health - surviving, having problems with arthritis pain and numbness, sleeping poorly, and energy low - assuming that's because i'm not yet back on the meds i had to quit taking in december due to the cost; hopefully in february

la - loving the weather (70+ in january!), my friends, the garden (which i'll miss - a lot - we're still getting fresh tomatoes and zucchini), being able to work out outside every day

work - i now have help which means i'm working somewhat less (still 50 hours or so) most weeks

boy - things continue to go well, although he's now on overnights which is a bit tough as we don't get to see a whole lot of each other awake

split - no significant changes, but this will take time

fun - thankfully i'm lucky here - the la scene is not the same as dc was, but i'm getting to know more and more people and the music is mostly good (although i do agree with n8_zilla about the repetitive sets at bunker sometimes)... and with the beautiful weather i spend a lot of time outside when i can

last weekend i went to bunker and danced a lot, then sunday at malediction which was also good although they got a bit too goth towards the end of the nite, and monday was 80's night at wumpskate and t finally had a monday off - my calves were killing me by the end of the night, but 3+ hours at the rink (probably 2+ actually skating) was sooo much fun even though i did wipe out twice

cooking/diet - nothing really new lately, repeats of favorites mostly - but i did join www.sparkpeople.com - not because i want to lose weight (although their plans seem really good for that) but because i want to keep better track of what i'm eating and how much i'm exercising - the site is a bit time consuming (but no worse than the spreadsheets i was using last year, and they track a lot more data regarding diet), probably because i'm new and haven't gotten everything pulled into favorites or set up yet, but the tracking tools are pretty impressive - and it's free... if you're a member my username there is also alumiere

plans for this weekend include bunker and mal again, and hopefully something fun with the boy on his day off monday (maybe more skating, but this time at the outdoor rink at the beach if the weather's good)