i\u2019m going to try to think positive thoughts. no bitter complaining about the fact that it\u2019s supposed to be TWO DEGREES tonight, that there\u2019s supposed to be THREE TO SIX INCHES of snow starting at dawn. <\/p>\n
nope, going to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative…<\/p>\n
erica loves the cold and the snow. she and randy need to go sledding together. i\u2019ll stay home and make them cocoa and gingerbread. i wish i had some gingerbread tonight, but i was too tired to make any. this weekend. it\u2019s at the top of my list.<\/p>\n
erica says if it snows a lot, lincoln land could be closed, so she won\u2019t have to teach class tomorrow. i asked if there was any chance that UIS could be closed tomorrow night so i wouldn\u2019t have to go to class, and she said it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n
i am highly amused at the thought of hoping for a snow day. when\u2019s the last time you even had the possibility of thinking of a snow day? weren\u2019t they great? <\/p>\n
when i lived in austin, i was temping at some office somewhere…it was some place where i had to go through a drug test before i could work there, and i was just a TEMP, and it had something to do with the military, but i can\u2019t remember what the place was…but one morning i got up and drove to work and there was a smattering, i mean a tiny amount of snow on the ground, and a wee amount of ice on a bridge. i got to the office and it was EMPTY. everybody had received the message on their office voicemails that the office would be CLOSED DUE TO SNOW.<\/p>\n
smattering of snow. it was funny and ludicrous. <\/p>\n
it was this ultra top level kind of place, damn if i can remember what they did exactly, i just remember that this one older woman who worked there wore her slippers all day. <\/p>\n
people should be allowed to wear their slippers to work. wouldn\u2019t work be nicer if you could shuffle around in slippers? if i ever had to work in an office (AND I\u2019D RATHER BE DESTITUTE LIVING IN A BOX), i would try to push for slippers at work. to hell with “dress down friday,” let the workers wear slippers every damn day!<\/p>\n
yeah, i\u2019d be a real rabble rouser if i had a job in an office.<\/p>\n
i was going to edit with kurt tonight but he had to go watch his children being sheep at a rehearsal for their xmas play. that\u2019s his story anyway; he\u2019s probably sitting in some bar sipping a beer right now.<\/p>\n
but since i didn\u2019t edit, i decided that i could try to have fun…or i could go exercise. i did not want to go exercise, i DID NOT want to do it, and i kept waffling and changing my mind, and after i gave a massage i went to amy\u2019s salon and massaged her shoulders a little because she\u2019s all knotted, all the time, and i decided that after doing this good deed i could be excused from working out since it was getting later and later…<\/p>\n
and i drove towards home, which is also towards the fit club, and still i debated. but my sister-in-law vivian was at amy\u2019s salon and she was the first to break the news to me about the encroaching snow, so i decided it was even less likely that i\u2019d be able to drag my body to the fit club if there was lots of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n
so i worked out. i was just going to lift weights – this is how i tricked myself into going – but then after i did that, i decided that since i had made the effort to get there, i should run on the treadmill. at least a little.<\/p>\n
and every time i get on the treadmill, i promise myself that i only have to do it for 15 minutes. because i know that after about 12 minutes, i\u2019ll figure that i might as well keep going, i can do 30 minutes, it\u2019s not a big deal, and it actually feels pretty good.<\/p>\n
so at least when i finally got home, and it was after eight o\u2019clock, i did feel like i\u2019d actually accomplished something. <\/p>\n
yeah, all about the willpower.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m listening to my favorite xmas cd, “hipsters\u2019 holiday,” put out by rhino records, but i might have to change it because i always listen to it that i\u2019m still a little tired of it FROM LAST YEAR.<\/p>\n
i wish i could achieve a little balance in some aspect of my life. and not be so obsessive about things. at least occasionally.<\/p>\n
i was trying to find something interesting there at the fit club, i noticed that most of the people looked single. there was a guy with a really nice tattoo on his arm, and i actually spoke to him, which is completely unprecedented, except i usually talk to my neighbor greg, but only because i know him. and frequently he talks to me first, which takes all the pressure off me.<\/p>\n
but as i was stretching after running, i looked in the big aerobics room, there was a guy in there juggling. he was really really good, juggling in all kinds of fancy ways, and then he got bored with that and took one of the juggling balls and started rolling it down his arm, over his shoulder, down the other arm. who was this guy? was he a circus clown? what was he doing there?<\/p>\n
we\u2019ll just have to wonder about this fellow, because of course i didn\u2019t go in and ask him. i mean, i\u2019d already talked to somebody i didn\u2019t know, i wasn\u2019t about to ENTER A ROOM and then talk to yet another person i didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
erica is going to take astronomy next semester. i told her that this was the only C i got in college, and i never understood anything that was going on in the class, but she\u2019s going to take it. good luck. i\u2019m glad it\u2019s you and not me.<\/p>\n
maybe tomorrow night will be a snow night. no class. that would be great.<\/p>\n
probably won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
but you never know.<\/p>\n
i\u2019ve also made a pact with myself that i\u2019m not going to keep writing about “sex & the city” all the time, and i\u2019m not going to keep watching it. i watched the 10:00 episode, but after it was over i turned it off and felt like i\u2019d just wasted a half hour. i mean, i guess i don\u2019t think i really wasted it, i mean, i deserve a little break sometimes, don\u2019t i? but i\u2019m not going to watch anymore, i\u2019m now just going to hold out for when i buy it.<\/p>\n
but today i got a glossy brochure from a cycling vacation place, and it made me want to reserve a spot for a cycling vacation next summer. there\u2019s one on a greek island that looks great, except it\u2019s a little pricier than some of the others, plus there\u2019s a pretty hefty “single supplement” tacked onto it, which they refund if they find you a roommate, but it all seems just a little too expensive. plus the greek cycling vacation is listed at moderate to challenging, and i think i\u2019d like to do something more in the easy to moderate range. there\u2019s another tour down the romantic road in germany, and i\u2019ve always loved the sound of that, and i must go there at some point, not necessarily on a bicycle, but you never know.<\/p>\n
last night i wrote to somebody and i talked about this little town south of cambria where i went for a wedding about six or seven years ago, and how the hotel was right on the beach and i could open the sliding door and listen to the ocean all night and it was paradise.<\/p>\n
i couldn\u2019t remember the name of the town. <\/p>\n
today, i did chair massages at a company, and this other massage therapist and i started talking, she asked me how i was able to stand this weather and i said i\u2019m not really standing it very well, especially not this winter, and she started talking about this trip to california that she took last year, and there was this one little town that she\u2019d loved to move to. it\u2019s called Cayucos.<\/p>\n
THAT\u2019S THE TOWN!<\/p>\n
doesn\u2019t that seem like some kind of karma thing? i mean, really, a karma kind of thing? don\u2019t i need to just move there, maybe? or at least go visit really, really soon?<\/p>\n
yeah.<\/p>\n
the week marches on…<\/p>\n
december grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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