I'm still alive

Just thought I'd drop in and say that I haven't given up on this blog yet, despite the sparse writing habits. I still have the same old excuses, work takes up too much time and makes my typing limbs hurt, blah, blah. Not to mention gives me less time to come up with other things to write about, blahdidy-blah.

In fact, tonight I'm supposed to be working. Right now. Like, for the last 3 hours into the wee hours was the plan. But I haven't started! And I'm just going to get more tired and rebellious. And then tomorrow I'll look at it all and get overwhelmed and start planning what I'll do that night, which also won't happen. It's my own happy work cycle!

Anyway, so I have the Oscars on right now. These are my thoughts thus far:
1) Marisa Tomei + Ryan Seacrest = very awkward combination. Maybe Marisa doesn't think too highly of Ryan. I can't imagine why.
2) When Jennifer Anniston and Jack Black came out to present together, the camera only flashed to the audience twice. Can you guess to whom? hmm? Right in the front row were Brad and Angelina. So once, straight from Jennifer to close up of Angelina Jolie. Was she talking about anything at all that might have to do with Miss Jolie? Animated films - I don't think so. And then once again at the end to the couple, showing them smiling up at the stage. Really, media? Is that necessary? Could you pretend to have a little more class? No, no I guess you can't.

And since we are on the subject of Oscars, I saw all 5 of the best picture nominees this year - that may be a first ever. (And you can see this over on the side there! No, I don't have time to write, but I do have time to see movies and then list them. It's very important.) For the past 2 years I've gotten all geared up come Oscar time. I don't know what started this, but one of the objects of the Oscar frenzy is to see the short films. I did this a few years ago for the first time, and really enjoyed it. Right before the Oscars one theater here plays all the animated on one ticket, and all the live action shorts on another. For some reason, I have a hard time finding anyone else that wants to see them. And for the animated this year I kind of understood why - but the live action I really enjoyed. So, I guess the point is, uh, you should do that, too. yeah. (My pick for animated didn't win. hmph.)
Anyway, last year I had an excuse for this. I had an Oscar party. And I wanted to win my own "pick the most winners right" contest (and I believe I did). But this year I really have no excuse for my time spent watching movies. No party, thank you work. (Ok, really I wouldn't have it anyway because I am still getting settled in my new apartment. As I said recently to a friend when I asked what I was doing: "Unpacking." "Why are you unpacking?!" "you know, my apartment." "You mean the one you moved into 2 months ago." Shut up, productive people. You get on my nerves.

Speaking of procrastination: I worked on 2 of my Christmas presents today. It's a bad sign of aging that I fear technology so much that I put this off till now. I: 1) setting up the wii. (Still haven't finished that one - had a movie to get to. But I'm sure as soon as I do that Wii Fit will whip me into shape! yea.) 2) I now have a working web cam. I was peering at it wondering how to get it to work, when suddenly it told me I had taken a quick shot of myself, and there I was, with a view down my shirt. Excellent. But I video chatted with my sister and niece, and my niece showed me her ballet shoes and put her arms over her head and spun around and lost her balance and fell down and it was totally worth it.

Oh! My other non-interesting thing that happened this week has to do with boot camp. I think I wrote about this last year. I signed up for boot camp, and it was good. There was a bring a friend day that gave you a second month free, and I recruited, and I got 7 friends there, and I won that thing. And we went out and celebrated with cheese dip and margaritas, just like we weren't supposed to do. Well, I tried it again this year. It was a real good pick me up for my days last year, but I haven't quite taken to it so well this time. I don't know if it's the change in the instructors, or a change in myself, but I don't feel that I'm getting much out of it. And because I live and work much further away from it than I used to, it seems to take up a lot of time. Also, I don't even try to follow the diet plan. Maybe that's why I don't feel better. No balanced nutritious eating habits. I don't even bring my food log. And they say, in their cheer-leader voices, "Ok, but that means you have punishment at the end of class!" And I say, "that's fine. I would have had it anyway." And I do the extra work, and then I drive myself out for pizza. Because I'm drained from work and it's too late to cook. And so I guess I continue to get fatter, but also more muscly at the same time! yay?
So, this Thursday was bring a friend day and something awful happened! I won!!! And I so SO wasn't trying to. But suddenly that afternoon I realized I had 4 friends coming (that I had NOT tried to recruit) and for the first time I had the thought, "My gosh. I hope I don't win." Next thing I know the instructors are clapping for me and congratulating me on my great prize. What do I do?? Say, "no thank you. I choose fat and lazy." What do you think?

Ok, work needed. Sorry to bore you with the details of my week. Now you see why I haven't written more!
Embarrassing story from the vaults will have to come soon to make up for all this tedium.