New Years' Something or Other

I've been thinking about what kinds of resolutions I would like to make for the upcoming new year. I came up with an idea a while back (not related to resolutions for the new year) about making a list of 52 things I want to accomplish and do one thing a week. They might be small things, they might be big things... but things, they are! Some of the ideas I came up with:
- do something with my wedding dress
- get some of my clothes tailored
- organize Jay's and my clothes drawers
and thus and such.

Anyway, we'll see. I tend to have grand ideas and then don't execute. Hey, it doesn't mean I'm a bad person...

So Ms. Chris Cuddy is home for the holidays, if you consider MetroWest her home and not Chicago. Jay and I will be seeing her tomorrow probably. ...Yeah.

Ummm... I know I don't post a lot, so I'm trying to think of stuff to write about while I'm actually writing! Jay's been looking more seriously into grad school - he's going to apply to RISD and Mass Art. He had already taken a trip to RISD a few months back, and yesterday he went to Mass Art to check it out. So he's been keeping himself busy with working on his portfolio, completing the necessary 'administrative' tasks like getting references, writing out his mission statement, etc... Yay, grad school!

What's been going on with me? Not much. It's been slow at work lately, and I've slowed waaaaay down on researching the fancy CAT software I want to get for work. Hopefully I'll gear up in the new year (ooo, maybe that'll be one of my weekly tasks) and make a well-informed decision.

I've recently been more interested in musical endeavors (not serious ones, though). I pulled out my big old keyboard the other night, and realized I really suck at playing keyboard now! I used to be, you know, at least pretty good at piano; but I couldn't remember much of anything, and what I did remember, I wasn't very good at. Jay and I went to the music store near FSC last night and I picked out a piano book with pop-ish songs, but when I got home and opened it up, I realized that the songs were so, so simplified and boring-sounding, and even still, I had a tough time sight-reading them. So I just don't know - am I now a beginner piano player? Oh, the horror! I used to be able to play "From a Distance" like nobody's business! (Wait, no, I couldn't -- that was the song that I messed up on during a concert in high school, and the public access channel was recording it, and they played it over and over and over again for weeks...)

Oh. Jay wants me to write that I also bought a nose whistle. I guess it's really called a humanatone. But I like "nose whistle" much better.