little bitty girl

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.