It's not that I've stopped doing new things...

It's just one of 2 other things. Either

(1) I haven't opened Blogger and written about them

or

(2) I very simply have not done something every single day.

In all seriousness, the idea was awesome. And I did go above and beyond to do something new every day! However, there are simply some days when I was too darn busy to try to fit in something new. I didn't want the project to dwindle down to "I tried a new flavor of juice" or "I took a different road home" or "I visited a new website." It got to the point where those things simply didn't take effort to be new things.

As a result, I have stopped stressing out about trying to do something new every single day. I have done many new things all in one day and no new things in others. I still have the mindset that I should try new things and do new things; I just honestly don't have the time or the creativity to do it every single day! I'm either working a 14-hour day or I'm trying to absorb the time I'm actually at home.

Anyhow.

My point is, I'd still like to come here and note when I do new things. I think it will encourage me to both do them and keep a record of them and have something to look back on. But I new that as soon as I started panicking or stressing about doing something new, it was time to back off!

I still have tons of pictures of things from Thanksgiving through Christmas that I need to upload, and lots of stuff to write about that's happened since New Year's Day. So don't stop reading, just know that the updates won't be daily (but they will still be equally interesting)!

:o)

More fluffy peppermint goodness.

I have been seeing commercials for those darn Dark Chocolate and Mint Three Musketeers bars for, like, 3 months now. And I had yet to see one in a store so I could buy it and eat it.

But! Today, my darling sister handed me one. And I ate a dark chocolate and mint 3 Musketeers bar.

And I liked it.

I also think that the weather that I drove home in was partially new--I drove in a combination of high winds, fog, and heavy rain. All at the same time. I don't think I've ever had all 3 things plague the road at once. And I hope I never do again! Yuck.

Rolling right along!

Today was a bizarre day. I worked the history job in the morning for a few hours (until I realized I was not needed whatsoever). Then I went home to wrap presents for a couple hours before heading over to the funeral home.

There was a biiiig service there tonight--one with lots of overflow, people parking in weird places, people standing everywhere--it was crazy. And yet, there wasn't a lot that I did that was brand new to me until the verrrry end of the night.

That's when I moved a casket (open, with the person inside). We had to move her from the chapel to a holding area after her service was over. It was a very interesting new experience! It was much easier than I thought it would be, though I can't say I didn't have visions of something happening and it falling over or getting scraped or something. But it allll worked out just fine!

(Oh, and when I got home, I played Super Mario Galaxy! Hooray!)

It's all in the details.

When I got to the funeral home tonight, there wasn't much to do, and there were still 2 hours to go before the visitation was scheduled to start. I didn't really do any big new things, but I still had some brand new experiences.

First, I got my very own funeral home name tag with "Funeral Home Assistant" printed under my name. So that's pretty cool.

Second, I worked a visitation with absolutely no funeral directors still in the funeral home. It was just us part-timers. Innnteresting.

Third, I checked all of the perimeter doors to the funeral home by myself for the closing process.

Lastly, I took down flower cards and cleaned up the room immediately after a visitation.

A pretty calm night, but there's always something new to do!

Big Mac tutorial?

Today was an outstandingly slow day at work. It's the last day the library is open for the semester, and not only is nobody really coming in today, but there's nothing to do. And I mean NOTHING. So, in an effort to actually earn my paycheck, I went back to the (one and only) Mac computer and started playing around with some of the programs and stuff so I can help to create tutorials for all of the poor, sad, non-Mac-experienced people who may want to use this fantastic and marvelous machine in the future.

After looking through a few things, I settled on one program and I created a tutorial on how to use a slide scanner on the Macintosh. It almost pains me to do such a thing, as the Mac is SO straightforward and easy to use, but people are so used to using crappy PCs that they assume things are going to be hard to use, so I have to complicate things by putting them into words to tell them how EASY it is to use.

Just like this entry, you see.

It's a marshmallow world in the winter.

I went all day at work today without doing anything new, and I was a little worried as I was driving home that I would not find anything new to do once I got home, either! But, alas, Trader Joe's came through for me once again.

I stopped there to grab a couple things for dinner and, on my way up to the register, they had out samples of a couple of holiday-type foods. Very excited, I took advantage of these samples and I ate a peppermint marshmallow. Holy goodness, it was fantastic. It would make really good smores if you used chocolate graham crackers. Just FYI. I didn't buy any (who needs a carton of peppermint marshmallows when you live alone and your boyfriend doesn't really like peppermint?), but they sure were good.

Fine place for a party!

'Tis the season and everything, and tonight was no exception. For today's festivities, I went to a party in a funeral home. Granted, it was an employee Christmas party, so it's not like I crashed one or someone had a death party or anything--but I figured it must be a pretty unique thing when the 6th or 7th person said "Wait, the Christmas party is IN the funeral home?" There's a reception hall there, it's not like we drank wine in the viewing rooms or anything. ;)