Stuff
We haven't gotten all of our bookings confirmed for Thailand, and yesterday I went on the site and punched in all of our info and our hotel in Koh Samui was no longer available. I'm worried that it became fully booked before our reservation was made. I've been obsessively refreshing my inbox waiting to see how this shakes out.
Last night during a session, one of my clients repeatedly tried to kick his mother over a candy bar and then called me a whore when I verbally redirected him. It says a lot about my job and my comfort level that I chuckle when remembering the incident, he's still one of my favorite clients, and on a scale of one to ten, this was about a two in terms of behavioral severity.Later, my client, his mother and I were watching TV in the living room. I commented on a picture of his sister on the wall and he told me her name, paused, and said, "She's gay." I didn't react and his mom said to me, "No she's actually not." He insisted, "Oh yeah. She's totally gay." Once again, his mother tried to correct him. It was then that I looked at what he was watching on TV and realized he was talking about Ellen DeGeneres, not his sister. Heh. She is gay.
Carey and I made a what seemed like an everlasting batch of chicken soup in the crock pot last week. I started it off with chicken breast, chicken stock, pearl onions, fresh parsley and spices. It was so yummy and the chicken turned out so moist and tender. Mmmmm. When the chicken started to get sparse, Carey added fresh made dumplings. When the broth started to run out I added a carton of vegetable broth. I think it lasted a week and kept getting tastier every time we ate it.
The POS car we bought for 500 bucks from a Carbondale friend with a DUI and a formerly very problematic party life is still tickin'. The car has a big dent in the back when the partier backed into a telephone pole, and smoke damage and cigarette burns all over the upholstery. Someone must've tried to break into it at one point because the passenger side lock looks as if it were mutilated with a screwdriver and you can only unlock the door by putting the very tip of the key (any key, really) and turning it about 80 degrees. We are kind of at the point where we would not feel too terrible about having to replace it, but the sucker still has less than 100k on it and just keeps chugging along. We used to call it the silver bullet because it looks quite a bit like a Coors can, but now we call it the bucking bullet because the transmission is so bad that when it changes gears it gives a pronounced hiccup that is both alarming and mortifying when you are driving it. But as long as it gets me from point A to point B....
My gym attendance continues to hold steady at about 4 days a week. I've stopped reading books while on the cardio equipment and have been focusing on challenging myself more. I think I'm ready to take it to the next level and start weight training, but it's been a long time and there are meatheads everywhere at my gym. I'm thinking about buying some personal training sessions to reintroduce myself to the weight machines and get a good routine going. I used to lift all the time when I was a swimmer, but that was for performance and now I have different goals (mainly to increase metabolism and look like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2).
Last night during a session, one of my clients repeatedly tried to kick his mother over a candy bar and then called me a whore when I verbally redirected him. It says a lot about my job and my comfort level that I chuckle when remembering the incident, he's still one of my favorite clients, and on a scale of one to ten, this was about a two in terms of behavioral severity.Later, my client, his mother and I were watching TV in the living room. I commented on a picture of his sister on the wall and he told me her name, paused, and said, "She's gay." I didn't react and his mom said to me, "No she's actually not." He insisted, "Oh yeah. She's totally gay." Once again, his mother tried to correct him. It was then that I looked at what he was watching on TV and realized he was talking about Ellen DeGeneres, not his sister. Heh. She is gay.
Carey and I made a what seemed like an everlasting batch of chicken soup in the crock pot last week. I started it off with chicken breast, chicken stock, pearl onions, fresh parsley and spices. It was so yummy and the chicken turned out so moist and tender. Mmmmm. When the chicken started to get sparse, Carey added fresh made dumplings. When the broth started to run out I added a carton of vegetable broth. I think it lasted a week and kept getting tastier every time we ate it.
The POS car we bought for 500 bucks from a Carbondale friend with a DUI and a formerly very problematic party life is still tickin'. The car has a big dent in the back when the partier backed into a telephone pole, and smoke damage and cigarette burns all over the upholstery. Someone must've tried to break into it at one point because the passenger side lock looks as if it were mutilated with a screwdriver and you can only unlock the door by putting the very tip of the key (any key, really) and turning it about 80 degrees. We are kind of at the point where we would not feel too terrible about having to replace it, but the sucker still has less than 100k on it and just keeps chugging along. We used to call it the silver bullet because it looks quite a bit like a Coors can, but now we call it the bucking bullet because the transmission is so bad that when it changes gears it gives a pronounced hiccup that is both alarming and mortifying when you are driving it. But as long as it gets me from point A to point B....
My gym attendance continues to hold steady at about 4 days a week. I've stopped reading books while on the cardio equipment and have been focusing on challenging myself more. I think I'm ready to take it to the next level and start weight training, but it's been a long time and there are meatheads everywhere at my gym. I'm thinking about buying some personal training sessions to reintroduce myself to the weight machines and get a good routine going. I used to lift all the time when I was a swimmer, but that was for performance and now I have different goals (mainly to increase metabolism and look like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2).