happy new year!

OK, so the start of the new year was four days ago (or five, depending on time zone?) but better late than never, righto? Thanks for all the Happy New Year wishes! The past few days have been spent recovering from muscle and body pains; I fear that 2011 has brought about an early stage of old age or something. I blame it on spending the evening of New Year's Day dancing my heart out with my closest friends to Just Dance 2 on the Wii, for sure :)

I hope you all had a great time ringing in 2011, whether it was lowkey or extravagant. Mine was spent with a co-chef by my side (aka The Boy) plus a couple coming over to have dinner, whip our hair, laugh a lot, and then taking care of The Boy who didn't feel so well in the first few hours of the new year, to put it vaguely hehe. Either way, it was a great night and now I'm spending the first few days of 2011 ... trying to figure out what I'm going to do the rest of the year. But for now, a little peek in my night:

 The Boy and I, an excellent co-chef who chopped all the onions for me :)

Bruschetta, anyone?

Dinner was served in the form of roasted potatoes and pork tenderloin stuffed with feta and bruschetta plus a salad (mmm), and then there's me and my friend whipping our hair back and forth! I look like a have a Chewbecca head on me.

Two unintentional "resolutions", though I prefer to call them long-term goals, are to make videos of memories instead of just taking pictures, and to have a dream diary. I have this tendency to read in bed for about 10 minutes, which makes my bed all nice and toasty for when I settle down to actually sleep. But when I do this, I tend to have the most vivid and strangest dreams ever - so why not record 'em! This post is getting more random by the second.

My first few weeks of January will probably be spent relaxing - catching up with friends even though the whole work/school shuffle is starting up again - and trying to find some kind of job. Whether it's seriously starting up a web design/graphic design kind of business, or venturing into my city screaming, "Pleeeeease hire me!" (okay, I probably won't stoop so low to do that ... hopefully). Thankfully, I have plenty of hobbies to pass the time and actually having some me time for once is refreshing. But soon, I know I'll have to spruce up my resume and find places to apply to. 

For now, I hope you've all had a first good few days of 2011. 

Let me know how you celebrated, if you have any "long-term goals", and how you're spending this first month of the year!