Split personality no more

Not sure if I've mentioned, but I have a writing mentor at work, which is just plain awesome. Awe-some. I meet with her once a month, and we discuss whatever I'm working on outside of work. On work time. I'm super serious. It's just one of the many perks of my job.

You know what I've been working on for...hmmm...well I guess it's been about a year-and-a-half now?! My book. It's back. Yes, it's back with a vengeance, thanks to this monthly meeting. I'm all about the deadline, people.

As part of this resurgence of working on The Busy Girls Cook, I'm trying to merge blogs so I'll have one singular outlet for writing about my life, learning, inspiration, inspirational friends, and of course, cooking and baking. Right now, those aspects of my life sit here. Maybe I should say sat here since I haven't done much to add to this since November. No-vem-ber. Talk about embarrassing.

I've been cooking up a storm, especially this tax season, so I'd love to get back in the habit of documenting. My girlfriend Allison and I, and also my sis and I, have done some satellite cooking, too, where we'll choose the same recipe for the same night, cook with our own spins, and then chat about the outcome.

In related news, I've also become the self-proclaimed queen of meal planning...and now even outfit planning. With a long commute and marathon training thrown into the work week mix, I have gotten to the point where I don't want to worry about what I'm cooking for dinner or what I'm wearing to work. It pans out quite nicely because I only end up going to the store once (let's get real here, I go to several stores one day a week, just to make sure I have all the necessities, and as much as I adore TJ's, we all know they don't have some of the weekly must-haves...and we also know about my love of grocery stores, especially of the health foodie variety).

I'm really rambling. And it's my lunch break. And I think it's time to get back to work.

The whole point of this post was to see if anybody out there (so, I guess this goes out to the five people who read my blog) knows how to merge blogs. One is WordPress and this, obviously, is Blogger. Holler if you can help!

I'm not neglecting my resolution ...

... I've just been working on my other blog that will someday accompany a book--if I can get my proposal together in time. I've got until the end of the term, and it's moving along a bit slower than I anticipated, but it's moving.

Aside from that, here's the rundown:

• The team has been traveling a ton. That's an understatement. We had three days off in January, so I'm pretty pumped the calendar changed yesterday. 
• Mariel and I continue to cook as much as we can. The other besties, Kelley and Katie came over and we made homemade pasta yesterday--that was quite a treat! 
• I'm running a half-marathon in a few weeks, and I'm trying to start swimming in hopes I can do a triathlon one of these days. So far I've had just one lesson, and I can't say it was my favorite exercise session, but it went OK.

That's about the extent of what's going on in my life. The days are flying by faster than ... well ... they're flying, and before you know it, it will be June, I'll be graduating, and then ???

If anybody has suggestions as to what I should and could be doing for employment come summer, please oh please let me hear 'em!

And, if I had a few more days off, I'd be at the mountain, snowshoeing or skiing around ... I guess it's OK the mountains don't have much snow right now!!!