Happy New Year

We laid pretty low this past weekend. Brian has been on call and I've been cautiously tending a cold (it went away, but on Sunday seemed to come back). We got a ton done around the house. I read an entire book save a few pages (I'll post a review when I finish during my lunch hour). I'm looking forward to 2006.

Goals will include spending more time with friends, cooking more at home and continuing to get things in order (house, finances, health). I'm hoping to do this while at the same time keeping a less crazy schedule. Life's just too short, and all that!

Will any of you be at Goffee on Thursday? Its been forever since we've gone, so I'd like to try this week if people are going to be around. I'll bring my knitting, where I'm going to move past the scarf stage and start practicing increasing and decreasing and following some kind of basic pattern.

In other news

My boss has the shingles. Ouch!

So *next* week things will get back to normal . . .

Scaling Down

Silentq had referenced a book she was reading in her journal: Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space . I had been thinking about scaling down my own things recently and the Amazon reviews were good, so I decided to check this out.

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So I'd fully recommend this book to anyone wishing to clear out clutter, examine the role of "stuff" in one's life, or just simplify things in a world where most often bigger is better. :)