Hi!

I'm still here! Really I am...

-tired to take pictures last weekend...that wasn't very successful; but had fun with Bazette and Likalia, the sunshine and Bazette's brand new, and very sweet, digital camera (canon sx10?) .

-worked all week as it is reading break. I didn't study for my midterms on Mon/Tues. That was a bad choice as now it is Saturday. And I don't know nearly enough :S

-I think 5 day work weeks might be overrated...not that I have a choice, lol.

-wednesday I had an interesting conversation while getting my hair cut. My stylist swims and her coach told her that if she wants to get better (read: faster) she needs to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Such a simple statement. So very true. Just a shift in mind frame...think about it for a moment...and see where it takes you...

-ran! yes, really ran. Sarah's 10km clinic started on Thursday and it was sooo nice to be out with people again-esp nice to see friendly faces from last year. Chose to run with group 2 this time. Not sure why I was considering doing group 1...maybe because I know I could handle group 2 this week but not sure for how much longer, lol...guess I better do All my running homework this time instead of coasting through and not pushing myself...I never mind at the time because its jsut nice ot get out and run...but come race day I end up thinking "you could have done "better" than you did Indigo. I'm very comfortable with being comfortable. I think I ought to work on being uncomfortable with being comfortable. I could apply that to so many areas of my life it is almost scary. I was comfortable with being uncomfortable on our 4 hills on Thursday and it felt good :)

-Friday morning I was uncomfortable. Just plain uncomfortable. Lol, I think I forgot to stretch out my back and arms on Thursday and that was not a good choice. I could feel 'something' under my left shoulder when I woke up and on the way to work...I noticed that it was worse the more I used my right arm to lift my coffee mug, and then I tried to bend over in my chair to retreive something under my desk I realized that I needed to be very careful not to move the wrong way otherwise I was going to end up not being able to move. Well, move my back. I'm sure my legs would still have been able to walk me to the drugstore. It felt like it was going to twist itself up into a knot of muscle that was going to make the rest of my day very difficult. Very odd. I acquired Advil. That fixed it.
note to self-STRETCH

-Friday evening I was not really all that interested in going to dance, but since Evil Monkey did want to go I certainly couldn't say no; it was an east coast swing workshop afterall which generally means she'll be playing more of that music during the rest of the evening and swing is good! After forgetting to put ibuprofen in my pocket I warned EM to go easy on the leading as I didn't want whatever was unhappy in my back to get even more unhappy. But it was fine-I think it actually helped. At one point She organized a swing circle in which the men keep switching partners so everyone gets to dance with everyone else. Very fun; and very long! She chose an 11 min Beatles medley! My goodness-that's was a workout, lol. With that, plus the rest of the hour and half of dancing I got my cross training in for the day. There were a lot of proficient dancers in the circle last night. Unfortunately, there was one extra guy. And since I was out on the floor already when she started it and EM usually doesn't like to participate in the mixers I didn't make a point of going to find him. He was the one odd one out....there is a bit more to that story...but I won't go in to it. We had fun for the rest of the evening though which, I think, made up for it.

-now it is time to study :(

Tired

I'm always tired these days.

Particularly of waking up every morning to the realization that there isn't anything in my day I'm looking forward to.

*grrrrrump*

I'm going back to doing homework.

last weekend...

I've been house-sitting for friends of my mother for the past two months. They have enjoyed wintering in Arizona and I have enjoyed wintering in their house. They will be back on Monday and I'm quite sad to have to move out - do you think they'd mind if I refuse to give the house back?

For the most part I'm not sure I made full use of having my "own" space for two months. I did, however, take advantage of the laminate kitchen flooring and large open space in the living room last night and A and Bazette and I danced till nearly 2am. I even managed a reasonable rendition of Bachata. Woot!

I am looking forward to going back to my own house since I will be able to hook my laptop up to real speakers again. Of course, I will have to go back to keeping music quiet (there will be no need to turn it up though really; there is no dancing til 2am (or otherwise) in my house), but I can enjoy the better sound quality. Also, my pigs will get to come out to run around again. Poor things have been stuck in their cage for a month and they are turning into little chubbers-not so good.