All New! This Week.

I finished Please Take One

I lost the 5lbs I gained in China

I experienced dinner at 5:30pm

I saw my mom as a brunette

I opened an IRA

I watched a senior citizen gyrate

I booked a one-way ticket to Lake Tahoe

I successfully made stuffed peppers

I discovered Akua Naru

...and this, my friends, is a Roseate Spoonbill. I call her Rosie.

PointsPlus

My 5lb weight gain from traveling needs to be quickly reversed.  Some of you might think 5lbs isn't a lot but when you're 31 and single it just is.  Weight Watchers launched their new PointsPlus program about two months ago.  Based on past results from the old program, I'm already a huge WW fan.

When I heard all fruits were now 0 points I was thrilled.  Watermelon? Yep.  Berries and bananas? Yes.  It's true.  It is fruit after all.  Once I logged in I was happy to see my old profile was still intact.  I filled in some new information and, voila, my points allowance went up!  Alcohol points also went up.  It is what it is.

While working my way through the new program I came across this bit and, well, I was stumped.

They might need to rethink that one.  Just a suggestion.

It's been two days and I have yet to come close to going over my points.  So far, brilliant.  We'll see how it goes.

Freelance, travel, repeat.

Well, that was a trip.

On January 5th I went back to Auburn and slept, and didn’t sleep, and slept.  The cycle went on for about a week and from what I hear that’s a very mild case of jet-lag.  I’ll take it any day. 

Before I left for Beijing I was I was feeling a little uneasy.  Not because I was headed to China for a month but because I had no idea where I was going to live FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.  Where did I want to settle down?  It wasn’t Chicago.  Apparently it wasn’t meant to be Auburn.  Where was it and when was it finally going to present itself?

And so it begins...  for the love of God who cares?  Have fun, search out new experiences and for once just sit back and admire those two-tone sequin BCBG pumps. 

Wednesday I packed 48lbs of warm weather stuff, my MacBook, a few external hard drives and my tennis racquet and I jumped on a one-way flight to Florida.  UPS will deliver my snowboard bag, filled with cold weather stuff, in a few days.  From here anything can happen.  I’m gonna put one foot in front of the other and everything else will fall into place.  Bring it.