Mission: Do Christmas Shopping = COMPLETE

I'm not going to lie, I've somehow turned into an even bigger a legitimate bum ever since I got back form Japan - the experience has somehow ruined me forever. It's sort of like I'm in Inception because I can't seem to get a grip on real life, but not as cool because I don't have any shaman powers - that's what the movie was about right?.

I know that I've hit peak bum life since I haven't done any real exercise since returning and managed to get a calf cramp when exiting the mall after 3.75 hours into the frigid darkness (while inconveniently carrying a gigantic cuisinart ice cream maker amongst other crap things) and sprinting doing a light jog to avoid the frigid wind chill. This is bad news since Ski Trip #1 of 2010 (do you like how I capitalized that) is less than a month away.

And other than work, I've only left the house under my own will roughly 6 times since getting back, and those were for various illegitimate reasons too. If I weren't so susceptible to friend guilt or unhealthy delicious food then I would have just stayed in and watched every single episode of Man vs. Food and catch up on South Park...oh wait I did that already. I'm going to go ahead and blame this on the weather and my lack of winter tires...yeah that sounds about right.

Time to shape up...except for the fact that my mom "accidentally" threw away my running shoes when I tried to pack my gym bag last night (for the first time since who knows when) and I gotta go buy some new ones (because the other dozen casual shoes I own would lead to severe, if not fatal, ankle sprains if used).

It's gotta be the shoes...