Glass Half...?

First, I'd like to say Happy belated New Year to all my Korean people out there! I forget about this every year until my mom reminds me the weekend before and gives me random food to celebrate. This year I got a bag of peanut M&Ms, a ton of rice cake treats and some spicy tofu thing.

Anywho…

This past week has been a strange week for me. I feel like I've encountered more random bad things than good. Without sounding too whiny (who am I kidding? That's what I do!), I realize that I have my health and nothing I'm about to complain about is really that awful… but it's my blog and I'll bitch if I want to. However, I'm going to try to balance out my complaints with something positive.

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My cleaning lady's schedule changed. What does this mean? She had to pick up a 9-5 job because most of her clients have cancelled their services with her therefore she can only clean in the evenings or the weekends. Unfortunately - this is when we're home and it is horribly uncomfortable to hang around your house when someone is cleaning it. So - we cancelled her services. Now we have to suck it up and super clean our house. I felt a little guilty about cancelling on her considering others have also cancelled but…

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We are now saving $75 a month AND she pulled up in a BMW. She doesn't seem like she's hurting too too badly.

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I gained back a lot of my detox/cleanse diet weight. Although a lot is probably an exaggeration considering it was only 3-4 lbs. But it still kind of sucks.

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It's Baltimore Restaurant Week this week so I've had the opportunity to eat at some fabulous restaurants. Friday night, The Mr and I had a date at Gertrude's (inside the Baltimore Museum of Art). Fantastic. I highly recommend it.

Saturday was a birthday dinner for one of my fave people, Geoff. I'd happily gain 3 lbs for him. I have plans to visit 2 other restaurants this week and am stoked.

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To balance out the gluttonous dining out, I finally went for a run outside on Saturday. It took me about an hour to get psyched up for it. I lounged around in my running gear for about an hour. I checked Facebook. I straightened up. Finally - I went. I was a little excited because it was sunny, I was using my Nike+ iPod thingamabob that I've only used one other time (it's supposed to be a good motivator for me for outdoor running) and I was getting serious about running outside.

Well, my Nike+ Ipod thingamabob wouldn't work. The connector wasn't connecting to the sensor and at this point, it was too frickin' cold for me to figure out why. Then about halfway through my run, I noticed a few snowflakes. The few snowflakes turned into more snowflakes and then at about mile 2.5, it was a BLIZZARD. I was blinded by snow. I quickly hopped in my car and drove home. An hour later? The sun was back out and people think I'm making up this whole freak blizzard thing since all evidence was gone.

Oh and my Nike+ iPod thingy? Yeah - it definitely worked at home. I didn't have it properly clicked into my shoe.

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At least I managed to squeeze in a 2.5 mile run.

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I ordered a juicer from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. After my detox diet debaucle, I decided that I really wanted to try this whole juicing thing. I found a rather inexpensive juicer (compared to most of them) and ordered it.

I was stoked when it arrived but then…

It didn't frickin' work! Yarg!

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I contacted the company and they responded immediately to apologize for the inconvenience and to say that they'd pay for the return shipping and issue me a full refund.

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Back to the juicer saga, there aren't any additional juicers left so the company can't send me a replacement juicer.

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I technically didn't pay for it. I was awarded a gift card to Amazon so at least this isn't something I truly paid for. I think I'd probably be Incredible Hulk angry if that were the case.

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My spring graduate school semester started last night. I didn't think the semester started until Wednesday (I still have no idea why I thought this). A co-worker/classmate just happened to e-mail me yesterday morning asking if I had seen the syllabus. That is when I noticed I had class. I was definitely NOT in the mindset for class last night.

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The professor is awesome! And the people are even more hilarious (mostly unintentional). This should be an interesting semester.

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I was going to work on my new blog over the weekend. Really - I was. That's why I didn't post anything last week aside from Monday's bit about Top 5. I was really committing to the switch. Well - when I went to buckle down and do it, the computer crashed. YARG!

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The computer is back up. That's all I've got. Maybe I'll make the switch in Feb 1st?

How has everyone else been lately?