mellicious: Happy New Year! (new year gif)
Goodness, where did the year go? I'm sure I will forever associate 2024 with the elections - nothing much happened to us personally that was all that memorable. (No hurricanes, etc!)  So good riddance, 2024, even though I have no reason to think 2025 will particularly be an improvement!

We do have plans to go out to eat tonight with my sister, her husband, her best friend and her husband (who I'm sure I've met years ago, since he's from our hometown and I know his older brother, etc., but I don't actually remember him) - but it'll be good, my sister is a talker and so is Kathy so if the conversation flags otherwise I'm sure they'll pick up the slack. And we're going to a really good Mexican restaurant so I'm anticipating fajitas. Then we'll probably go home and watch some NYE broadcast, that's what we usually do. Big excitement, right?

My new year's resolution, so far as I have one, is to be more organized. I forget things. I need to move some money around and I need to figure out Medicare (oh god, I'm old) and well, fun stuff like that. (Rob went over the weekend and bought me new tires, which is also something I'd been procrastinating about. Yay for husbands.)

mellicious: Happy New Year! (new year gif)
I don't usually do resolutions. I just think it's a waste of time, generally - what I see with other people is that they put a lot of thought (at least sometimes) into their resolutions, and then a week after New Year's, they've forgotten all about it, regardless. I say "they" but when I've tried it, that's exactly what happens with me, too. So I decided some years back just not to bother, and I've mostly stuck with that. However, I do have one for this year, and that's that I'm going to try not to buy any nail polish in 2021.

Now I know this seems like a small thing, but it's actually kind of a big step for me. I have a nail blog, although I haven't posted to it in several months. I was remarkably consistent about posting for a long time, though. I own way too much nail polish, so saying I'm not going to buy any doesn't mean I don't have plenty to wear, anyway. I've slowed down on buying it in the last couple of years, but I've still got tons of stuff I haven't worn, even. Overall I own well over 500 bottles, and that's being conservative. So it just seems like a collection I should stop adding to for a while. We'll see how it goes.
mellicious: Quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 1st episode: "The earth is doomed." (Happy NY - sparkly)
I do hope we're not about to get invaded by Daleks. That would kinda mess up my plans to play Diablo for the rest of New Year's Day.

Also, before I forget, thank you to Richard and Jennifer for running Holidailies again (and I hope you manage to banish those nasty Daleks)! And thanks also to Jette, whose idea it was back in the day!

I don't normally make resolutions, because I just forget all about them by the end of the week, but this year I have one that I need to take seriously. As everyone who was around to hear about it endlessly at the time knows, I got certified in medical coding a few years ago, and then I happened on two part-time jobs that I liked - neither of which had anything at all to do with it - and so never got a coding job. I did keep up with my required 48 hours of continuing education (I know that's kind of a lot, but it's because I ended up with two certifications - one more intended for physician offices and one for hospitals - thus I have to do twice as much!) in 2011 and 2012 - it's 48 hours every TWO years. And in 2013 I slacked off. I didn't mean to, I just did, because that's how I roll. I am a procrastinator. So not only do I have to make up for that, but this is the year when I probably need to get a coding job if I'm ever going to, because October 1st is when ICD-10 finally is going to happen, and supposedly a lot of older coders are going to retire rather than learn a whole new system. As near as I can determine from what I've seen so far, there's nothing particularly difficult about it, it's just different, but you know how some people are about change! So the big window for getting a job exists, at least in theory, and also there is a possibility that my bookkeeping job (which like most jobs with small businesses, is contract work) is going to end at some point. In any case, it has come to stress me out unduly and it's probably best that I move on fairly soon, whether it ends or not. So, studying needs to ensue, both to catch up on the continuing ed, and to learn ICD-10, and also just to catch up in general, because I got certified, what, almost 4 years ago? and I am rusty. It's a big resolution, really, as far as the amount of work that needs to be done, but I've got to knuckle down and do it.

(Good news for those of you that enjoyed this little feature, though: the "medical term for today" entries might well be making a comeback!)
mellicious: Quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 1st episode: "The earth is doomed." (m15m - polarbear)
I thought Livejournal wasn't going to let me post, but apparently the posting page is alright. It's the user info page that seems to be borked. But anyway....

I seem to still be wanting to talk about Les Miz, probably because I still have the music stuck in my head. I keep looking up videos on YouTube, which isn't helping my Les Miz earworms go away.
 
Here's the link for this embed in case the embed doesn't work. I never can tell if they're going to. (Also I "shared" this link on Facebook yesterday - for some reason - so some of you may have seen it already.) Anyway, the thing is, I thought "Bring Him Home" was easily Jackman's weakest number. Maybe he was going for the tortured effect deliberately, who knows - but it certainly sounded sort of tortured, like he was having trouble hitting those notes. And that really struck me when I listened to somebody who seemingly hits those notes effortlessly. The gentleman singing it here is apparently named Alfie Boe, and since this is from the Brit awards, I'm guessing he's from a recent London cast. And you get Samantha Barks and the big choral numbers besides.



Okay,so it's New Year's Eve and everybody's writing about resolutions. I don't really do resolutions because I immediately forget about them and they're just gone into the void, but if I did it would be the same kind of thing everybody says. Lose some weight (in fact I have lost about 10 pounds over the last couple of months, but I need to lose at least a bit more), take better care of my money, exercise more, the usual stuff. As far as today, I am going to do some work this afternoon and then we will probably just watch TV tonight. I hate dodging the drunks so I don't like to go out on NYE and neither does Rob. So we stay home and play games or whatever and be hermits. I've got the Rose Parade queued up to tape in case I sleep late.

I might write one more entry if I get going later. I have time to get it in under the wire tonight! (I've slacked off on the posting for Holidailies but I'll have 28 entries or so which I think is decent enough!)

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