Christmas Break ramblings

I love that feeling when Christmas is finally over! When I can finally delete all the emails and throw away all the receipts and know that even if I wanted to do anything more it's all over and I have to just move on. I can just come back to it all again next September :)

I am currently listening to Kelly Clarkson's album "Breakaway" which was THE hot album my senior year of high school. I knew (and still know) all the words to every single song and and little part of me thought that I was just as good a singer as the great Kelly. I also loved that I knew all the words to songs that other people actually knew as well. Oh what fools we are when we are 18.

I also repainted my nails tonight in a new color from my Christmas stocking, "Mochacino" by Essie. It's a great color.

Last night, with the help of TravelBuddy, I got my new USA wall map mounted on foam core and hanging on my wall. I put black pins in all the places I've been and white pins in all the places I want to visit. Photo here. We enjoyed our traditional New Years Eve celebration - chinese takeout and a movie :) New Years is seriously the most overrated holiday...well, most holidays are, in my opinion, pretty overrated. However, I do enjoy the day off work :)

This album is super angsty. But I guess that resonates when you're 18.

I sat down to update my sweet sisters' ipods with some new music and got stuck with a slow-loading software update :/ They've been asking me for a week to load in the music from Frozen...which is amazing music. Disney rarely disappoints, but this one was especially great for me because the music was very Broadway style and all the actors were Broadway people. WIN.

I am thoroughly enjoying this week. I only had about 5 lessons, I work one day at Gap, and all the Christmas stuff at CBC is done! I worked at CBC all day today since we had our rehearsal today and was literally the only person there. Working uninterrupted is nice, but it's hard when everyone else is on vacation. Tomorrow they'll all be at work and I'll be at home doing other productive things ;)

People are all talking about new years words, goals, resolutions, etc...really just because it's that time of year...and I don't really have anything huge to say for myself. Basically I'm still in recovery mode from holiday season. Around mid-November I quit going to all my evening classes, making food to eat during the week, taking my vitamins, doing laundry weekly, etc. I was in survival mode and now I need to get back on track. So I guess my goal is to get back on track with the good things I was doing...and also to eat at least one serving of fruit and of veggies a day since I'm terrible at that :/

One of my piano parents gave me a dvd for Christmas. It's an older, somewhat obscure movie about a pianist that she saw on tv a while back and I guess it spoke to her. She gave it to me at like the beginning of December and every time I saw her after that she asked me if I'd watched it yet and I was like, "No, I'm barely finding time to remind myself to breathe, much less watch this movie." but a little bit nicer :) This being said, I feel an immense pressure to watch this movie before I see her again on Monday because I KNOW she will ask me about it. Luckily it looks somewhat interesting - I just need to sit down and do it.

Oh my goodness. THIS song just came on. I loved this song...so much that I made a terrible awful music video of myself singing it and submitted it for some obscure singing contest. The accompaniment was me playing the piano - not sure if using the track would have been worse or better :/ I'm cringing. So much angst. Oh what fools we are when we're 18...

Alright...this software update is almost done. Signing off :)