"What did we do Friday night ( Read more... )

I feel a little bad about spamming y'all's LJ friends page with the minutiae of what I did each week, but it's my journal and it's really the only way I'll know where my unemployed time went. Like, flipping through my notes, I have no idea what I did last Monday: I was so horribly tired from hiking 10mi, I couldn't eat, and I know I was trying to ( Read more... )

Tues I woke up at 6am, but proceeded to BSOD over the size of my to-do list and played ZvP. Then I wrangled with both my old and new computers trying to download the audiobook of Michael Palin's Himalaya to no avail. Met OperaBoss for a very agreeable lunch at Landmarc: she'd ordered a yummy red, I had the lamb sandwich, they brought us pineapple ( Read more... )

I woke up at 6am on Sun morning, with plenty of time to go to lessons the only morning both Academy and adult group lessons meet -- and realized I'd be better off getting some extra sleep to treat my cold. Slept for another 3 hours, then dressed for the family gathering. ( ah family )

Friday was almost a 5 Thing day: I Oly-lifted for the first time in over a year; I went to work; and I had two separate primping appointments, one of which included a 2.3mi walk. Eep. My numbers for squats/bench/deadlift aren't bad, but I was still too sore to reach things on the ground on Monday. oops. Kristen gave me the same haircut as usual: it ( Read more... )

puppy dog bailed on me Fri night bc of his other mistress' birthday: so far, he's bailed on me the last two times and I've bailed on him once. That I know this says everything about what's happened to our relationship. Instead I finished Harry Connolly's Child of Fire, which is perfectly decent magic noir ( Read more... )

I don't know how, or I'd replicate it, but somehow my brain suddenly clicked on again Friday morning. Sitting on the subway to work, I figured out the exact right present for Pongo's "birthday". Too bad it required me to go to the new REI in Soho, bc I was half an hour late for my date with Julian after I'd finished angsting about socks. We had ( Read more... )

I need to be kinder to myself about my new schedule sapping my energy, but it was frustrating to watch Friday turn from a 4-thing day into a 2-thing day. I don't understand why a liquor store would open at 8am and close at 7, but I didn't get out the door in time for the former and the latter... well. Hit the gym for a very satisfying leg weights ( Read more... )

A week ago, I was walking back from the ice skating rink when my knee started spasming and just plain hurting, in the place that the good doc warned me about. My knee basically hurt for a week, with aching and soreness in various places, and I got freaked out that my body can't even handle fargin' ice skating. On Monday, it felt like my knee was ( Read more... )

My first skating lesson was eye opening. Freshly sharpened skates are always challenging and even though my mum told me I haven't figure skated since middle school, my brain was thoroughly convinced I could do all the things I used to do. Between thinking about skating and actually getting on the ice again, I found myself dreaming about the moves, ( Read more... )