Finding Gaby

Four winters in North Carolina. This Miami Girl is not having. And while I feel for those up north (and to the west) dealing with snow, I cannot with this 17*F whether we have at the moment. I AM COLD!! And while like the last years where I did not have the "right" gear for the cold, I am relatively warm. I'm still Fucking COLD! Now excuse me while I bundle up like whoa just to go to work.

Just got off the chat (who calls anyone anymore?) with my two 401K companies trying to figure out to transfer once balance to the other. It was overly complicated, but once the guy at Charles Schwab was able to figure out the rigamoroll that T Rowe Price was putting me through, we got things squared away. I hadn't realized just how much money I had in my 401K from my last job, 4 years and its a pretty big piggy bank. Sadly with this new job (over a year old), I don't make near to what I was making before, and I'm not 100% sure what my company's contributions are. In the year I've had this 401K, there are peanuts in the account. I'm sure when this transfer completes, it will look better. Hopefully, the idea in the long wrong is that I will have something to live off of when I retire if I retire. I don't know why in my mind, once I hit 50 the world (or at least mine) will end, and once there I'm screwed. It's a weird way to think, especially since ...

So I've been spending the last few days trying to figure out how to make this a more professional blog, and seeing what kind of blogs actually make money, turns out they are not personal blogs. Figures right? (I know that they're also not hosted on blogger, that's a given). I'm mostly just trying to scope out what the future of this blog will be. My plan of attack is as follows: Actually get into the habit of writing daily . I know that *that* sounds like a given, but seeing how everytime I start this blog I stop 5 days into it and not pick it up again for about 6 months or so. So if I can post something, every day for a few months, really make it into a habit, then I'll know that I'll be able to do this. Hence that 30-day challenge coming up in January. Along with whatever I want to write about, those will be my main focus for the time being. Get a new computer. While I love my laptop, I need a new computer. The old desktop that my ex gave me is a mess o...

Once upon a time, I used to like to cook. This was back when we lived in Miami. I would cook once a week or so to help out my mom. Funny, now that I think about it when I lived on my own with my now ex in Tallahassee I hated to cook. I ate out a lot then... Anyways, at some point in life, I liked to cook. With 2018 coming up fast, I'm making it a resolution to take up cooking again. The cooking this past year has mostly been left up to my dad, which is just fine, he's a great cook, but I think the family is up for a bit of a change. Since I work wonky retail hours, I'm not going to be able to cook every single day, so right now my focus is to just cook a large meal once a week. As I start to get back into the habit, then I'll expand how many times I cook. It's not only for me to get back into the habit, but mostly to help out at home. The status of our living situation is in a state of constant flux (well actually it's in a holding pattern right now, but we ...

This is not a Christmas Eve post. For continuity's sake, this is a December 23rd post, I'm just a little late in writing it. So today what I want to talk to myself about (because in all honesty, no one is reading this, like literally at this moment in time, this blog is getting ZERO visitors) is time management, or maybe just routines. I just had an interesting conversation with my parents and younger brother about our morning routines. Now my younger brother and mom tend to try to stick to a specific morning routine, everything is done the same way every morning regardless of the day. From when they have their coffee/breakfast to when they use the bathroom and whether or not they shower. My father and I, on the other hand, do not have a set routine. In fact, we tend to let our mornings come to us however we see fit. For example, this morning I woke up, had a bowl of cereal in the living room while looking out the window, I then got up, used the bathroom, then went back to...

So body image and weight have always been an issue with me, ever since I was little. I'm always trying to lose weight/fat/whatever you want to call it. Basically, I just want to be smaller. Well smaller in the sense that there is less fat on me. I'm short and small enough as it is, but as I gain weight I tend to get wider, and that's what I want to avoid. For a good 2 years, I was doing really well, lost a lot of weight, put on a good amount of muscle, and was finally at a point where I started to like what my body looked like. It wasn't perfect, but it was getting there. And my face looked thinner too which as someone with a pretty round (and flat, don't get me started on my profile) more weight just makes my face look rounder and flatter. Regardless, those two years were I was actively going to the gym with a trainer and burning those calories, I felt damn good. I could breathe better, I had more stamina, and my self-esteem was finally up! I need to get back the...

Man do I suck at this blogging business. Once upon a time I was really good at this. I had a Livejournal that I updated on the regular, so regular it was multiple times a day. But this blog? We're lucky if I update it once every 6 months. I know I started off the year saying that I was going to set myself a goal of 500+ words a day, I think that lasted around 6 days in total. Would it be to repetative to say that I'm going to do the same again with 2018? Well regardless if it is, I am going to attempt it. Even so I'm starting off with a 30 day challenge as well, just something to get me back in the habit of essentially talking to myself. I was so good at that... This is the challenge. I initially found it on Pintrest with no credit to the author, but managed to track it down to this blog , in which the author credits a now defunct blog. Regardless of who created it, we're going to try this in January. Not only will it get me back in the habit of writing, but...