It’s been busy lately and it’s about to get a whole lot busier! Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am a pretty avid hula hooper. Or ‘hooper’ as we call ourselves – only that word always elicits giggles along with someone pointing out what the Urban Dictionary definition of that word means, usually followed by me rolling my eyes because anyone who actually stuffs drugs up their butt for fun doesn’t go around telling everyone they stuff drugs up their butt!

They just don’t ok? Because it’s weird.

So I’m a hooper. Hoop dancer. Whatever you want to call it. I have a hoop (several, actually) and I LOVE IT. It is pretty much the greatest discovery in my life to date and starting tomorrow I will embark on a week long endeavor of hoop workshops taught by Baxter and Beka. 24 hours of workshops to be exact! Not to mention I discovered last night that my friend Sadie is teaching a free sustained spinning class tonight. That’s a whole lotta hoop knowledge coming my way, very, very shortly.

I can’t wait!!

Last night he gave me these:

Yup. I am spoiled and my boyfriend is awesome.

No big deal right?

Wrong!

At some point in time my little abrasion decided to turn into a full on zombie bite all pissed off and inflamed and sensitive to anything even remotely brushing against it.  Then a magical scab appeared and the rest is zombie foot history.  Ha! Just kidding, it’s been burning like hell all week. Socks and shoes are such a delight now.

Every other day this week has been an attempt at maximum slothiness full of stretchy pants, ice cream, Nintendo and X-Files. Pretty much like all of January! But now it’s February and this weekend has so much going on I can barely wrap my head around it. Young Empires are playing a show tonight and Cosmic Gate is playing a show tomorrow and we already made plans with friends for both nights over a week ago.  It’s almost as if for every fun-void weekend we had in January, February has decided to have so much going on it almost makes you upset to have to choose one thing over another.

Fun, why can’t you just be evenly spaced?

But writing things down is generally how I keep track of things in my unfocused scramble-brain and list making is one of the few ways I stay organized.  As my only resolution this year is to do more things that I love and one of the things I love most is doing things with my hands, I decided to construct a list of projects I’ve been meaning to do for a while and post it here.

My Creative To-Do List

I’ll add to it as I think of more projects I’d like to do, cross them off as I complete them and link to posts sharing whatever project I’ve completed.  I’m hoping this list leads to more finished products, that more finished projects leads to more blogging, more blogging leads to being able to cross something off a completely different list, which all ends up in double fulfillment for me!

Huzzah!

I like to give the New Year a week to settle in before I go getting excited or making any solid resolutions. That way, I can feel things out and get a general idea on how things are probably going to go. Also, I am a notorious procrastinator.

There’s been a lot of hype about 2012 and the world coming to an end. That being said, if this is really our last year to live as fleshy, squishy humans, we should probably all be making it as awesome as possible. I am therefore dubbing 2012 as the year to ‘Don’t ask questions, just make shit happen.’

We’re a week into 2012 but I’m already 2 weeks into quitting smoking, have Shambhala tickets despite them being sold out online and not knowing anyone in BC, and am doing 18 hours of hoop training with Baxter in March.

If I want to eat chocolate everyday, which I usually do, then I’m just going to go get myself some of the extra fancy organic stuff and enjoy the hell of it. I’m eating some right now and it’s not even noon.

See? I’m already making shit happen.