Brownies do not a good breakfast make!

They really don't! However, the mind is willing, but the flesh is weak.

In other news, I've decided it's high time to implement a few mild changes. See, for the past week or 2, I've been suffering from some serious malaise. Cold weather + no exercise + being crunched for time + feeling trapped and stagnant for various reasons. And for awhile, I was seriously feeling like there was just nothing I could do about it, without some seriously agonizing effort (looking for 'the perfect apartment' is a giant pain, and job-hunting is even worse). So I've decided to focus on some things in my life I can work on that will make me feel better.

First, I'm going to limit red meat to special occasions. I rarely buy it as it is, so this isn't really any sort of breakthrough. I will leave the exception to this as hot dogs, but as I prefer the ones with chicken and pork in them, rather then the all beef, this isn't that much of an exception. I love me some hot dogs. Really, I just need to eat a bit better. The way I feel physically is strongly connected to what I eat, and so I need to start forcing some more fruits and vegetables and such into me. The real problem, I suppose, is my occasional tendency to want to eat nothing but chocolate all the time. Hm, still need to work on that.

Second, I'd like to implement a more structured sleep schedule. I've been thinking about this for a long while, actually, but a few articles I read the other day convinced me that this is something that I need. My body gets so used to getting up in the morning early, and then the weekend comes and I destroy it, and have to start over again on Monday being all miserable about getting up. I want to wake up refreshed every day without even needing a snooze button. And just think of all of that extra time I'll have on the weekend to absorb that necessary vitamin D from the sun!