wherein Liz leads a boring life :-)

Stuff I have done today:

1. Bought a new shirt and a new pair of black pants at Target. (All my old black pants are getting slightly ragged about the hems, and many also have small bleach stains near the cuffs -- a minor hazard of cleaning cappuccino machine parts at the smoke shop.)

2. Made an appointment to have my eyes checked and pick new glasses frames tomorrow afternoon. \o/

3. Called my mom to wish her a happy birthday.

4. Started reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. So far it is very interesting, though I had to put it down and go off and be squicked when I hit the description of what William Halsted's radical mastectomies physically involved in the 1890s. *shudders*

5. Watered my plants. I think tomorrow I should pot my latest round of baby spider plants. They have grown some rootlets and are starting to get unhappy sitting in water rather than actual soil.

6. Made a plan to lose weight this year. It has been creeping up over the past three years without me really noticing -- I blame getting the internet at home so I'm not hiking up East Hill to use Cornell's computer labs anymore -- and is almost at the point I previously hit after being unemployed and inactive for six months. So I have decided to get up 15 minutes earlier every day and do some brief exercises before I shower. Also, no more midnight snacks. Jointly, those changes should fix everything within eight to twelve months.

Now I am going to heat fishsticks in the oven for dinner and listen to the two CDs Vicky got me for Christmas, which just arrived in the mail this afternoon. :-)