my friend gary who lives in LA and knows everything about everything that is cool and hip and trendy, e-mailed me that you can get lapsang souchong tea on amazon.com, and you can get free shipping if you order $25 or more worth of stuff. that would be a LOT of tea. but maybe worth it, because i think i’ve run out of options for getting the stuff here.
he said the first time he tried lapsang souchong, which is smokey and different and unique and delicious but i’m sure there are many people who wouldn’t like it so much, he was having afternoon tea at the beverly hills hotel. i reminded him that i went there for tea once with him. now that was a very swanky tea. a harpist was playing, for example. i don’t recall spotting any celebrities, but i bet they were lurking around someplace.
i finally got my lazy ass out the door yesterday and ran. i wore two pairs of socks, two pairs of gloves, a cold-weather running shirt plus a t-shirt and a running jacket, and one of those wrap around your head kinds of things, not ear muffs but kind of like them, a ski mask-type hat, my new cold weather running pants, plus sweats. and two pairs of gloves.
i was WARM. except i felt kind of weighted down with all those clothes, kind of like i was just lumbering along, like little kids when they’re dressed in their snow outfits and they can’t really move. like in that xmas movie about the bb gun. plus, my glasses kept fogging up because of the mask, so every once in a while, when i thought it would be nice to see, i pulled it up, but sometimes i couldn’t get it all the way pulled up while running so then it was covering my eyes. i’m sure i was quite a sight to see, if there had been any other humans out in the very cold air.
i’m really glad i ran yesterday because last evening it started to snow. i got done with a massage and looked out to see giant flakes coming down and sticking all over everything. ugh. it kept snowing and now there’s maybe an inch or two on the ground plus the expected high today is something like 17.
winter. why do i live here? every day in honolulu, it’s 81 degrees. sometimes it gets down to 80, but almost always, 81 degrees.
maybe when he retires, kevin and i can open a fencing school in hawaii. he got us t-shirts that say “Salle Honolulu fencing club – teaching Hawaii to fence, one rich person at a time.”
he got them online. how did people own anything before you could get stuff online?
last week i decided to try to be more diligent about weight-lifting. i started doing the nautilus circuit, which is 14 machines. i did 12 of them, and it takes an entire hour. today was the third time i’ve done it and i sort of feel like i need a nap. but, theoretically, soon i will be ALL MUSCLE. or at least more muscle, less fat.
the doorbell is ringing. mollie is barking like crazy.