Five things on a Friday
1. Back to the gym this morning after a prolonged absence. When I started dropping pounds and inches without trying at the end of last year, I stopped going to the gym because I didn't want to lose any more weight. I was feeling bony and brittle. Now that I've been able to regulate my blood sugars and iron levels, I've put on a few of the pounds I had lost and am very happy to be able to get back to the treadmills and weight machines. I have missed them so. Also? my heart rate is doing something interesting: it never got above 115 even at the most intense part of my "hill" workout on the treadmill. I think this is because my cardiovascular system got so efficient during the period of my deepest anemia. I told you I was two pints low when I first got diagnosed, yeah? yeah. crazy. So anyway - now I consider my low heart rate as somehow tying into superpowers. Maybe ninja-esque? yeah. that's it.
2. My feet have shrunk so much I need new shoes for work. I've walked OUT of three pairs of them this week... just strolling down the hallways, and ~fling!~ there goes a shoe. Its been a while since I've gone shoe shopping, but I'm gonna do it and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. Did I tell you I lost a half inch in height too? ONE MORE inch and I'll be considered a (tall) little person! EEE! I have a GOAL!
3. Went and puttered around the Plot8 last evening after work. Harvested two heads of red lettuce and a handful of chives that had sprung up uninvited. Listened to an episode of my favorite zen podcast (The Drinking Gourd) and communed with nature while pulling weeds and earthing up the potatoes. (the Yukon Golds are coming up like gangbustahs! I'm so pleased!) Everything looks set for getting the tomatoes, peppers and tender herbs into the three salsa beds tomorrow. I'm going to jerry-rig cold covers for them out of rebar, pvc piping and plastic sheeting to protect them from any more rogue frosts.
4. Work has been spectacularly... challenging for the past few weeks. I had my annual review and did just fine. My boss offered me her job (yet again), but I turned it down. again. I see what she has to put up with, and it makes my lot in life look like a cake walk. No thankyouuu. SOMEday I will be Executive Director of the Make A Wish Foundation, and today that day is closer than it was yesterday.
5. Heh. I just deleted #5. It was about Facebook. It really didn't say anything that has not been said before by people more articulate than me.
Happy Friday y'all. That was a long time comin.
2. My feet have shrunk so much I need new shoes for work. I've walked OUT of three pairs of them this week... just strolling down the hallways, and ~fling!~ there goes a shoe. Its been a while since I've gone shoe shopping, but I'm gonna do it and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. Did I tell you I lost a half inch in height too? ONE MORE inch and I'll be considered a (tall) little person! EEE! I have a GOAL!
3. Went and puttered around the Plot8 last evening after work. Harvested two heads of red lettuce and a handful of chives that had sprung up uninvited. Listened to an episode of my favorite zen podcast (The Drinking Gourd) and communed with nature while pulling weeds and earthing up the potatoes. (the Yukon Golds are coming up like gangbustahs! I'm so pleased!) Everything looks set for getting the tomatoes, peppers and tender herbs into the three salsa beds tomorrow. I'm going to jerry-rig cold covers for them out of rebar, pvc piping and plastic sheeting to protect them from any more rogue frosts.
4. Work has been spectacularly... challenging for the past few weeks. I had my annual review and did just fine. My boss offered me her job (yet again), but I turned it down. again. I see what she has to put up with, and it makes my lot in life look like a cake walk. No thankyouuu. SOMEday I will be Executive Director of the Make A Wish Foundation, and today that day is closer than it was yesterday.
5. Heh. I just deleted #5. It was about Facebook. It really didn't say anything that has not been said before by people more articulate than me.
Happy Friday y'all. That was a long time comin.