it’s only her first day back at tech, and karen is already cracking me up with her 6:30 wake-up time and frustration at not being able to find the key man. hee hee hee. i don’t know, i think i am just in the kind of mood this morning where everything is tickling me. especially the phrase “tickling me.”
believe it or not, i was actually looking forward to getting back to work this morning. not for work, but to see my lovely coworkers. when you spend 40 hours a week with people, you start to miss their crazy antics when you don’t see them for two weeks. i got off the elevator this morning and saw rich coming down the hall towards me, and just started smiling uncontrollably. it is nice to see him, and matt, and george (even though george has not officially come in to talk to me yet, punk). and that damn homer simpson rubik’s cube, which still haunts me. becca is here of course, as she was on friday, and gavin will be back tomorrow.
so this weekend was lovely, except for the freaking weather. it was like 75 degrees and really muggy outside, with ominous clouds that never actually rained. i had all the windows in my apartment open, and my ceiling fans running, and i was still hot. i didn’t turn on the a/c, but only because it was a matter of principle; it just would have felt wrong to turn on the a/c during the first week of january, but i was so tempted. but finally, the warm weather fever broke. last night after dinner with kennda, becca, and nick, i went to work out around 9:30. i did the elliptical while watching the third quarter of the sugar bowl, and when i walked back to my apartment, i couldn’t help noticing that it was really windy, and that i was actually feeling cold again. miracle of miracles! a cold front rushed in with amazing speed–the temperature probably dropped 20 degrees in the 45 minutes i was working out. i had to close all my windows, and this morning i wore a sweater and a coat. hurrah. winter, or at least houston’s version of it, has returned.
let’s see, the rest of the weekend… friday night i joined chris, jason, and debbie for a trip downtown to see thoroughly modern millie. we have season tickets to theater under the stars (tuts), but originally our tickets were for december 22 or something when none of us were going to be around. so we rescheduled for friday. i really enjoyed the show! i didn’t know what the story was about, and didn’t know any of the music, but it was a neat story, and fun roaring 20’s music. and there was tap dancing! hurrah. i loved it.
saturday morning i headed over to chris’s new apartment to watch the tech bowl game on his gigantic new tv. ron came over too, decked out in more tech gear than i had! how embarassing. anyway, chris’s tv is awesome. we watched the bowl game on one half of the split screen feature, and the unc-kentucky basketball game on the other half. (tech trashed tulsa. yay. but unc lost. boo.) it was a big day for sports–later, i watched the tech-uga bball game via internet. (tech lost. boo.) and then to top everything off, i watched the panthers beat the cowboys to move on to the next round of the nfl playoffs. so: four games, two wins for my teams. decent, though it could/should have been better.
yesterday i slept in, then attempted to test drive jeeps with becca, but apparently car dealerships are closed on sundays. who knew? we consoled ourselves with a trip to wal-mart, where i got embroidery floss to tie my quilt with, and something hilarious to send alex.
so i was reading an article about getting fit in the new year, and it had the following paragraph:
“Change is an all-or-nothing proposition. You either do it, or you don’t. You can’t just exercise for 3 times one week, once the next week, take a couple of weeks off, go twice a week, and so on and expect to reap all the benefits. Only a handful of people can get into a regular exercise routine by suddenly beginning to exercise. Something just clicks inside and they workout with energy, and they enjoy it. But for the other 95%, getting into a regular routine with exercise is not so easy.”
it was interesting to me because 1) it’s totally true and 2) i hadn’t ever seen it written down before. for years and years, i was unhappy with my health and weight, but whenever i started to exercise, it only lasted for a few weeks. then suddenly, one day i started running, and for some unknown reason it stuck, and two years later i’m still running. i think part of it was gathering the courage to enter a road race, and finding that to be a really fun experience. i try to run at least one race a month to keep me motivated. and i think another part of it was that i was in california at the time i started running, and californians are big on exercise, and stanford was in such an outdoor-friendly environment.
anyway. off i go.
