I ate: cheese omlet in the morning (breakfast should be the most important meal of the day); huge moderate lunch at Ruby Tuesday (I'll get to that later); fruit cereal for diner (hated them cereal are good for you)

I bought: a book from carturesti; hair clips (absolutely necessary); silver earrings (I had long silver earrings and short silver earrings but I felt like a needed medium ones, too. sue me) - but as I got back the money I paied for the train tickets to Sibiu, I don't think it counts. I actually SAVED money. Atta girl!

Ruby Tuesday is the ultimate all-american restaurant! My boyfriend and I were hungry and felt like eating out. We came by a Ruby Tuesday - "fresh american dining" it said. We had our eyebrows raised - we know american dining, ok? There is absolutely NO WAY they can trick us.

It was americalicious. And we ate like americans. The quesadillas and hot wings for appetisers. And except the fact that the quesadillas laked spinache, everything was like we ate "back home" in Louisiana. The hot wings even came with crunchy cellery and blue cheese dressing. It reminded me of the time when I was eating hot wings and blue cheese with one of my jamaican friends. And the hamburgers - jesus! How can somebody buy McDonals when there is Ruby Tuesday? We even hoped they had Dr Pepper to seal the deal - they didn't. It was ok though. We couldn't even eat desert (they actually had cheesecake!). How did I let this restaurant untried until now?

Bad news in the evening though. I have to start work again on monday. So much for my vacation...

I ate: 9 chocolate candies, 4 sarmale (a traditional romanian food made of cabbage and meat), 1 bowl of popcorn, 2 cheese sandwiches, 2 bananas, 1 chicken breast – hey, I’m snowed in! What the hell am I supposed to do? I may be blocked inside my house for several days. I don’t wanna die of starvation, do I?

I bought: I couldn’t exactly buy something giving the fact that I am snowed in, right? Wrong! There is this little thing called online shopping. Amount spent: 200 $ don’t wanna talk about it. Products bought: Victoria's Secret absolutely necessary! But as long as I didn’t actually put my hand inside my wallet and took the money out, I don’t think it counts.

My resolutions are not going so great. I just found out that I’m not going to Sibiu tomorrow. It turns out that half of the country is covered with a layer of snow reaching even 76 cm in some places. The trains have delays that come up to 480 minutes. And from Saturday on, the temperature will fall below -10 degrees Celcius. So much for my well planned trip (I planned every detail, every walk, every building to visit, every museum and I even reserved a table at the best restaurat in Sibiu. I’m a planner).

A pissed planner now.

Also I messed up my reading resolution. I read NOTHING today, mainly because I was glued to the TV to see updates about snow and train departure. Also I was pissed at my boyfriend because he dared to say that “it’s just a little snow, honey”. A little snow my fuzzy ass butt. And speaking of my ass butt, I am completely pissed because I can’t really sit on it. I have a bruise the size of nut because two days ago I fell of the sleigh in Azuga.

Also, I was pissed because my ex, C.,  laughed at me for crying when I saw “The notebook” on dvd today. How could I not cry? The movie is about a girl from a very wealthy southern family, in the mid ‘40s. She falls in love with a young very hot  handsome but poor guy from her town – they both fall in love madly. Her parents tried to split them up so they moved from that town. The guy send her 364 letters – one each day, for a whole year. But her parents hid the letters from her. Feeling lonely and abandoned, she plans to marry another guy – wealthy and to her parents taste. The poor guy goes to war, comes back home but never forgets about her. They meet a lot of years after. She has to choose between her rich fiance and the love of her life. She chooses the poor guy.

What made me cry was the ending. Everything that I told you is actually a story that an old man reads to a woman with severe brain damage (alzheimer, I think) from a notebook. Actually, the old man is him, and the woman is her. He reads from that notebook to her everyday just because after he finishes, she has about 5 minutes of lucidity and realizes who she is. At the end of the movie, they stay together in bed and she askes him if their love is big enough to make them die in the same time. He answers: “Our love could move mountains”. How could you not fucking cry at THAT?

I must understand C, though. We contradicted upon every movie we saw. He was appaled when I fell asleep during “La science des reves” by Michel Gondry, I was appaled that he left the cinema during “Dave Chapelle’s Block Party”, also by Gondry. Movies can lead to breakups, it seems. 

And snow can lead to nowhere.

