December has felt like when everything has finally come to a head. Frustrations, crushes, tasks and projects, tiredness, things I’ve been putting off, everything just feels like it’s all teetering on the edge of crashing down and I am so excited to be having the upcoming break. I am heading home for the holidays on Wednesday, I’m taking time off work, time off here, time off socially, all of it. I need a full break. I have some social plans for the week after New Years, but other than that, I’m just going to sleep and eat and spend time with my family and I cannot wait.
I want to specifically share the baked oatmeal recipe I’ve been making pretty frequently for the past few weeks. It travels really well, is really filling, and delicious.
I don’t really want to elaborate on everything, but there is one I do. I’ve recently come to the conclusion that I sometimes say things as jokes, or not seriously, that are actually very true statements. I was talking to a friend of mine a few Saturdays ago, it was like 5am and I was just heading home, because I had to take my contacts out. And I said, “Someday I’ll bring my contact cases and then I can hang all night”, and he made a joke about influencing me, and I said “I’m not very easily influenced.”, and I left out the fact that my not being very easily influenced is borne out of a time when things happened because I was so scared of hurting people that I allowed myself to get hurt, to hurt myself. I said “I’m not very easily influenced” as a joke, but it is far more true, and much more hard-earned that I originally gave myself credit for. So maybe more accurately this should be being honest with yourself.
December Bucket List
- Go ice skating (or as most Canadians would say, skating)
- Decorate for Christmas
- Try all the holiday drinks at my coffee shop
- Relax
- See friends and family
December To-Do List
- Christmas shopping
- Travel a crap-ton for work
- Clean out spare bedroom
- Clean out laundry/utilities closet
- Clean out fridge
- Clean out desk
- Post desk, chair, and desk lamp on FBMP
So I’m actually pretty impressed with how well I did on my November and December to-do lists. From October to November I carried over 5 out of the 7 items. This time I carried over 2 out of 7, and I have them mostly done. I have edited how I am classing cleaning out the fridge for December, just because I’m out of time. I have gone through everything and gotten rid of everything that is expired and vacuumed out the drawers, and that’s going to be it for now. I also cleaned out my laundry/utilities closet literally yesterday. I still have a few things to sort out, I don’t have my curling broom in there yet and I think I may still want to do a peg board instead of the mixture of command hooks and nails that I currently have going on
I mostly cleaned out the spare bedroom, it is no longer shameful to have someone go in there. But I haven’t gotten my desk cleaned out and all my desk stuff listed. I literally have not used them since we went back in the office. Barely even touched them, so I think I want to pass them on to someone who will use them. Then I want to actually decide what I am going to do with that space. So far I am between a workout space/craft room – and then not joining the gym, or getting a roommate. I’m really not sure. They both have immense pros and cons.
What I’m Watching
- Dream Home Makeover Season 4
- FIFA Uncovered
- Ghost Whisperer
- The Polar Express
- Harry Potter (so far 1-5)
I haven’t had as much time for watching stuff lately, so I don’t have a huge list this month. But there will likely be more while I’m home that I’m not planning for.
What I’m Listening To
And lastly, a wee bit of a blog update. I’m going to be making some changes to what I post in the New Year. Mostly, condensing all the new month content into this post. Not everything, but some of it. I think the What I Reads for sure will be here, and the Empties are going away. I’ll get into it a bit more in my New Year’s update post. I will be posting this week until Wednesday the 21st and then taking a full week off until the 28th.
Happy Hanukkah and Happy Christmas! I hope you get to take some time off over the next couple weeks no matter what you celebrate.
Laura
Thoughtful Millennial 