Mono or _____?

I have often asked myself if I think I am getting Mono or if I am just fill in the blank (sad, lonely, lazy, sleepy)?  I do this because one year after Christmas when I was still high school, my sister left to go back to college and I sat around for two days and moped (not to be confused with a mo-ped) and slept and slept and moped. I just wasn't myself and I didn't know what was wrong. It was so bad that Mom took me to be tested for mono. It was positive and there we had our answer. 

I think about that every year when my sister leaves to go home after Christmas break.  The house feels so empty without her and Shortcake.  Her absence makes me want to stay in PJs, watch TV, and snooze on and off all day (not that I don't do exactly that while she is here, too...it's just different).  So sometimes I think that's what I'll do.  I'll mope and sleep and sleep and mope and blame it on mono.

Beth left today.  I actually left the house for lunch with Sarah but then I came home and curled up in a blanket and watched TV and napped to mourn her absence.  I know that sounds kind or morbid, and I don't mean it to be.  I know she is okay (I just talked to her, she just made it back to Florida safely) and I know that I will be okay too, but I like to give myself a little bit of time to be sad because I will most likely not see my sister again until May.  For just a little while over Christmas break I am reminded that we used to live in the same house and we used to do our own things but at night we had dinner at the same table and slept under the same roof.  So, when she returns to Florida and I am still at home for a few days I have more nostalgia for childhood than usual.

Resolution update:

I spent hours last night perusing Ikea's website making a "future home" wish list which completely violated my wishing away my life resolution, ah well. 

Also, I realized that I left one out: I want to be the best and most creative SLP in-training that I can possibly be this year (and always).

2012

Wow, that was a quick year!

2011 has been really great, I have to say. I have very few complaints about the year as a whole (also, the holiday season was pretty wonderful...I'll try to blog about that a little later), but of course I have a few resolutions for 2012. I try to keep them fairly do-able because I don't like to feel like a failure or anything. Maybe that is bad. Maybe resolutions should really challenge you, but I don't really think that is the point. So here are a few of my New Year's resolutions (in a list of course!):

• Make time for the JC. I have a year and a half left of free gym membership (not actually free, but the price is built in) that I cannot let go to waste. I made the excuse that I have been too busy in graduate school but I know that isn't completely true. Although I have been super busy I am also very lazy so I'm gonna work on that.
• Try to be less judgmental.  I have already admitted that this is my number one character flaw so maybe I should work on that.
• Stop wishing my life away.  I am always searching for something to look forward to or count down til.  Spring break, graduation, next weekend, ahem-  getting married, etc. Time goes by fast enough as it is and all of these things will eventually come (or they won't, whatever) so I shouldn't waste time wishing it away.
• Make all of the recipes on Pinterest.  Haha, that's not daunting, right?  Just kidding.  But I do want to make a lot of them, all of them that seem feasible for me.  I can't eat like a poor college student forever so I need to expand my repertoire in the kitchen. Why not start now?
• Keep blogging! :)

Happy New Year!