i had a lovely evening yesterday. i had to stay at work late because i took 2 hours off to take jason to the airport (he’s off to italy and austria for a week, visiting an old friend), but when i got home, i made a nice dinner and watched some tv. i watched two new shows on abc. one had a long and complicated name involving dating teenage daughters, and it was funny. the other show was called “life with bonnie.”
i just have to say, good lord. i have never watched a show with greater potential to give the viewer a seizure. it was absolutely horrid. now, i am definitely not a discerning tv viewer; in fact, i will watch just about anything, even really cheesy mtv dramas (just ask ron, who suffered through life with my tv habits last summer). but this bonnie show was just abominable. the worst part was that i couldn’t change the channel. i sat there watching as if the tv were the scene of some horrific accident where you want desperately to turn away, but something won’t let you. i reasoned that it had to get better at some point, but of course it didn’t. yeeeeck.
anyway, that wasn’t the lovely part of my evening. the lovely part was the show finally ended and i was able to tear my eyes away from the horror, at which point i headed to the grocery store to restock my fridge (it was pretty empty since i threw away a bunch of stuff before i went to scotland, knowing it’d be bad when i got back). i came home in a mellow mood and turned on the local npr/classical radio station at precisely the moment the clarinet whines up the scale at the beginning of gershwin’s rhapsody in blue. ahhhhhh. perfection.
this morning was day 2 of getting up at 6 a.m. for the health related fitness program. today was another easy day–we just learned how to use all the weight machines, most of which were pretty self-explanatory already. i can’t get my fitness “orders” (i.e. recommendations on what sort of exercise i should do to achieve my goals) yet anyway, at least not until i’ve had my physical on friday. i have to be medically cleared to participate. that requirement amuses me somewhat, since i’m not a 90-year-old fragile woman. i can understand the rationale though.
in baseball news, the braves have clinched the division win, the a’s are certain to either win the al west or the al wild card, and the astros are all but dead in the water. since the fates of 3 of my 4 teams are already determined, i now get to focus my attention solely on my 4th “home” team, at which point i say “go giants!” they’re one game ahead of the dodgers for the nl wild card. woo.
