I’m a blogging FOOL

I just can’t stop! I guess I’ve got backed up posts that I’ve not taken the time to write or something. But 4 posts in 2 weeks? CRAZAY!

I just finished Water for Elephants. It was excellent. It’s the sort of book you just can’t put down – and when you do, your head is still in there, thinking about the characters and the circus. Yes, it’s really a story about the train circuses of the 20s-30s. And it’s fascinating. It’s also written in flashback like a memoir, which is my absolute favourite writing technique. I particularly like the juxtaposition of the ancient character recalling his crazy youth in this story.

Other than the book taking up my last few days, I’ve been catching up on mental housecleaning as you can see from all the posts! I’m getting geared up to start a diet/fitness plan from my Beachbody coach Josie. Nick has also asked me to take over the bills and all that, which I’m not looking forward to, but it needs to happen or he’ll never get back to comics. Lots of shifting around to try and make our life work better.

From what I’m reading around the social sites, it seems many of my friends are starting new projects and/or changing up how they run their lives this year. It is a 5 year and 5 means CHANGE. Here’s the numerology if you’re so inclined. I love numbers and I find numerology to be one of my favourite “prediction” tools even above astrology. It’s fascinating!

I’ve got to step up my support of Nick. His job has become a soul sucking, life draining mess and if I want him to get anything artistic going this year, I’ve got to take on much more of the household stuff (like bills) so he can come home and have nothing to do BUT comics. The stress is pretty bad. I look forward to the day he can tell them all to fuck right on off.

Mantra: Please let Awkward Ninjas be a hit! Please let Awkward Ninjas be a hit! x1000

Now that all the new hardware (MacPro, FrankenMac) and toys (iPod and iPad) have been bought, this year is all about hoarding money. We are obligated to go to San Francisco and see Nick’s family, which is a huge expense and we will attend Heroes Convention, another pretty big expense. Other than that, our money is destined to be HOARDED. Since we are dieting, eating out is a no-no as is the large volumes of alcohol we usually swill. That will save some bucks. Now that I’ll be in charge of the budget, I plan to analyse it and streamline it even more.

2012 is off to a rocky start, but hopefully the changes we manage to accomplish will be good ones and long lasting ones.

I hope everyone has GOOD LUCK making the changes they want to make in 2012.