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That's it. I am DONE.

We had my grandmother's annual birthday/Christmas dinner yesterday and the amount of food prepared and consumed was ridiculous. My stomach is now so stretched out that it requires food every 2 hours because that's what it's been used to for the past couple of weeks.

Then I get home and there seems to be some back to back showing of Madonna's latest two tours on our local music station. I remember going to her "Re-Inventions" tour and thinking,"How the heck does the woman do it for two or more hours? I mean she's in her late forties for Pete's sake and she has a better body than I ever did when I was sixteen!"

Madge always makes me want to work out. And so that's what I'm doing.

Tomorrow.

In the meantime, I've decided to keep a visual reading list of books I've read per week because it's handy. You know how sometimes, you forget what books you've already read? And you get all disappointed because you've settled down for a big read and you've already read it and didn't even like it the first time round? That's what just happened to me.

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Because I really need it to be.

I am really fat from all the overeating that usually comes with the holidays. Really. It's the "my stomach is so bloated that I feel that this is what it must be like to be four months pregnant but I don't look pregnant, just fat" kind of fat.

It also doesn't help that my brother Ken has been staying with me for the past few days. He's back from NY and he's trying to cram everything he enjoys to eat that he can't find in NY. Yeah, you would think that NY is the food mecca of the world but NY does not have Swiss Chalet, Tim Horton's coffee, Salad King and most importantly, Mama Kang cooking.

He's dragged me to every restaurant he misses and eats any snack that catches his eye and we've later spent a good part of our afternoons lying on his blow up mattress bed, holding our bellies and groaning whilst planning what our next meal is going to be.

Either that or we've spent every other day drunk as donkeys.

Ah, the holidays.

The good thing is that while I've been contemplating giving up food and alcohol, I've also managed to get lots of reading in. This is what I've finished reading since I started on December 23rd.

Some of them are re-reads; a concept that many of my friends find puzzling. I call it cleansing the reading palate.

Stef keeps telling me that it's not a race to read every book ever published (even though secretly, it is) but he doesn't realize that it's naturally how fast I read when I get a couple of undisturbed hours to myself.

I'll be happy if I read another six more before the end of the year.

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I cannot believe that it's already Christmas. This time, it really crept up on me. It still sort of doesn't feel like the holidays due to the particularly warm weather and no snow. But my brother Ken is home and we're a complete family once again which makes me very happy.

I hope you guys are having a very enjoyable holiday season as well. Happy Festivus, everyone!

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I've been a little quiet and reflective these past couple of weeks.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head so I thought it would be cathartic for me, if I shared what I've been feeling.

When I was in Vancouver, Boutsy informed me that one of our former university mates, Jocelyn Juriansz had been ruthlessly murdered by her boyfriend late last year. She wondered whether I had known; since Jocelyn was in the fashion marketing program and I had more classes with her than Boutsy did.

Although Jocelyn and I were never very close, we were always friendly with each other. After we both had left school, we would often bump into each other during work functions and she was always as she was - jubilant and bright.

I know a lot of people tend to say really nice things about someone once that person is gone but in all honesty, anyone who ever met Jocelyn just thought she was incredible. I remember the last time we saw each other. I had been with a girlfriend who was not a part of our school crowd. Not surprisingly, Jocelyn knew her as well and we all had a quick catch up and with a bright smile and a jaunty wave, she was off to meet some other friend.

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