We have to stop meeting like this

Maybe I should have made a New Year's resolution to blog more. Sigh.

I am sitting here trying to recover from yet another dental procedure. The last 2 wisdom teeth came out today. I would like to say that it was no problem, easy-peasy, but it was not. For some reason, the teeth on the right side of my mouth are super embedded or something. It took a lot of drilling and pulling to get those suckers out. Much worse than last time. The local anesthetic has yet to wear off, so I have no idea if this time is going to be more painful than the last. At least I have my Percocet. Plus, I have no more wisdom teeth, so I won't have to do this again.

Christmas was good. I have been planning to write a post on 'My Favorite Things' (a la Oprah), and that list will actually include a couple of my Christmas presents. So, I won't go into much detail about my gifts other than to say Santa was good to me this year. Outside of some minor family drama (with both my family and E's family, but different dramas altogether), it was a pretty typical visit back to the mitten for me. The last day I was home it was in the 40s and raining! I probably won't see those temperatures again for a few months.

I returned to SK just before the New Year and promptly got sick. I did not go out for New Year's Eve. In fact, E had to wake me up at midnight to tell me it was 2011. Lame, I know.

I didn't make any resolutions this year since I don't ever. I find that January is a great time to evaluate what's going on in your life and make necessary changes, though. Since I already signed up for the Calgary Marathon (May 29, 2011), it was pretty clear to me that I need to start increasing my running mileage steadily. Since I gained 5 pounds between American Thanksgiving and New Year's, I also decided that I need to start tracking calories a little closer. In reality, this shouldn't be too hard since I know that most of the weight I gained came from all the JUNK I ate over Christmas, and there is no candy, cookies or cake in my house ever. I just don't buy the stuff. Because I will eat it. Strange how that works, right?

Happy New Year everyone! May it be peaceful and prosperous.