Bonus tulips!

Oh poor neglected website.  I think often of things I would like to write about, but the time to do so never seems to materialize.  January was sort of a weird month.  I'm not exactly sure what was keeping me so busy but I felt like I didn't have any free time.  I'm hoping to get back on track, and I have some thoughts about making some changes to get writing more regularly.  Promises, promises.

In any case...January.  Not a stellar month for my 101 Things project but I managed to accomplish a few things:

• My most impressive progress was towards Thing 43, Try 101 New Recipes, as I tried 13 new recipes in January, bringing my current total to 50 of 101.  Not too shabby.  Yummy:  The carrot cupcakes and cream cheese frosting recipes from Hello Cupcake.  Disastrous:  A promising recipe for Cumin-scented Cornbread (from this beautiful cookbook I received as a Christmas gift) which did not at any time become "dough" that I could "pour" into the pan, and became rather a crumble of sorts.

• D and I went out on a date night!  Nice!  We went out for sushi and then wandered around Chapters, and I believe we were home by 10.  But still!  We were out!

• I believe I met all of my other monthly commitments (getting together with a friend, calling my sister twice, sending a handwritten letter etc.) except for taking a morning or afternoon for a photo shoot.  Boo.  

Yeah, it seems that's about it really.  I'll have to do better.  I've been looking up times for CPR courses and meditation classes and blood donation appointments so hopefully I can check a few of those things off soon. 

I'm finding myself a bit bogged down in the daily grind - cleaning and cooking and laundry and caring for small humans and repeat.  Coincidentally, sort of a Groundhog Day situation (the movie, I mean...there aren't people watching to see if I see my shadow so they can make some inane weather prediction...or are there?).  My own stuff is getting pushed further and further down the list of priorities.  But I'll keep on keeping on and see what I can do to crowbar some me time back into the schedule.

And so it's at this time, when I already feel completely overwhelmed with the stuff on my to do list, that I've decided to join Twitter.  It's the thing to do, I suppose, and I figure it's one more way to get writing and to connect to other grown ups in the outside world.  So follow me, why don't you.  I promise you it will either be entertaining or a terrible waste of all of our time.  It could go either way.

All right, let's do this thing February!