This year will be the best year ever! I am certain of that. That is because I just came up with a wonderful 10 step plan to improve my life. Yes, I am a genius! Autographs, anyone? By simply following this New Year Resolutions my life will improve by 50% by december this year. What am I saying? I bet even 65%! Take a look at my plan:

1. Must be nicer to everybody. I shouldn’t be selfish, mean, naughty and dirty-mouth. I shouldn’t be happy when bad things happen to people around me and I should not tell them, I repeat, not tell them “I told you so!” even if I have to stuff my head in a pillow to avoid that. Even if I told them so. Because, most of the times, I TOLD THEM SO!!!

2. Must not spend money on crap. And by crap, I mean everything that is not strictly essential for my well being. I must ask myself, every time I see something nice, like a purse, skirt, boots, watches, earrings (I’ll get back to earrings later), furniture, jeans etc: “Do I really need this?”. And if I don’t, then I will stop myself from buying it and save the money for something more important, like a car, a house, charity or a pony. I will try and save 60% a half 10 million lei from each of my salary.

3. I must not buy more than a pair of earrings per week. I am positive that the 80 pairs of earrings that I already have are quite enough, thank you.

4. I must not eat crap. I will try to have a balanced diet and so I could actually lose weight in a normal healthy way and not by starving myself. Hamburgers, French fries, chips, chocolate, greasy products and canned food will not exist any more in my fridge. Or my cupboard. Or by the bed. I could use dropping off 10 kilos. I will have milk and cereal every morning, a healthy meal during the day and fruit and salad in the evening. I will not go to KFC because their food is completely bad for you and because they kill small fluffy chickens. I will try and go to KFC only once a month.

5. I will do better at work. I will work harder, be more serious about it, impress everybody with my skills and never leave on tomorrow what I can do today. I will get a pay raise by June and a promotion by the end of the year. My boss will love me and so will all our clients.

6….But. I will try to have less days when I leave work at 2 am. Seriously. A 16 hours working day shouldn’t be allowed! And I will try not to get pissed of at my boss or my shitty dear colleagues even when they are treating me in a way that nobody deserves. I will smile and say “Yes, of course I will help you” and “I’m sorry, I was wrong” even if I AM NOT SORRY BECAUSE I AM NOT WRONG!

7. I must accept that I am wrong sometimes ocasionally from time to time sometimes.

8. I must be nice to my family. Especially with my aunt T. Especially when she calls me and asks when I am going to get married and how much I am earning at work.

9. Love my friends. This is easy. I would already die for my friends. I love them!!

10. Speaking of friends. Must stop talking like a “Friends” character. Also, should stop mixing English words with Romanian ones and avoid the American sense of humour. Even if my close friends understand me, I must get it through my thick skull that my co-workers and my boss have no idea what I am talking about most of the time. Must try and remember normal Romanian jokes with Bula and Ceausescu in a bar (or was it with Ceausescu and Bush in Heaven?)

11. Make time for extra activities. Like dancing lessons, Spanish lessons, photography. Like going to the movies. Like finishing the master program I started in October. There is more to life than work. At least that’s what they say.

12. Keep order in my house. “Order in the house, order in the brain”, that is what my mum always said. How can I keep my wardrobe tidy when I have mountains of clothes? And how can I order up my books when they are literally throwing me out of the room? Ha, literally. Get it? Books, literally? What was I saying? Ah, yes. Order!

13. I must stop walking around alone at night in weary places. I must stop loving Bucharest so much and accept what everybody is saying: that it’s a bad, dirty city full of  creeps. Taking the last subway alone is not ok. Driving at 3 am through Magheru is not ok. There are girls getting raped as we speak in Bucharest. I should know news, I work in journalism.

14. Be nicer and loving with my boyfriend. He deserves it. I shouldn’t yell at him even if he forgets things, I shouldn’t push him around and be bossy all the time. For instance, I shouldn’t have called him “dodo head” even if I told him to go to the train station and buy tickets for the 10 am train, and he bought them for the 13 pm train because he forgot the exact hour I wrote for him on a post it. People forget. If I remember EVERYTHING doesn’t mean that everybody should. Yes, forgive and forget, be gentle and kind.

15. Travel more. Every month you have to get out of town. The town is evil and I have to get out of it to restore my positive energies. Well, that’s what my best friend G. says. I think she's wrong. I think it’s the best place to live. So, get out of town every month. Get out of the country every year. Like this Easter, go to Malta. Like tomorrow, go to Sibiu.

16. Just be freakin happy!

(ok I know the genius 10 step plan is a 16 step one but you get the point!)