I have not been very good at posting since I’ve been back. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to it just seems that the first step back into regular posting has been eluding me.

The good news is, you haven’t missed much. Highlights from the past week include being peed on by a 100 lb dog, receiving a gift of 10 lbs of grapefruit when I still have 20 lbs of grapefruit sitting in a box under my desk and welcoming in the New Year with karaoke and wine (lots of it).

Other than that, the office is still very quiet and all the bosses are on vacation – this makes it very difficult to stay motivated to work which actually fits in with my current theme of ‘easing into the New Year’.

Some people blast into the New Year full of high hopes and energetic expectations. I am more of a marathon runner. The thing is, I know that if I start out at a sprint I will fade before I make it around the block.

Actually ‘marathon runner’ might not be completely accurate. Perhaps its best to describe myself as a marathon runner who takes a lot of pee breaks, and breaks for food, and breaks to let the faster runners go by, and breaks to measure my pulse, and breaks to change my socks so I don’t get blisters.

Let’s just say that my only New Years resolution is to not worry so much about money, and I plan on taking my first baby step (buying a $1.50 muffin) today.

It’s not that I want to spend more money it’s just that I want to work at alleviating the enormous burden of guilt I acquire when I do but a muffin or a cookie once a week. So you see, I’m easing into the New Year not by pledging to drop 50 lbs or compete in a triathlon but rather by pledging to eat one guilt free muffin a weak.