Oh hey there, 2018

The last 48 hours have felt like two weeks. Probably because I spent all day yesterday transforming a chaos into an office and spent today in a sugar-deprived hangover (thank you, #whole30). I already have a few things I have learned this year to share:
1) If you work from home, make yourself an office. That might sound obvious to everyone else, but it took me a while to make it happen. There is something about a desk that puts my mind at ease. (Probably the fact that I can put post it note reminders on it.)
2) Sugar is the devil. First of all, it hides in everything. Secondly, it’s wrath at being abandoned is [insert good adjective here because I’m still in whole30 day 2 hangover].
3) Stephen Fry narrated Harry Potter is better than Jim Dale. (Sorry, Jim. I love ya, but Stephen just truly knocks it out of the park for me.) I already knew this but my amazing husband managed to get me the rest of the series for Christmas and now it’s on my phone, and it might be all that I listen to for the rest of time.
4) Food is really good. Like real, whole food tastes really good. Tonight’s dinner was steamed broccoli, steamed sweet potatoes, and sauteed steak strips. The only thing I actually seasoned was the steak (and only barely), so the only taste I had was the foods themselves. Sweet potatoes taste real good. They actually taste sweet, by the way, if you aren’t dousing everything else in sugar all day long numbing your tastebuds from being able to taste anything naturally sweet. I’m all about seasoning and salt and you best believe next Thanksgiving I’ll have some brown sugar encrusted sweet potato casserole, but tonight I had a sweet moment (no pun intended) of how good that sweet potato was in it’s simple state just being what it was. Extrapolate what you want from that.
5) I always feel like lists should be in multiples of five. Doesn’t it just feel better that way?

Cheers, 2018.