I excercised every day last week, go me! (I am counting the 2 hours I spent in the garden on Saturday as exercise too, because with the epic weeds this Spring, it was like 2 hours of squats and lunges, oy ( Read more... )

You know what? The "global economy" business model kinda bites. I had a 6:30 AM call this morning with my new colleagues in India, where it was 8 PM-ish their time. I wake up at 6:20, or at least that's when the alarm goes off. Only this morning I had to, you know, really *be* awake. But I wrote down the conference call number last night so all I ( Read more... )

• It's snowing! Big, soft, wet flakes! So pretty. And, it doesn't happen all that often in Seattle, so it's kind of a big deal. (But, by tomorrow, it will all be gone, and we're expected to get a nasty wind and rain storm on Monday. *sigh*)

• Just made and put up my holiday wreath (actually, it's a swag). I used Noble fir, Redwood, Cedar, Boxwood, ( Read more... )

OK, so I went to a Pilates class for the first time yesterday. Holy f*ck, people! It's a good thing I've been doing crunches over the last few weeks or otherwise I think I would have torn an oblique or something. My stomach muscles are sooooo not happy. It's beyond pain, really. More like whenever I use them (which, is all the time if I want to ( Read more... )