soporific - inducing or tending to induce sleep

Today, as I sign on to this blog, I'm struck by two things:
1) I'm averaging one post per month rather than one post per week and
2) it really is amazing I have any hair left.

When I started this blog, I was bleached blond. Upon posting an updated picture, I was a brunette with blue in front. I also, later, died the back part of my hair a dark blue instead. Then I glazed it all with bright pink, which was more of  purple shade over the previous colours. Most recently, I bleached my roots before doing the pink, so my hair is now a pink/purple combo (I'll post a picture next post, when I feel less lazy).

But aside from the spectrum I've exploited, it looks like my year has been fairly mediocre, and I certainly did not achieve my resolution of accomplishing new things weekly. And yet, I'm not disappointed. Maybe I'm just having a grown-up kind of day (I'm spending today and tomorrow training to do payroll) or I'm just buzzing from time spent with family yesterday (good times! new things were accomplished!), but I feel like I'm in a good place.

Updates: the showering thing is going well. I feel very responsible and clean and all. No complaints so far.

This week: I'm going to do another healthy/simply thing. Specifically, I want to be in bed before 1am every night this week. This may not seem like much, but I'm semi-nocturnal. I tend to go to bed around 2 or 3 am, which gets in the way of my productivity and capacity for morning shifts. Soon enough I'll be thrust from the student lifestyle into the corporate world; I may as well start prepping for the early mornings now.

As previously mentioned, I had a full day with some of my family this past Saturday. We had brunch out, went to the Museum of Natural History, and chatted ad nauseum. It was delightful. Later, I learned how to make rice balls (onigiri!) from Eriko. They are super easy to make! She has been teasing me lately about how I make "global sushi", because I made bacon sushi rolls and caramelized apple sushi rolls recently. Rice balls were also made global thanks to my contributions, as I insisted on avocado, which is apparently not a conventional rice ball filling (even though avocado is delicious and goes with everything). So that was a pleasant success to say the least.

Alright, today has featured an 8 hr shift, 2 loads of laundry, 1 dinner semi-successful dinner experiment, and now I have to finish my presentation for tomorrow. Busy day.

Today I have accomplished many little, important things. Go me.