Happy New Year...or at least welcome to another day in the life of me.

As long time readers know I'm not a big fan of NYE and all that. I prefer to stay home and have a quiet night by myself. Lately though there seems to be a bit too much myself time. I will need to try and fix that in up coming weeks, but at least for the moment it is what I need/want/crave more than anything else. Must just be the leftovers from the multitude of changes in my life during the past 5 months. Yeah, in five months I've moved essentially 3 times and changed jobs as many times as well...so I think it is just a bit of mental down time to think about and decompress from all the changes.

How many of you made New Year's Resolutions? I'm again not going to make any....but I am going to continue on with a couple things I've been doing the past couple years. Again I aimed for three new foods this past year. I came up with mushrooms (not new for many of you...but I gave them an honest go and still don't like them), okra (its ok, but not a regular on my list, and all kinds of different foods and spices from India. My fav from India would definitely have been the masala tea. Again in 2009 I am going to try three new foods. I'm also hoping to not need to move in 2009! But with my track record I guess it is a bit early in the year to be making that statement.

I don't see any big trips in 2009, but am hoping to make one in 2010. No word on that for a while...need to figure a few things out first.

Oh, and if I do move again I'm going somewhere that they have storm days...so I can occasionally have one! Edmonton doesn't get them and with friends across the country getting long weekends...it just doesn't seem fair. LOL Actually, I have no complaints about the weather here. It has remained around -20 - -25 almost every day for the past month. The sunny days it is great and it reminds me of living up North. On the cloudy grey days I just shrug my shoulders and head for inside.