happy new year.

i thought i'd wait a bit and see if it really is a happy new year. one week into it, it certainly is better than some new years have been. it's always struck me as an odd concept to have the year start in the middle (effectively) of winter. i'm not sure it can entirely be a happy new year when we're rather in the darkest part of the year. maybe it's happier in australia or something. now with the holidays over, there's nothing but cold and greyness to look forward to until the middle of march or so.

i don't tend to make new year's resolutions. as if winter isn't depressing enough, you have to start the year stressing yourself out? come on. i think the real reason most new year's diets fail is because it's already cold and dark, and then you decide to deprive yourself of fat or carbs or chocolate or whatever. ha. good luck with that one. it all seems so aribitrary, really. and while i certainly need a new job, nothing about january first is going to make me more eager or motivated to get one. job searches suck. i hope to get one this year, but to make a resolution about it just adds to the stress of the whole process. i also wanted a job by the end of last year. that didn't do me any good. so instead, i will continue my job search, and i will continue my nano, and i will continue to eat chocolate and cut back on refined carbs and trans fat and try to eat more vegetables and drink more green tea, because that's what i've been doing all along anyway.