I know I write about this a lot, but whatever. You're still reading this for some reason or another. Anyway, I hit 115 miles in the Eowyn Challenge thing. Not that exciting of a jump considering the last time I posted at it was like a month ago, but the holidays and being sick got in the way, so whatever. If you correspond it with the book, I'm at one of those boring scenes where Frodo sings. So that's what's going on, world.

yay happy birthday to me. I finally was able to drag Chris to the speakeasy style bar in downtown SJ that I've been meaning to go to for a long time. Success!

I've also managed to post to Music & Jjigae two days in a row. Success.

Speaking of success, let's finally roll out those New Years resolutions. Hopefully, I will be successful with these this year:

1. Write more. It can be Yelp. It can be blogging. It needs to be something. I like writing. Of course, I do. I've entered a field where writing is a necessity. I need to do more of it. It's fun and it's a great way for me to let out steam.

2. Find a job. This probably should be number one. It's going to be really sad if I end 2012 without a job, so I'm just going to take succeeding at this one as a given.

3. Lose weight. I was looking at pictures from Italy in 2006. They made me sad, but maybe that's enough to give me the kick in the butt I need.

4. Read 50 books. Yeah, I know. I think this makes my list every year. Whatever. I've gotten the last two books of the Hunger Games Trilogy under my belt so far, so I guess that makes for a good start.

5. Finish the Song of Ice and Fire series. Or at least what Martin's written of the series. Completing both this resolution and #4 might be difficult because it takes me forever to get through these books. We'll see.

6. Save More Money. Seems pretty self-explanatory. Have loans to contend with now, so no more silly expenditures.

7. Play more soccer. Playing soccer with Chris was one of my favorite study breaks this summer. I tried to do some of Chris's pick up games with him, but it was awkward being the only girl playing and being essentially ignored. It's great exercise, though, so I imagine that accomplishing this can help me in accomplishing #3. You see, these are all tied together somehow.

8. Brush up on Italian and Korean. My Korean hasn't diminished over the years, but my Italian sure has. This last trip with Nonny and Nonno was almost embarrassing.

9. Spend more time outside. I was told by my doctor last year that I have crazy low levels of Vitamin D. Of late, I've taken to more walks and jogs and than gym trips, but I still think I'm due for more fresh air in my life. I'm going to try to take my dad hiking once a week (or two weeks depending on his England/Japan schedules).

10. Do more trivia nights. I'm such a trivia geek. I need to unleash that more often and maybe win sometime. I want some of those wine gift bags they give out at the Brit!

First post of the new year. I'm ringing in the new year with a wicked cold. I caught it from Gianni I think. The trip was fun, albeit there was some tension and stress at different times. I guess you have to expect as much when you're gathering 22 people on a cruise ship for a week. All in all, though, it was fun. And now I am sick. I was fine until Halmony called out of the blue while we were road tripping through Texas to ask how I was feeling. I wasn't even sick then, but pretty much everyone else was. Bleh. Oh well. Ate a lot of good food. Southern food is so good and, for that reason, I'm glad I don't live in the south. Job search is still going, but hopefully I'll find something soon.

My birthday is coming up. Can't believe I'm almost 27. I feel so old.

I'm going to revive Music & Jjigae. I keep on trying and failing, but it's going to happen this time. Before, I tried to limit it to food and music, but I think I'm going to write about everything.

But don't worry. I'm not abandoning this one. This one's more of a random whine and muse blog anyway. The last few posts have almost been like I wanted to Tweet but didn't feel like shortening the entries to 140 characters or less.

Well, I guess setting up the laptop again in theory means I can sort through music and get rid of stuff I don't listen to anymore.

One month later and I finally have a working computer again. How I missed this feeling.

I don't get it. Why does Dell make it so hard for me to order a recovery disc? This was a MUCH easier process with Toshiba.

So, I'm 93 miles into my whole LOTR walking project. It isn't that much progress since the last time I wrote about it, but I'm not counting gym trips and it's been on and off rainy lately. Nintey-three miles seems like a lot, but I'm still only like 4 days into Frodo's journey, so I guess I still fail? Meh. It's ninety-three miles I wouldn't have walked otherwise.

I had something else to write about. Meh. Bruce and I are listening to 90s pop music again.

My laptop has been broken which is a long story in itself. But it means that I've been without my own computer the last few weeks. In some ways, it's kind of liberating, but in other ways, it's been frustrating. Right now, I've stolen Chris's laptop.

I passed the bar. Did I mention that? Anyone who reads this already knows anyway.

Thanksgiving was fun. A Thanksgiving free of any obligation to study is a perfect one.

I've been much cheerier this season. I've even been enjoying Christmas music. Don't know why. Also, I've been suddenly and inexplicably obsessed with Savage Garden. I think I'm regressing big time.

Can't believe Friday is the big day. Trying to find ways to distract myself until then. Decided to reread The Sandman. Just finished the first volume. The Sound of Her Wings gets better every time I read it.

I have more to say, but I'm just delaying a trip to the gym where I'm starting a new lifting routine. I don't want to, but I've been on the last one for four weeks now so it's time to shake things up a little.