As I have mentioned here before, I bought a new phone off Ebay a few weeks ago. I paid about $40 more than I would have liked, but I justified the decision by realizing that I could sell my old phone, which was going on Ebay for $40-$60. So last week after I got my new phone and confirmed that everything was working with it, I put my old phone up for sale. Last night, the bidding was only at $24.50, and I was disappointed, but c’est la vie. The auction ended at 8:45 this morning, so I checked to see what the final winning bid was. $91! Woohoo! Someone spent $91 on my old used cell phone (which, for the record, I did advertise as being used, locked to T-Mobile, without sim card, and with a few slight scratches)! I am quickly becoming addicted to Ebay. I wonder what else I have in my apartment that I can sell??
Anyway. Climbing last night was thoroughly crappy. Buzz suggested I do a route that turned out to be much too hard for me (she overestimates my upper body strength; she has incredible upper body strengh for a girl, while I can barely do a pull-up). The bigger problem is that when I do something too hard, I don’t really see it as a challenge; instead, I don’t have any fun, and it just makes me angry. Sigh. I need to move in small increments, not leaps and bounds. It’s a self-fulfilling thing. The purple was too hard, and I got angry, but then I had to keep trying, which only made me angrier. So yeah, it wasn’t a good night for me. And my arms are going to be in serious pain tonight, I can tell. It’s only morning, and I can already feel the effects.
It’s rainy outside, and I’m having a crappy morning. The other day I realized that I have accumulated almost eight weeks of sick leave. Eight weeks! And yet my annual leave is already planned out for the rest of the year. I should get sick more often. It’s so frustrating. We were talking about sick leave last week, and apparently when you leave government service, you don’t get any credit for all the sick leave you might have accumulated during your career. Therefore, I’ve decided that right before I leave NASA, I’m going to get sick for like 3 months.
I accidentally left my iPod in the car this morning. Some mornings I go until lunch without listening to any music, but today, when I don’t have the option, it seems really quiet.
I have been really busy the past few days. I’m looking forward to my two-lap run tonight, and then sitting on my butt watching American Idol and One Tree Hill. Ah, stupid TV, I love you.
Except it’s raining, which means I’ll be relegated to the hated treadmill. I feel really weird today and want to go be a hermit.
