way to see if he was still looking at our table/me. But every time he caught my eyes looking, I looked somewhere else. Then I was coloring with Kierani on her menu, talking to my mom, dad, brother, and Trish. Sane, so far.

Then Mom starts talking about how ‘so stupid!’ and ‘I didn’t get it…’ last Friday’s episode of Stargate Atlantis (‘Vegas’) was. Then Brian chimes in and states his theories about how it will unfortunately end next Friday. Then I chime in about how there’s going to be movies and all that jazz. Jack up the geek meter a little more, will you? IDK. Then the food came and he probably saw me stuff my face with my Alice Springs Chicken, fries, and other stuff on the table. Thank goodness he wasn’t there for dessert. Mess, I tell you.

Any interest he might have had in me probably vanished. But I don’t care. He was nice looking and noticed me, I hope. It totally does. It made me remember I need to get out there and find someone. As lame and cliche as that sounds, it would probably give me something to look forward to and make me happy if I had someone in my life. I signed up for Yahoo!Personals but you have to pay after so long. I feel like a skeeve whenever I log on and look at anyone’s profile anyway. I need to get over it. Heard plenty of success stories and believe I’ll have one too. Meh.

This story sounded better in my head. Ugh. Sorry I bored you with this lame excuse for a post. Just needed to get that off my mind.

2008 has been less than stellar, in my opinion. Family health issues, my poor daddy’s and grandma’s issues, school upsets, and other crap have messed up this year. The good things include my new adorable, spits-up-on-Aunt Robin-and-smiles squeaker (srsly, when she coos or even breathes – she squeaks! so cute. :p) of a niece – Lyra!, graduating from Texas A&M (but still not sure how ‘good’ that is. Jobless and nobody wants to hire me. Fail!), and Rose Tyler coming back to grace this universe with her presence (but went away again in a dumbass way – FAIL FAIL FAIL!) and the awesome from Disney World in January. I guess that’s the major stuff. This year fails. I cannot wait for it to be over. Thursday. I hope 2009 starts off well and is better than 2008. Bring it on!

My 2009 resolutions:

1. Lose my weight and keep it off.
   • Starting Friday (taking tomorrow off to lounge, shut up!) I’m dieting and working out all that I can. I want to be 180-ish by May/June. If I was almost there this year, I can do it again.
2. Be more social, have more friends, possibly get a BF.
   • I need to be more soclal instead of sitting at home waiting for something to happen.
3. Read more
   • I’ve read 13 books since January. I hope to at least double that number in 2009.

   • I feel like I’m missing out on a lot by not reading so I’d like to read for fun more.

I had to go to the dentist this morning. Boo. I hate the dentist. What a way to end the year. Mom, my sister, and I also went to IKEA. My mom had to get something and I like looking at all the stuff. We’re not doing much tonight as far as festivities. Right now we’re watching ‘Elf’ on USA. It’s not really a big thing for us. We just had dinner. Pizza buffet – wonderful ‘last meal of the year’, y/y? It was good and I hardly ever have pizza so I was pleased. We usually just stay up to midnight, say ‘Happy New Year’ then sleep. Tomorrow’s ritual is eating some black-eyed peas and cabbage for good luck. I had a lot last year and it didn’t bring me much luck. So IDK how much I’ll eat this year. o_0 We’re pretty tame and I like it. But I hope one day I’ll have real, legit NYE plans.

With that said, I want to wish everyone:

I hope you guys have a wonderful and safe New Year! *hugs*

Merry Christmas !

I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas (or Thursday for those of you who don’t celebrate)!! Enjoy spending time with your friends, family, and loved ones. Get loaded up on egg nog, hot chocolate, and cider. Eat your weight in sugar cookies and fudge. And enjoy the shiny new presents you get. Have a wonderful day and weekend. :-D

So today has been a lazy day. I’m still in my pjs. My sister and I made fudge (chocolate Friday night and chocolate/peanut butter yesterday morning) and baked sugar cookies. I think we messed up the first batch of fudge because you can feel/taste the sugar granules. But that’s not stopping me from eating it. lol. It’s still quite good so I’ve been snacking on that all day. I feel like a pig but whatever. One piece every few hours isn’t bad, right? Maybe. Need to save some for everyone else.

I love her. Can I have that billboard in Houston? Please? Oh and maybe more of an effort to promote the show? It’s been lacking tremendously. I want to see ads on TV and in my magazines now!

I think I’m going to take a shower now. I’m all powdered sugary.