A System That Just Might Work

It occurs to me that I failed to mention why it is that I was so exhausted last Thursday. It was, in fact, a more than unusually busy week. In four days I hosted three major social events--one for more than 150 people, one with less than two hour notice, and a dance party in my living room. Three days previously, I had hosted a party in my home for about 50 people. I made 10 pies from scratch, although I did use my beloved food processor (or as the French say "Robot Culinaire") to help with the crust. I really WISH I had taken the time to blog about my mass pie making--sufficient to say it involved a pie literally EXPLODING in my oven. I still need to clean that up.

Pertaining to the above, in September my three very closest friends all left the city. This is very sad. But I am choosing to be optimistic and trust that more good things will flow into my life. In preparation to spend more time alone, I have prepared a "Winter To Do" list, which I hung on my wall beside my "Shows to See" list (down to three--can you believe it?!!) and "To Read". Among the "Winter To Do" list are "take up jogging" and "learn to play the piano better." All day long I was looking forward to jogging after work, but as so often happens, the excitement left once I got home. After a while of laying in my bed, gchatting and sincerely wanting to work on my various self-improvement and fun goals, the system that might actually work occurred to me--every day I can choose to EITHER jog OR play the piano for thirty minutes. My suspicion is that I'm going to get very good at piano. It's a good thing I had the foresight to buy my keyboard from a guy in my ward for the reasonable price of 50 cupcakes. Of course, I still owe 48 cupcakes on it, but, like everyone else, my creditor has moved out of the city. Hehehe.

[no pictures. sorry.]